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Pakistan: NATO’s assaults and the odd US ties (The Frontier Post) - 29-jan-2012
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January 28, 2012 - ... The so-called war against terror has left many children orphan, women widows and mothers deprived of their loved ones. The assassination of After Musharraf was replaced by Asif Ali Zardari, the PPP government maintained the former regime’s policy on terror that has brought the country to the brink of collapse. The present uncertain situation in Pakistan is due to our misdirected foreign policy, which is mainly focused on the US. Our American relationship has hollowed out the country. The generals, politicians and elite have been filling their Swiss bank accounts with dollars since the emergence of Pakistan while the masses have been spending a miserable life...
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International Media Complicit in Legitimization of Israeli Settlements (By Alessandra Bajec) - 29-jan-2012
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January 28, 2012 - Unbelievable, but true: over 70 journalists from international mainstream media took part in a tour through Israeli settlements in the Palestinian West Bank last Thursday 19th. Israel national news source Arutz Sheva reported the news the next day, referring to a tour in Samaria joined by the foreign media, guests of the Head of the Samaria Regional Council Gershon Mesika and the Minister of Information and Diaspora Yuli Edelstein. Participants included journalists from well known media outlets such as the British Guardian, the Reuters news agency, as well as reporters from France, Poland, China, Germany, South America, the United States, Radio London and several TV stations from Russia....
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Palestinians Go on Hunger Strike to Protest Israeli Demolitions (WAFA) - 29-jan-2012
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January 28, 2012 (WAFA) – Some 20 Palestinian residents from Khirbat al-Tawil, a locale east of the village of Aqraba, south of Nablus, declared an open-ended hunger strike on Saturday to protest an Israeli plan to demolish their homes and force them to leave the area, said Ghassan Daghlas, an activist monitoring settlement activities in the northern West Bank. He said the residents were protesting Israeli army night raids on their homes and orders to demolish them with an aim to empty the area of its Palestinian residents...
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Arab League suspends monitoring mission in Syria (Reuters) - 29-jan-2012
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January 28, 2012 - The Arab League has suspended its monitoring mission in Syria because of an escalation of violence, it said on Saturday. "Given the critical deterioration of the situation in Syria and the continued use of violence ... it has been decided to immediately stop the work of the Arab League's mission to Syria pending presention of the issue to the league's council," the league's secretary-general said in a statement...
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Militia chaos in Bani Walid raises danger of civil war in post-Gaddafi Libya (By Nick Meo, and Hassan Morajea, Bani Walid) - 29-jan-2012
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January 28, 2012 - ...Bani Walid, about 100 miles south-east of the capital Tripoli, was a Gaddafi stronghold, fighting defiantly to the bitter end under the direction of his son Saif al-Islam. The town only surrendered after dozens of its young men were killed by rocket barrages which smashed buildings to pieces. Since its fall in October it has been a place of simmering resentment and occasional violent flare-ups. Then last Monday its tough inhabitants staged an uprising. They overran guards at the main prison, where growing numbers of their friends had been detained, and ejected pro-government forces from the town, killing at least four of them. In the past year Libya has become used to uprisings, but this time it was the turn of the former rebels - who called themselves the May 28 Brigade and still consider themselves to be freedom fighters - to be put to flight... The town's inhabitants were tired of the militia men barging into their homes, pushing their wives around and looting their possessions. Even worse were the arrests of suspected Gaddafi officials....
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Thousands protest conservative Islam in Tunisia (AFP) - 29-jan-2012
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January 28, 2012 — Thousands of Tunisians angered by the increasing prominence of ultra-conservative Islamists in a country only recently freed from dictatorial rule took to the streets in protest Saturday. An AFP correspondent estimated several thousand activists, professors, artists and other demonstrators flooded the streets of the nation's capital, including along Bourguiba Avenue, a well-known thoroughfare that became a centre for dissent during protests that led to the ouster of dictator Zine el Abidine Ben Ali a year ago. Some in Tunisia are angry by the growing influence of radical Islamists, known as Salafists, who have dominated headlines in recent weeks....
