Posts Tagged ‘cap’

Colombia’s ELN Released Two Spanish Jounalists after Background Checks

nsnbc : Colombia’s second-largest leftist guerilla, the ELN, on Friday, released two Spanish journalists after running background checks on them. The Spanish journalists were detained in ELN controlled territory a week ago on Saturday. Touted as a “kidnapping” in Colombian media, the two Spanish journalists were detained by ELN forces last Saturday after entering the Cataumbo region […]

Japan approves new sanctions on N Korea

Under the measures, adopted in the National Security Council last week, a travel ban on North Koreans and foreigners with ties to the communist nation will be expanded. Japan will also bar the entry of North Korean ships into its ports. All money transfers to North Korea, except for those less than 100,000 yen (US$880) […]

Richard Falk reprimands Ban Ki-moon over truth about Israel’s crimes

“The politics of deflection” – shoot the messenger, ignore the message –  exposed By Stuart Littlewood With obvious relish, Richard Falk, a former professor of international law at Princeton and United Nations special rapporteur on human rights in occupied Palestine, has issued a well deserved slap on the wrist to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for […]

Occupation kills 2 Palestinians, including elderly

Days of Palestine, West Bank –Israeli occupation killed on Saturday two Palestinian citizens, including an elderly man in the occupied Palestinian West Bank. Witnesses said that the Israeli occupation soldiers opened shot dead an elderly Palestinian man at an Israeli military checkpoint near Nablus. The Israeli army spokesperson claimed the elderly rammed his car into […]

‘Terrorist crimes’: 2 Swedish nationals sentenced to life in prison for role in Syrian executions

Hassan al-Mandlawi, 32, and Al-Amin Sultan, 30, were sentenced by a Gothenburg District Court on Monday for their roles executions in Syria’s second biggest city, Aleppo, in April of 2013. The convictions came after police found a USB stick containing videos showing the executions in one of the accused’s homes, Reuters reported. One of the […]

Academics both ‘pleased and concerned’ with Salaita settlement with University of Illinois

Yesterday a settlement was announced in Professor Steven Salaita’s lawsuit against the University of Illinois for violating his academic freedom and right to free speech when it rescinded a position at the University following Salaita’s criticism of Israel on social media. In the settlement Salaita will drop his lawsuits against the school and receive $875,000 while […]

I went from Bar Mitzvah to BDS at Temple Emanu-el

I don’t remember the last time I attended services at Temple Emanu-el. Was it 14, 15 years ago? I recall the enormous space and the church-like choir hidden behind the ark; I remember hearing about Emanu-el’s history as one of the largest synagogues in the world and the first Reform congregation in New York City […]

Climate Change, Geoengineering And The Deliberate Melting Of The Arctic

By Michael J.Murphy (INTELLIHUB) — As the climate change debate heats up in the world’s most dominating countries, so does the politics in those respective nations.  Many powerful governments and corporations are referencing the controversial issue of melting ice in the Arctic as proof that CO2 is the primary cause of global warming. They are also […]

‘It remains our belief’: US insists rebels downed MH17 with BUK missile, ignores Dutch report

Briefing journalists at the State department, spokesman Mark Toner welcomed “the important findings” of the Dutch Safety Board (DSB), which he said, “validated” the US theory that the Malaysia-bound flight carrying nearly 300 passengers was downed “by a BUK surface-to-air missile” from “separatist-controlled territory.” On Tuesday, spokesman Toner confirmed that Washington stood by “our belief”, […]

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