Posts Tagged ‘G4S’

India Stocks Up on Howitzers to Defend Its Border with China

After a remarkably long wait of 30 years, the Indian Army will finally get its hands on new artillery guns. On Saturday (June 25), India’s defence ministry approved a proposal to purchase 145 ultra light howitzer guns from the British weapons manufacturer BAE Systems. The deal is worth about Rs5,000 crore ($750 million). The country’s defence ministry wants to […]

Detoxify, Rejuvenate and Feel Fantastic – Fast!

28th June 2016 By Katrin Geist Contributing writer for Wake Up World A Simple Way to Regain and Maintain Your Health It’s funny: when searching for a nice image to go with this article, the only picture coming up for “fasting” was an empty plate with knife and fork. Quite unimaginative, let alone positive. But it […]

Viet Thanh Nguyen, 2016 Pulitzer Prize winner, endorses academic and cultural boycott of Israel

The following announcement was made today by the US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel: Scholar and writer Viet Thanh Nguyen, 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner and associate professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California, has endorsed BDS and the cultural and academic boycott of […]

Man Arrested Heading To Gay Pride Parade With Weapons & Explosives

A heavily armed man has been arrested by police in Santa Monica as he was heading to the annual Los Angeles gay pride festival. Police found a cache of weapons and ammunition including assault rifles and explosives in the man’s car after responding to a prowler call. The man from out of town told police […]

Civilians killed in strikes on Palestinian camp in Syria

Maureen Clare Murphy Rights and Accountability 17 May 2016 Nearly a dozen people have been killed in Khan Eshieh refugee camp on the outskirts of Damascus since late Monday as fighting between armed rebels and Syrian government forces has engulfed the surrounding area, according to a Palestinian education and relief group. The Jafra Foundation stated […]

Israel lobby fails to block screening of Palestinian film at Cannes

Ali Abunimah Arts and Culture 17 May 2016 Nasri Hajjaj’s unfinished film on 1972 Munich Olympics attack screened as planned, defying censorship calls. (via Facebook) A Palestinian work was screened at the Cannes Film Festival’s Marché du Film as planned on Monday, despite an intense campaign by Israel lobby groups to have it canceled. Nasri Hajjaj’s […]

Election pantomime: Are Agent Provocateurs Disrupting Trump Rallies?

Credible Account Says Clinton Is Behind Violent Protesters at Trump Rallies Are Agent Provocateurs Disrupting Trump Rallies? by Stephen Lendman Filed under: America, Clinton, hollywood, Trump, US Congress, US Foreign Policy, USA, Wars for Israel Source Article from https://uprootedpalestinians.wordpress.com/2016/03/13/election-pantomime-are-agent-provocateurs-disrupting-trump-rallies/

The Native American model of Palestine’s future

Steven Salaita 10 March 2016 Members of the Idle No More movement for Indigenous sovereignty and to protect the land and water, at the Peoples’s Climate March in New York City, 22 September 2014. (Allan Lissner/Idle No More) Note: the hyperlinks throughout this article lead to book recommendations in American Indian and Indigenous Studies. Comparison […]

Words of Palestine’s national poet on San Francisco buses

Ali Abunimah Arts and Culture 4 March 2016 Mahmoud Darwish’s poems will run on San Francisco buses and trains throughout March. If you ride on San Francisco’s Muni buses or light rail trains this month, you might pass the time contemplating the words of Mahmoud Darwish, often described as Palestine’s national poet. Throughout March, the […]

Words of Palestine’s national poet on San Francisco buses

Ali Abunimah Arts and Culture 4 March 2016 Mahmoud Darwish’s poems will run on San Francisco buses and trains throughout March. If you ride on San Francisco’s Muni buses or light rail trains this month, you might pass the time contemplating the words of Mahmoud Darwish, often described as Palestine’s national poet. Throughout March, the […]

Words of Palestine’s national poet on San Francisco buses

Ali Abunimah Arts and Culture 4 March 2016 Mahmoud Darwish’s poems will run on San Francisco buses and trains throughout March. If you ride on San Francisco’s Muni buses or light rail trains this month, you might pass the time contemplating the words of Mahmoud Darwish, often described as Palestine’s national poet. Throughout March, the […]