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Taliban team in Qatar for peace negotiations (by Ahmad Shah Irfanyaron) - 28-jan-2012
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January 28, 2012 - A five-member Taliban delegation has reached Doha, the capital of Qatar, for peace negotiations with the United States, an official said on Saturday. Mullah Mohammad Omar’s secretary and ex-foreign minister Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai, then ambassador to Saudi Arabia Maulvi Shahabuddin Dilawar, Taliban’s representative to the United Nations, Sohail Shaheen, and a former third secretary at the embassy in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) were among the delegates... A Taliban spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid, also confirmed to The Telegraph that their delegation was in Qatar for peace talks...
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Israeli tank shells home in Gaza City (Ma'an news) - 28-jan-2012
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January 28, 2012 -- An Israeli army tank fired an artillery shell at a Palestinian home east of Gaza City on Saturday morning, causing damage but no injuries, locals said.The shell caused severe damage to the kitchen of Abu Hajjaj home in Shujaiyyeh neighborhood, according to eyewitnesses. The family members were all at home, but no injuries have been reported....
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Syria News - January 27 2012 (Warning: Graphic Videos) (Local Coordination Committees of Syria + Videos) - 28-jan-2012
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January 27, 2012: Assad forces killed at least 102 today in what was called the Friday of Self-Defence. 38 were killed in Damascus suburbs, 21 in Hama, 15 in Daraa, and 14 in Aleppo...On Friday, Jan. 27, 588 demonstrations took place across the country from 470 different areas. The distributions of participants were recorded as follows:133 different areas in Idlib with 139 demonstrations, 57 different areas in Homs with 77 demonstrations, 57 different areas in Daraa with 68 demonstrations, 54 different areas in Hama with 60 demonstrations, 51 different areas in Aleppo with 65 demonstrations, 42 different area in Damascus Suburbs with 57 demonstrations, 20 different areas in Hasakeh with 31 demonstrations, 18 in Deir Ezzor with 32 demonstrations, 16 different areas in Lattakia with 22 demonstrations, 5 different areas in Raqqa with 7 demonstrations , 1 area of demonstrations in Tartus with 6 different demonstrations, 1 demonstration in Swayda, and 1 demonstration in Qunaitara.
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Who can travel from the Gaza Strip to the West Bank? (Yossi Gurvitz) - 28-jan-2012
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January 27, 2012 - The people of Gisha NGO translated their table showing who can and who can’t travel from the Gaza Strip to the West Bank. Here it is....Note that for a person to be allowed to travel from the Strip in the first place, the IDF and the ISA (Shin Bet) have to consider that person to be of no security risk, and they have to pass severe security checks at the Erez Checkpoint. Thus all the arguments about "but they might be security risks!" is hogwash...
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Military Resistance 10A22 : Tyrant Totters (Thomas F Barton) - 28-jan-2012
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January 27, 2012 - As the first anniversary of the Egyptian revolution draws to a close, hundreds of thousands of protesters remain in Tahrir Square, which saw a bigger turnout today than on 11 February of last year – the day that longstanding president Hosni Mubarak stepped down. Reports suggest that from the marches alone, 300,000 people entered Tahrir, coming from Mostafa Mahmoud Mosque and from Cairo’s Ramses, Ghamra, Shubra and Giza districts. The Egyptian security forces were noticeably absent....
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Call me a Palestinian from Palestine (Reham Alhelsi) - 28-jan-2012
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January 27, 2012 - Don’t call me homeless, because I have a home thousands of years old. I have a home in Jrash which you demolished, erased from your map. I have a home whose stones still stand as witness to your crimes, still stand witness to what once was and to what will be. I have a home that will be rebuilt with the same stones and on the same spot where it originally was and where it should be. I have a home in Jerusalem which you occupy, a home that will be liberated. I have a home in Hebron which you closed, a home that will be reopened. I have a home in Gaza which you bombed, a home that will be rebuilt. I have a home carved in my heart. I have a home in An-Naqab, I have a home in Tabaria, I have a home in Bisan, I have a home in Jenin, I have a home in Jerusalem, I have a home in Safad. Every part of Palestine is my home; every olive field is my sitting room, every hilltop is my balcony, every meadow is my playground, every stone is my chair, every bit of shadow beneath a fig tree is my bed. The land of Palestine is my ground, the sky over Palestine is my roof. All of Palestine is my home, my one and only home....
