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:: ONU - XX Assemblea Generale (1965):
La XX Assemblea Generale dell’ONU (1965) dichiara "la legittimità della lotta da parte dei popoli sotto oppressione coloniale, per esercitare il loro diritto all' autodeter-
minazione e all'indipendenza".
Inoltre, l'Assemblea invita "tutti gli Stati a fornire assistenza morale e materiale ai movimenti di liberazione nazionale nei territori coloniali".

:: ONU - Risoluzione 1514
"L'Assemblea Generale dichiara che: la soggezione dei popoli a dominio straniero, conquista e asservimento costituisce una negazione dei diritti umani fondamentali, è contraria alla Carta delle Nazioni Unite ed è un impedimento alla promozione della pace e della cooperazione mondiali.
Tutti i popoli hanno diritto all' autodeter-
minazione; in virtù di tale diritto essi devono liberamente determinare il loro status politico e liberamente perseguire il loro sviluppo economico, sociale e culturale".

:: Convenzione di Ginevra, Protocollo Addizionale I (1977):
La lotta armata può essere usata, come ultima risorsa, come mezzo per esercitare il diritto all' autodeter-
minazione.

:: Tribunale penale internazionale
In base allo Statuto del Tribunale penale internazionale, sono definiti “crimini di guerra”:
(1) attacchi lanciati intenzionalmente contro popolazione civili in quanto tali o contro civili che non prendano direttamente parte alle ostilità;
(4) attacchi lanciati intenzionalmente nella consapevolezza che gli stessi avranno come conseguenza la perdita di vite umane tra la popolazione civile, e lesioni a civili o danni a proprietà civili ovvero danni diffusi duraturi e gravi all’ambiente naturale che siano manifestamente eccessivi rispetto all’insieme dei concreti e diretti i vantaggi militari previsti.

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Damage Control: Downplaying WikiLeaks Revelations
by Stephen Lendman
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July 30, 2010 - When truths are too disturbing to conceal, downplay them, change the subject, and blame others, not responsible Washington officials and key allies, culpable politicians and media misinformation masters suppressing and misreporting the facts, their well-oiled spin machine counterattacking WikiLeaks — revelations too sensitive to explain, a potential game-changer otherwise, so pundits and reporters duck them. Above all, WikiLeaks "Afghan War Diaries" are a powerful indictment of wars, their true face, the mindless daily slaughter and destruction too disturbing to reveal, for Julian Assange: "the vast sweep of abuses, everyday squalor and carnage of war… one sort of kill after another every day going on and on and on… one damn thing after another… (endless) small events, the continuous deaths of children, insurgents, allied forces… (many) thousands" of war crimes needing exposure, accountability, and prosecutions....
  continua / continued avanti - next    [68434] [ 31-jul-2010 03:05 ECT ]

Bullying Abbas into talks
Khaled Amayreh

July 30, 2010 - The Obama administration is exerting intense pressure on Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas to move "sooner than later" to direct talks with Israel. The European Union is also pressing Abbas to do the same thing. Both the US and EU are considered chief bankrollers of the PA, which nearly completely depends on foreign aid for its financial and political survival. The PA and Israel have been holding indirect "proximity" talks for several weeks. However, leaks suggest that very little progress -- if any -- has been made. This fact is frustrating the Palestinians and making them view with suspicion further talks, direct or indirect, in the absence of clear guarantees as to how the "endgame" would look like...

  continua / continued avanti - next    [68433] [ 31-jul-2010 02:52 ECT ]

Zionist plot to demolish 60 homes in northern Jerusalem
Palestinian Information Center

July 30, 2010 -- It was revealed that the Israeli occupation municipality of Jerusalem intends to demolish 25 buildings in the Eisaweyya neighbourhood to the north of the holy city at the pretext of lack of planning permit. Ahmad Laban, a researcher at Ir Amim (City of Nations) said in a statement on Thursday that the homes that the Israeli occupation municipality intends to demolish comprise 60 apartments which will result in leaving dozens of Palestinian families homeless...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [68431] [ 31-jul-2010 02:40 ECT ]

'Whistleblower' transferred to US
AlJazeera.net
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July 30, 2010 - The US army intelligence specialist accused of handing a secret military videos to WikikLeaks website has been moved from Kuwait to Quantic Marine base in the US, the US military has said. Private first class Bradley Manning, 22, arrived at the military base in Virginia on Thursday night where he will be held while awaiting trial for leaking military intelligence, after he was transfered from Camp Arifjan in Kuwait, the army said in a statement on Friday...Al Jazeera's Rosiland Jordan, reporting from Washington, said that Manning could potentially face the death penalty if he is convicted with leaking the Afghan information in addition to the Iraq video...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [68430] [ 31-jul-2010 01:49 ECT ]

