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Syria: No fly zone means for everybody

Protect the Syrians from all sides and they will create conditions where ISIS  will simply fall apart, stop bombing populations and provide all-around security and the local people will seek their own way to peace and any offer by such…

Vaccines: the inside story

Dear Parents You Are Being Lied To: You Won’t Hear This From The Mainstream Media “It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgement of trusted physicians…

Australia’s nuclear weapons stance stuck in the past

  Australia has positioned itself as the de facto leader of a loose grouping of US-allied nations working to prevent the start of negotiations on a global treaty outlawing nuclear weapons. At this year’s session of the UN General Assembly’s First…

The West will lose to ISIS – too

French president Hollande has declared war – war on terror, George W. Bush style. Like September 11, 2001 wasn’t a war, Paris November 13 wasn’t a war. It was a criminal act.  The war on terror has been an exceptionally…

Mountains no barrier for Edinburgh volunteers’ direct aid to Syria

Among many volunteer groups that are ‘doing their bit’ for the Middle East Pressenza came across this Facebook entry of Roey Convery sharing news from her pal Margaret Tookey’s travels into Syria. The tale tells a lot in a few…

UN stop privatising-profiting from prisons, checkout UK’s G4S in Israel

G4S profits from Israel’s brutal occupation of Palestine. So why is the UN giving them $22 million? Dear readers, Waging violence is bad enough. Profiting from it? That’s even worse. But that’s what G4S, a British “defense” conglomerate, does everyday.…

Indonesia stripping Papua rain forest

Dear friends of the rainforests, Time is running out for Papua’s nature. Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo intends to sacrifice 1.2 million hectares of forest and smallholder land in Papua for industrial rice plantations. This would spell the end for a…

Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian people

This is the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian people as declared by the United Nations general assembly! But locally people see so little solidarity and Israel continues to violate basic human rights with impunity. By Mazin Qumsiyeh For the past week,…

Defeating Terrorism – Theirs and Ours

Defeating Terrorism – Theirs and Ours By NicolasDavies – WarIsACrime.org From:   http://warisacrime.org/content/defeating-terrorism-theirs-and-ours “…at the very moment the number one nation has perfected the science of killing, it has become an impractical instrument of political domination.” – Richard Barnet, Roots of…

Turkmens: an ethnic group at the center of the Syrian conflict

As tensions rise between Ankara and Moscow, attention has shifted to an obscure ethnic group in the Middle East: the Turkmens of Syria. But who are the Turkmens and how do they fit into the ongoing war in the region?…

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