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Israel interrogates, expels well-known South African academic Salim Vally, invited to lecture in Palestine

Israel interrogates, expels well-known South African academic Salim Vally, invited to lecture in Palestine In the latest example of its repression of academic freedom in the occupied Palestinian territories, Israel today  denied entry  to Dr. Salim Vally, director of the  Centre for Education Rights and Transformation  at the  University of Johannesburg . Vally, renowned in  South Africa  as an academic, educator and human rights activist, and member of the Palestine Solidarity Committee (PSC), had been invited to give several lectures in the occupied West Bank by German foundation Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, according to a  PSC release .

'The War on Democracy'  John Pilger -  Documentary

'The War on Democracy'  John Pilger -  Documentary 'The War on Democracy' is John Pilger's first major film for the cinema - in a career that has produced more than 55 television documentaries. Set in Latin America and the US, it explores the historic and current relationship of Washington with countries such as Venezuela, Bolivia and Chile.   "The film tells a universal story," says Pilger, "analysing and revealing, through vivid testimony, the story of great power behind its venerable myths. It allows us to understand the true nature of the so-called war on terror".

Why Doesn’t Obama Drone Strike This Terrorist?

Why Doesn’t Obama Drone Strike This Terrorist? March 13, 2013 " Information Clearing House "  -   Since the Obama administration seems so keen to entrench its authority to kill Americans deemed “terrorists” on foreign soil, why has it failed to drone strike former US Army soldier Eric Harroun, who is now fighting with the Al-Qaeda affiliated terrorist group Jabhat al-Nusra in Syria?

Pfc. Full Transcript: Bradley E. Manning's Statement for the Providence Inquiry

Pfc. Full Transcript: Bradley E. Manning's Statement for the Providence Inquiry This statement below was read by Private First Class Bradley E. Bradley at a providence inquiry for his formal plea of guilty to one specification as charged and nine specifications for lesser included offenses. He pled not guilty to 12 other specifications. This rush transcript was taken by journalist Alexa O'Brien at the Article 39(a) session of United States v. Pfc. Bradley Manning on February 28, 2013 at Fort Meade, MD, USA.

Shiite leader: Sectarian attacks are 'genocide'

Shiite leader: Sectarian attacks are 'genocide' : QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) - Pakistan's minority Shiite Muslims have started using the word "genocide" to describe a violent spike in attacks against them by a militant Sunni group with suspected links to the country's security agencies and a mainstream political party that governs the largest province.

65 Years Ago: The Green Light for Zionism’s Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

65 Years Ago: The Green Light for Zionism’s Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine 65 Years Ago The Green Light for Zionism’s Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine By Alan Har t March 10, 2013 " Information Clearing House " - I find myself wondering how many of our present day leaders, President Obama in particular, are aware of what happened in Palestine on 10 March 65 years ago. On that day in 1948, two months before Israel’s unilateral declaration of independence in defiance of the will of the organized international community as it then was at the UN, Zionism’s in-Palestine political and military leaders met in Tel Aviv to formally adopt PLAN DALET, the blueprint with operational military orders for the ethnic cleansing of Palestine . They did not and never would refer to the crime they authorised as ethnic cleansing. Their euphemism for it was “transfer”. As noted in an exc...