January 16, 2012
It is time for the American public to hold AIPAC accountable. (CODEPINK) By Clive Hambidge Habituation writes James Austin M.D ‘means that repeated stimuli yield a decreasing response.’ Conversely and importantly he goes on, ‘Sensitization implies that responses increase when stronger stimuli are repeated.’ For in this understanding, ‘we are addressing the basis [...]
Tags: AIPAC, American Israel Public Affairs Committee, Arms Export Control Act, Iran, Israel, middle east, Palestine, United States
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December 26, 2011
Scott Horton Interviews M.J. Rosenberg Scott Horton, December 24, 2011 Print This | Share This | Comment | Antiwar Forum M.J. Rosenberg, journalist and Senior Foreign Policy Fellow at Media Matters Action Network, discusses his article “The ‘Israel Firster’ Brouhaha” about the Politico articlechiding Media Matters for supposedly trying to turn the [...]
Tags: American Israel Public Affairs Committee, Democratic Party, Foreign policy, Iran, Iran–Iraq War, Israel, Israel Policy Forum, Likud
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November 20, 2011
Is Israel Preparing to Attack Iran? By Neve Gordon* Skimming the newspapers as I rushed to get my children ready for school, I suddenly understood that Israel might actually be preparing for a military attack against Iran. “[United States Secretary of Defence Leon] Panetta Demanded Commitment to Coordinate Action in Iran” read one headline, and [...]
Tags: Ehud Barak, International Atomic Energy Agency, Iran, Israel, Israeli Air Force, middle east, Nuclear program of Iran, Nuclear weapon, Shimon Peres, United States
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November 18, 2011
The Russell Tribunal on Palestine hearing in Cape Town in November 2011 (MaanImages/Hanan Chehata, HO) By Frank Barat and Victor Kattan The Russell Tribunal on Palestine, an international citizen-based tribunal of conscience, has found that “Israel subjects the Palestinian people to an institutionalized regime of domination amounting to apartheid as defined under international law.” [...]
Tags: Cape Town, Israel, Palestine, Palestinian people, Palestinian territories, Russell Tribunal, South Africa, South Africa under apartheid
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November 16, 2011
It’s not that Israel is finding new ways to expel Palestinians, it’s that no one cares Israel routinely produces new ploys to counter Palestinian pleas for justice. But is anybody interested? By Amira Hass* The affair of the rapist president Moshe Katsav is always associated in my mind with my limitations as a journalist. [...]
Tags: Amira Hass, Ben Gurion International Airport, Condoleezza Rice, Israel, middle east, Moshe Katsav, Nobel Peace Prize, Palestinian people, Shimon Peres, Supreme Court of Israel, United States, West Bank
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November 7, 2011
Robben Island in South Africa housed political prisoners during apartheid, but Israeli jails hold even more [GALLO/GETTY] This week, the Russell Tribunal on Palestine will consider the question of whether Israel’s practices in the occupied Palestinian territory (OPT) constitute the crime of apartheid within the meaning of the 1973 International Convention on the Suppression [...]
Tags: Crime of apartheid, Israel, Richard Goldstone, Robben Island, Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, Russell Tribunal, South Africa, West Bank
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October 10, 2011
The British government illegitimately agreed to give special temporary immunity to Tzipi Livni, argue writers [EPA] Changes to UK law didn’t protect Tzipi Livni A London judge ordered a former Israeli foreign minister’s arrest, but the UK is preventing this. Daniel Machover and Raji Sourani Last Modified: 10 Oct 2011 09:15 In December 2009, [...]
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September 23, 2011
This month marks 18 years since the Oslo Accords and 20 years since the Madrid Conference [GALLO/GETTY] The two state solution is dead Voting on full membership for the PLO in the UN marks the end of the Oslo accords, says writer. Ben White This week should be the end of the so-called [...]
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September 18, 2011
Congress Sees Middle East Through AIPAC-Colored Glasses Medea Benjamin and Allison McCracken, September 17, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum During August recess this year, 81 members of Congress went on a junket to Israel funded by the Israel lobby group AIPAC (well, funded by the American Israel Education Fund, but they are really one [...]
