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GAZA FLOTILLA NATIONAL DEMONSTRATION SAT 5 JUNE ASSEMBLE 1.30PM DOWNING STREET LONDON Called by Stop the War Coalition, Palestine Solidarity Campaign, British Muslim Initiative, CND, Viva Palestina , Friends of Al-Aqsa and Palestinian Forum of Britain.
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This is a pivotal moment in the campaign to lift the siege of Gaza and for justice for Palestine.
The scale of the global outrage, following Israel’s attack on the Gaza (…)

This is an important development as the details of the IDF’s assault on the Gaza Peace Flotilla emerge from individual eye witnesses emerge. One particularly galling detail was Israel’s long delay in releasing the names of the peace activists who were killed. One reason for the delay was probably the U.S. nationality of one of the IDF commandos’ victims, 19 year old Furkan Dogan.
U.S. citizen among those killed in Israeli flotilla raid
The American citizen was identified by the (…)

Flotilla Deportees to Speak at Mass Demonstration in Dublin Date(s) : 5 Jun 2010
Time(s) : 2:00PM
Area : Dublin
Venue : The Garden of Remembrance, Parnell Sq
Flotilla Deportees to Speak at Mass Demonstration in Dublin on Saturday
IPSC Calls for huge mobilisition Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign
Press Release - 2nd June 2010, 4.30pm
The Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) has called a mass demonstration for 2pm this Saturday in Dublin at which the Freedom Flotilla (…)

The Gaza flotilla organisers lost contact with the Gaza-bound MV Rachel Corrie today. Although the Free Gaza movement decided to pull the aid-laden cargo ship into a port to add more high profile people and journalists, the organisers said they couldn’t communicate the decision to those aboard the vessel. “The situation is we lost contact with the boat. We assume this was sabotage by the Israelis, “ said Audrey Bomse of the Free Gaza Movement.
On Thursday, the aid-laden cargo ship, which (…)

“Our meat is aged, our fish is fresh and our butchers are both.” (1)
On May 23, 2010, I attended a book reading at the Crystal Moll Gallery in South Baltimore. Rafael Alvarez, a local who worked for twenty three years as a reporter for the Baltimore Sun, was one of the participants. Afterwards, he signed copies of his book, “Storyteller, published in 2001, the same year he hung up his pad and pencil at the Sun.
Reading “Storyteller,” I enjoyed recognizing so many of the colorful (…)

Israeli state terrorists attacked the Gaza Aid Convoy killing 9 and wounding about 60 more international humanitarians. 5 Australians were among those attacked by Israeli terrorists in this act of piracy in International waters (a woman photo-journalist was tasered and her camera seized; an Australian man was shot; 5 Australians in all were violently kidnapped by Israeli terrorists. However the pro-war, war criminal, human rights–abusing, pro-Zionist Australian Labor Government has been (…)

One of Italy’s top news readers has dramatically quit her job on state-funded television after claiming its coverage was biased in favour of the media mogul and premier, Silvio Berlusconi.
Maria Luisa Busi, who presented the flagship evening TG1 news show on the Rai 1 channel, reportedly told bosses what she thought of the programme’s editorial line in a frank letter pinned to a notice board.
Her abrupt departure at the weekend follows a series of clashes with TG1 editor Augusto (…)

WASHINGTON — The top American commander in the Middle East has ordered a broad expansion of clandestine military activity in an effort to disrupt militant groups or counter threats in Iran, Saudi Arabia, Somalia and other countries in the region, according to defense officials and military documents.
The secret directive, signed in September by Gen. David H. Petraeus, authorizes the sending of American Special Operations troops to both friendly and hostile nations in the Middle East, (…)

ICTR lawyer Peter Erlinder, who along with others on the defense team of the Rwanda Tribunal, helped expose the US backed regime change operation which installed President Paul Kagame as Rwandan leader, has been arrested and is now in Kagame’s clutches in Kigali.
Erlinder has reportedly attempted suicide. Anyone who knows the true nature of Rwandan dictator Paul Kagame’s crimes and understands the hate he has towards Peter Erlinder, will understand why it is critical that Erlinder be (…)

June 1st, 2010
Mister President Obama The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W.
Washington DC 20500
Mister President,
Since your election, every month, in the name of the friends of the Cuban Five from Monein, I write you asking you to liberate the five Cubans - Gerardo Hernandez, Antonio Guerrero, Fernando Gonzalez, Ramon Labañino, and René Gonzalez – prisoners in your country.
Each day that passes (…)