September 2011

With death of Anwar al-Awlaki, has U.S. launched new era of killing U.S. citizens without charge?

by News Sources 09.30.2011

Glenn Greenwald interviewed on Democracy Now: The life of Anwar Awlaki: Interview: Yemen analyst Gregory Johnsen discusses Awlaki killing: Anwar Awlaki on killing Innocent civilians‬‏, October 2001: Share

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The U.S. is the main obstacle to Middle East peace

by News Sources 09.30.2011

Henry Siegman writes: Over the past few days, much has been written about the Palestinian bid for UN recognition of its statehood and Washington’s opposition to it. But the real importance of last week’s events at the UN does not lie with the US response itself, but with the effect that response has had on [...]

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Palestinians pessimistic about bid for statehood

by News Sources 09.30.2011

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Why the future of Palestine looks more promising than the future of Israel

by News Sources 09.30.2011

Mary Dejevsky writes: The Israel of the next 30 years is likely to be more divided, less productive, more inward-looking and more hawkish than it is today – but without the financial means and unquestioning sense of duty that inspired young people to defend their homeland by force of arms. Recent mass protests against inequality [...]

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Does Obama believe he has the right to kill anyone, anywhere, anytime?

by Paul Woodward 09.30.2011

“This is a great day for America,” says a senior Obama administration official, but not such a great day for the people of Yemen. Fayza Sulieman, a protest leader fighting for democracy in Yemen told The Guardian: We always question the timing of these announcements from our government, [Yemen's recently returned President] Saleh is on [...]

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Judge, jury, and executioner: Obama gets Awlaki. Can the president kill his way to re-election?

by Paul Woodward 09.30.2011

Spencer Ackerman reports: An American citizen responsible for taking al-Qaida’s message viral has been killed in Yemen, according to the Yemeni government. As a target, the Obama administration considered him second only to Osama bin Laden. But don’t expect al-Qaida’s surging Yemeni cell to grow much weaker as a result. Anwar al-Awlaki, a New Mexico-born [...]

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Obama: A disaster for civil liberties

by News Sources 09.29.2011

Jonathan Turley writes: With the 2012 presidential election before us, the country is again caught up in debating national security issues, our ongoing wars and the threat of terrorism. There is one related subject, however, that is rarely mentioned: civil liberties. Protecting individual rights and liberties — apart from the right to be tax-free — [...]

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Palestinian statehood bid kicked into committee by UN security council

by News Sources 09.29.2011

The Guardian reports: The UN security council has moved the issue of recognising a Palestinian state to a committee which could take weeks to reach a decision. The move came as US and European efforts to launch fresh peace talks – and avoid a diplomatic confrontation after Washington said it will veto the statehood bid [...]

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Palestinians could pursue war crimes charges without full statehood: ICC prosecutor

by News Sources 09.29.2011

The Toronto Star reports: In the fierce debate over the Palestinian bid for UN membership, one unseen presence has cast a long shadow. It’s that of Luis Moreno-Ocampo, the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court — the body Israel has long feared would take up Palestinian allegations of war crimes if its statehood bid is [...]

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Tony Blair’s job in jeopardy as Palestinians accuse him of bias

by News Sources 09.29.2011

The Daily Telegraph reports: Tony Blair’s future as Middle East peace envoy was in jeopardy after the Palestinian Authority said it was set to sever all contact with him because of his “bias” towards Israel. The senior echelons of the Palestine Liberation Organisation are expected to meet in the coming days to discuss a proposal [...]

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Rebelling against the globalization of corruption

by News Sources 09.29.2011

The New York Times reports: Hundreds of thousands of disillusioned Indians cheer a rural activist on a hunger strike. Israel reels before the largest street demonstrations in its history. Enraged young people in Spain and Greece take over public squares across their countries. Their complaints range from corruption to lack of affordable housing and joblessness, [...]

