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Israel engaged in covert war inside Iran
  Israel is involved in a covert war of sabotage inside Iran in an effort to delay Tehran's attempts to develop a nuclear weapon the Daily Telegraph newspaper reported on Tuesday.   Quoting intelligence experts and an unnamed former CIA agent, the newspaper said Israel's "decapitation" strategy had targeted members of Iran's... More
Dec 21, 2024
The Islamophobia machine, a new growth industry (part 2 of 2)
  By: Dr. Mohamed Elmasry   One of Europe’s Islamophobia industry leaders is Matthias Kuentzel, a political scientist in Hamburg, Germany, of whom his U.S. promoters say:   "Since 2004, he has been a research associate at the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Anti-Semitism (SICSA) at the Hebrew University of... More
Dec 21, 2024
Investigating Gaza's war crimes
  The correspondent Ayman Mohyeldin visited the village of Khuza'a where residents and human rights experts believe a possible war crime took place during Israel's offensive on the Gaza Strip.   A photograph of her recent pilgrimage to Mecca is now all that remains of Rawhiyya al Najar.   The mother was a... More
Dec 21, 2024
The Islamophobia machine, a new growth industry (part 1 of 2)
  By: Dr Mohamed Elmasry   Just as some Jews betrayed their co-religionists by aiding the Nazi propaganda machine before and during WWII, today there are Muslims just as eagerly and effectively helping the Islamophobia industry to stereotype and marginalize their brothers and sisters of the faith. These Muslims are very much... More
Dec 21, 2024
Hundreds kidnapped in Gambian "witch hunts"
  Hundreds of people have been kidnapped in Gambian witch hunts and taken to detention centers where they were forced to drink hallucinogenic concoctions, Amnesty International said.   Eye witnesses and victims told the rights group that those involved in rounding up victims were "accompanied by police army and national intelligence agents,"... More
Dec 21, 2024
Israeli use of phosphorus 'a crime'
  A report by an international rights group has said that Israel's use of white phosphorus during its recent offensive on the Gaza Strip is evidence of war crimes.   Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Wednesday that the munitions were fired indiscriminately and over densely populated areas during the 23-day war,... More
Dec 21, 2024
Israel and the crime of Apartheid
  By Hazem Jamjoum   In recent years, increasing numbers of people around the world have begun adopting and developing an analysis of Israel as an apartheid regime. (1) This can be seen in the ways that the global movement in support of the Palestinian anti-colonial struggle is taking on a pointedly... More
Dec 21, 2024
Detainee offered freedom for silence on torture
  A British court ruled Monday that U.S. authorities had asked a Guantanamo Bay detainee to drop allegations of torture in exchange for his freedom.   A ruling by two British High Court judges said the U.S. offered Binyam Mohamed a plea bargain deal in October. Mohamed refused the deal and the... More
Dec 21, 2024
'UN providing cover for racism'
  The United Nations is providing cover for Israeli racism say dozens of human rights workers and Fawzi Barhoum, a spokesperson for Hamas.   The United Nations Conference against Racism in Geneva is being boycotted by the US, Israel, Italy, Australia, New Zealand, the Netherlands and Germany. That is “just in case”... More
Dec 21, 2024
A year on, Myanmar cyclone survivors struggle to rebuild
  A year after Cyclone Nargis battered army-ruled Myanmar, killing nearly 140,000 people, paddy fields remain bare and tens of thousands of survivors live in makeshift shelters.   "Everybody lives on food handouts and most of us don't have decent shelter or a job," Ba Thin, 72, said, pointing to the bamboo,... More
Dec 21, 2024
US detainee abuse 'unprecedented'
  A former US official has accused the administration of George Bush, the former president, of authorizing "unprecedented" acts of abuse during the interrogation of detainees.   Phillip Zelikow told a US senate hearing on torture practices that the Bush administration was guilty of a "collective failure" over the interrogation of "war... More
Dec 21, 2024
'Israelis may emigrate over nuclear threat'
  Almost a quarter of Israel's seven million citizens would consider leaving the country if Iran becomes a nuclear military power, according to a new poll.   The poll also shows that over 40 per cent of Israelis believe that their military forces should strike Iran's nuclear installations without waiting to see... More
Dec 21, 2024
Torture and justice, American style
  "I could see them, dragged naked along the concrete corridor," reported the 18-year-old boy. "Their skin was tearing off their bodies and the extreme pain showed on their faces. Electric shockers such as are used on livestock had first been used on them. I saw the burns on their arms... More
Dec 21, 2024
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