July is deadliest month of Afghan war for US
The Associated Press

July 30, 2010 - Three U.S. troops died in blasts in Afghanistan, bringing the death toll for July to at least 63 and surpassing the previous month's record as the deadliest for American forces in the nearly 9-year-old war. The three died in two separate blasts in southern Afghanistan the day before, a NATO statement said Friday. It gave no nationalities, but U.S. officials said all three were Americans. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity pending notification of kin...

  continua / continued avanti - next    [68427] [ 31-jul-2010 01:00 ECT ]

Pentagon retaliates against WikiLeaks, Pvt. Manning
By Bill Van Auken

July 30, 2010 - In response to the WikiLeaks posting of tens of thousands of secret documents on the Afghanistan war, the Pentagon has launched a manhunt within the military and called in the FBI for possible prosecution of the actual whistleblower who supplied the evidence of US atrocities. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, used a Pentagon press conference Thursday to vilify WikiLeaks and its editor, Julian Assange, while vowing to crack down on anyone involved in making public the documents comprising the so-called Afghan War Diary posted by the organization...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [68426] [ 31-jul-2010 00:37 ECT ]

Report: Settler violence continues in south Hebron hills
Ma'an news
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July 30, 2010 - Israeli settlers destroyed a field of vegetables in a Bedouin village in the southern West Bank on Wednesday night, international peace groups reported. During the night, a report said, a Palestinian farmer from Um Al-Kher village in the south Hebron hills heard noises from his garden, and thought there were animals inside. On inspection, he saw settlers walking through his field, but did not approach them for fear they were armed, he told Christian Peacemaker Teams and Operation Dove, who maintain a presence in the area...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [68425] [ 31-jul-2010 00:28 ECT ]

Activists work to stop tax-exempt donations to Israeli settlements
Alice Speri

July 30, 2010 - As Israel's illegal settlement enterprise in the occupied West Bank continues to be a strain on US-Israel relations, an unflattering light is being shone on US private donations towards the development of the settlements that are increasingly encroaching on Palestinian land. Most of the construction work in the settlements is in the hands of American, Canadian and European developers. Much of the money needed for settlement development comes from private American donations. It is estimated that tens of millions of dollars reach the settlements in the form of charity, contributions that by virtue of their philanthropic nature enjoy tax-exempt status under the US' Internal Revenue Code...

  continua / continued avanti - next    [68424] [ 30-jul-2010 23:48 ECT ]

Wikileaks, Resistance, Genuine Heroes, and Breaking the Goddamned Rules (II)
Arthur Silber

July 30, 2010 - ...This is not the route followed by Wikileaks. Wikileaks steps outside the boundaries established by the State altogether: it dispenses with the restrictions of "secrecy" and access limited to the already powerful. Wikileaks' approach is the embodiment of justice. It takes the repeated proclamations that the United States is a "representative democracy" and that its government is "our" government, and says in effect: You contend that you act in the name of the people. Then the people surely have the right to know what you're doing. This is what you're doing. And the loathsome sham is revealed. The government doesn't want you to know the truth, or anything even approaching the truth. The government wants you to know only the story the State itself chooses to tell. Note that Wikileaks is not unmindful of the possibility of putting people's lives in danger; see my first post about this story. That is an important issue, and Wikileaks is to be admired for considering it in deciding what to release and what to withhold...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [68422] [ 30-jul-2010 23:25 ECT ]

Torture by U.S. Was Widespread
by Sherwood Ross
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July 30, 2010 - Although U.S. officials have attributed the torture of Muslim prisoners in their custody to a handful of maverick guards, in fact such criminal acts were widely perpetrated and systemic, likely involving large numbers of military personnel, a book by a survivor suggests. Additionally, guards were responsible for countless acts of murder, including death by crucifixion, lynching, poisoning, snakebite, withholding of medicines, starvation, and bludgeoning of innocent victims. And the murders committed by U.S. troops numbered at least in the hundreds, according to reliable sources...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [68421] [ 30-jul-2010 23:15 ECT ]

