Desmond Tutu Hits Discrimination of Gays as Human Rights Violation

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Famed anti-apartheid activist and Nobel Peace Prize recipient, Desmond Tutu, blasts the anti-gay hatred sweeping the continent of Africa. Writes Tutu in the Washington Post: “The wave of hate must stop. Politicians who profit from exploiting this hate, from fanning it, must not be tempted by this easy way to profit from fear and misunderstanding. And my [...]

Foreign Policy Briefing 3/12/10

An open diplomatic row with Israel during the visit of Vice President Biden has shined a spotlight on the U.S. failure to rein in Israeli settlement ambitions and deepened Palestinian suspicions the US is too weak to broker a deal, AP reports. The Palestinians largely lost faith in the U.S. as a broker after Obama tried – and failed – to get the Netanyahu government to stop building on lands Palestinians claim for a future state, AP says.

Rachel Corrie’s Family Puts Israel on Trial Seven Years after Murder

ShareThis story is all over the British and Israeli press, but not much in the America, other than the usual suspects: Human rights, peace, justice, civil liberties outlets, and those other anti-American types who don’t understand that war is good, ignorance is strength, chickenhawks are courageous, and brutally murdering a 23-year-old American peace activist with a bulldozer is heroic. [...]

Israel Steals More Land, Sandbags Biden

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From Juan Cole:
Israel Humiliates Biden, Announces Further Colonization on Eve of US-Brokered Talks
The far rightwing government of Binyamin Netanyahu in Israel majorly sandbagged Vice President Joe Biden on Tuesday, demonstrating once again that it has not the slightest interest in pursuing a just peace with the Palestinian people or in [...]

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ShareHOLOCAUST DENIAL, ISRAEL GONE MAD AND THE FAILURES OF ISLAM
MAKING A PERFECT WORLD WITH IMPERFECT PEOPLE
By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor
I didn’t do it, Jeff Gates didn’ t do it and, when you check, most Muslims aren’t the ones doing it.  The three terms, Israel, Zionism and Jews are “out there” every day.  Few know [...]

Iraqis vote amid deadly attacks

Iraqis have begun voting in their second full parliamentary elections since the 2003 US-led invasion against a backdrop of deadly attacks.

Around 19 million voters will cast their ballots at 47,000 polling stations across the country Agence France Presse

Iraqis have begun voting in their second full parliamentary elections since the 2003 US-led invasion against a backdrop of deadly attacks.

Attention, Dick Cheney: Don’t the Germans Know We’re At War?

While the Cheneys, father and daughter, continue to hammer away at the accusation that the Obama administration has a “mindset” problem because it (sometimes) chooses to deal with terrorists through the criminal justice system, another bullet-hole has been leveled at their argument by, of all nations, Germany.

This isn’t France that chose to try terrorist suspects in a civilian criminal court. This is big bad Germany. And these were not just any terrorists. The judge in the case declared,

TARIK JAN: THE BUZZ WORD OF INTERFAITH DIALOGUE

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By Tarik Jan
Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz was lately in Davos. According to the implications of his own statement, he wanted to engage the chieftains of world politics and industry into a dialogue on the Western-generated perception of Islam as the religion of violence. How far he was successful in proving [...]

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Some American doctors are pleading U.S. officials to keep the Navy hospital ship Comfort in Haiti, the Baltimore Sun reports. University of Southern California surgeon Randy Sherman, medical director for the aid organization Operation Smile, said “there is no doubt” there are enough earthquake victims to keep the Comfort busy. He thinks it could operate at high volume for at least three more months. US doctors say Haiti is replete with patients whose orthopedic injuries have healed improperly and require complex surgeries that only the Comfort can provide.

Anti-Colonialism, Liberation, and Lives, Not Islam & Judaism

ShareNir Rosen offers more sanity on militarism and colonialism.
By Nir Rosen–On Sunday, February 28th the New York Times published an outrageous oped by Efraim Karsh full of lies, distortions and mistakes.
Karsh describes the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as an urgent foreign policy matter for the United States.
It doesn’t appear to be urgent. One more American administration has prostrated [...]

Foreign Policy Briefing 3/2/10

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Summary:
U.S./Top News
1) Japan’s Social Democratic Party, a junior partner in the governing coalition, will prioritize a plan to move U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Okinawa Prefecture entirely out of the country, Kyodo News reports.
2) The UN General Assembly [...]

GORDON DUFF: THE MONEYTRAIN OF WAR

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By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor
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March 3, 2010
Sandwiched in a region of gas, oil, copper and coal are two nations, Afghanistan and Pakistan, locked in a death struggle.  Every American isn’t ready to learn about British colonialism, the Russian occupation, not that many years ago or the mistakes [...]

GORDON DUFF: PAKISTAN’S IMRAN KHAN; LOOKING FOR “AMERICA” IN THE STRANGEST PLACES

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By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor
Traveling around Pakistan is a challenge for an American nowadays.  It’s not the highways.  It isn’t even that our second vehicle was “armed to the teeth” as we weaved through traffic and up and down superhighways and dusty back roads.  The difficulty is the landscape itself, a land, at [...]

Foreign Policy Briefing 2/26/10

The Afghan human rights commission reported that 28 civilians had been killed so far in NATO’s offensive on Marja, AP reports. The commission based its numbers on witness reports. NATO has confirmed at least 16 civilian deaths.

We Can Halt Israeli Apartheid

Popular pressure is the difference between progress and oppression.

KHALIL NOURI: AFGHANISTAN: AN INEVITABLE KARZAI DYNASTY RULING

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By: Khalil Nouri STAFF WRITER FOR VETERANS TODAY
AN INEVITABLE KARZAI DYNASTY RULING
Subsequent to Hamed Karzai shamelessly stealing the Afghan re-election; he agreed that his achievements and standards would be higher – and the Obama administration vowed that he [...]

Foreign Policy Briefing 2/24/10

Rep. Kucinich wrote to Defense Secretary Gates, demanding that the U.S. comply with its obligation to protect Afghan civilians under international law, following a US attack on a civilian convoy reported to have killed 27 civilians. Kucinich demanded information on the decisions that led to the strike within two weeks, threatening to force a House vote demanding release of documents on the strike.

Foreign Policy Briefing 2/23/10

Dutch Prime Minister Balkenende said he expected Dutch troops to come home from Afghanistan before the end of the year, after efforts to keep them there longer caused the government to collapse, the New York Times reports. The war in Afghanistan has been increasingly unpopular among voters in in many parts of Europe, creating strains between governments trying to please the US and their own people.

Ms. Clinton Says Iran Headed For Military Dictatorship

Well may Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warn students in Qatar that “Iran is moving toward a military dictatorship.” She is, after all, an authority on the subject, representing a country where the Pentagon has long been ascendant. Her comment was followed up by Robert Gibbs, President Obama’s press secretary, who, at a February 16th news conference refused to deny the possibility of the U.S. taking military action against Iran, stating, “I wouldn’t rule out anything.”

Dissident Israelis and Palestinians Forge Peace

ShareHuman beings make peace through direct action of recognizing shared humanity. ‘Verbal terrorism?’ Sure, militarists won’t like it. But America should be funding Villages Group. When people demand peace in sufficient numbers, governments have no choice but to follow.
by Carol Sanders — With all the bad news about the fierce apparatus of “Separation” in the West Bank, it is [...]

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