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  • Vik: a friend, a brother, a humanist
    18 April 2011 par (Open-Publishing)

    He was hung.
    I first heard of Vik before arriving in Gaza. Vik had just been injured by IOF water canoning which shattered the windows of the fishing boat he was accompanying. Vik had some injuries from the shattered glass.
    When I met Vik he was nothing but humble and humour. A compassionate man, living to do good and do anything for Palestinian justice. Others knew him better and longer, and told me of Viks arrests by the IOF, deportation, and other interesting stories. But above all, (…)

  • Hamas Says It Found Body of Italian Activist, Vittorio Arrigoni (video)
    15 April 2011 par (Open-Publishing)

    A radical, Al Qaeda-inspired Islamic group in Gaza said Thursday that it had kidnapped an Italian citizen in the Palestinian territory and threatened to execute him unless Hamas, which rules Gaza, released the group’s imprisoned leader by 5 p.m. on Friday.
    But early Friday morning, Hamas officials announced that the body of the Italian man, a pro-Palestinian activist, had been found.
    Palestinian officials said the Hamas police had stormed a house where they thought the man was being held (…)

  • BRICS Meeting in Sanya (China): Local currencies to replace dollar
    14 April 2011 par (Open-Publishing)
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    BRICS Meeting in Sanya (China): Local currencies to replace dollar
    Sanya (China), April 14 (IANS) Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – the BRICS group of fastest growing economies – Thursday signed an agreement to use their own currencies instead of the predominant US dollar in issuing credit or grants to each other.
    The agreement, the first-of-its-kind, was signed at the 3rd BRICS summit here attended by Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, China’s Hu Jintao, Brazil’s Dilma (…)

  • Death Threats Against Canadian Citizens by Netanyahu
    7 April 2011 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Canadian Boat To Gaza
    Boat to Gaza: The Canadian Boat to Gaza organizers state that, "Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has now threatened to ’act firmly’ using ’force’ against the flotilla in May.
    The Canadian Boat to Gaza is calling on all of the federal parties to denounce these threats against Canadians by Israel, which has demonstrated its willingness to use lethal force against civilians, similar to its fatal attack on last year’s freedom flotilla." The United Nations (…)

  • Israeli peace activist Juliano Mer Khamis shot dead in Jenin
    4 April 2011 par (Open-Publishing)

    Witnesses say actor – who ran a drama project in a Palestinian refugee camp – was shot five times by masked men
    An Israeli actor and peace activist who ran a drama project in a Palestinian refugee camp has been shot dead by masked men, metres from the theatre he founded.
    Juliano Mer Khamis, 52, had received threats for his work in Jenin in the northern West Bank but continued to divide his time between Jenin and Haifa in the north of Israel. Witnesses said he was shot five times.
    Mer (…)

  • Canada: Israel’s New Military Ally
    4 April 2011 par (Open-Publishing)

    Why Canada has made itself Israel’s new friend on the block By Lia Tarachansky
    It used to be that when you counted Israel’s top allies, the obvious names came to mind: Germany, the UK and, of course, the US. These days, Canada seems determined to soar to the top of that list, confirming the judgment of Avigdor Lieberman, Israel’s Foreign Minister. While visiting Canada in 2009 he said, “Canada is so friendly that there was no need to convince or explain anything to anyone… We need allies (…)

  • Noam Chomsky: On Libya and the Unfolding Crises
    3 April 2011 par (Open-Publishing)

    1. What are U.S. motives in international relations most broadly? That is, what are the over arching motives and themes one can pretty much always find informing U.S. policy choices, no matter where in the world we are discussing? What are the somewhat more specific but still over arching motives and themes for U.S. policy in Middle East and the Arab world? Finally, what do you think are the more proximate aims of U.S. policy in the current situation in Libya?
    A useful way to approach the (…)

  • C.I.A. Agents in Libya Aid Airstrikes and Meet Rebels
    1 April 2011 par (Open-Publishing)

    WASHINGTON — The Central Intelligence Agency has inserted clandestine operatives into Libya to gather intelligence for military airstrikes and to contact and vet the beleaguered rebels battling Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s forces, according to American officials.
    While President Obama has insisted that no American military ground troops participate in the Libyan campaign, small groups of C.I.A. operatives have been working in Libya for several weeks as part of a shadow force of Westerners (…)

  • Update No. 4: "Going to work today, Honey? In the Forbidden Zone?"
    31 March 2011 par (Open-Publishing)

    (San Francisco) - "Honey, are you going to work today in the Forbidden Zone?"
    That is the question a family member or loved one will ask today of thousands of Tepco employees (Tokyo Electric Power Company.)
    The Fukushima district of Northeastern Japan hosts at least two troubled reactor industrial parks. Each industrial park has six reactors for a total of 12 reactors employing thousands of people. The two reactor parks are a 10 km, or 6 miles, apart.
    Four of the General Electric (…)

  • No-fly zone: Clouding words of war
    31 March 2011 par (Open-Publishing)

    The West has used euphemism to deny a state of war against Gaddafi under the guise of a humanitarian mission.
    Phantasms from the 1990s are upon us: no-fly zones; the rhetoric of humanitarian war in Washington, Europe and the UN; guarantees that no US ground troops will be deployed; an air war which alone cannot decisively affect earthbound events.
    President Obama swung for ringing tones in his statement on Libya, condemning idleness in the face of merciless tyrants who brutally assault (…)