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Caught In The Act: Israeli Soldier Filmed Killing Palestinian

Approximately 94 per cent of criminal investigations against Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers committing acts of violence against Palestinians are closed without indictment

New Internationalist
بواسطة New Internationalist
Israeli soldiers during their early morning raid on Amari Palestinian refugee camp, near the West Bank city of Ramallah. Monday, Feb. 15, 2016. (AP Photo/Nasser Shiyoukhi).

Abd al-Fattah al-Sharif and Ramzi al-Qasrawi, both 21-year-old Palestinian residents of al-Khalil (Hebron), were killed on 24 March 2016 after stabbing and wounding an Israeli soldier. The circumstances surrounding the death of al-Sharif, in particular, have caused an uproar in Israel, Palestine and the international community. What made it

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Why Did Saudi Royalty Wire Millions Into The Malaysian PM’s Personal Account?

Hundreds of millions of dollars were paid into the account of Mr. X by a Saudi prince described as “mysterious”, and two British Virgin Island companies characterized as “shadowy”.

ZeroHedge.com
بواسطة ZeroHedge.com
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As the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) reports, a money-laundering alarm was triggered at AmBank in Malaysia, a bank part-owned by one of Australia’s “big four” banks, ANZ. What had triggered the alarm? Money had poured into the personal account of one of the bank’s customers, a certain Mr. X, in truly staggering amounts. Hundreds of

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Innocent Man Begs America To Stop Trying To Murder Him With Drone Strikes

Malik claims he has been put on a ‘kill list’ and targeted at least four times by U.S. drone strikes for his role in attempting to prevent violence between the local Taliban and the authorities.

Michaela Whitton | AntiMedia
بواسطة Michaela Whitton | AntiMedia

A tribal elder from Pakistan is in the U.K. this week in an attempt to get Britain to persuade the United States to stop trying to kill him. Malik Jalil, from the village of Waziristan on Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan, has a role as an intermediary in settling disputes. He is a member of a community devoted to trying to keep the peace in the

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Who Exactly Is Ted Cruz?

Eight Things You Didn’t Know About the Republican.

Sputnik News
بواسطة Sputnik News
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, right, enters the hotel ballroom before speaking at the Network of Iowa Christian Home Educators’ state Capitol day event, Tuesday, March 18, 2014, in Des Moines, Iowa. Cruz has made four trips to Iowa in eight months.

The Republican Party's 'Stop Trump' faction — comprised of a number of establishment figures — is far more than a mere fringe operation, and is spending millions of dollars on TV spots aimed at slowing the Trump bandwagon. If they are successful — and with all signs pointing towards a brokered convention, they probably will be — the inevitable

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State Dept Report: Israel Uses Excessive Force Against Palestinians

The report criticized the policy of “arbitrary arrest and associated torture and abuse, often with impunity,” by the Israeli military.

Jason Ditz
بواسطة Jason Ditz
A Palestinian is pushed an Israeli policemen. Saturday, Oct. 10, 2015. (AP Photo/Nasser Shiyoukhi)

The annual human rights abuses report from the US State Department has singled out Israel for its excessive use of force against Palestinians in the occupied territories, noting that around half of the Palestinian “attackers” killed weren’t actually attacking anyone. The report cites 149 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in 2015, noting that

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Oil Industry’s Suppression Of Climate Science Began In 1940s, Documents Reveal

“What we found is they knew a great deal, and they knew it much earlier and with greater certainty than anyone has recognized or that the industry has admitted.”

Nadia Prupis
بواسطة Nadia Prupis
An oil field near Alabama and Clay streets in Huntington Beach, circa early 1920s. We have since cleaned up well(s). (Photo, City of Huntington Beach archives)

A trove of newly uncovered documents shows that fossil fuel companies were explicitly warned of the risks of climate change decades earlier than previously suspected. And while it's no secret—anymore—that the companies knew about those dangers long ago, the documents, published Wednesday by the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL),

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