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Efforts To Legislate BDS Out Of Existence Will Only Backfire

Knowledge is power. And the more Israel publicly decries the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, the more the public is exposed to the atrocities that inspired it in the first place.

Robert Fantina
بواسطة Robert Fantina
Activists carried out some actions in solidarity with the Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions (BDS) movement which targets Israeli apartheid.

KITCHENER, Ontario --- (Analysis) From September 2000 to February 2005, more than 3,200 Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces during the Second Intifada, or Palestinian uprising. From June to October 2004 alone, Israeli forces launched major assaults in Northern Gaza, killing at least 150 Palestinians, injuring hundreds of others and leaving

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Canary Mission: The Ultimate Pro-Palestinian Network

The vast majority of the Anti-BDS site is set up like a Pro-Palestinian activist’s phonebook.

Justin King
بواسطة Justin King
Image Source: Screenshot Canary Mission

Washington, DC (TFC) – Openly, Canary Mission is set up to appear as an Anti-BDS, Anti-Palestinian website, but when you look closer the site can only be intended to be used by Pro-Palestinian activists as a networking tool. While there are a few pages that play on the reader’s belief the site is pro-Israeli, the vast majority of the site is set up

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The New Big Brother: How Social Media Is Creating An ‘Orwellian’ Society

Social media platforms such as Facebook are having a “chilling effect” on the everyday behavior of young people, who are increasingly altering their actions amid concerns they are under constant surveillance from online friends.

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بواسطة Sputnik News
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Joint research conducted by academics from the University of Edinburgh Business School, the University of Bath and the University of Birmingham have uncovered previously held concerns about how social media is affecting the lives of young, impressionable users. Following in-depth interviews with a number of 19-22-year-old Britons, the study

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Former Nixon Advisor: The War On Drugs Invented To Crush Anti-War And Black Movements

While the justice system still perpetuates racism through the Drug War, it is evident that at least some relics of past authoritarianism are now slowly disintegrating.

Carey Wedler
بواسطة Carey Wedler
John D. Ehrlichman, former adviser admits the Drug War was intended to disempower anti-war and black rights movements in the 1970s. (AP Photo)

In 1994, a former Nixon policy adviser admitted the War on Drugs was waged not to keep Americans safe, but to crush dissent. According to John Ehrlichman, who served time in prison for his involvement in the Watergate scandal, the Drug War was intended to disempower anti-war and black rights movements in the 1970s. Author Dan Baum wrote in the

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Blame Hate, Not Islam: Europe’s Left Responds to Terror Attacks

Grassroots groups across Europe are warning against succumbing to misguided and bigoted speech in the wake of terrorism.

teleSUR
بواسطة teleSUR
A woman places a card for display inside the Belgian embassy in Madrid, Spain, Wednesday, March 23, 2016, a day after Tuesday's deadly suicide attacks on the Brussels airport and its subway system. Spain's Interior Ministry said that for the moment Spain was maintaining its Security Alert Level 4, one step below the maximum. (AP Photo/Paul White)

https://twitter.com/tahirnaeem_18/status/712610511716761600 Reacting to the terror attacks in Brussels Tuesday, an Israeli state official echoed the typical narrative conflating Islam and terrorism, and the idea of a clash of a civilization. "This is a Third World War against our common values," Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon said, according

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Did the US Just Admit to Carrying Out War Crimes In Iraq?

Over the past 19 months of bombing, the U.S. has admitted to killing 21 civilians in Iraq and Syria. According to Airwars’ compilation of what it considers credible reports, the real death toll is likely to be over 1,000.

teleSUR
بواسطة teleSUR
A US Air Force plane takes off as a Turkish Air Force fighter jet taxis at the Incirlik airbase, southern Turkey, Sunday, Sept. 1, 2013. (Photo: AP/Vadim Ghirda)

The U.S. government has designated parts of the University of Mosul “Islamic State headquarters,” according to a report from VICE News, a revelation that comes days after airstrikes on the educational institution reportedly killed at least a dozen Iraqi civilians. On Sunday teleSUR reported that a barrage of suspected U.S. airstrikes on Mosul –

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