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  Searching for dignity This is an article by Rajaie Batniji,  just published in The Lancet, Volume 380, Issue 9840, Pages 466 – 467, 4 August 2012. Rajaie visited his family in Gaza last spring.  If Gazans fire a rocket at Israel then it’s instantly BBC news.  But the death of 800 people from Israeli drones…

Sodastream/Ecostream Based in An Illegal Settlement Sodastream, a carbonated beverage manufacturer is based in the Mishor Adumim settlement industrial zone. Mishor Adumim is an industrial are attached to the residential settlement of Ma’ale Adumim, East of Jerusalem in the Israeli occupied West Bank. Regional context: the SodaStream factory is located at the Mishor Edomim Industrial…

Associated Press/Bela Szandelszky, File photo dated on June 7, 2009 shows Hungary’s far right party, Jobbik’s, Csanad Szegedi, left, and Krisztina Morvai, right, celebrating their entry into the European Parliament after the European parliamentary election in Budapest, Hungary. Szegedi, who was notorious for his incendiary comments on Jews, acknowledged in June that his grandparents on…

 Can’t Pay Won’t Pay –  Council Tax Benefit We Must Oppose it Like the Poll Tax I recently attended a seminar for the voluntary sector in Brighton concerning Council Tax Benefit. Instead of receiving CTB according to how much you receive or earn, and those on JSA/Income support receive 100%, Council’s will now receive only…

First Cameron cuts their money, then he uses a disabled child as an election gimmick This is a government which openly proclaims it intends to cut 20% from Disability Living Allowance by renaming it PIP (Personal Independence Payment).  The Daily Mirror recently ran an article that 32 people a week are dying because of the…

 Colombia – Trade Unionists Targeted at the behest of Coca Cola:  Right-wing paramilitaries under arrest in Colombia Colombia is an ideal US style democracy.  The US, in the name of the ‘war against drugs’ armed and equipped the regime’s death squads, allegedly to fight the guerillas but in fact to do the dirty work of…

Joshua Trevino, The Guardian‘s US columnist advocates Shooting Political Opponents and Establishing Concentration Camps It all began with an altered press release from the Guardian.  The original stated that: Today the Guardian announced the addition of Josh Treviño to their editorial team. Formerly of the Texas Public Policy Foundation, Treviño will be the newest Correspondent…

Time to Boycott the Guardian It’s been interesting reading the comments on Comment is Free, below Joshua Trevino’s attempt to justify his now notorious comment about how ‘cool’ it would be to murder a few more peace activists.  With the exception of a few paid Zionist bloggers (yes Israel is paying bloggers to blog on…

Meet the Guardian’s new US correspondent – an advocate of concentration camps, beating up gays and murdering peace activists – Nice one Messrs Freedland & Rusbridger Trevino Called for the Murder of Alice Walker and American Peace Activists on Gaza Flotilla concentration camp This is what Trevino advocated in Iraq and supported i South Africa…

Amnesty International Support for the war in Afghanistan Indian women protest – Britain also occupied  India in order to ‘protect’ women Amnesty International is the Mother Teresa of the charity sector.  It opposes torture, the death penalty and helps highlight the plight of political prisoners.  To  oppose anything Amnesty does is almost to be in…