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Gaza trade union opens Latin America Office in the city of Che Guevara

Gaza Trade Union Opens Latin America Office in the city of Che Guevara The office aims to promote solidarity networks between workers from Gaza and Latin America. Argentine workers celebrated the opening of a Latin American Office of the General Federation of…

The Over-Written, Under-Reported Middle East (II): 99.5 Years of (Imposed) Solitude

By Baher Kamal* for Human Wrongs Watch In this Part II of a two-part series, Egyptian-born, Spanish-national, secular journalist Baher Kamal tries to “demystify” some of the most common stereotypes circulating around the Middle East region. Here he explains some…

The Over-Written, Under-Reported Middle East (I): Of Arabs and Muslims

By Baher Kamal*, for Human Wrongs Watch In this two-part series, Egyptian-born, Spanish-national, secular journalist Baher Kamal tries to “demystify” some of the most common stereotypes circulating around the Middle East region. Part II tomorrow will focus on: Over-Written, Under-Reported Middle…

War with Russia or with ISIS: What ever happened to peace?

War with Russia or with ISIS: What ever happened to peace? By David Swanson http://davidswanson.org/node/4994 According to the Nation magazine and many others, there are two options available to the U.S. government. One is increased hostility perhaps leading to nuclear…

UK approves bombing of Syria: ‘Loss of innocent lives is sadly almost inevitable’

Ahead of vote, Prime Minister David Cameron described Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn as ‘terrorist sympathizer’ for opposing bombing campaign by Deirdre Fulton, staff writer for Common Dreams Update (6:40 PM EDT): Following day-long debate, MP’s approve aistrikes for Syria Despite…

Syria: No fly zone means for everybody

Protect the Syrians from all sides and they will create conditions where ISIS  will simply fall apart, stop bombing populations and provide all-around security and the local people will seek their own way to peace and any offer by such…

Jeremy Corbyn is not Marty McFly (but the Ayes have it)

The UK Parliament debates bombing Syria. The debate in the House of Commons is raging as we speak. Up to 20 % of Tory MPs may rebel against UK Prime Minister Cameron and vote against bombing Syria, whilst Labour has…

Insults instead of a clear strategy. Prime Minister Cameron v Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn

Not having managed to make a clear case for bombing Syria the UK Prime Minister resorts to insulting the leader of the opposition and others proposing a different strategy to defeat Isil by calling them “terrorist sympathisers” ahead of tomorrow’s…

Mountains no barrier for Edinburgh volunteers’ direct aid to Syria

Among many volunteer groups that are ‘doing their bit’ for the Middle East Pressenza came across this Facebook entry of Roey Convery sharing news from her pal Margaret Tookey’s travels into Syria. The tale tells a lot in a few…

UN stop privatising-profiting from prisons, checkout UK’s G4S in Israel

G4S profits from Israel’s brutal occupation of Palestine. So why is the UN giving them $22 million? Dear readers, Waging violence is bad enough. Profiting from it? That’s even worse. But that’s what G4S, a British “defense” conglomerate, does everyday.…

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