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Tom Engelhardt: Washington’s field of screams

by TomDispatch 09.29.2011

Sex and the single drone The latest in guarding the empire By Tom Engelhardt In the world of weaponry, they are the sexiest things around.  Others countries are desperate to have them.  Almost anyone who writes about them becomes a groupie.  Reporters exploring their onrushing future swoon at their potentially wondrous techno-talents.  They are, of [...]

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America faces a jobs depression

by News Sources 09.29.2011

Robert Reich writes: The Reverend Al Sharpton and various labor unions announced Wednesday a March for Jobs. But I’m afraid we’ll need more than marches to get jobs back. Since the start of the Great Recession at the end of 2007, the potential labor force of the United States – that is, working-age people who [...]

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Discrimination against Palestinian citizens of Israel

by News Sources 09.29.2011

The Institute for Middle East Understanding lists the forms of institutionalized discrimination that target non-Jewish citizens of Israel. There are more than 30 laws that discriminate against Palestinian citizens of Israel. directly or indirectly, based solely on their ethnicity, rendering them second or third class citizens in their own homeland. 93% of the land in [...]

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Why fewer young American Jews share their parents’ view of Israel

by News Sources 09.29.2011

Dana Goldstein writes: “I’m trembling,” my mother says, when I tell her I’m working on an article about how younger and older American Jews are reacting differently to the Palestinians’ bid for statehood at the United Nations. I understand the frustrations of the Palestinians dealing with ongoing settlements construction and sympathize with their decision to [...]

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Our man in Kandahar

by News Sources 09.29.2011

Matthieu Aikins writes: Shyly, at times smiling with weak adolescent bravado, the two young men recounted to me how they were beaten and tortured. It was July, and we were sitting at a table in the cavernous restaurant where they both work, in the stupefying summer heat. They slouched forward with their arms on their [...]

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In Pakistan media a frenzy of hostility towards the U.S.

by News Sources 09.29.2011

The New York Times reports: The United States might still be weighing its options about how to deal with Pakistan, but many politicians, retired army generals and popular television talk show hosts here have already made up their minds that America is on the warpath with their country. Such is the media frenzy and warmongering [...]

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A royal decree allowing women the right to vote can’t hide the decay in the House of Saud

by News Sources 09.29.2011

Outside Saudi Arabia, most people would regard an end to the prohibition on women driving to be a small but essential sign of progress. King Abdullah, on the other hand, seems to imagine that he can signal a turn in the right direction by an even more miniscule step: he has “overturned a court ruling [...]

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SCAF’s assault on Egypt’s civil society

by News Sources 09.29.2011

Stephen McInerney writes: Civil society is an essential component of any democracy and it will be a key factor in determining the success of the democratic transitions now underway in the Middle East and North Africa. In his May 19 speech, President Barak Obama identified “a vibrant civil society” as one of four areas in [...]

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Armed defenders of Syria’s revolution

by News Sources 09.28.2011

AJ Editor’s note: Al Jazeera special correspondent Nir Rosen spent seven weeks travelling throughout Syria with unique access to all sides. He visited Daraa, Damascus, Homs, Hama, Latakia and Aleppo to explore the uprising and growing internal conflict. In the second article of his series he meets with leaders of the armed opposition in Homs. [...]

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British ambassador to Syria talks to Al Jazeera

by News Sources 09.28.2011

On his blog, Simon Collis, Britain’s Ambassador to Syria, writes: The Syrian regime doesn’t want you to know that its security forces and the gangs that support them are killing, arresting and abusing mostly peaceful protesters: The UN says over 2,700 people have died in the last six months, some of them under torture in [...]

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Syria — inside the revolution

by News Sources 09.28.2011

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How American police get away with crime against the people they are sworn to protect

by News Sources 09.28.2011

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How social media empowered the Arab awakening

by News Sources 09.28.2011

A two-part BBC documentary on the Arab Spring which aired earlier this month. Part One: Part Two: Share

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