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Unrepentant: Justice for Palestine (By Johnny Barber) - 28-jan-2012
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January 27, 2012 - I had spent the prior month in Gaza and actually left Gaza to join the flotilla sailing from Greece. I was hoping to use my modest skills as an EMT in the event that Israeli naval forces began shooting people on board as they did in May 2010, when they killed nine people on board the Mavi Mamara. Many of these victims, including 19-year-old US citizen Furkan Dođan, were shot point-blank in the head. Dođan was shot five times from less than 45 cm (1.5 ft), in the face, in the back of the head, twice in the leg and once in the back. He was filming the attack when he was murdered. He was unarmed....
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Profile of a Rogue State (by Stephen Lendman) - 28-jan-2012
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January 27, 2012 - ...On January 22, London Guardian writer Harriet Sherwood headlined, "The Palestinian children - alone and bewildered - in Israel's Al Jalame" Prison, saying: Young children are physically and verbally abused. It's nightmarish. Cell 36 and others like it are "where Palestinian children are locked in solitary confinement for days or even weeks. One 16-year-old" said he'd been isolated for 65 days. Cells are "barely wider than the thin, dirty mattress that covers the floor. Behind a low concrete wall is a squat toilet, the stench from which has no escape in the windowless room. The rough concrete walls deter idle leaning; the constant overhead light inhibits sleep."...
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Israeli Military Court Approves Illegal Interrogation of a Minor (Popular Struggle Coordination Committee) - 28-jan-2012
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January 27, 2012 - A motion to rule inadmissible the confession of 14 year-old Islam Dar Ayyoub from the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh was denied by a military judge yesterday. The motion was part of a trial-within-a-trial procedure at the Ofer Military Court, where the boy is being charged with throwing stones. During the trial, it was proven that the boy's interrogation was fundamentally flawed and violated the rights set forth in the Israeli Youth Law in the following ways: 1. The boy was arrested at gunpoint in the dead of night, during a violent military raid on his house. 2. Despite being a minor, he was denied sleep in the period between his arrest and questioning, which began the following morning and lasted over 5 hours. 3. Despite being told he would be allowed to see a lawyer, he was denied legal counsel, although his lawyer appeared at the police station requesting to see him....
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AFGHANISTAN: Time running out for displaced farmers (IRIN News) - 28-jan-2012
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January 27, 2012 - Much of Dawood Boy’s village in northern Afghanistan is empty. More than 1,000 families from Alburz in Balkh Province abandoned it 4-6 months ago after a drought affecting nearly half the country left 2.8 million people in need of food assistance, according to the World Food Programme. The drought destroyed the crops Boy had planted, killed his livestock which no longer had animal feed, and left his family without seeds for next season. "We lost everything," he told IRIN. Now he, his two wives and 11 children live on the outskirts of Mazar-i-Sharif, some 85km away, in rented homes without water or electricity....
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Analysis: The writing has always been on the wall (By Sam Bahour) - 28-jan-2012
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January 27, 2012 - ...It is clear that Israel has no plans to reach any form of lasting peace with Palestinians or concede to a two-state solution. Its spread of illegal settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory has created new facts on the ground that make it impossible to form a contiguous Palestinian state, even on the 22 percent of historic Palestine that Palestinians have been reduced to and agreed upon. In light of this continuing Israeli policy of outright aggression and negation of Palestinian rights, Israelis should prepare themselves for the next generation of Palestinians, a much more savvy generation interlinked with a global world and a region that values rights over an artificial border....
