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Bennis: Detaining the United Nations
Znet Article, December, 23 2008
Phyllis Bennis
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Richard Falk was detained at the airport and denied entry to Israel on December 13, when he arrived in Tel Aviv. The American professor of international law was traveling to the West Bank and Gaza, to fulfill his mandate as the United Nations Spec...
Cohn: Cheney Throws Down Gauntlet, Defies Prosecution for War Crimes
Znet Article, December, 18 2008
Marjorie Cohn
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Dick Cheney has publicly confessed to ordering war crimes. Asked about waterboarding in an ABC News interview, Cheney replied, “I was aware of the program, certainly, and involved in helping get the process cleared.†He also said he stil...
Lendman: The Abduction, Secret Detention, Torture, and Repeated Raping of Aafia Siddiqui
Znet Article, December, 15 2008
Stephen Lendman
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Post-9/11, the "war on terror" has been a jihad against Islam, the colonizers v. the colonized, or what Edward Said called "the familiar (America, Europe, us) and the strange (the Orient, East, them)." Dr. Aafia Siddiqui is one of its most tragic,...
Goodman: Former U.S. Interrogator: Torture Policy Has Led to More Deaths than 9/11 Attacks
Znet Article, December, 15 2008
Amy Goodman
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Writing under the pseudonym Matthew Alexander, a former special intelligence operations officer, who led an interrogations team in Iraq two years ago, has written a stunning op-ed in the Washington Post called "I'm Still Tortured by What I Saw in ...
Fletcher jr.: Israel Must End the Gaza blockade!
Commentary, December, 15 2008
Bill Fletcher jr.
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When it comes to Israel's blockade of Gaza, the silence is deafening, at least outside of Palestine. One wonders how many international conventions the Israelis need to break before there is an actual global outcry and action against their repeate...
Sinclair: Book review: The Thin Blue Line. How Humanitarianism Went to War by Conor Foley
Znet Article, December, 10 2008
Ian Sinclair
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Book review of The Thin Blue Line. How Humanitarianism Went to War by Conor Foley
Cohn: Obama: Ratify the Women's Convention Soon
Commentary, December, 06 2008
Marjorie Cohn
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Nearly 30 years after President Jimmy Carter signed the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), the United States remains the only democracy that refuses to ratify the most significant treaty guaranteein...
Ratner: Obama Should Prosecute Bush Officials Who Designed Torture Policy
Znet Article, December, 06 2008
Michael Ratner
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One of Barack Obama's first acts as president should be to instruct his attorney general to appoint an independent prosecutor to initiate a criminal investigation of former Bush Administration officials who gave the green light to torture.
Lendman: Israel's Slow-Motion Genocide in Occupied Palestine
Znet Article, November, 26 2008
Stephen Lendman
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Israel is a serial human rights international law abuser. The UN Human Rights Commission affirms that it violates nearly all 149 articles of the Fourth Geneva Convention that governs the treatment of civilians in war and under occupation and is gu...
Cohn: Guantánamo Justice After Seven Years
Znet Article, November, 24 2008
Marjorie Cohn
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Since the Bush administration began transporting men and boys to Guantánamo Bay in January 2002, it has tried to prevent them from presenting their cases before a neutral federal judge. Indeed, the naval base was turned into a prison camp precisel...
Lendman: Extrajudicial Assassinations As Official Israeli Policy
Znet Article, November, 19 2008
Stephen Lendman
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Extra-judicial killings are indefensible, morally abhorrent, and illegal under international laws and norms. Article 23b of the 1907 Hague Regulations prohibits "assassination, proscription, or outlawry of an enemy, or putting a price upon an enem...
Cook: The real goal of Israel’s blockade
Znet Article, November, 17 2008
Jonathan Cook
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The latest tightening of Israel’s chokehold on Gaza – ending all supplies into the Strip for more than a week – has produced immediate and shocking consequences for Gaza’s 1.5 million inhabitants.
Raina: Hindu Terrorism
Znet Article, November, 16 2008
Badri Raina
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So, now, India is home to �Hindu� terrorism...
Cook: Israel tightens chokehold on village of entrepreneurs
Znet Article, November, 13 2008
Jonathan Cook
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The sun is sinking fast behind the trees of an olive grove on the outskirts of the West Bank village of Nilin. After a day of confrontations between the Israeli army and the Palestinian villagers over Israel’s building of its separation wall on Ni...
Cohn: Obama Spells New Hope for Human Rights
Znet Article, November, 10 2008
Marjorie Cohn
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Celebrations of Barack Obama’s election as President of the United States erupted in countries around the world. From Europe to Africa to the Middle East, people were jubilant. After suffering though eight years of an administration that violated ...
Cook: Travesty of tolerance on display
Znet Article, November, 05 2008
Jonathan Cook
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Museum lays waste to ancient Muslim cemetery.
Cromwell: Children In The Crosshairs
Znet Article, November, 04 2008
David Cromwell
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On the afternoon of Thursday 28 February, 2008, a group of Palestinian boys were playing football on some open ground near their homes in the Gaza Strip. At around 3.20pm, an Israeli aircraft fired a missile at the boys, killing four of them insta...
Cook: Message of massacre lives on for Palestinians
Znet Article, October, 30 2008
Jonathan Cook
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In a conflict that has produced more than its share of suffering and tragedy, the name of Kafr Qassem lives on in infamy more than half a century after Israeli police gunned down 47 Palestinian civilians, including women and children, in the village.
Cook: Israel bars visit to father’s grave
Znet Article, October, 29 2008
Jonathan Cook
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Salwa Salam Qupty clutches a fading sepia photograph of a young Palestinian man wearing a traditional white headscarf. It is the sole memento that survives of her father, killed by a Jewish militia during the 1948 war that established Israel.
Gordon: Settler Violence Leads to the Arrest of Peace Activists
Znet Article, October, 28 2008
Neve Gordon
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At dawn the activists arrived. Around thirty Ta’ayush (Arab-Jewish Partnership) and international volunteers came to the Palestinian groves adjacent to the Jewish settlement in Tel-Rumeida, Hebron, to help the landowners pick their olives. Previou...
