Sarah Lazare

Palestinian Activist Rasmea Odeh Found Guilty In ‘Travesty Of Justice’

Addressing supporters immediately following verdict, Odeh declares, ‘There is justice in this world. We will find it.’

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Palestinian activist and torture survivor Rasmea Odeh was found guilty of an immigration violation on Monday by a U.S. federal jury in Detroit, following what her supporters say was an unjust trial for trumped up charges aimed at crushing political movements. "Make no mistake. Rasmea came under attack by the U.S. government because she is

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Fresh Outrage As FBI Admits To Impersonating AP Reporter

Major media organizations say the FBI’s action ‘endangers the media’s credibility and creates the appearance that it is not independent of the government’.

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FBI

The FBI is facing fresh criticism after Director James Comey admitted Thursday that, in 2007, an agent impersonated an Associated Press reporter as part of a covert investigation. The new information, exposed in a letter from Comey to the New York Times, adds to revelations from late last month that the agency falsified an Associated Press story

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Targeted By Global Boycott, SodaStream To Close Factory In Occupied West Bank

Campaigners hail announcement as ‘latest sign that these global Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions campaigns are having an impact on changing the behavior of companies that profit from Israeli occupation and apartheid.’

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sodastream

Campaigners for Palestinian rights are celebrating following Wednesday's announcement by SodaStream International, a controversial Israeli-owned company targeted by a global boycott campaign, that it will be shuttering and relocating its factory that is housed in the occupied West Bank. "We have witnessed a tremendous growth in boycott,

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In Record ‘Dark Money’ Election, Chamber Of Commerce Top Shadowy Spender: Report

‘When large corporations decide they want to get their own candidates into office but they don’t want to be seen doing it, they call the U.S. Chamber.’

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This election season, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is coming out ahead—as the number one dark money spender of 2014, watchdog Public Citizen revealed in a report released Wednesday. "In a record year for dark money expenditures, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is leading the way," reads the report, entitled The Dark Side of

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‘A Generation Cast Aside’: Child Poverty On The Rise In World’s Richest Countries

Since 2008, child poverty has increased in a majority of the 41 most affluent nations, UNICEF report finds.

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Living in Poverty

Children remain "the most enduring victims" of the recession in the world's wealthiest nations, where 2.6 million children have fallen below the poverty line since 2008, a new report from UNICEF reveals. The annual study, Children of the Recession: The impact of the economic crisis on child well-being in rich countries, was released Tuesday in

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Critics to Obama: ‘Draconian Cuts’ Have Been to US Public Services, Not War Budget

With U.S. military spending at historic high, Obama slams ‘cuts’ as going too far

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President Obama's comments on Wednesday that U.S. military spending is under threat of "draconian" cuts were met with immediate rebuke from analysts, who say the poor are bearing the brunt of austerity while the war budget remains largely untouched. That the president's comments came in the midst of the expansion of the costly U.S.-led war against

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Climate Change to Bring Dramatic Surge in East Coast Floods, Scientists Warn

A study from the Union of Concerned Scientists reveals that floods are slated to drastically increase in just 15 years

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Dozens of cities and towns on the U.S. Atlantic coast will face a dramatic increase in tidal flooding within just 15 years as a direct result of climate change-driven sea level rise, with some communities projected to face such frequent flooding in the near future they could become unlivable, a study released Wednesday reveals. The report,

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