Immigration, A Perennial Issue Of Concern In The U.S. by Brian McAfee

by Brian McAfee
Guest Writer
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Sept. 19, 2010

The issue of immigration was brought to the forefront recently by Arizona’s discriminatory immigration law SB 1070, which would require police and other public officials to ask all or any Latino looking people to show their ID’s. This demonstrates an attitude oriented towards criminalizing immigrants in general and a hostile outlook towards Hispanics in particular. The anti-immigrant attitude was also evident in Utah a few months ago when a list was published and widely distributed with the names and personal information of 1,300 supposedly illegal immigrants concerning which some were actually born in the U.S., but happened to have Hispanic looking names. The people that created the list signed it “anonymous”, i.e.- cowards.

A Conversation with Noam Chomsky on Palestine & Israel

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Filmed conversation with Noam Chomsky on Palestine/Israel.

Main topics covered are: Zionism, Right of return of Palestinian Refugees, one state/two states solution and the BDS movement.

Filmed by Frank Barat at the M.I.T, Cambridge, USA on 2 September 2010.

“Gaza in Crisis” Noam Chomsky, Ilan Pappe and Frank Barat new book is out this fall in US and UK.

Kyrgyzstan: Bloodstained Geopolitical Chessboard by Rick Rozoff

by Rick Rozoff
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June 16, 2010

Events in a remote, landlocked and agrarian nation of slightly over five million people have become the center of world attention.

A week of violence which first erupted in Kyrgyzstan’s second largest city, Osh, in the south of the country, has resulted in the deaths of at least 120 civilians and in over 1,700 being injured.

More than 100,000 ethnic Uzbeks have fled Osh and the nearby city of Jalal-Abad (Jalalabad) and three-quarters of those have reportedly crossed the border into Uzbekistan.

Will Hezbollah support the right to work for Palestinian refugees in Lebanon? by Franklin Lamb

by Franklin Lamb
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Shatila Palestinian Refugee Camp
Beirut
14 May, 2010

Local political pressures are mounting on the Party of God

Part IV of a series on the campaign to enact civil rights for Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon

The current relationship between Palestinian refugees in Lebanon and Hezbollah is not as clear cut as often assumed, despite the frequent inspiring brotherly words of Hezbollah’s leadership and the fact that the Party enjoys the support of more than 90% of the camp refugees, none of whom can vote. What this means is that the willingness of the Lebanese Resistance to spend its domestic political capital to legislate the right work to work for Palestinian refugees is not settled as of mid-May 2010.

Lebanon’s Merry Month of May by Franklin Lamb

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by Franklin Lamb
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Shatila Palestinian Refugee Camp
Beirut
5 May, 2010

In Lebanon this month, like spring flowers, proposals to give Palestinians the right to work are bursting out all over

Part III of a six part series on securing Palestinian Civil Rights in Lebanon

This year , the Merry Month of May in Lebanon includes Labor day, the May 15 anniversary of the Nakba, the month long Lebanese municipal elections and the May 5 elevation of Lebanon to the Presidency of the United Nations Security Council.

Yet, for most Palestinians wiling away their lives in Lebanon’s 12 fetid refugee camps and 27 gatherings, May will pass anything but Merry. The festive Labor day and month long elections, held in the 26 municipalities in Lebanon, with the participation of more than 650 glad-handing -vote seeking candidates extolling the Lebanese virtue of working to provide for one’s family, constitute a cruel joke for Palestinian refugees denied the right to work.

Can Lebanon come in from the Cold? Part II: Resistance and Rebuttal by Franklin Lamb

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by Franklin Lamb
Dandelion Salad
20 April, 2010

Part I: Hiba’s Story, Ein el Helwe Palestinian Refugee Camp, Lebanon: Can Lebanon Come in from The Cold

Shatila Palestinian Refugee Camp
Beirut, Lebanon

As of mid-April 2010 there are no fewer than six draft laws, half of them ‘embargoed for now’ being circulated and debated in Lebanon, any one of which if adopted by Parliament, would grant Lebanon’s Palestinians, for the first time since their 1948 expulsion from Palestine, some elementary civil rights including the right to work, to have an ID, and to own a home.

Part Three of this discussion will reveal publicly for the first time, with the permission of the various Drafting committees, the changes in Lebanon’s laws each one advocates.

Despite the fact that bookies and odd makers at Lebanon’s main Casino in Jounieh decline to give odds on any of the drafts actually being enacted by Parliament, Lebanon’s political leaders are talking sweet.

Humanity and Its Absence By David Kennedy + A Letter To Janet About Sabra-Shatilla By Franklin Lamb

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By David Kennedy

Dear Franklin,

I have just read your letter to Janet with its heart-rending account of the Sabra-Shatilla massacre. It is good to know there are still people who care about humanity and display a decency that is all too rare among humans, especially the most powerful – those who control such events as the Sabra-Shatilla massacre as described at A Letter To Janet About Sabra-Shatilla.