Uganda: U.S., NATO Allies Prepare New Invasion Of Somalia
Rick Rozoff

July 30, 2010 - The 15th biennial African Union summit in Kampala, Uganda ended on July 27 with mixed results regarding support for U.S. and Western European plans to escalate foreign military intervention in nearby Somalia. The 35 heads of state present at the three-day meeting were reported to have authorized the deployment of 2,000 more African troops to back up the beleaguered Western-backed Transitional Federal Government (TFG) in Mogadishu and to bring the full complement of forces doing so to 8,000, but the new contingent will probably consist solely of troops from Uganda and Burundi, which supply the approximately 6,000 already serving with the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM). Reports of another 2,000 reinforcements from Djibouti and Guinea are problematic and their deployment remains to be seen, not that pressure will not be exerted on those two nations and others from outside the continent...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [68420] [ 30-jul-2010 23:09 ECT ]

Afghans riot after deadly accident
AlJazeera.net
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July 30, 2010 - Rioters in the Afghan capital have set fire to two US embassy vehicles shouting "death to America" after one of the SUVs collided with a civilian car killing a number of passengers, officials and witnesses have said. Police fired into the air to disperse the crowd of angry Afghans who threw stones and chanted "death to Karzai" in reference to Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [68419] [ 30-jul-2010 23:06 ECT ]

Pentagon cannot account for nearly $9 billion dollars of Iraqi money
By Kenneth J. Theisen

July 29, 2010 - I am asking all readers of this site before they go to bed to check under their pillow or mattress to see if they have a few billion dollars there. According to the latest report of an audit by the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) Pentagon cannot account for $8.7 billion in Iraqi oil revenues and other funds it received for reconstruction programs after the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq. So if the Pentagon does not know where the money went maybe our readers can help them find it. The Iraqi people whose lives have been ruined in the wake of the U.S. invasion and occupation could surely use this money to improve their lives...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [68418] [ 30-jul-2010 23:02 ECT ]

Iraq snapshot - July 29, 2010
The Common Ills

July 29, 2010. Chaos and violence continue, the political stalemate continues, the Congress explores the education and employment processes for veterans, Spain puts out warrants for three US service members, and more...Mohammed Al Dulaimy (McClatchy Newspapers) reports 3 Iraqi soldiers were "tied-up" and then shot dead in Baghdad " Iraqi police, army and firemen were heading to the site as another four roadside bombs exploded in different routes in a quick secession about 15 minutes for all roadside bombs, targeting the first responders. 16 were killed including 7 civilians and 14 were injured including seven civilians," and, dropping back to Wednesday for the rest, a Mosul home invasion in which 1 woman and her son were killed and 1 Iraqi soldier shot dead in Mosul....
  continua / continued avanti - next    [68417] [ 30-jul-2010 22:56 ECT ]

Israel controls 6.25% of Gaza
Brian Ennis
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Jyly 29, 2010 - Farmers demonstrated against the seizures of usable land for the buffer zone within Gazan territory. Wednesday, farmers in Gaza gathered in Beit Hanoun to protest the ever-expanding internal buffer zone Israel has established inside the Gaza Strip. They were protesting the 'no-man's land' established by Israel as a substantial amount of farmable land is included in this second border...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [68416] [ 30-jul-2010 22:53 ECT ]

Justin Raimondo, the America First Committee and the antiwar left
Louis Proyect

July 29, 2010 - ...Yesterday Raimondo published an article on antiwar.com that took issue with a small Trotskyist group called Socialist Action that had played a key role in organizing a conference in Connecticut that sought to revivify the antiwar movement. His main objection is that some of the speakers attacked the Tea Party movement and other rightist forces. Since Ron Paul has garnered a great deal of support from the Tea Party, Raimondo was naturally offended....
  continua / continued avanti - next    [68415] [ 30-jul-2010 14:07 ECT ]

Why Muslims Should Rethink Palestine
By Ramzy Baroud
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July 29, 2010 - ...At this advanced stage of the solidarity, which shows Palestine once again at the top of international agenda – including in civil societies around the world – Muslims must redefine their link to Palestine, based on the values and principles reflected in Islam. But they must also present it in universally shared ideal, speaking a unified and unifying language. While they must proudly embrace their symbols, they should also understand that the fight is one for freedoms and rights, and not specific corporeal locations. Muslims must stand, hand in hand, with people from all different backgrounds, not as exclusive owners of the Palestinian struggle, but as proud contributors to a global movement that wishes to ensure that justice is served, rights are attained and peace for all is realized...

