January 14, 2012
RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Palestinians rallied Saturday against steps toward renewing negotiations with Israel, gathering outside the presidential headquarters in Ramallah. “If you’re against negotiations, honk your car’s horn,” protesters chanted. Sympathetic drivers joined the demonstrators calling for the PLO to cease involvement in bilateral meetings in Jordan. A gathering of young men and women also [...]
Tags: Abbas, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel, Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian National Council, Palestinian people, United States, West Bank
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August 25, 2011
My President Had My Father Arrested Today By davidswanson - Posted on 24 August 2011 0digg davidswanson’s blog Login or register to post comments Email this page Printer-friendly version Tags Environment Nonviolent Resistance The arrests today. Submitted by sandiegowoman on Wed, 2011-08-24 21:44. I know Neil Swanson. He is a friend of mine. He would not take getting arrested [...]
Tags: Arrest, Kim Kardashian, Kris Humphries, Kris Jenner, Lindsay Lohan, Reality television, Robert Kardashian, Vera Wang
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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
For those interested in the cancer of the voodoo economic rhythm this editorial should be illuminating. But consider this. The US elite that wishes to rule the planet has been putting what it feels is necessary to achieve this goal for at least a century. What has always driven this march to hegemony is that the people [...]
Tags: Barack Obama, Bush tax cuts, Cancer, Elite, Harry Reid, middle east, Nigeria, Party leaders of the United States Senate, President, Republican, South East Asia, Southeast Asia, United State, War crime, White House
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July 21, 2011
How Not to Make Friends in the Greater Middle East Washington’s Singular Accomplishment By Tom Engelhardt In the method, there is madness; in the comedy, nightmare; in the tragedy, farce. And despite everything, there’s still good news when it comes to what Americans can accomplish in the face of the impossible! No, not a debt-ceiling deal [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, Ahmed Wali Karzai, Central Intelligence Agency, David Petraeus, Hamid Karzai, New York Times, President of Afghanistan, Tom Engelhardt, United State, United States, United States Armed Forces, Washington Post
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July 13, 2011
Leo Panitch is the Canada Research Chair in Comparative Political Economy and a Distinguished Research Professor of Political Science at York University in Toronto. Panitch is also the author of “Global Capitalism and American Empire” and his most recent release “American Empire and the Political Economy of International Finance”. In addition to his university affiliation [...]
Tags: British Sky Broadcasting, Harold Wilson, Labour, Leo Panitch, Newspaper, Rupert Murdoch, Tony Benn, World news
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July 13, 2011
In the coming weeks, Barack Obama, the US president, is set to decide on the size, scale and timing of an American withdrawal from Afghanistan. Last week the president’s military advisors reportedly argued against the prospect of a substantial withdrawal, saying that leaving too early would threaten hard-won gains. The president’s final decision will depend on judgements [...]
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July 12, 2011
Infighting, ineffective leaders weaken cause By Adbel Bari Atwan, Special to Gulf News Published 00:00 9 July 2011 Abbas faces political bankruptcy if he fails to hold his nerve in September, his supporters will vanish and the people will never trust him again While much of the rest of the Arab world is in the [...]
Tags: al-Quds al-Arabi, Barack Obama, Benjamin Netanyahu, Fatah, Hamas, Israel, Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian National Authority, Proposals for a Palestinian state, Salam Fayyad, United States
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July 11, 2011
Exclusive to The Gulf Today Reports about an alleged CIA drone base targeting militants of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) based in Yemen appear contradictory. Some say that the US spy agency was trying to build a drone facility for surveillance and attack in Yemen itself similar to another on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, [...]
Tags: al-Qaeda, Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, Arabian Peninsula, Central Intelligence Agency, Joint Special Operations Command, Osama bin Laden, Saudi Arabia, United States
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July 6, 2011
This article exposes the true US attitude to the use of drones and the nature of the lies needed to justify their use anywhere. These awful killing machines masquerade as surveillance vehicles, soldiers guardian angels, tactical defence weapons and a never ending stream of lies and deceit to cover up what is happening. What they [...]
Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, CIA, Drone attacks in Pakistan, Lashkar-e-Taiba, Pakistan, Police action, Somalia, Thomas E. Ricks, United States, Unmanned aerial vehicle, War
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July 5, 2011
Editor’s Note: As the French boat makes its way to Gaza alone, the rest of the flotilla is still trying to find ways of leaving Greece. The captain of the US boat has been released from prison and the charges have been dropped. The passengers of the Canadian boat the “Tahrir” Michael Coleman and [...]
Tags: 2007–present blockade of the Gaza Strip, Australia, Breast cancer, Cancer, Conditions and Diseases, Gaza, Gaza flotilla raid, Health, Hellenic Coast Guard, Hizb ut-Tahrir, Israel, National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Palestinian people, West Bank
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July 5, 2011
The damaged units of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Photograph: AIR PHOTO SERVICE / HO/EPA How did the thinking go? Well he does seems to have been anti-nuclear, with good reason BUT why the change in opinion and then this? The answer is quite simple, at least for me, but trust me that [...]
Tags: British government, Centre for Alternative Technology, Germany, Government of the United Kingdom, International Atomic Energy Agency, Japan, Nuclear, nuclearpower
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July 5, 2011
Editor’s Note: Australian participant on the Freedom Flotilla to Gaza Michael Coleman has been arrested by Greek Police for attempting to block their pursuit of the Canadian boat the “Tahrir” as it left port. Michael and Soha, another Canadian Flotilla team member, were in two kayaks beside the “Tahrir”. As soon as the boat’s [...]
Tags: Australia, Brisbane, Gaza flotilla raid, Greek Police, Hizb ut-Tahrir, Kevin Rudd, Melbourne, Politics of Greece
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July 4, 2011
Years of violence in Iraq has left a severe shortage of doctors, nurses and the most basic medicines. Areas outside Baghdad particularly suffer from the frail state of the country’s healthcare system. And, as Al Jazeera’s Jane Arraf reports, children are often the most vulnerable There is a video available at the [...]
Tags: Al Jazeera, Australia, Australian Labor Party, Baghdad, Iraq, Jane Arraf, Julia Gillard, middle east, Saddam Hussein, United States, United States Armed Forces
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July 3, 2011
Time and bailouts do not cushion anemic post-crisis recoveries from the inevitable next shock [GALLO/GETTY] The global economy is in the midst of its second growth scare in less than two years. Get used to it. In a post-crisis world, these are the footprints of a failed recovery. The reason is simple. The typical business [...]
Tags: Federal Reserve System, Gross world product, International Monetary Fund, Recession shapes, Stephen S. Roach, This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly, United States, World economy
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July 3, 2011
U.S. turns to other routes to supply Afghan war as relations with Pakistan fray By Craig Whitlock, Sunday, July 3, 9:54 AM The U.S. military is rapidly expanding its aerial and Central Asian supply routes to the war in Afghanistan, fearing that Pakistan could cut off the main means of providing American and NATO forces with fuel, food and equipment. Although Pakistan [...]
Tags: Craig Whitlock, Northern Distribution Network, Osama BinLaden, Pakistan, Pakistan – United States relations, Pentagon, United State, War in Afghanistan (2001–present)
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July 3, 2011
KABUL, Afghanistan – Despite U.S. reports of progress on the battlefield, American troops were killed in the first half of this year at the same pace as in 2010 — an indication that the war’s toll on U.S. forces has not eased as the Obama administration moves to shift the burden to the Afghans. While [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, Associated Press, Barack Obama, Hamid Karzai, Helmand Province, Taliban, United State, United States Armed Forces
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June 30, 2011
King George III Won: Happy Fourth of July! By David Swanson http://warisacrime.org/node/58333 Preface: It has always been a matter of concern that the US has for so long lived in an deluded state that it had gained its independence from the harsh and odious British rule to replace that with a Grand Dream of Republicanism. In this way the future [...]
