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 by: salty Tehran city council has named a street after an American activist who was crushed to death by an Israeli military bulldozer in the Gaza Strip in 2003, a local newspaper has reported. Corrie, a pro-Palestinian activist from Washington, was trying to prevent what she and other campaigners believed was a push by the Israeli military to demolish nearby Palestinian homes. She was 23 at the time of her death. Iran names street after Rachel Corrie | World news | The Guardian 181 views COMMENT(S) |
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by: salty reporters experience first hand Israeli efforts to intimidate Gaza fishermen and keep their fishing trips ever closer to shore 126 views COMMENT(S) |
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by: salty A Saudi Arabian woman will be tried for driving during what she said was a medical emergency, according to reports released Wednesday. The kingdom, currently home to the social media-driven Women2Drive campaign, is the only country in the world that bans women from driving. According to the AFP, Saudi daily newspaper Okaz reported that an unnamed 35-year-old woman was arrested in the city of Jeddah before eventually being released with her father acting as her guarantor. Okaz says the woman said she had been suffering from a hemorrhage, and chose to drive due to a lack of public transportation and due to having no personal driver to take her to the hospital. Saudi Woman To Face Trial for Driving in Medical Emergency [REPORT] 109 views COMMENT(S) |
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by: salty "Syria: The authorities arrested a large number of intellectuals and activists, including journalists and bloggers, in the Damascus district of Midan on July 13 for participating in pro-democracy demonstrations. Reporters Without Borders calls for their immediate and unconditional release." Journalists targeted by security forces in Syria, Jordan and Yemen - Bikya Masr 114 views COMMENT(S) |
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by: salty The Saudi Arabian ban on female drivers is not enforced due to any written law, but religious rulings by clerics have prevented women — Saudi and foreign, alike — from driving throughout the country. According to the Saudi coalition’s petition, “King Abdullah… declared in 2007 that the issue of women driving cars is a social issue, not a religious matter, and therefore subject to the rule of the state, which means that in theory if the community wanted to lift the ban on women driving there would be no obstacle.” But while the Women2Drive movement does have Saudi and international support, it has met some opposition within its own country — even prior to the Jeddah arrests. Twitter was buzzing at the end of last week, as Saudi users said mosques were putting up posters decrying women drivers. Activists: 5 Saudi Women Arrested for Driving 114 views COMMENT(S) |
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by: salty The Israeli army on Sunday began tearing down a part of its West Bank separation barrier, after being forced by a court order, The Washington Post is reporting. The removal of the fencing took place near the village of Bil'in, where Palestinian villagers, joined by Israeli and foreign supporters, have held weekly marches to the barrier for years, the Post reports. Four years ago, the Israeli Supreme Court ruled that the barrier did not serve security needs, but instead cut through farmland to expand a fast-growing Israeli settlement of ultra-Orthodox Jews, according to the Post. The court ruled that the barrier must be taken down and placed closer to the Israeli settlement of Modi'in Ilit. Israel has maintained that the barrier is necessary to block Palestinian suicide bombers from reaching Israel. The implementation of the ruling was delayed by proposals for alternate routes from the Israeli Definise Ministry, according to the Post. The new route of the fence will restore 140 acres to Bil'in, the Post reports Col. Sa'ar Tzur has said. Israel begins tearing down part of West Bank barrier - 113 views COMMENT(S) |
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 by: Farrah On Osama Bin Laden's death: News sources have recently reported on an interesting assortment of materials at Osama bin Laden’s Abbottabad compound. Not only was bin Laden living far from any cave on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, his house apparently had a large supply of Pepsi and Coke (inexplicably, Pakola wasn’t good enough), a significant stash of pornography, and marijuana plants on the property. Pepsi, Pot, Porn...and Politics | FPIF 275 views COMMENT(S) |
