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PCHR condemns detention of 3 journalists by …. WEST BANK INTELLIGENCE (!?)

By Mary Rizzo • May 11th, 2008 • Category: Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Human Rights, Israel, Newswire, Palestine

PCHR Condemns Detention of 3 Journalists and a Columnist by the Palestinian General Intelligence in the West Bank
 
PCHR strongly condemns the detention of 3 Palestinian journalists and a columnist by the Palestinian General Intelligence Service (GIS) in Bethlehem and Qalqilya towns in the West Bank on Thursday, 8 May 2008. PCHR believes that such arrests [...]


Army Times: “No GWOT”, the name has got to go

By Mary Rizzo • Apr 27th, 2008 • Category: Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Middle East Issues, War

The House Armed Services Committee is banishing the global war on terror from the 2008 defense budget.
This is not because the war has been won, lost or even called off, but because the committee’s Democratic leadership doesn’t like the phrase.
A memo for the committee staff, circulated March 27 (2007), says the 2008 bill and its [...]


Building the Palestinian Contras

By Khalid Amayreh • Apr 7th, 2008 • Category: Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Israel, Khalid Amayreh, Palestine, War

By Khalid Amayreh in Occupied Jerusalem
7 April, 2008 
 
Israel, the Bush Administration and the Palestinian Authority (PA), headed by Mahmoud Abbas, are collaborating to build a depoliticized Palestinian security force whose main task and raison d’être will be to crush any popular uprising against a prospective “peace deal” imposed upon the Palestinians.
 
The new force, whose [...]


10 Reasons Why the Save Darfur Campaign is a PR Scam

By Mary Rizzo • Dec 13th, 2007 • Category: Analysis, Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Hasbara Deconstruction Site, Human Rights, War

Ten Reasons Why “Save Darfur” is a PR Scam to Justify the Next US Oil and Resource Wars in Africa
by Bruce Dixon
Global Research, December 12, 2007
blackagendareport.com - 2007-11-27
The star-studded hue and cry to “Save Darfur” and “stop the genocide” has gained enormous traction in U.S. media along with bipartisan support in Congress and the [...]


Israel in Darfur and Arab National Security

By Adib Kawar • Nov 24th, 2007 • Category: Analysis, Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Human Rights, Israel, Middle East Issues, War, Zionism

By Ahmad Hussein As-shimi
Translated by Adib S. Kawar and revised by Mary Rizzo On the other hand, Israeli minister of foreign affairs, Tzipi Livni, announced during a meeting with African ambassadors in Tel Aviv, that great numbers of Darfur refugees entered Israel through the Egyptian/Israeli common borderline. Sudanese sources accused Tel Aviv of facilitating infiltrators to [...]


War Without End - Operation Swarm

By Mary Rizzo • Oct 5th, 2007 • Category: Analysis, Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Middle East Issues, War

Writing for Italy’s l’Espresso, Italian General Fabio Mini has understood and explained the dangerous mechanisms of gaining consensus to wage war against “Enemies”, which are variable and flexible according to the interests of hegemonic power. This enlightening article explains the manner in which War against Iran has been promoted in the West as well [...]