  continua / continued avanti - next    [68414] [ 30-jul-2010 14:05 ECT ]

Bloody Pentagon accuses WikiLeaks of having "blood on their hands."
By Phil Stewart and Adam Entous (Reuters); Axis Editorial

July 29, 2010 - Just when we've "heard it all" - The Pentagon, is accusing WikiLeaks of having blood on their hands. The Pentagon, responsible for the killing and maiming of millions in Iraq and Afghanistan is pointing the finger at journalists who are doing what journalists are supposed to be doing - finding the truth and telling it. Admiral Mike Mullen says WikiLeaks "might already have on their hands the blood of some young soldier or that of an Afghan family." These are the same men who have been killing civilians and sending thousands of soldiers to death and injury in Afghanistan for nearly 10 years. Even in the face of Wikileaks exposure of the U.S. military shooting to death unarmed civilians, one of them wounded, from a helicopter, the Pentagon justifies the murders and accuses its accuser. None of the secret documents or videos WikiLeaks has released could possibly expose more of the true character of the U.S. military than this Pentagon reaction...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [68413] [ 30-jul-2010 05:11 ECT ]

United States, Iran to Restart Talks
Robert Dreyfuss

July 29, 2010 - ...From discussions with US officials, here's what I've gleaned about the administration's policy on Iran. First, there is no appetite whatsoever, and no serious consideration, being given to a military attack on Iran. Not even Dennis Ross, the hawkish aide at the National Security Council, brings up the possibility of a military strike, US officials tell me. Second, they say, sanctions against Iran may or may not impact Iran's decision-making over its nuclear program, and it's unlikely that sanctions can work effectively, but in any case sanctions are designed for their long-term impact, over years and not weeks or months, so the latest round of sanctions isn't designed to have immediate impact on how Iran approaches talks later this summer....
  continua / continued avanti - next    [68412] [ 30-jul-2010 04:34 ECT ]

Book condoning murder has another rabbi in hot water
By Chaim Levinson
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July 29, 2010 - The police's Unit of International Crime Investigations on Thursday detained rabbi Yitzhak Ginsburg, the president of the Od Yosef Chai yeshiva in the West Bank settlement of Yitzhar in connection to a book that condoned the killing of non-Jews. Ginsburg was detained for questioning days after the alleged author of the book, rabbi Yitzhak Shapira was arrested for inciting to violence. Shapira is also a rabbi at the Od Yosef Chai yeshiva...

  continua / continued avanti - next    [68411] [ 30-jul-2010 04:24 ECT ]

Iran Orders its Iraqi Allies to Accept Al-Maliki as PM or Else
Asharq Al-Awsat

July 29, 2010 - An informed source has revealed to Asharq Al-Awsat that Iran has sent a strongly-worded message to its allies in the Islamic Supreme Council which is led by Ammar al-Hakim and Al-Sadr Trend which is led by Muqtada al-Sadr to the effect that they have no choice but to accept Nuri al-Maliki, the outgoing prime minister and leader of the State of Law Coalition [SLC], as the candidate to head the next government. The source, which is a leading member in the Iraqi National Alliance [INA] that is led by Al-Hakim, said the Iranian message said "you will accept Al-Maliki even if he hits you on your heads." According to this source, Muqtada al-Sadr "was banned from traveling to Arbil to meet several political parties in the country." ...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [68410] [ 30-jul-2010 04:09 ECT ]

Thirsty? How about an ice-cold glass of sewage-infested water?
Amnesty international
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July 29, 2010 - On Saturday 31 July, Amnesty International members will be handing out free samples of bottled water to people in Dublin, Cork and Galway.The only trouble is that the water – like 90 percent of water available to Palestinians in Gaza, is filthy. (The remains of a destroyed water cistern in a West bank town) On a sizzling hot day in Ireland, all we have to do to cool off is reach for the tap. For Palestinians living in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, there’s no such relief. Almost 200,000 Palestinians living in the West Bank have no running water, making ordinary tasks, like washing and cooking, that we take for granted almost impossible...

  continua / continued avanti - next    [68409] [ 30-jul-2010 03:50 ECT ]

Lost Billions in Iraq
Laura Flanders

July 29, 2010 - If public schools or Medicare providers were held to the same standards as military contractors, they'd never have to beg for cash. Need money? Sure! -- Congress would say -- what's a few missing billions of tax dollars? Congress agreed to pump an extra $33 billion into Afghanistan this week, even as a new report revealed that almost nine billion earmarked for the nation's other occupation -- Iraq -- simply, it seems, went missing...

