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World Environment Day (5 June 2010) has just passed but the worsening Climate Emergency remains.
Members of the prestigious US Academy of Sciences (255 members, including 11 Nobel laureates) have recently signed a statement about climate change in which they conclude : “Society has two choices: we can ignore the science and hide our heads in the sand and hope we are lucky, or we can act in the public interest to reduce the threat of global climate change quickly and substantively. The (…)

The Gaza Aid Flotilla Massacre underscores why the World must urgently apply comprehensive Sanctions and Boycotts against Apartheid Israel and its supporters to protect Humanity from the genocidal, nuclear terrorist state of Apartheid Israel - a race-based state that continues to violate International Law, International Human Rights Conventions, the UN General Assembly, the UN Security Council, the International Court of Justice, and indeed what Catholic theologians call the Natural Law. (…)

Istanbul, Jun 4 (Prensa Latina)
The Foundation for Human Rights, Freedoms and Humanitarian Relief (IHH), organizer of the aid flotilla attacked by Israel, presented new evidence on Friday that prove that Israeli intelligence services had chosen their targets prior to the assault.
Israeli Attack to Humanitarian Caravan Condenmed The IHH president, Bülent Yildirim, accused Israel of taking advantage of the attack against the ship to carry out selective killing of members of the (…)

Activists, on Sat., June 5, 2010, staged a demonstration at Baltimore’s Inner Harbor. They are protesting BP’s supposed “criminal corporate negligence” with respect to the recent massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill, according to their press release. Their campaign, which is national in scope, is entitled: “Seize BP!”
To learn more about the “Seize BP” campaign, go to: https://secure2.convio.net/pep/site/SPageServer?pagename=SeizeBP Andrew Castro is the local organizer. ANSWER Baltimore also (…)

WASHINGTON — Tensions deepened between Turkey and Israel on Friday, and a new fissure threatened to open between the United States and Israel, as the three countries continued to deal with the fallout from Israel’s deadly raid on a humanitarian aid flotilla off Gaza.
A senior Turkish diplomat warned that his country might sever diplomatic relations with Israel unless its government apologized for the attack, in which nine Turkish citizens were killed; consented to an international (…)

(Off the Gaza coast, 5 JUNE) - Just before 9am this morning, the Israeli military forcibly siezed the Irish-owned humanitarian relief ship, the MV Rachel Corrie, from delivering over 1000 tons of medical and construction supplies to besieged Gaza. For the second time in less then a week, Israeli naval commandos stormed an unarmed aid ship, brutally taking its passengers hostage and towing the ship toward Ashdod port in Southern Israel. It is not yet known whether any of the Rachel Corrie’s (…)

Six of the nine activists killed in Monday’s raid on an aid convoy were shot by a single Israeli commando who is now being considered for a medal of valour.
Israeli reports of the likely award for the soldier — credited with saving his injured comrades as passengers attacked them with clubs, knives and even the guns they had captured from the commandos — are expected to inflame the row with Turkey over the attack on the flotilla.
Mustafa Akyol, a prominent political writer, described the (…)

The Irish aid ship, MV Rachel Corrie, is expected to arrive in Gazan territorial waters at about 0900 local time (0600 BST) on Saturday.
Israel’s foreign minister has said it will not be allowed to dock there and so far the crew have had no communication with the Israeli navy.
Nine activists died on Monday when Israeli commandos stormed another vessel in the convoy.
Nobel Laureate Mairead Corrigan Maguire is on board the Rachel Corrie.
On Friday night the Irish Foreign Affairs (…)

From Klinghoffer to the Gaza Flotilla
by Yvonne Ridley (Friday, June 4, 2010)
"...according to international law, the actions of the Israeli military were beyond the law and those involved should be treated no differently than, say, the Somali pirates who are also in the habit of boarding ships by force....Any rights to self defense in such dramatic circumstances rests purely with the passengers and crew on board. Under international maritime law you are legally entitled to resist (…)

Peace activists, led by CODEPINK’s Medea Benjamin, convened in front of the Turkish Embassy, in Washington, D.C., on Friday, June 4, 2010. They were there to express their condolences for the “deaths of the Turkish citizens,” as a result of Israel’s lethal attack, in international waters, “on the nonviolent Gaza Freedom Flotilla.” For more details, go to: http://www.codepink4peace.org/
and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqn_ce1XMLg