Politics

While the Islamic nonviolence movement is not monochromatic, among its varieties is a belief that Syria needs a civil state to protect religious and ethnic pluralism, maintain completely equal human rights for every single person without regard to their religious belief or lack thereof; protect individual freedoms, and make government accountable, with checks on its power.

The Israeli naval forces arrested on Tuesday ten fishermen while they were fishing off the cost of Gaza Strip and took them to an unknown destination, local source told Pressenza.
The source said that Israeli naval vessels surrounded two fishing boats in the middle of Gaza shores and detained ten fishermen while they were working.

Unlike Internet censorship in China or Iran – which the US denounces vociferously – the fact that the US is such a hub of servers for the whole world means that any censorship to its cyberspace has worldwide repercussions. We report here on a campaign by Avaaz to resist new censorship legislation at present being debated in the Senate.

According to the [Nuclear Information Service](http://nuclearinfo.org/view/nuclear_weapons/Trident/a2161) the Ministry of Defence has pledged at least £2 billion of spending on new developments at the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE), according to new information released in response to a Parliamentary Question from Caroline Lucas MP.

Reporters Without Borders welcomes the release of Lina Ibrahim, a journalist of pro-government newspaper Tishreen. The news was reported on Facebook by a support group that had called for her release ever since her abduction on 25 October in Damascus suburb of Harasta. It was confirmed by other sources that she had been held by the mukhabarat (intelligence services) in AlKhatib

We write this letter as participants in the movements, and as an invitation to a conversation. We hope to raise questions about how
we continue to
deepen and transform the new social relationships and processes
we have begun… to open the discussion
towards
a common horizon.

By Luis Moreno-­Caballud and Marina Sitrin

We, the undersigned non-governmental, human rights, and humanitarian organizations, urge you to mobilize the United Nations and the international community to take immediate action to halt any foreign military intervention against Syria, and instead, to act in good faith for a true mediation. Time is of the essence.

Berlin – In a situation reminiscent of Stanley Kubrick’s ‘Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb’, none of the nuclear weapon states is actively contemplating a future without nukes. On the contrary, the potential for using dreadful atomic arsenal is growing, says a [new report.](http://www.basicint.org/sites/default/files/commission-briefing1.pdf)

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas leader
Khalid Mashaal said Thursday that they began a new phase in relations and
agreed to activate the process of reconciliation, after a meeting in Cairo for the first time since 2007.

The two stated that this meeting will be the beginning of a new Palestinian partnership.

Occupy Wall Street initiative called ‘Occupy the Highway’ arrives in Washington DC, having marched from NYC. Two weeks ago, OWS participants in Manhattan embarked on the epic journey. Their goals were to make the new movement visible in more communities, to connect with other occupations along the way, and to further a national dialogue about how to reclaim our democracy.