  continua / continued avanti - next    [68408] [ 30-jul-2010 03:08 ECT ]

Identity of Former IDF Torturer Exposed, ‘Captain George’ is Doron Zahavi
Richard Silverstein

July 29, 2010 - Yesterday, I reported here on a Haaretz story about the notorious "Captain George," an IDF military intelligence interrogator accused in 2004 of sodomizing a Lebanese kidnap victim in order to secure information about the location of IDF officer, Ron Arad. Among the things I wrote was my complaint that Haaretz was protecting the real identity of George even though he no longer served in military intelligence. With the help of a diligent Israeli researcher, I can now expose George’s real identity. He is Doron Zahavi, currently the Arab affairs liaison for the Jerusalem police. His job, as I noted yesterday, is to direct community relations and liaison efforts between the police and Jerusalem’s Arab residents...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [68407] [ 30-jul-2010 02:47 ECT ]

Reports emerge the UK used depleted uranium weapons in Iraq
Russia Today
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July 29, 2010 - Reports have emerged that the UK used depleted uranium weapons during the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. A UK defense official has reportedly admitted using highly controversial ammunition. "UK forces used about 1.9 metric tons of depleted uranium ammunition in the Iraq war in 2003," UK Defense Secretary Liam Fox said in a written reply to the House of Commons Thursday...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [68405] [ 30-jul-2010 02:21 ECT ]

Video: Fallujah fallout worse than Hiroshima? Iraq report sounds alarm
Russia Today

July 29, 2010 - The use of depleted uranium munition by U.S.-led forces during the war in Iraq is possibly causing cancer and genetic diseases among the local population. Such are the findings of a recent study by a group of researchers. To find out more, RT speaks to the authors of the report, Professor Christopher Busby - scientific secretary of the European Committee on Radiation Risks, and Malak Hamdan - a British-Iraqi scientist...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [68406] [ 30-jul-2010 02:29 ECT ]

WikiLeaks in Baghdad
Sarah Lazare and Ryan Harvey

July 29, 2010 - One by one, soldiers just arriving in Baghdad were taken into a room and questioned by their commanding officers. "All questions led up to the big question," explains former Army Spc. Josh Stieber. "If someone were to pull out a weapon in a marketplace full of unarmed civilians, would you open fire on that person, even if you knew you would hurt a lot of innocent people in the process?" It was a trick question. "Not only did you have to say yes, but you had to say yes without hesitating," explains Stieber...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [68402] [ 30-jul-2010 02:16 ECT ]

Investigating the Freedom Flotilla Attack
by Stephen Lendman
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July 29, 2010 - On June 2, the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) approved formation of an international committee (like the Goldstone Commission) to probe the Flotilla attack, saying it will include lawyers and international law and human rights experts, its findings to be presented in September (during the Council's three week session in Geneva) after visiting Gaza and contacting Israel, Turkey, Greece, and the Freedom Flotilla coalition... In emergency session, the HCR criticized Israel's "outrageous attack on aid ships attempting to breach a blockade on the Gaza Strip," calling it "piracy, (an) act of aggression, (a) brutal massacre, (an) act of terrorism, (a) war crime, (a) crime against humanity -unprovoked....unwarranted....atrocious, (and) brutal," calling activists "peaceful...innocent...noble...unarmed, (and) defenseless"...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [68400] [ 30-jul-2010 01:37 ECT ]

Afghan resistance statement
Gen Petraeus’ new war strategy “mass murder”

Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan

July 29, 2010 - There are speculations that the ousted Gen Mc Chrystal’s successor, Gen Perraeus, who has been chosen by the mutual consent of the White house and Pentagon, would hit the mark in six month’s time, that is, break the Mujahideen resistance across the country and enable the Kabul puppet administration to stand up for itself accelerating part of the troops’ withdrawal process from the country in a way that it may not affect the remaining troops on the ground in Afghanistan. Gen Petraeus, in his first statement after a month his arrival in Afghanistan, pointed out to his commanders on the ground that his presence in Afghanistan was to ensure the final showdown and decisive operation, but for that, they were left no chances in Afghanistan to achieve their goal...

  continua / continued avanti - next    [68399] [ 30-jul-2010 01:30 ECT ]

Video: Endgame in Afghanistan: 'It's taken a year to move 20km'
Sean Smith, Michael Tait, Guy Grandjean and Alex Rees