Tags: Barack Obama, Daniel Ellsberg, David Swanson, George III of the United Kingdom, George W. Bush, History, Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky, Pentagon Papers, Richard Nixon, United State, United States Congress, United States Declaration of Independence, War Powers Resolution
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June 30, 2011
The Politics of Militarization and Corporatization in Higher Education War Colleges By HENRY GIROUX While there is an ongoing discussion about the increasing corporatization of higher education—extending from the attempted buying of faculty positions by right-wing billionaires such as the Koch brothers to the increasing casualization of faculty labor and the commodification of knowledge, what [...]
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June 28, 2011
The British always claim to have something in reserve. But what happens when the pedal goes to the metal and there’s nothing there? Perhaps a new election would help the unelected form a proper government perhaps that’s not possible in the capital project where its one for one and all for one. The next [...]
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June 28, 2011
Politics can be amusing and still be serious. On some occasions you can get some insight into the nature of the beast from the beastly parts- like the politicians and the media who make up the travelling zoo that comes in the package you vote for. Here in Australia we have a completely unelected Prime Minister [...]
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June 27, 2011
Arab activists say liberalisation of trade, investment and deregulation advocated by the US and the EU as part of their aid packages had contributed to the unrest in the first place. Photograph: KeystoneUSA-Zuma/Rex Features Arab activists warned on Monday that conditions attached to western aidthreatened to undercut the goals of economic and social justice at the [...]
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June 27, 2011
War crimes court issues Gaddafi arrest warrant Ian Black and David Smith in Tripoli guardian.co.uk, Monday 27 June 2011 15.24 BST Article history ICC issues arrest warrants for Libyan regime Link to this videoProspects for a negotiated solution to the Libyan crisis receded further on Monday after the international criminal court (ICC) issued arrest warrants for Muammar Gaddafi and [...]
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June 26, 2011
Politics shapes strategy in conflicts of choice — which is another reason to avoid them In National Review, The Weekly Standard, and the Washington Post, leading War on Terror hawks are expressing outrage at the timeline President Obama set for troop reductions in Afghanistan. Their complaint: politics is driving American policy. “So why September 2012?” Bill Kristol writes. [...]
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June 26, 2011
NAJAF, Iraq (AFP) – Supporters of Shiite radical leader Moqtada al-Sadr have offered to carry out suicide attacks against US troops in Iraq, his office said Saturday, as a year-end deadline for a US pullout looms. “Thank you, my dear friends, and God bless you,” Sadr wrote in reply to the offer from loyalists of [...]
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June 26, 2011
You may wonder why in a world beset with massive environmental problems as well as endless wars it all seems to come down to a dollar value before the penny drops. But is it the right penny? Saying that the war in Afghanistan is a costly mess or any words to that effect only further legitimises the [...]
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June 26, 2011
US Vows to Arm Philippines to Fight China Clinton Calls for Restraint, Announces More Weapons Transfers by Jason Ditz, June 24, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum With the disputes over the unpopulated Spratly Islands continuing to grow, the Obama Administration has announced that it is preparing a major increase in arms [...]
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June 25, 2011
White House Claims Vindication as House Refuses to Authorize Libya War Officials Say Refusal to Authorize ‘Limited’ War Proves War Worth Fighting by Jason Ditz, June 24, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum The attempts by some in the House of Representatives to spin the second of two votes on the Libya [...]
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June 24, 2011
Tom Engelhardt There has been a great deal written and said about what is seen as the imperial project and the way in which imperialist aims and aspirations invariably are expressed in terms of war. Perhaps one of the most startling figures available is the way in which war itself has become very much a slaughterhouse [...]
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June 23, 2011
All this may look good but think about the fact that they should not be there at all and that a mercenary army will have ti be there to protect their precious assets and it all comes to nought. Now how long ago was it that the great crawler Julia said we were there regardless? [...]
