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US to fight 'anti-Israeli crap' at UN »
Posted by: dissent 8 months ago in News
The US envoy to the United Nations says that Washington has a duty to fight the growing anti-Israeli sentiments in the world.
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When the wind of history blows/ The people, like lovely birds/ Grow wings: Eastern Europe in 1989 - and 20 Years Later >The Observer »
Posted by: gamahuche 4 months ago in Political Opinion
At the start of 1989 communist regimes ruled eastern Europe. By the end of the year they had all been routed by public uprisings.
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Liberals Aren’t Un-American. Conservatives Aren’t Ignorant. »
Posted by: Tumultuous 2 months, 3 weeks ago in Political Opinion
Jonathan Haidt is hardly a road-rage kind of guy, but he does get irritated by self-righteous bumper stickers. The soft-spoken psychologist is acutely annoyed by ...
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Privatising Water is Denying People a Human Right: UN »
Posted by: dissent 8 months, 2 weeks ago in News
The President of the United Nations General Assembly has told delegates at the 5th World Water Forum (WWF) in Istanbul, Turkey, that, "those who are ...
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Israeli envoy: 'UN's Gaza report written by Palestinians' | Israel | Jerusalem Post »
Posted by: dissent 3 months, 2 weeks ago in News
Leshno Yaar said Pillay's report was "written by Palestinians in Ramallah" and "screened by Palestinian lawyers in Geneva in order to satisfy Palestinian diplomats ...
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UN public hearing in Gaza broadcasts accounts of war victims |
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The Guardian »Posted by: dissent 5 months ago in News
The UN has held an unprecedented public hearing in Gaza to broadcast live witness accounts from Palestinians who described seeing their relatives killed and injured ...
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UN: Israeli buffer zone eats up 30 percent of Gaza's arable land »
Posted by: dissent 6 months ago in News
Gaza City, Gaza - Israel's warning came from the sky, as it often does in the Gaza Strip. But this time warplanes dropped neither bombs ...
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BBC NEWS | Middle East | UN Gaza inquiry 'to proceed despite Israel' »
Posted by: dissent 6 months, 2 weeks ago in News
A UN inquiry into possible war crimes in Gaza will go ahead even if Israel does not co-operate, says Richard Goldstone, who leads the inquiry ...
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BBC NEWS | South Asia | UN calls for massive Pakistan aid »
Posted by: dissent 6 months, 2 weeks ago in News
UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres has called for a massive aid operation to help those displaced in north-west Pakistan.
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UN envoy: Israel must hand over maps of cluster bomb locations »
Posted by: dissent 8 months, 1 week ago in News
United Nations special coordinator for Lebanon Michael Williams on Friday urged Israel to provide detailed maps indicating the location of cluster bombs in south Lebanon ...
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John Pilger - Smile on the face of the tiger: showing the seductive face of American power as it proceeds towards its unchanged goal. »
Posted by: dissent 5 months, 3 weeks ago in News
The killing of 1,300 people in what is now a concentration camp merited 17 words, cast as concern for the “security” of the killers ...
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Israel on Trial »
Posted by: dissent 8 months ago in News
CHILLING testimony by Israeli soldiers substantiates charges that Israel’s Gaza Strip assault entailed grave violations of international law. The emergence of a predominantly right-wing ...
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North Korea seen readying for new nuclear test »
Posted by: STONERS 6 months, 4 weeks ago in News
There is increased activity at North Korea's known nuclear test site, a South Korean news report said on Thursday, suggesting Pyongyang is gearing up ...
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UN questions Israelis on Palestinian torture allegations - Haaretz - Israel News »
Posted by: dissent 6 months, 4 weeks ago in News
United Nations human rights experts questioned Israeli officials on Tuesday about hundreds of allegations of torture of Palestinian detainees by security forces, which they said ...
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America's UN Boycott Backfires »
Posted by: dissent 7 months, 2 weeks ago in News
The Obama administration and the United States as a whole will be
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haunted for a long time by the decision to boycott a United Nations ...Read (346) | Share | Discuss (17) | Read Full Story at thenation.com
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