July 29, 2010 - As the war in Afghanistan enters its final chapter, Sean Smith's brutal, uncompromising film from the Helmand frontline shows the horrific chaos of a stalemate that is taking its toll in blood...

  continua / continued avanti - next    [68398] [ 30-jul-2010 00:44 ECT ]

Secret US spy agency used serial killer and Nazis as sources
By RANDY HERSCHAFT and CRISTIAN SALAZAR, Associated Press Writers
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July 29, 2010 - It was a night in early November during the infancy of the Cold War when the anti-communist dissidents were hustled through a garden and across a gully to a vehicle on a dark, deserted road in Budapest. They hid in four large crates for their perilous journey. Four roadblocks stood between them and freedom. What Zoltan Pfeiffer, a top political figure opposed to Soviet occupation, his wife and 5-year-old daughter did not know as they were whisked out of Hungary in 1947 was that their driver, James McCargar, was a covert agent for one of America's most secretive espionage agencies, known simply as the Pond...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [68397] [ 30-jul-2010 00:15 ECT ]

Don't deny our rights: open letter to Mahmoud Abbas
Various undersigned

July 29, 2010 - The following open letter to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, whose elected mandate expired in July 2009 and who has remained in power under controversial emergency laws, was issued on 22 July 2010: We are Palestinians of diverse perspectives and affiliations -- scholars, intellectuals, artists, activists, trade unionists, human rights advocates and civil society leaders, inside historic Palestine and in exile -- who are united in our commitment to the fulfillment of the fundamental rights of all Palestinians, particularly our inalienable right to self-determination. This universally sanctioned right encompasses, at a minimum, freedom from occupation and colonization in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including Jerusalem; full equality for Palestinian citizens of Israel; and the right of return for Palestinian refugees and their descendants...

  continua / continued avanti - next    [68396] [ 30-jul-2010 00:06 ECT ]

Israeli settlers evict Palestinian family from their home of 70 years
Harriet Sherwood in Jerusalem
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July 29, 2010 - Israeli settlers took over a Palestinian home in the Muslim quarter of Jerusalem's Old City today, evicting about 45 members of an extended family which has occupied the building for more than 70 years. The settlers claimed to have documentation to prove they had purchased the building from the owners. The Palestinian tenants, who have been fighting attempts to evict them for many years, were challenging the takeover in court. A police spokesman said the Israelis had entered the home "based on documents claiming that they owned the property"...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [68395] [ 29-jul-2010 23:46 ECT ]

Report exposes journalist killings in Honduras
By Rafael Azul

July 29, 2010 - According to a report released on July 27 by the Committee to Protect Journalists, the killing of journalists with impunity that began with the coup that overthrew President Manuel Zelaya last year continues to this day. The June 28 coup, carried out with the full support and foreknowledge of the Obama administration, set off a wave of popular protests. Subsequent to the military’s ouster of Zelaya, Washington brokered a deal that prevented his return and sought to legitimize the November elections that gave the coup a facade of democracy and installed Porfirio Lobo as president...

  continua / continued avanti - next    [68394] [ 29-jul-2010 22:46 ECT ]

On Friday U.S. Conducts Afghan massacre - On Tuesday Congress Votes to fund more death
By Kenneth J. Theisen

July 29, 2010 - In the last few days, there have been several developments regarding the U.S. war of terror in Afghanistan. On Sunday, WikiLeaks released the Afghan War Diary which details some of the many crimes of the U.S. imperialists there in over 91,000 military reports. And on Monday, Afghan officials reported that 52 people were massacred in Rigi, Afghanistan in a Friday rocket attack launched against a house where women and children had taken shelter from fighting between NATO troops and Afghan insurgents. And then on Tuesday evening Congress took stern action to stop this imperialist war. NOT! Instead Congress once again voted to fund the war in Afghanistan...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [68393] [ 29-jul-2010 22:43 ECT ]

Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (22-28 July 2010)
The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR)
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July 29, 2010 - ...Israeli violations of international law and humanitarian law in the OPT continued during the reporting period (22 – 28 July 2010): Shooting: During the reporting period, IOF killed a Palestinian worker and wounded three international human rights defenders, including one from Israel, and a Palestinian photojournalist in the West Bank. They also seriously wounded a Palestinian civilian in the Gaza Strip. In the West Bank, on 22 July 2010, IOF killed a Palestinian worker from Qalqilya, near "Burkan" settlement, west of Salfit. Israeli military sources claimed that "a military unit observed two Palestinians, one of whom was armed, when they attempted to cross the settlement's fence. When the two Palestinians did not obey orders to stop, the soldiers fired at them, killing the unarmed one and wounding the armed one, who was able to escape." Investigations conducted by PCHR refute this claim and confirm that none of the targeted persons were armed and that the two men were looking for jobs...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [68392] [ 29-jul-2010 22:32 ECT ]