Tags: American Israel Public Affairs Committee, CodePink, Elliott Abrams, Gaza, Hearing (law), Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Israel, Medea Benjamin, middle east, Palestinian National Authority, Palestinian people, United States
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September 8, 2011
Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen. (Wikimedia Commons) By Ramzy Baroud From an Israeli point of view, Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen is the ideal American politician. Although many in the US government aspire to her level of commitment to Israel, few can measure up to a dedication that extends beyond the very interests of her own country. “Lawless extremists [...]
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September 7, 2011
Gates: Israel an ‘Ungrateful Ally’ Tensions Rise as Whistleblower Reveals Israeli Effort to Start a US War With Iran by Jason Ditz, September 06, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Though tensions in the relationship between the US and Israeli governments rarely get aired in public, there is a general sense in media reporting [...]
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September 6, 2011
Israel’s Anti-democratic Enterprise By George Polley Israel as a Jewish state is unworkable for one simple reason: non-Jews are treated differently than Jews, leaving non-Jews in a lesser-than position in which they have fewer rights than Jews, and are required to carry a special identification card that identifies them as non-Jews, and must be surrendered [...]
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September 6, 2011
Israeli General Predicts All-Out-War With WMDs Cites Pro-Democracy Protests, Bad Relations With Turkey in Statement by Jason Ditz, September 05, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum In a speech which repeatedly cited the pro-democracy protests across the Middle East as a catalyst, Israeli Major General Eyal Eisenberg has predicted an “all out” [...]
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September 5, 2011
US Envoy: Israel Considers Any Protest an Excuse to Use Military by Jason Ditz, September 04, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Whenever Israeli troops rough up civilian protesters, it is shrugged off as an isolated incident. One of the WikiLeaks cables, however, shows that it was explicit military policy to abuse civilians [...]
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September 4, 2011
JUAN GONZALEZ: Turkey has downgraded diplomatic ties with Israel and frozen military cooperation ahead of a long-awaited United Nations report on Israel’s deadly attack on a Gaza-bound aid ship in 2010. According to leaked excerpts, the report accuses Israel of, quote, “excessive and unreasonable force” in its attacks on the Mavi Marmara which killed nine people. The [...]
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August 25, 2011
An unofficial truce was declared after four days of clashes which left 15 Palestinians dead [Reuters] Israel has launched several attacks on Gaza, killing three Palestinians and wounding several others, prompting Hamas to allege that the attacks violated an unofficial two-day-long truce. Medics in Gaza said an Israeli air strike on Wednesday evening killed 20-year-old Mohammad Moqat. He was a member of the [...]
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August 21, 2011
1. America, Watch Your Lawmakers Having Fun In Israel (video) http://www.gilad.co.uk/writings/america-watch-your-lawmakers-having-fun-in-israel.html While the US continues to struggle with its economic issues Congress is on vacation. Many are upset at the news reports that 81 members of Congress have chosen to spend a week relaxing in Israel. These vacations are being paid for by AIPAC. Adam Shapiro, [...]
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August 20, 2011
By Uri Avnery Since the beginning of the conflict, the extremists of both sides have always played into each other’s hands. The cooperation between them was always much more effective than the ties between the corresponding peace activists. “Can two walk together, except they be agreed?” asked the prophet Amos (3:3). Well, seems [...]
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August 18, 2011
Daily Rogue State Israeli Lawlessness by STEPHEN LENDMAN on AUGUST 17, 2011 Spread it! 2Share| 5Share 0 inShare 0digg email print By Stephen Lendman* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz It begs the question why Israelis put up with lawless governance harming them as well as Palestinians. When will weeks of social injustice outrage arouse them to embrace universal equity? Why [...]