Words of Palestine’s national poet on San Francisco buses

Ali Abunimah Arts and Culture 4 March 2016 Mahmoud Darwish’s poems will run on San Francisco buses and trains throughout March. If you ride on San Francisco’s Muni buses or light rail trains this month, you might pass the time contemplating the words of Mahmoud Darwish, often described as Palestine’s national poet. Throughout March, the […]

Words of Palestine’s national poet on San Francisco buses

Ali Abunimah Arts and Culture 4 March 2016 Mahmoud Darwish’s poems will run on San Francisco buses and trains throughout March. If you ride on San Francisco’s Muni buses or light rail trains this month, you might pass the time contemplating the words of Mahmoud Darwish, often described as Palestine’s national poet. Throughout March, the […]

Words of Palestine’s national poet on San Francisco buses

Ali Abunimah Arts and Culture 4 March 2016 Mahmoud Darwish’s poems will run on San Francisco buses and trains throughout March. If you ride on San Francisco’s Muni buses or light rail trains this month, you might pass the time contemplating the words of Mahmoud Darwish, often described as Palestine’s national poet. Throughout March, the […]

Words of Palestine’s national poet on San Francisco buses

Ali Abunimah Arts and Culture 4 March 2016 Mahmoud Darwish’s poems will run on San Francisco buses and trains throughout March. If you ride on San Francisco’s Muni buses or light rail trains this month, you might pass the time contemplating the words of Mahmoud Darwish, often described as Palestine’s national poet. Throughout March, the […]

Words of Palestine’s national poet on San Francisco buses

Ali Abunimah Arts and Culture 4 March 2016 Mahmoud Darwish’s poems will run on San Francisco buses and trains throughout March. If you ride on San Francisco’s Muni buses or light rail trains this month, you might pass the time contemplating the words of Mahmoud Darwish, often described as Palestine’s national poet. Throughout March, the […]

Native Hawaiians Forming a Nation

Constitution adopted for Native Hawaiian nation Native Hawaiians are in the process of organizing a Native Hawaiian nation. The new nation would seek recognition by the U.S. in a government-to-government status, similar to that of many Native American (Indian) tribes. “We affirm the national Sovereignty of the Nation. We reserve all […]

Los Angeles Officials Seize ‘Tiny Homes’ From Homeless

Los Angeles City officials are seizing the tiny homes that a local man built and donated to homeless people in the city to give them a place to sleep. Elvis Summers a Los Angeles builder, set up the compact housess, which are the size of a parking spot and come with solar-powered lights, over the past […]

OAS’s Almagro Threatens to Apply Democratic Charter against Venezuela

Jonas Holldack (VA) : Wading into the heated standoff between the Venezuelan Supreme Court and the opposition-controlled National Assembly, the general-secretary of the Organization of American States (OAS), Luis Almagro, has demanded that Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro reverse a recent high court ruling suspending four legislators from Amazonas state over alleged voting irregularities. OAS General-Secretary […]

Study Finds Medical Marijuana Helpful In A Few Illnesses

Studies show medical marijuana to be less beneficial than commonly believed. Dozens of clinical trials have tested medical marijuana for 10 conditions. A comprehensive review of those trials by an international team of researchers found little reliable evidence that the drug does what it is purported to do. The report was […]

Listen: North Carolina county drops Israeli occupation profiteer G4S

Durham County in North Carolina recently voted to drop the British security firm G4S over its role in prisons across the US, at Guantanamo Bay and its ongoing contracts with the Israeli military and Israel’s prison systems, where Palestinian women, children and men are routinely detained and tortured. In Durham County, G4S provided security services at […]

University of Helsinki cancels G4S contract over support for Israeli prisons

g4s.jpg G4S equips prisons where Palestinians are tortured. (Palestine Solidarity Campaign/Flickr) The University of Helsinki in Finland has canceled its security contract with G4S over its role in Israel’s prison system. Palestinian organizations launched a boycott and divestment campaign against G4S in 2012 because the British firm provides security equipment and services to Israeli prisons where thousands of Palestinians are […]

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