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Senate Armed Services Committee members Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., left, and Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, talk on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, July 11, 2017, during the committee's confirmation hearing for Navy Secretary nominee Richard Spencer. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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Human Rights Activist Gideon Levy: A Voice of Sanity from Israel

In spite of a systemic policy of demonization against him, Gideon Levy continues denouncing the Israeli government crimes against the Palestinians.

Dr. Cesar Chelala
بواسطة Dr. Cesar Chelala
Journalist Gideon Levy speaks at a Seminar of the Communications Dept. at Ariel University. (Photo: Flavio~/Flickr)

I first learned of Gideon Levy many years ago, during a casual conversation with an Israeli human rights activist. He told me that he had asked Levy why was he such a serious critic of Israel’s government and its policies with the Palestinians. Levy, whose own father was a German Jewish refugee who had settled in Israel, responded, “I don’t want

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US-Backed Coalition Bombs Wedding Party in Yemen, Killing Dozens

A bride was among those killed at a wedding party, and at least 45 were wounded according to reports.

Julia Conley
بواسطة Julia Conley

Weeks after President Donald Trump thanked Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince for his country's use of U.S. military power, the U.S.-backed coalition bombed a wedding party in Yemen, killing at least 20 civilians including the bride. The number of casualties is expected to rise. On social media, journalist Glenn Greenwald reminded readers of the U.S.

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America’s Far Right is Stumbling, But has Already Infiltrated the Mainstream

In a sense, the Republican Party has become a much more powerful instrument of white rage than the alt-right.

Juliette Legendre
بواسطة Juliette Legendre
This Aug. 17, 2017 image from video shows a Confederate flag, right, displayed alongside an Israeli flag and a colonial-era American one in the seventh-floor windows of an apartment in the East Village neighborhood of New York. The flags had been there for over a year, and illuminated at night, but after an Aug. 12 white nationalist rally to preserve a Confederate statue in Charlottesville, Va., spiraled into violence the flags were met with hurled rocks, a punched-out window, a tarp hung over them and legal action before being removed. (PIX11 News via AP)

On March 5, the prominent white nationalist Richard Spencer was scheduled to speak at Michigan State University. The event quickly turned into a bust when only about three dozen people made it inside the building — while hundreds of Spencer supporters and anti-fascist protestors confronted each other outside, throwing rocks and punches. Local

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Wanted: The ‘Butcher of Damascus’ to Return Normalcy to Syria

Bashar al-Assad is just the latest in a long line of Middle East leaders demonized by colonial Britain and the U.S. for their independence.

Eric Margolis
بواسطة Eric Margolis
media lies

Butcher of Damascus.  Gasser of children.  Baby Killer of Syria.  Tool of Moscow.  Cruel despot.  Monster. These are all names the western media and politicians routinely heap on Syria’s president, Bashar al-Assad.  He has now become the top Mideast villain, the man we love to hate. As a veteran Mideast watcher, I find all this hard to

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Executive Who Oversaw Iraq ‘Black Ops’ Hired to Produce Anti-Qatar Propaganda

The former CEO of propaganda producer, Bell Pottinger USA, was given over $500,000 to produce a six-part film linking Qatar with global terrorism.

Jessica Purkiss
بواسطة Jessica Purkiss
Qatar: A Dangerous Alliance

A veteran of Pentagon propaganda operations was hired last year by a Dubai-based company to create a film accusing Qatar of links to terrorism, the Bureau can reveal. Charles Andreae, whose firm Andreae & Associates was contracted to produce the film, used to work for PR firm Bell Pottinger. Whilst at Bell Pottinger, he helped oversee a $500

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Palestinian Haneen Zoabi Discusses Feminism, Gaza and Life in Israel’s Knesset

Palestinian Israeli Knesset member Haneen Zoabi, discusses feminism, the struggle in Gaza and life in the Israeli parliament with Dennis J. Bernstein.

Dennis J Bernstein
بواسطة Dennis J Bernstein
Haeneen Zoabi speaks to the press in Nazareth, northern Israel, June 1, 2010. (AP/Ariel Schalit)

Haneen Zoabi is a member of the Israeli Knesset and the first woman elected to the Israeli Knesset on an Arab party list. She’s an unrelenting advocate for equal citizenship rights for the Palestinian citizens of Israel, and despite repeated attacks of all kinds, she remains unrelenting in her call for an end to Israel’s occupation of Palestinian

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