We live in a sick, sick world, a world that is full of hypocrisy and duplicity. Science has opened the door to all kinds of wizardry that allows evil people to control the destiny of most of humanity. I was taught Physics by the man who first split the atom (in 1932). He was a mild-mannered man who, on seeing where his discovery was leading, left Cambridge to return to his native Ireland and dedicate himself to teaching. Ironically, he was a pacifist. Who can tell what evil men will do with our discoveries? But science marches on regardless, putting more and more powerful weapons into the hands of powerful and unscrupulous humans: such is the madness of the human brain.

Brendan Bannon: South Sudan report

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August 05, 2009

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Sri Lanka: ‘20,000’ civilians killed

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Twenty thousand civilians were killed in Sri Lanka’s final push against Tamil Tigers, claims UN report

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Mosaic News – 3/2/09: World News From The Middle East

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“Clinton: Urgent action needed to turn Gaza crisis into opportunity,” Al Jazeera English, Qatar
“Livni Rejects Coalition with Israel’s Next PM Netanyahu,” Abu Dhabi TV, UAE
“Yemeni Jew killer ordered to pay blood money,” Al Arabiya TV, UAE
“Swat Refugees Demand Security Before Returning,” Al Jazeera TV, Qatar
“Iran & Bahrain Reconcile Differences,” Al-Alam TV, Iran
“Another death sentence for Iraq’s ‘Chemical Ali’,” Dubai TV, UAE
“Iraqi Journalists Remain Under Attack,” Baghdad TV, Iraq
Produced for Link TV by Jamal Dajani.

One Giant Rez by William Norman Grigg

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Crossposted at Thomas Paine’s Corner thanks, Jason.

“What’s happening in my country is also happening in your country…. You don’t even know it, but you’re the Indians of the 21st Century, and that’s very sad.”

– Russell Means, Indian Activist and Facilitator of the newly created Independent Republic of Lakota.

Landscapes of Occupation in Palestine

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Ex-Communicated tells the story of Israeli occupation in Palestine through the genre of landscape and the perspective of a camera lens.  In his series of remarkable photographs, Gary Fields, a professor of communication at the University of California, San Diego takes us behind the walls, gates, and fences of this deliberately fragmented geography in revealing Palestinian life under Israeli military rule.  What he shows in these images is how the forces of occupation use the landscape as an instrument of control over Palestinians and a mechanism for dispossessing them of land and property.  Much of this story is untold and largely unseen.  These photos convey forcefully how the process of enclosure on the landscape has ‘ex-communicated’ Palestinians, immobilizing them into ever-diminishing spaces, while at the same time inspiring them into heroic acts of peaceful resistance.

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Mosaic News – 11/20/08: World News from the Middle East

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“Turkey Concerned Over Untimely US Pullout from Iraq,” Al-Iraqiya TV, Iraq
“Iraqi Government Forms Anti-Corruption Committee,” Al-Iraqiya TV, Iraq
“Iraqi Refugees Stranded in Indonesia,” Al Sharqiya TV, Iraq
“Israeli Blockade Creates Food Shortages in Gaza,” Dubai TV, UAE
“Stopping a War in Ein el Hilweh,” NBN TV, Lebanon
“Jordan Seeks Release of its Prisoners from Jordanian Jails,” Al Arabiya TV, UAE
“Global Markets Nervous After Another Wall Street Collapse,” Russia Today, Russia
Produced for Link TV by Jamal Dajani.

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Condition: Critical – Voices from the war in eastern Congo

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Sent to DS from Pete Masters, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) UK

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Hundreds of thousands of people are on the run, fleeing a war raging in eastern Congo in the provinces of North and South Kivu. They are frightened. Many are sick or wounded. Others have been harassed or raped, or have had everything they own stolen. For more than a decade, several armed groups and the army have been fighting each other in the Kivus. The violence has made it impossible for people to lead normal lives. Life isn’t just hard in the Kivus: this region is in critical condition. And things aren’t getting any better. The destiny of everyone in this region of Congo is shaped by the war. The story of their struggle to survive needs to be told.

Mosaic News – 11/10/08: World News from the Middle East

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“Bombs Kill At Least 28 in Baghdad,” Al Arabiya TV, UAE
“Iraqi Refugees Forced to Live Illegally in Lebanon,” Baghdad TV, Iraq
“Israel Suspends Fuel Supplies to Gaza,” Al Jazeera TV, Qatar
“Israelis Evict Disabled Palestinian From Home,” Abu Dhabi TV, UAE
“Israelis Mark 13th Anniversary of Rabin Killing,” IBA TV, Israel
“Electing the Mayor of Jerusalem,” Al Jazeera English, Qatar
“Juniper Trees Becoming Extinct in Morocco,” Dubai TV, UAE
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