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June 22, 2011
Hezbollah and the Arab revolution The group’s leader keeps his ear close to the ground, bonding with the dispossessed and speaking their language. Heralded by millions of fans as ‘the mastermind of the resistance’ – and demonised by the US and Israel as a ’terrorist’, Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah‘s rhetoric towards Syria is equally divisive [GALLO/GETTY] Is [...]
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June 21, 2011
Afghan Withdrawal: Obama Lied, Soon Many Will Have Died By David Swanson http://warisacrime.org/node/58232 The United States has about 200,000 military personnel in Afghanistan, half of them troops, half of them contractors. President Barack Obama put over two-thirds of that number there, first with a big escalation in 2009 that everyone refuses to pay the slightest [...]
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June 21, 2011
Adel: A decade of injustice Adel al-Gazzar has undergone a decade-long ordeal involving detention without trial, torture and medical malpractice. In January 2009, President Obama signed an order to suspend the Guantanamo military commission for 120 days and that the detention facility would be shut down within the year [GALLO/GETTY] For someone to be held [...]
Tags: Al Jazeera, Clive Stafford Smith, egypt, Guantanamo Bay detention camp, Hosni Mubarak, International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, United States, Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali
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June 21, 2011
No Savior Salam Fayyad, Palestinian Prime Minister. STAN HONDA/AFP/Getty Images If Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad’s political career came to an end today, he could still proudly claim to be Palestine‘s most accomplished prime minister ever. The problem is that all of his predecessors — Ahmad Hilmi, Mahmud Abbas, Ahmad Qurei, and Ismail Haniyya [...]
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June 18, 2011
Egypt and Tunisia are now officially on the international donor community’s radar. The World Bank and the G8 are already planning different ways to sponsor the so-called Arab Spring. Many Arabs are speaking out against a possible Euro-US “hijacking” or “containment” of the regional movement through this type of ”cheque book diplomacy”. I will argue here that this position is not [...]
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June 13, 2011
Washington Post Wants Endless War By David Swanson http://warisacrime.org/node/58137 The Pentagon Washington Post has yet to mention Section 1034 of the Defense Authorization Act of 2012, but you can expect it — if it passes the Senate — to show up in many a future editorial, as it will give presidents the “legal” (although unconstitutional) [...]
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June 9, 2011
Is Leon Panetta a Saint—or a War Criminal? by David R. Henderson, May 17, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum David R. Henderson’s Introduction: The first part of this article’s title is absurd, right? How could the head of the CIA, a man who sends drones to kill alleged terrorists and ends up [...]
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June 9, 2011
Lawmakers call for reduced Afghan role Email Print Reuters – Senator John Kerry (D-MA) speaks during a news conference in Islamabad May 16, 2011. REUTERS/Faisal Mahmood Slideshow:Afghanistan Play VideoAfghanistan Video:Panetta backs responsible withdrawal from Aghanistan 13 News, WVEC Hampton Roads Play VideoAfghanistan Video:In Kabul, air pollution a bigger killer than war AFP By Missy Ryan and [...]
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June 9, 2011
White House affirms relationship with Bahrain, detentions and prosecutions continue Marian Wang | ProPublica | Jun 08, 2011 As the Bahraini government continued its crackdown on largely Shiite pro-democracy groups, the Obama administration reaffirmed its friendship with Bahrain this week. More Shiites were arrested and about 50 medical workers were charged by the Bahraini government this [...]
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June 7, 2011
Arab Revolution, Western Intervention – Interview Tripathi: I have several misgivings about the NATO military operation in Libya. Interview by Kourosh Ziabari (Deepak Tripathi is a British historian, journalist and researcher who specializes in South and West Asia affairs, terrorism and the United States foreign policy. Deepak Tripathi worked with BBC for almost 23 years. [...]
