Archives for يونيو 2015

Israeli Army Kidnaps Seven Palestinians, Including Two Children

Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Sunday at dawn, two Palestinians in occupied East Jerusalem, after invading the al-‘Eesawiyya town leading to clashes with local youths. The army also kidnapped two Palestinians in Nablus, and a woman Hebron.

بواسطة IMEMC News
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Member of the Follow-up Committee in Jerusalem, Raed Abu Ryala, said several Israeli military vehicles invaded the al-‘Eesawiyya town, south of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, broke into and searched a few homes, and kidnapped two Palestinians. The two kidnapped Palestinians have been identified as Adham Mheisin and ‘Ata ‘Obeid. Abu Ryala

Walmart Has $76 Billion Stashed In “Magical” Tax Havens

A “groundbreaking” report—”The Wal-Mart Web: How the World’s Biggest Corporation Secretly Uses Tax Havens to Dodge Taxes”— reveals an extensive, covert “network of 78 subsidiaries and branches in 15 overseas tax havens, which may be used to minimize foreign taxes where it has retail operations and to avoid U.S. tax on those foreign earnings.”

(ANTIMEDIA) Walmart’s profit-at-any-cost philosophy—including a virtual assault on the rights of its hourly workers and its continuing reliance overseas suppliers with a collective penchant for human rights violations—is widely known; but its use of foreign tax havens to shelter $76 billion in assets has flown under the radar. Until

Society To Collapse By 2040 Due To Catastrophic Food Shortages, Environmental Disaster

New scientific models supported by the British government’s Foreign Office show that if we don’t change course, in less than three decades industrial civilization will essentially collapse due to catastrophic food shortages, triggered by a combination of climate change, water scarcity, energy crisis, and political instability that are fueled by war.

بواسطة Nafeez Ahmed
APTOPIX Mideast Iraq

Before you panic, the good news is that the scientists behind the model don’t believe it’s predictive. The model does not account for the reality that people will react to escalating crises by changing behavior and policies. But even so, it’s a sobering wake-up call, which shows that business-as-usual guarantees the end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it:

Department Of Homeland Security Still Controls What You Read

Where Americans turn for news, U.S. intelligence agencies follow. And infiltrate. And monitor.

MINNEAPOLIS --- With all of the establishment media owned by just a handful of corporations, six to be exact, it’s never been easier for the U.S. government to manipulate the news. A diversity of outlets, from websites to traditional newspapers, repeat the same stories to create an illusion of choice that allows propaganda to take root in the

Corruption Bird Dogs Accuse Candidates of ‘Governing Under The Influence’

Governing Under the Influence is a Quaker-led campaign to ensure that all candidates get asked tough questions on all stops through two of the busiest campaign states.

Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton (file photo)

MANCHESTER, New Hampshire --- During the build up to every presidential election, the eyes of the world turn to two states: Iowa and New Hampshire. Home to the Iowa Caucus, and the first primary elections, respectively, they’ve become key campaign stops for every presidential candidate. This time, a group of Quaker-trained “bird dogs” is making

Gentrification Targets DC’s Public Schools, Extracts Resources From The Poor

“The lens that we operate under is that we view this as structural racism,” a community organizer tells MintPress. “While we have a mayor and a chancellor that are black, they’re kind of operating under this system that values white folks in a better light.”

بواسطة Sean Nevins
A teacher uses flash cards to teach kindergarten students including Nailiah Harping, 6, seated at left of the front row, and Jason Moncure, also 6, next to her her during Spanish class at the charter school Oakhurst Elementary in Decatur, Ga. (AP Photo/John Amis)

WASHINGTON -- Earlier this month, the National Academy of Sciences released an assessment of the Washington, D.C., public school system from 2009 to 2013 -- the period shortly after then-Mayor Adrian Fenty took control of the system in 2007 under the Public Education Reform Amendment Act, or PERAA. The controversial law drew national attention