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The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA): The Corporate Usurpation of the Internet (by Nile Bowie) - 28-jan-2012
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January 27, 2012 - In the wake of a public outcry against internet regulation bills such as SOPA and PIPA, representatives of the EU have signed a new and far more threatening legislation yesterday in Tokyo. Spearheaded by the governments of the United States and Japan and constructed largely in the absence of public awareness, the measures of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) dramatically alter current international legal framework, while introducing the first substantial processes of global internet governance. With complete contempt towards the democratic process, the negotiations of the treaty were exclusively held between industry representatives and government officials, while excluding elected representatives and members of the press from their hearings.
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Iraq snapshot - January 27, 2012 (The Common Ills) - 28-jan-2012
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January 27, 2012. Chaos and violence continue, a Baghdad funeral is targeted with a bombing, the media keeps undercounting the dead in Iraq since December 18th, new conditions of a national confrence in Iraq, and more... Adrian Blomfield (Telegraph of London) reports, "A suicide bomber killed at least 32 people on Friday by driving an explosives-laden vehicle into a Shia Muslim funeral procession in Baghdad, heightening fears that Iraq is in the grips of sectarian conflict." KUNA notes, "The car exploded on Markaz street, targeting a funeral of a man who was killed in Al-Yarmouk district on Thursday, a police source said."...
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RT caught in Syria protest: Rebel fighters control Saqba (VIDEO) (RussiaToday) - 28-jan-2012
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January 27, 2012 - A massive demonstration has shaken the Damascus suburb of Saqba, that has fallen under the control of the Free Syrian Army. RT’s Sara Firth traveled to the rebel-controlled area to explore how the fighters managed to overcome superior forces. Clashes between Assad’s armed forces and the Free Syrian Army continue in many parts of the country including the capital. Some Damascus suburbs have seen nearly two dozen killed in the past two days, with buildings heavily shelled by regime loyalists. At least two people have been killed in the suburb of Saqba on Friday... The Free Syrian Army is now in control of the area, Firth says. They took journalists to the center of the suburb, where a massive anti-government demonstration was taking place....
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NATO’s grisly crimes in Libya (Farirai Chubvu) - 28-jan-2012
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January 27, 2012 - While Charles Ray - the US envoy here - portrays himself as the face of the free world, a champion of human rights and democracy and has been vociferous about his country's role in the Libyan invasion, it turns out that just like Vietnam and other illegal wars before it, Libya is turning into a major embarrassment for Uncle Sam. A report released last week by human rights groups in the Middle East presents extensive evidence of war crimes carried out in Libya by the United States, NATO and their proxy "rebel" forces during last year's invasion, that culminated in the murder of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi....
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Stolen Land
Israel, Settlements and Democracy (by ROBERT FANTINA) - 28-jan-2012
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January 27, 2012 - As Israel continues to defy international law, including countless United Nations resolutions, and builds more and more settlement on land stolen from the Palestinians, its reputation as a model democracy is taking a well-deserved beating. Last year, Israel took a dramatic step in violating whatever semblance of democracy it ever had. On July 11, 2011, the New York Times reported this: "The Israeli Parliament on Monday passed contentious legislation that effectively bans any public call for a boycott against the state of Israel or its West Bank settlements, making such action a punishable offense." While opponents say that this law compromises the freedom of expression, its supporters, ironically, say that it is necessary to fight the 'global delegitimization’ of Israel...
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The predictable aftermath of the anti-CAP smear (Glenn Greenwald) - 28-jan-2012
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January 27, 2012 - I’ve written several times about the coordinated smear campaign to brand writers at the Center for American Progress as "anti-Semites" in order to punish them for defying mandated orthodoxies on Israel and to deter others from doing so. While that smear campaign, having done its job, is now winding down, the predictable effects of it are only beginning: CAP is now censoring those targeted writers, and those who defended them are now being similarly smeared. First, the self-censorship at CAP: both The Weekly Standard's Daniel Halper and Philip Weiss document how a post written by two of the targeted CAP writers, Ali Gharib and Eli Clifton, was censored in important, substantive ways...
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