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June 5, 2011
The UK could be leading with a new economic approach, instead we follow A consensus in favour of stimulus has disappeared – and Britain is leading the way in the wrong directio Will Hutton guardian.co.uk, Saturday 4 June 2011 21.36 BST Article history Two years ago the world was agreed that the aftermath of the [...]
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June 5, 2011
What follows is a Democracy Now! interview with Hersh. JUAN GONZALEZ: Well, Sy, I wanted to ask you—you mentioned earlier the uprisings in the Arab world, and I wanted to ask you about the impact of those uprisings both on the theocracy in Iran and also on Israel’s attempts to constantly encircle Iran or [...]
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June 5, 2011
The position that the US and Pakistan finds itself in is becoming intolerable to Pakistan. It would only be a fool who would not recognise that a renewed push to kill anyone that remotely looks like a terrorist by the US is being done to continue the nehancement of the election prospects of Obama. No thought is [...]
Tags: al-Qaeda, Beijing, Central Intelligence Agency, Inter-Services Intelligence, Osama bin Laden, Pakistan, Pakistan Army, Taliban, Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan, United States, United States Armed Forces, Wen Jiabao
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June 4, 2011
The cost of Empire is truly staggering. That is just as far as how far an entire economy and production in the US has to be rigged, faked and reconstructed to make a fundamental fallacy appear like normal behaviour. Central to whatever theme is being played the US imperial project is a creation of a [...]
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June 4, 2011
The whole drive behind both the Capital and Imperial Projects is the need for profit and for that profit to keep growing. It is the most vicious of circles as it demands more and more space on the planet and more and more money to give the appearance that it works. The US response to [...]
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June 4, 2011
War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity The brutality with which the US government exercises its “war on terror” is condemned both by the court of international public opinion and by the principles of international law governing human rights. The wars of aggression in Iraq and Afghanistan and the torture of [...]
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June 3, 2011
Are Palestinian children less worthy? Although Palestinian children endure lives of suffering, Obama’s love for their Israeli counterparts knows no limit. Joseph Massad Last Modified: 30 May 2011 14:47 During the first and second intifada, more than 700 Palestinian children were killed, and a further 313 children died in the Israeli shelling of Gaza in December 2008-July [...]
Tags: A New Beginning, American Israel Public Affairs Committee, Arab people, Barack Obama, Golda Meir, Israel, Jews, Joseph Massad, middle east, Palestinian people, United States, Western Wall, Zionism
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June 3, 2011
The unbearable lightness of killing Earth to Gaddafi and Saleh: Your time is up, stop murdering your people. Marwan Bishara Last Modified: 02 Jun 2011 19:19 Email Print Share Send Feedback Colonel Gaddafi’s forces have unleashed a campaign of carnage against pro-democracy fighters in Misurata and beyond, but Libyans continue to resist [AFP] Ali Abdullah Saleh [...]
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June 3, 2011
Crushed Ice in Nuseirat: My Gaza Refugee Camp Revisited Kids in Nuseirat. (Photo: John Harvey) By Ramzy Baroud – Gaza ‘Do you remember Mahmoud?’ asked Abu Nidal, my neighbor from nearly 20 years ago, when I lived in Gaza. “Yes, of course, I do,” I answered. I remembered him as yet another troublemaking child among [...]
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June 3, 2011
Portugal limps into election that could tilt EU further to the right Poll suggests beleaguered economy weighed down by onerous €78bn bailout will be the latest surrendered by a leftwing leader Share Giles Tremlett guardian.co.uk, Friday 3 June 2011 15.41 BST Article history Portugal’s Socialist prime minister José Sócrates faces losing Sunday’s election after [...]
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An article on the Gaza position and the Flotilla
Editor’s Note: As the French boat makes its way to Gaza alone, the rest of the flotilla is still trying to find ways of leaving Greece. The captain of the US boat has been released from prison and the charges have been dropped. The passengers of the Canadian boat the “Tahrir” Michael Coleman and [...]
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