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Laura GildernewÓgra Shinn FéinSouth TyroneWhen asked to write an article for International Women’s Day, I knew there were a plethora of inspiring female figures from our own struggle and other struggles around the world whose dedication and bravery would be an inspiration to anyone; however, I have decided to write ... [Link] [Cache]

We students at Harvard University are disturbed by the racist and inhumane comments of Martin Kramer, Visiting Scholar at the National Security Studies Program at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. We have become even more alarmed that rather than taking a dissociating or even strictly neutral stance against such ... [Link] [Cache]

The second annual Ann Arbor Palestine Film Festival opened on Wednesday, 10 March with the feature film Pomegranates and Myrrh. Such festivals are a growing phenomenon with new ones popping up throughout the United States. The Electronic Intifada contributor Jimmy Johnson spoke with festival organizers Hena Ashraf, Ryah Aqel, Lauren ... [Link] [Cache]

Image from http://www.oilofscotland.org/index.htmlScotland has much more oil and gas than previously thought, but the London government continues to neglect Scotland.The London government's tax regime punishes Scotland's oil industry.Meanwhile, PetroChina Co., China's biggest energy producer, hopes to take over Scotland's only oil-processing plant, which is at Grangemouth. PetroChina Takes First Steps ... [Link] [Cache]

DesertPeaceMarch 12, 2010 at 5:37 pm Genocide, Israel, zionism AGAINST allowing Americans to support murder!!Just let some other group here try to raise money for the military of any other country! They’d be behind bars so quickly they wouldn’t know what hit them.Photo by: IDF Ashkenazi raises over $20m. at ... [Link] [Cache]

Al-manar 12/03/2010 Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak has ordered the army to seal off the West Bank for 48 hours until midnight on Saturday, an army spokesman said.The action was taken "for security reasons" including a risk of attacks, the Israeli spokesman said Friday. The area was sealed off at ... [Link] [Cache]

Al-Manar 12/03/2010 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Interior Minister Eli Yishai apology for the timing of announcing more settlement construction in occupied territories is simply an excuse that is uglier than admitting guilt. A statement issued by Netanyahu's bureau said that in light of the ongoing dispute between Israel ... [Link] [Cache]

The fighting is still going on, even as the coverage wanes and we are told how successful everything went.And a familiar site I see! Printed paper:"Afghan government installed in Taliban strongholdAssociated PressMARJAH, Afghanistan – Afghan officials raised the national flag over Marjah on Thursday, asserting government control even as Marines ... [Link] [Cache]

“We want to ensure that Haji Zahir’s face is on everything we do’’See The New Mayor of Marjah first.Yeah, we sure can pick 'em, huh, America?No wonder people reject our stooges we send them!"Key Afghan region’s new leader may have a criminal history" by Joshua Partlow and Jabeen Bhatti, Washington ... [Link] [Cache]

You mean there is ANOTHER ONE?"Plans are laid for new Afghan offensive" by New York Times | March 9, 2010 KABUL, Afghanistan - Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates met here yesterday with President Hamid Karzai and General Stanley A. McChrystal to review plans for a major US-led offensive in the ... [Link] [Cache]

Translation: We are LOSING, because ONLY LOSERS say LET'S TALK!!"Briton calls for talks with Afghan rebels; Miliband says force opened an opportunity" by James F. Smith, Globe Staff | March 11, 2010CAMBRIDGE — British Foreign Secretary David Miliband told an audience at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology yesterday that the ... [Link] [Cache]

Goes by the name Hekmatyar."Hekmatyar, with a history of switching sides, was considered more susceptible to peace overtures" Related: "Gulbuddin Hekmatyar the favored warlord of the ISI and CIA. Casey was said to be particularly fond of him as both shared a goal of extending the fighting beyond Afghanistan into ... [Link] [Cache]

I don't care how much humanitarianism the paper tries to wrap around this turd, that is exactly what these women will be doing.“female engagement teams,’’ the military’s name for four- and five-member units that will accompany men on patrols in Helmand Province to try to win over the rural Afghan ... [Link] [Cache]

Yeah, better leave those tortured souls there forever -- even if they never did anything."Freed Afghan detainee with Taliban, officials say; News may stall plan to close jail at Guantanamo" by Kathy Gannon, Associated Press | March 4, 2010 LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan - A man who was freed from Guantanamo ... [Link] [Cache]

