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Felicity Arbuthnot: Iraq; Abraham's “Children of a Lesser God” ?
“Thus were they defiled with their own works.” (Psalms 106: 39.) “For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight.” (Alexander Pope, 168...
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Joint AAI/APN Poll: Jewish and Arab Americans Overwhelmingly Support Two-State Solution, U.S. Engagement in Peace Process
Briefing Call with James Zogby and Debra DeLee ...
CITES Conference at The Hague
CITES (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) Fourteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties Th...
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Felicity Arbuthnot: Depleted Uranium - A Way Out?
The term “Gulf War Syndrome” is now known world-wide – but - after the 1991 Iraq war, as formerly A1 fit soldiers fell ill with debilitating symptoms, ...
U.S.: Can Democrats End the Iraq War?
Summing up the media's conventional wisdom about the congressional vote to approve funding for the Iraq War with no timeline for withdrawal, the Los Angeles Tim...
Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs)
Please check out the 1600 stories about the suicides and homicides and other violence related to SSRIs at: http://www.ssristories.com/index.php . This w...
Heather Wokusch: Poisoning the Troops, Again
The Pentagon has a disturbing pattern of withholding information on the impact of chemical/biological weapons and other toxins on US service members. As a resul...
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US Bombs Somalia Targets
MOGADISHU — A US warship overnight bombed targets in northeastern Somalia in the second known direct military intervention by Washington in the Horn of Africa...
Israel/OPT: Civilians in the line of fire in Gaza and Sderot
Israeli forces and Palestinian armed groups must cease reckless air strikes and indiscriminate rocket attacks which have been killing civilians and spreading fe...
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First Video of BBC Gaza Hostage
"First of all, my captors have treated me very well," said Johnston. ...
Yousef Alhelou: Israeli High Court allows Shin Bet to torture Palestinians, Public Committee Against Torture in Israel says
The Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI) has issued a report documenting a number of Palestinian cases of torture endured during interrogation at ...
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Lebanon Army Set to Storm Bared Camp
NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon — The Lebanese army was poised Friday, June 1, to storm a besieged Palestinian camp in northern Lebanon as fighting raged between army ...
Trish Schuh: The Salvador Option in Beirut
"The only prospect that holds hope for us is the carving up of Syria... It is our task to prepare for that prospect. All else is a purposeless waste of time." Z...
Yousef Alhelou: UK academics back proposal to boycott Israeli universities by 158 to 99 + UPDATE
On Wednesday, at the UK's University and College Union (UCU)'s first annual conference, British academics were urged to back calls for a boycott of Israeli univ...
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Imperial US Sparks New Arms Race: Putin
"There was a desire among several international actors to dictate their will to each and everyone", Putin said. (Reuters)...
ACLU Sues Boeing Subsidiary for Participation in CIA Kidnapping and Torture Flights
Group Also Appeals to United States Supreme Court in Khaled El-Masri Lawsuit NEW YORK - The American Civil Liberties Union today (May 30) filed a fede...
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Brenda Norrell: United Nations calls for second Indigenous Border Summit
NEW YORK -- The Indigenous Border Summit of the Americas, held in San Xavier on Tohono O'odham land in Arizona, was so successful that the United Nations Perman...
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho: Mobile Phones & Vanishing Birds
Birds near mobile phone base stations do not breed well Where did all the sparrows go? The sparrows have disappeared completely from the c...
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Helpless Iraqi Refugees Turn to Sex
Umm Hiba shook her head. "During the war we lost everything. We even lost our honor."...
Two Conflicting Stories on U.S./Iran Relations
Bush authorises covert CIA operations to destabilise Iran An ABC News report on Tuesday provided further evidence that the Bush administration is active...
Dollar crash must be averted to sustain global economic growth – UN report
In order for current world economic growth rates to continue, it is crucial to keep the United States dollar from falling rapidly while also avoiding a recessio...
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Venezuela: The "Call for Truth" rests with you Mr. President ... lies bring you failure, says Drew Raines
American Disquisition talk show host, Drew Malone, Raines III writes: To fellow citizens worldwide I am so very proud of Venezuela ... she stands against these ...
VENEZUELA, RCTV, AND MEDIA FREEDOM: JUST THE FACTS, PLEASE, by James Jordan
LESSONS IN CURTAILING MEDIA FREEDOM There are a number of ways to curtail press freedom. You can charge a journalist with murder and put him on death...
Rethinking Cuba - Taking Off Those Miami Sunglasses May Help Clear Up the Picture
The recent politicized dismissal of the indictment against Luis Posada Carriles by federal judge Kathleen Cardone has brought the historically thorny relationsh...
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Ramzy Baroud: Cape of Good Hope; One Apartheid Regime Down; One More to Go
I stand at the southernmost corner of Africa, the Cape of Good Hope. The grand mountains underneath and behind infuse a moment of spiritual reflection unmatched...