Video: West Bank businesses suffer from Israel trade restrictions
AlJazeera.net

July 28, 2010 - Businesses in the West Bank, the Palestinian territory, have long suffered from many costly trade restrictions imposed by Israel under the country's occupation. Taybeh, the only brewery of beer in the West Bank, and Pharmacare, a pharmaceutical company there that supplies medicine across Europe, are two companies with many grievances about Israel's restrictions. They say that high taxes and duties and long inspections of goods significantly hinder their ambitions to export and expand....
  continua / continued avanti - next    [68390] [ 29-jul-2010 19:58 ECT ]

PFC Bradley Manning, Now Imprisoned by the US Army in Kuwait
Letter to an American Hero

By JOHN GRANT
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July 28, 2010 - Dear PFC Manning: The New York Times just reported on 92,000 classified military field reports from Afghanistan that graphically underscore what a demoralizing mess that war is. The leaked material has stirred new opposition in Congress to funding the war, and WikiLeaks is now seen by many as a much needed instrument to crack open the grip that secrecy has on the truth in America. On the other side, there are powerful enemies. General James Mattis told a Senate confirmation hearing for his new job as Commander of Central Command that the leak was "an appalling act." But then he assured the senators the leak revealed "nothing new." The point is such leaks are finally fueling robust debate over the war in Afghanistan. And the leak you are alleged to have made that resulted in WikiLeak’s web video "Collateral Murder" was the beginning of it all...
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Military Resistance 8G23: Keep The Message Strong
Thomas F Barton

July 28, 2010 - ... Why Does Military Resistance Newsletter Need Your Suport? Doing everything possible to encourage military resistance to Imperial war has never been more important! You know we don’t hit on you more than twice a year [last Raffle was 11.09], but Imperial war doesn’t happen only twice a year: the killing never stops. Working people have fronted the money that keeps Military Resistance coming out...


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Iraq snapshot - July 28, 2010
The Common Ills

Wednesday, July 28, 2010. Chaos and violence continue, the political stalemate continues, the VA can't account for millions, Congress wants to know why that is, and more [...] Hans Blix is one of the main reason the illegal war started. That shined through in his testimony. He hedged every statement. No government official would have taken him seriously. (Except for his constant repeating that he believed Iraq had WMD. He repeated that to everyone. And this is our hero? This is who the peace movement wants to support?)...
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White phosphorus burns
Medical Aid for Palestinians
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July 28, 2010 - In January, 2009, an 18-year-old man presented to the emergency department after suffering an attack with an incendiary shell. He had many painful patches of full-thickness burns, which were surrounded by sloughed tissue. His wounds covered 30% of his body surface area, and were distributed on both upper and lower limbs, and his right shoulder. There were no signs of inhalation burns. After a clinical diagnosis of white phosphorus burns was made, the airway was secured, resuscitation fluid was initiated, and wounds were irrigated with diluted sodium bicarbonate solution before wet dressing. One day after admission to the burns unit, white smoke was noticed emanating from the wounds, which now contained extensive necrotic tissue and had extended into the underlying tissue...
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Israel, South Africa and the single state non-solution
Louis Proyect

July 28, 2010 - For well over five years, there has been a steady stream of articles in the liberal and radical press—both online and in print—for a "one state" solution in the Middle East. In contrast to the revolutionary socialist call for a democratic and secular Palestine, this one-state solution grants either implicitly or explicitly the Jewish character of the state and the participation of Palestinians in the occupied territories as citizens with the same rights as those now living in Israel proper. More recently, these advocates of what amounts to a Greater Israel have been encouraged by support for a single state solution by rightist politicians, seeing this as analogous to De Klerk coming around to the idea of ending apartheid. Do these ideas have any merit? I don’t think so...
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Blowing the whistle
By Andrew Fowler

July 28, 2010 - The leak of more than 90,000 US military files by whistle-blower website, WikiLeaks is one of the biggest in US military history. The London press conference by Julian Assange was also a rare public appearance for the WikiLeaks founder who has been dubbed "one of the most dangerous men in the world" by critics. To supporters he is a hero, the godfather of whistleblowers. But what of Assange and his organisation? The US authorities have made it plain they would like to talk to him about the leaks. But as Australian reporter Andrew Fowler explains so far he has proved elusive...