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August 17, 2011
Israeli marines shot dead nine Turkish passengers on the Mavi Marmara aid ship in May 2010 [AFP] Israel says it will stick to its refusal to apologise to Turkey for killing nine of its citizens on a Gaza-bound aid ship, an Israeli official has said. Wednesday’s announcement, which the official said Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu conveyed to [...]
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August 17, 2011
The May 15 Nakba protests put the issue of Palestinian refugees back on the table [GALLO/GETTY] After years of marginalisation in the peace process, the Palestinian refugees are back on centre stage. On May 15, Nakba day, the refugees forced their way on to the news agenda; in the past two weeks, Israeli and Palestinian leaders [...]
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August 17, 2011
As Netanyahu Hypes Iranian ‘Threat,’ Russia Holds Tehran Talks Russian Foreign Ministry Terms Talks Stalled, But Efforts Continue by Jason Ditz, August 16, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Nuclear talks are continuing today in Tehran, with Russian officials trying to revive the P5+1 talks in a series of relatively secretive discussions [...]
Tags: Benjamin Netanyahu, International Atomic Energy Agency, Iran, Israel, middle east, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Iran), Nikolai Patrushev, Tehran
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August 17, 2011
Spotlight on Occupied Palestine By Lawrence Davidson * | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Education as indoctrination Over the last 10 years there have been periodicoutbursts of rage over the alleged anti-Semitic nature of Palestinian textbooks. Most of these episodes have been instigated by an Israeli based organization called the Centre for Monitoring the Impact of Peace (also [...]
Tags: Antisemitism, Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education, Mattityahu Peled, Nurit Peled-Elhanan, Palestinian territories, Textbooks in the Palestinian territories, United States Department of State, Zionism
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August 17, 2011
Does AIPAC Have Only Two Major Donors? John Boehner and Eric Cantor By Grant Smith * | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz A large congressional delegation is heading for Israel. During three weeks of recess, 55 Republicans and 26 Democrats will enjoy “educational” trips funded by the American Israel Education Foundation, a tax-exempt nonprofit located in the same [...]
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August 16, 2011
Quartet ‘concerned’ by Israeli settlement move Published today (updated) 16/08/2011 20:19 Israeli tractors working at a construction site in the West Bank settlement of Ariel in 2010. The United States, Russia, the European Union and the United Nations on Tuesday attacked Israel’s move to build new West Bank housing as a threat to peace [...]
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August 16, 2011
Allawi was arrested when he was crossing the border between Jordan and the occupied West Bank Samer Allawi, Al Jazeera Arabic’s Kabul bureau chief, has been brought before an Israeli military court, almost a week after he was arrested by Israeli officials when he tried to cross the border between Jordan and the occupied West Bank. Israeli authorities extended [...]
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August 16, 2011
Israel will use Palestinian UN bid to restore status quo To be honest, what’s the difference between the potential UN declaration in September 2011 and the Palestinian declaration of independence in Tunis 22 years ago? By Akiva Eldar Even MK Aryeh Eldad (National Union ), the professor of the extreme right, is not particularly upset by [...]
Tags: Barack Obama, Benjamin Netanyahu, Ehud Barak, Israel, Mahmoud Abbas, Tami Steinmetz Center for Peace Research, United Nations, United Nations General Assembly
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August 15, 2011
Israel has approved the building of 277 homes in Ariel, defying criticism of continued construction on lands the Palestinians claim for a state. Photograph: Ariel Schalit/AP The Israeli government has authorised the construction of 277 homes in the West Bank settlement of Ariel, a move that will diminish the prospects for a resumption of peace [...]
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August 15, 2011
Israeli police arrest 3 Palestinian children in Silwan Published yesterday (updated) 14/08/2011 20:00 BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — An undercover unit of the Israeli forces arrested two Palestinian children and one teenager from the Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan on Sunday, a local committee member and Israeli police spokesman said. Abed Al-Karim, member of a local Silwan [...]
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August 15, 2011
I grew up in a small town in Massachusetts where my parents headed our local synagogue, Hadassah and the United Jewish Appeal. My first trip abroad after university, in 1962, included a week-long visit to Israel where I was awed by its accomplishments, as well as by its vulnerability. After the Six Day War in [...]
