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Internet intrusion and increased repression in Ethiopia

Mon, 18/06/2012 - 10:12pm

Graham Peebles views the Meles Zenawi regime's chronic suppression of the internet and media freedoms in Ethiopia and asks how long will Addis Ababa's allies in the US, Britain and the European ...

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Egypt between the devil and the deep blue sea

Thu, 14/06/2012 - 8:34pm

Jamal Kanj views the sad choice facing Egyptians in the second round of the country's first-ever democratic presidential election: Ahmad Shafik, a Mubarak-era establishment figure representing the ...

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South Africa and boycotting Israeli settlements' products: what's in a label?

Wed, 13/06/2012 - 9:15pm

Neve Gordon argues that South Africa's demand requiring Israel to remove the label "Made in Israel" from products originating in Jewish colonies in the occupied West Bank and Golan Heights ...

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Sharing - a growing trend and a path to justice and peace

Sun, 10/06/2012 - 8:35pm

Graham Peebles highlights the green shoots of a culture of sharing around the world and argues that, through sharing, justice and the dissipating of tensions between wealthy countries and the ...

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Poisoning public discourse in the USA

Sat, 09/06/2012 - 8:53pm

Lawrence Davidson argues that the US National Defence Authorization Act will not only curtail civil liberties by allowing the military to indefinitely detain, without charge or trial, citizens and ...

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Britain's Queen stands for duty and justice. But do her ministers?

Fri, 08/06/2012 - 10:23pm

Stuart Littlewood contrasts the values which the British Queen is seen to represent with the shameless pimping and stooging by UK ministers on behalf of Israel, a racist rogue state that is in ...

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The war of lies: Israel's invasion of Lebanon

Fri, 08/06/2012 - 10:03pm

Uri Avnery considers the deceit, deception, falsehoods and fabrications that underpinned Israel's first invasion of Lebanon 30 years ago this week - Lebanon War I. He argues that the failure to ...

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Bring Gaza race-car students in from the cold

Tue, 05/06/2012 - 3:47pm

Stuart Littlewood looks at the heroic efforts of students in the besieged Gaza Strip to compete in an international event despite the sadistic obstructions of the Israeli regime, international ...

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The lies about the 1967 war are still more powerful than the truth

Mon, 04/06/2012 - 10:37pm

Alan Hart views the Zionist-manufactured myth that the 1967 war was a defensive war - rather than a war of aggression - launched by Israel because it faced a threat of extermination by its Arab ...

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The Ethiopian land giveaway: what is yours is mine, what is mine is my own

Fri, 01/06/2012 - 10:36pm

Graham Peebles highlights the injustices and hardships caused to ordinary Ethiopians by their government's policy of giving away agricultural land to foreign cash-crop investors and land speculators.

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Iran nuclear irony lost on the West

Thu, 31/05/2012 - 8:09pm

Jamal Kanj argues that, in dealing with the issue of Iran's nuclear programme, the five-plus-one countries - the five permanent UN Security Council members plus Germany - "should be guided by ...

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