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Aid, Solidarity, and the Search for Accountability
By Leah Hunt-Hendrix
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July 28, 2010 - For the past two days, in the halls of Birzeit University, against the backdrop of the hills of Ramallah, students from around the world have convened to discuss strategies to hold Israel accountable. On this campus, which was the site of many of the early moments of the first intifada, the conference, run by Right to Education is giving hope that a new uprising, a non-violent, energetic, tenacious campaign, is gaining momentum. In 2004, the International Court of Justice declared the building of the separation wall between Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) illegal. Construction, however, continued unabated. A year later, members of Palestinian civil society put out a call for Boycott, Divest and Sanction (BDS), to hold Israel accountable until it complies with international law. The movement has been endorsed by over 170 Palestinian parties, organizations, and trade unions, and is essentially a call from the civil society of Palestine to the civil society of the world to join in solidarity, to stand up in our capacity as citizens and consumers, as individuals and communities, against the violations of the rights of Palestinians...
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Russia, Afghanistan and Starwars: Westward Hu
Eric Walberg

July 28, 2010 - The Atlantists are on the ascendant these days in Moscow. Russian President Dmitri Medvedev’s hamburger lunch with United States President Barack Obama during his visit to Silicon Valley last month apparently left a pleasant taste in his mouth. Now relations with NATO are on the mend, as Russia plans to send 27 Mi-17 helicopters to Afghanistan, NATO Military Committee Chairman, Giampaolo di Paola, said after a meeting with Chief of Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, Nikolai Makarov, last Friday. Rosoboronexport has even offered to throw in the first three helicopters for free....
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Iraqi commandos attack Palestinian refugees, arrest 1
Omar Ghraieb

July 28, 2010 - Commandos of the Iraqi Interior Ministry raided on Tuesday evening the compound of Palestinians’ Association in the Iraqi occupied capital of Baghdad. According to the Association of Palestinians in Iraq in a press statement they issued, Iraqi forces intruded and arrested one of the Palestinians and called for a group of refugees to surrender to it. The Iraqi commandos used live bullets while raiding his apartment, sparking panic and fear among Palestinian refugees, especially children and women, according to the statement...
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Villagers Rebuild Razed Bedouin Village
Providence Knolls and Tania Kepler
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July 28, 2010 - "We successfully rebuilt all the structures and tents destroyed, noted Dr. Awad Abu Freih, spokesperson of the el Araqib village and member of the el Araqib Popular Committee and the Arab Education Forum in the Negev. In a conversation with the AIC, Dr. Abu Freih stated that the residents of el Araqib "plan on building more than what was destroyed, in an attempt to prevent future demolitions." Over 300 Bedouins, mainly children, were forcefully removed from their village Tuesday morning (27 July) as they watched the Israeli police destroy their homes and property. The raid began at about 4:30 in the morning and residents woke up surrounded by a huge force of 1,500 police with guns, stun grenades, helmets and shields, including hundreds of Special Riot Police as well as mounted police, helicopters and bulldozers...

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Document Reveals Military Was Concerned About Gulf War Vets' Exposure to Depleted Uranium
Mike Ludwig

July 28, 2010 - For years, the government has denied that depleted uranium (DU), a radioactive toxic waste left over from nuclear fission and added to munitions used in the Persian Gulf and Iraq wars, poisoned Iraqi civilians and veterans. But a little-known 1993 Defense Department document written by then-Brigadier Gen. Eric Shinseki, now the secretary for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), shows that the Pentagon was concerned about DU contamination and the agency had ordered medical testing on all personnel that were exposed to the toxic substance.....
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NYT’s Ignores Documents Showing Large Numbers of Unreported Civilian Casualties in Afghanistan: “We Know All That.”
PostMan
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July 28, 2010 - The New York Times continues to downplay the human rights abuses, amounting in some instances to war crimes, documented in classified reports that were released to them by Wikileaks. In contrast to the Guardian and Der Spiegel, the NYT’s failed to highlight the many accounts of atrocities committed by U.S. and coalition troops in the paper’s recent coverage. The Guardian’s article on the Wikileaks’ document release begins: A huge cache of secret U.S. military files today provides a devastating portrait of the failing war in Afghanistan, revealing how coalition forces have killed hundreds of civilians in unreported incidents...
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