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August 13, 2011
French activists demonstrate in solidarity with Palestinians, showing support for an international boycott of Israel [EPA] Author and history professor Mark LeVine speaks with sociologist Lisa Taraki, a co-founder of the Palestinian campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel. Mark LeVine: What is the “Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions” movement and how is it [...]
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August 13, 2011
Erekat calls for accountability as EU, France condemn settlement build Published yesterday 13:54 BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — PLO official Saeb Erekat said Thursday that Israel’s announcement of a flux of settlement building shows the country “regards itself as a state above international law and accountability,” calling for firmer action by foreign nations. International leaders have [...]
Tags: Benjamin Netanyahu, Catherine Ashton, East Jerusalem, Israel, Israeli settlement, Palestinian people, Ramat Shlomo, Saeb Erekat
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August 12, 2011
Envoy: World must act against ‘colonization campaign’ Published yesterday (updated) 12/08/2011 23:00 BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Palestinian Ambassador to the UN Riyad Mansour on Friday urged the international community to compel Israel to end its colonization campaign if it really believes in the two-state solution, reports said. In letters to the UN secretary-general and the [...]
Tags: East Jerusalem, Givat HaMatos, Israel, Israeli settlement, Jerusalem, Palestinian National Authority, Pisgat Ze'ev, Salam Fayyad
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August 12, 2011
2. Professor James Petras on The Wandering Who? ‘ Friday, August 12, 2011 at 5:40AM Gilad Atzmon Gilad Atzmon‘s The Wandering Who? is a series of brilliant illuminations and critical reflections on Jewish ethnocentrism and the hypocrisy of those who speak in the name of universal values and act tribal. Relying on autobiographical and existential experiences, [...]
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August 11, 2011
Israel Lobby Dominates Congress, Media Covers it Up by Alison Weir, August 11, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum You might think that 20 percent of the American Congress going on all-expenses-paid, weeklong junkets to a foreign country — paid for by a lobby for that country — would be newsworthy, especially when [...]
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August 11, 2011
Those arrested included Palestinian, Israeli and international activists protesting against the construction of a barrier Israeli army troops have arrested 11 people after clashes erupted during a demonstration in Walaja, a village in the West Bank. Those arrested included Palestinian, Israeli and international activists who were protesting against the construction of Israel’s separation barrier. “Some 80 Palestinian and Israeli activists [...]
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July 31, 2011
Report: Israel plans to build separation wall in Golan Published yesterday (updated) 31/07/2011 04:02 GOLAN, Syria (Ma’an) — Israeli authorities plan to build a wall in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights, the official Syrian news agency SANA reported Friday. The wall will separate the town of Majdal Shams in Israeli-occupied territory from the suburb [...]
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July 31, 2011
Israeli soldiers attack Palestinian journalist Published yesterday (updated) 30/07/2011 21:58 Barghouthi was treated for head injuries in Ramallah RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Palestinian photojournalist Moheeb Al-Barghouthi was beaten by Israeli soldiers Friday covering a demonstration in the Nabi Saleh village near Ramallah. Al-Barghouthi, who works for the official Palestinian Authority newspaper Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, suffered head [...]
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July 30, 2011
UNRWA condemns attack as children smash world record Published yesterday (updated) 30/07/2011 11:00 BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees on Thursday strongly condemned an attack on a summer games facility in north-west Gaza. “The attackers damaged a large billboard, burnt a UN flag and torched part of the stage. None [...]
Tags: China, List of Directors and Commissioners-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, Palestinian flag, Palestinian refugee, Summer Olympic Games, United Nations, United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, World record
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July 30, 2011
UK activists cycle 7,000 kilometers to Palestine Published today (updated) 30/07/2011 11:59 BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — A group of cyclists from the UK has arrived in the West Bank after cycling 7,000 kilometers from London in support of the popular resistance movements in Palestine. On Friday the group met with the Bilin popular committee and [...]