WOW!Like CLOCKWORK, ladies and gentlemen."16 killed in Kabul attacks; Taliban claim responsibility; Indians target" by Amir Shah and Deb Riechmann, Associated Press | February 27, 2010Related: Pakistan and India's Other ProblemsTiming sure stinks, doesn't it?KABUL, Afghanistan - Insurgents struck yesterday at hotels in the heart of Kabul with suicide attackers ... [Link] [Cache]

Fra CochranePadraig Pearse Ógra Shinn FéinSouth DownRecent revelations in the media that the IFA have been considering a new anthem for ‘Norn Iron’ home games has been dismissed by the unionist community, Ian Óg even described it as "something that we should never concede".But this has been welcomed by others.A ... [Link] [Cache]

By Michael Gillespie / March 11th, 2010 An ongoing investigation by the Dubai Police force into the assassination of a high-level Hamas official in the United Arab Emirates UAE in January has drawn back the curtains of secrecy and deception to reveal yet again the contours of Israel’s massive and ... [Link] [Cache]

by Eric deCarbonnel If the economy was a person, then the producing sector agriculture, manufacturing, mining, etc would be its “income”. If the service sector is much smaller than the producing sector like China today or the US one hundred years ago , then a country is living below its ... [Link] [Cache]

Havana, Cuba, Mar 12.- The Basque company Soroa Metalworkers exhibited this week, at Havana's Hotel Palco, several of its lines of high-tech machine tools, demonstrating a willingness to increase its presence in the Cuban market. [Link] [Cache]

Havana, Cuba, Mar 12.- Four Cuban triple jumpers qualified this Friday in the preliminaries of the Doha Indoor World Championships, led by world champion Yargelis Savigne. [Link] [Cache]

AGAINST allowing Americans to support murder!! Just let some other group here try to raise money for the military of any other country! They’d be behind bars so quickly they wouldn’t know what hit them. Photo by: IDF Ashkenazi raises over $20m. at IDF fundraiser in NY By E.B. SOLOMONT ... [Link] [Cache]

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This week’s demonstration was part of the National Culture Week for Jerusalem and was joined by international and Israeli activists. The protest was organized by the Popular Committee Against the Wall and Settlements in Bil’in and was joined by the Minister of Culture, Siham Barghothi, and members of the Democratic ... [Link] [Cache]

By Grant Smith, March 12, 2010 The Israel lobby’s campaign against US and international corporations doing business with Iran is gearing up this week. The tip of the spear is the American Israel Public Affairs Committee sponsored expansion of the Iran Sanctions Act of 1996. If signed into law by ... [Link] [Cache]

Ahmed Moor writing from al-Arish, Egypt, Live from Palestine, 12 March 2010 Underground tunnels along the border with Egypt have become the main way for besieged Palestinians in Gaza to receive the most basic goods. Hatem Omar/MaanImages I sat outdoors at a cafe on the Mediterranean Sea in al-Arish, a ... [Link] [Cache]

In 2008 Britain expressed concern about how goods originating from Israeli settlements in the West Bank may be benefiting illegally from European Union trade preferences that theoretically only apply to businesses within Israel's internationally-recognized borders. However, EU officials have not only failed to defend international law, they have accommodated Israel's ... [Link] [Cache]

By Zaheerul Hassan On March 13, 2010, two suicidal bombers walked up to Pakistan military vehicles and exploded themselves in densely populated area RA Bazar of Lahore cantt. In these attacks 45 persons included five soldiers killed and more than 120 individuals sustained injures. This is the second attack of ... [Link] [Cache]

FOX NEWS: Jesse Ventura "punks" Cavuto for a 20 minute interview to promote "American Conspiracies", a new book loaded with shrapnel revealing the REAL conspiracy behind 9/11. Jesse easily avoids discussing 9/11 because he knows Cavuto has not read the book. ______________________________________________________________________~ [Link] [Cache]

The U.S. Nuclear Weapons Cost Study Project was completed in August 1998 and resulted in the book Atomic Audit: The Costs and Consequences of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Since 1940 edited by Stephen I. Schwartz. These project pages should be considered historical. - Except where noted all [...] [Link] [Cache]

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