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by: salty "Future U.S. political leaders — those for whom the Cold War was not the formative experience that it was for me — may not consider the return on America's investment in NATO worth the cost," he told a European think-tank on the final day of an 11-day overseas journey. Gates has made no secret of his frustration with NATO bureaucracy and the huge restrictions many European governments placed on their military participation in the Afghanistan war. He ruffled NATO feathers early in his tenure with a direct challenge to contribute more front-line troops that yielded few contributions. Even so, Gates' assessment Friday that NATO is falling down on its obligations and foisting too much of the hard work on the U.S. was unusually harsh and unvarnished. He said both of NATO's main military operations now — Afghanistan and Libya — point up weaknesses and failures within the alliance. "The blunt reality is that there will be dwindling appetite and patience in the U.S. Congress — and in the American body politic writ large — to expend increasingly precious funds on behalf of nations that are apparently unwilling to devote the necessary resources or make the necessary changes to be serious and capable partners in their own defence," he said. Without naming names, he blasted allies who are "willing and eager for American taxpayers to assume the growing security burden left by reductions in European defence budgets." NATO faces 'dim' future: U.S. defence secretary - World - CBC News 105 views COMMENT(S) |
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by: salty Maher al-Assad heads the Syrian Army’s elite Fourth Division and Republican Guard, while wielding great influence in Syria’s powerful intelligence services, analysts say. In the nearly three-month uprising, he has emerged as a lightning rod of dissent over his perceived role in the ferocious crackdown that has led to the deaths of 1,300 people, by activists’ count, and the arrests of more than 10,000. To many, Maher al-Assad’s power has underscored the narrow circle his brother presides over — a circle that relies on connections of clan, family and friendship, and that has proved far less tested by crisis than the ruling elite their father cultivated over three decades. https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/08/w...a.html?_r=1&hp 94 views COMMENT(S) |
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by: salty "We have only one choice: we will stay in our land dead or alive," the Libyan leader said in a televised audio broadcast made in immediate response to a wave of attacks by low-flying jets on Tripoli. According to one count, 27 heavy blasts were heard from the centre of the city during the day. Libyan officials confirmed that both Bab al-Azizia, the Gaddafi regime's residence and office compound, and the neighbouring Compound 77, home to a militia brigade and used as a vehicle storage facility, were repeatedly hit. Gaddafi vows 'we will not surrender' as Nato bombs his compound - Telegraph 102 views COMMENT(S) |
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by: salty Of the 108 local staff of the government-owned Bahrain International Circuit (BIC), which hosts Formula One, some 28 were detained and mistreated according to a source in Bahrain close to the event. All of those arrested are Shia and have since been sacked. Five of these are still in prison including the chief financial officer Jaafar Almansoor, an employee of BIC told Reuters news agency. "They made us beat and kick each other," said the employee, who did not want to be named, describing their 20 days in detention. "They said they'd rape us. They tried to touch you in various places to make you think it's going to happen." The prisoners were insulted for being Shia and, on being released, were told not to talk to the media. Bahrain lobbies to retain Grand Prix as Formula One staff are held and abused - Middle East, World - The Independent 107 views COMMENT(S) |
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by: salty Palestinian refugees and supporters attempted to breach the Israeli border of the Golan Heights from Syria, prompting Israeli troops to fire. Twenty-three people were killed and 350 injured, according to Syrian state-run television. Israeli Lieutenant Colonel Avital Leibovich told CNN that Syria allowed the protest to reach the border in order to divert attention from its own internal unrest. Israel Fires on Protesters at Border While Syrian Troops Attack Villagers - Bloomberg 96 views COMMENT(S) |
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by: Farrah https://security.ngoinabox.org/ 123 views COMMENT(S) |
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by: Farrah It utilizes a tool that we've built into a "democracy game" where people can vote on their definitions of what democracy means. All Our Ideas - A Suggestion Box for the Digital Age 91 views COMMENT(S) |
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by: Farrah It utilizes a tool built into a "democracy game" where people can vote on their definitions of what democracy means. All Our Ideas - A Suggestion Box for the Digital Age 109 views COMMENT(S) |