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July 30, 2011
15 injured as Israeli soldiers disperse rally near Qalqiliya Published today (updated) 30/07/2011 11:44 Click on image to view slideshow QALQILIYA (Ma’an) — Fifteen Palestinian protesters were injured on Friday when Israeli forces dispersed a peaceful protest in the village of Kafr Qaddum, east of Qalqiliya. The protesters were demanding that Israeli forces open [...]
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July 30, 2011
Israeli officials destroy a water storage facility used by Palestinian farmers outside the West Bank village of Yatta, near the Israeli settlement of Sosia, in early June [EPA] Around three weeks ago on a late Tuesday morning, Israeli soldiers armed with a truck and a digger entered the Palestinian village of Amniyr and destroyed nine [...]
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July 29, 2011
Dershowitz’s Continuum of Civilianality Turns Five By Belen Fernandez Five years ago, Israel waged a 34-day war on Lebanon that resulted in the elimination of approximately 1200 persons in the targeted country, most of them civilians, as well as 43 Israeli civilians. In a July 2006 opinion piece for the Los Angeles Times, Harvard Law [...]
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July 29, 2011
GILAD ATZMON: DE-ZIONIFICATION NOW FRIDAY, JULY 29, 2011 AT 4:12PM GILAD ATZMON “It (immigration) was a politically motivated attempt by ministers to transform the fundamental make-up and identity of this country (Britain). It was done to destroy the right of the British people to live in a society defined by a common history, religion, law, language [...]
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July 29, 2011
In Jaffa, Palestinians and left-wing Jewish supporters protest government plans to demolish illegally-built Arab houses [GALLO/GETTY] During the last week angry young residents of Tel Aviv have been staging a sit-in, or, more accurately, a tent-in, along fashionable Rothschild Boulevard to protest their being priced out of the housing market in Israel’s cultural and economic capital. The [...]
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July 29, 2011
A tent camp in Tel Aviv: the protests over high rents and house prices have the support of 87% of the population, according to a poll. Photograph: Uriel Sinai/Getty Images Israel‘s tent city protests over housing are growing by the day, and the mood of civil activism is spreading to other issues. The voices [...]
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July 29, 2011
Palestinian detainees mark 27 years in Israeli jail Published yesterday (updated) 28/07/2011 19:10 RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Palestinian detainees Huza Al-Saadi and Othman Bani Hasan, both from Jenin, marked 27 years in Israeli prisons on Thursday. The Palestinian detainees center applauded the stamina of both men to withstand so many years of Israeli mistreatment. They [...]
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July 29, 2011
Israel protesters occupy roof of Tel Aviv exchange Published yesterday 20:51 Israelis protest against rising housing prices and social inequalities [AFP Jack Guez] JERUSALEM (AFP) — Dozens of demonstrators occupied the roof of the Tel Aviv stock exchange on Thursday morning, Israeli military radio reported, as protests over the high cost of living spread [...]
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July 26, 2011
PALESTINE, ISRAEL, GERMANY- THE BOUNDARIES OF OPEN DISCUSSION MONDAY, JULY 25, 2011 AT 1:46PM GILAD ATZMON This is a very important conference!!! http://paltagefreiburg2011.blogspot.com/ September 10-11, 2011 Freiburg, Germany Freedom of speech and expression are recognised by many as primary human rights. However, when it comes to discussion on topics concerning Palestine, Israel and Germany we often face rigid [...]
Tags: Antisemitism, Criticism of the Israeli government, Gilad Atzmon, Islamophobia, Israel, Lauren Booth, Palestine, Palestinian people
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July 26, 2011
Rupert Murdoch: Intellectual terrorism by PAUL J. BALLES on JULY 25, 2011 The past week’s news has been dominated by reports of scandals in Rupert Murdoch’s media empire. As journalist Ted Newcomen points out, there’s more to the story: The latest revelations in the UK about phone hacking, bribing the police, and frightening political leaders are just [...]
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