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Destroying the Palestinian state 0
Post Views: 2 Israeli settlement expansion continues to make a mockery of efforts to reach a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, writes in occupied Jerusalem While the rest of the world talks about a peace process, and while President Barack
Read MoreWall Street Is Laundering Drug Money and Getting Away with It 0
Post Views: 9 Wall Street has been caught laundering massive amounts of drug money. So why isn’t anybody being punished? This piece originally appeared at Campaign for America’s Future. It has been expanded for this publication.
Read MoreUS Wounded in Afghanistan Nears Entire 2009 Toll 0
Post Views: 28 Estimated 2,000 US Troops Wounded Through Early July With 2010 just scarcely halfway over, the record tolls of the Afghan War are coming fast and furious, pointing to yet another year that will be by
Read MoreUganda: Bombing was Abhorrent Expansion of Attacks on Civilians 0
Post Views: 4 (New York) -The bomb blasts that killed at least 76 people in Kampala on July 11, 2010, were a heinous attack on civilians and an assault on the basic tenet of the right to life, Human Rights
Read MoreCollapse in Living Standards in America: More Poverty By Any Measure 0
Post Views: 3 15 million unemployed, homelessness has increased by 50 percent in some cities More than 15 million Americans are unemployed, homelessness has increased by 50 percent in some cities, and 38 million people are receiving food stamps, more
Read MoreHillary Clinton’s Latest Lies 0
Post Views: 17 The BBC reported on July 4 that US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that the US ballistic missile base in Poland was not directed at Russia. The purpose of the base, she said, is to protect
Read MoreClassified documents reveal UK’s role in abuse of its own citizens 0
Post Views: 7 Former Guantanamo Bay detainees Omar Deghayes, Binyam Mohamed and Martin Mubanga. MI5 officers interviewed Omar Deghayes in Afghanistan Kabul for three hours on the evening of 3 July 2002. He commented that he was treated better by
Read MoreUS: Ratify Women’s Rights Treaty 0
Post Views: 11 (New York) – The United States’ long delay in ratifying the global women’s rights treaty undermines fulfillment of the US commitment to women’s rights at home and abroad, Human Rights Watch said today. Former President Jimmy Carter
Read MoreNorth Korea’s crumbling health system in dire need of aid 0
Post Views: 5 The North Korean government still claims that its healthcare system is free for all – © BBC World Service Amputation and other major surgeries carried out without anaesthesia are just one indication of the dire state of
Read MoreJustice urged for Russian human rights defender’s murder 0
Post Views: 3 Natalia Estemirova was abducted and murdered in July 2009 – © Amnesty International One year after the murder of human rights defender Natalia Estemirova, Amnesty International has called on the Russian authorities to stop the harassment and
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