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The Children of Gaza’s Tunnels (By: Khaled Kraizim) - 21-may-2013

May 19, 2013- Inside a long corridor less than two meters wide, a dim ray of light sneaks through a small opening at the top of the basement where a border tunnel begins. A Palestinian child named Mohammad enters the tunnel in Gaza and walks thousands of meters in the dark to the other end, in Egypt. Dozens of Gaza's children repeatedly pass through these "crossings of death" — the tunnels separating the border between Egyptian Rafah and Palestinian Rafah. They do so because they are poor. They do so despite the danger that the tunnels might collapse. Lately, Egyptian security forces have been flooding the tunnels with sewage...

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Nerds, Jocks & Conscientious Objectors: The Hidden World of Israel’s High School War Resisters (by Sarah Lazare) - 21-may-2013

May 19, 2013 - When the 19-year-old Israeli war resister Noam Gur attends weekly demonstrations against the occupation of Palestine, the soldiers who suppress the protestors—with tear gas, stun grenades, and occasionally live fire—aren’t just strangers in uniform. Among them are her former high school classmates, who have been conscripted into the Israeli army. Gur was supposed to serve, too, but instead joined the shministim. This is a Hebrew term meaning high school students in their senior year, who face conscription into the army. But the word is also used to refer to students who publicly refuse conscription on ethical grounds...

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A Call to Release the WHO Report on Iraqi Birth Defects (Various undersigned) - 21-may-2013

May 19, 2013 - To the World Health Organization and the Iraqi Ministry of Health: "All studies done by the Ministry of Health prove with damning evidence that there has been a rise in birth defects and cancers" in Iraq. This is quoted directly from a senior official at the Iraqi Ministry of Health. This senior official was speaking on-camera during a BBC documentary, called "Born under a bad sign", which aired on March 22, 2013. During the same interview, two other Ministry of Health researchers confirmed that the situation with cancers and birth defects constitute a "big crisis" for the "next generation" of Iraqi children. The studies they refer to are the joint project between the Iraqi Ministry of Health and the World Health Organization which began in May/June 2012. The publication of the final report, most recently scheduled for early this year, has been delayed for unknown reasons...

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Drones Over the Homeland: From Border Security to National Security (By Tom Barry) - 21-may-2013

May 19, 2013 - The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) says it is the "leading edge" of drone deployment in the United States. Since 2005, DHS has been purchasing Predator drones - officially called unmanned aerial systems (UAS) - to "secure the border," yet these unarmed Predator drones are also steadily creeping into local law enforcement, international drug-interdiction and national security missions - including across the border into the heart of Mexico.,,,

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Syria News - May 18, 2013 (Warning: Graphic Videos) (Local Coordination Committees of Syria + Videos) - 21-may-2013

May 18, 2013 - By the end of Saturday the Local Coordination Committees documented 116 martyrs including 11 women, 9 children and 5 under torture; 37 martyrs in Damascus and its Suburbs; 29 martyrs in Aleppo; 27 martyrs in Homs; 6 in Hama; 6 in Idlib; 6 in Daraa; 3 in Deir Ezzor; 1 in Banias and 1 in Qunaitera.The Local Coordination Committees has documented 301 points of shelling including in 36 points warplanes the most violent was in Qosair Homs and the cities of East Ghouta Damascus Suburbs, Cluster bombs were reported in Kaferlata, Idlib and Halfaia Hama, Steric bombs were reported in Halfaia as well, explosive barrels were reported in four points in East Ghouta Damascus Suburbs, in Salma Latakia, Halfaia Hama, and in Raqaa. Surface-to Surface missiles were reported in Raqqa. The shelling using rocket launchers was reported in 58 points, mortar shelling was reported in 82 points, and artillery shelling was reported in 110 points in different areas in Syria...

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The caring facade of French imperialism (By David Cronin) - 20-may-2013

May 18, 2013- The "public relations" accompanying wars has become wearily predictable. Whenever one of its governments or allies conducts a military action, there is a near certainty that the European Union will host or participate in a "donors’ conference". One of these grotesque events has been dedicated to Afghanistan each year since it was invaded by the US in 2001. After Gaza was bombed for three weeks in late 2008 and early 2009, the EU rushed to foot the bill for damage caused by Israel (often to infrastructure previously built or equipped with Western aid). And now the European taxpayer is expected to pick up the tab for destruction wrought by France during its military expedition in Mali. Let me be absolutely clear: I’m fully in favour of increasing aid to healthcare and education in Mali, one of the world’s poorest countries. Yet this Wednesday’s donors’ conference - jointly organised by France and the EU - is not really designed to reduce hardship in Africa. Rather, its purpose is to cover French imperialism with a veneer of benevolence....

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Israel’s Gaza policy: “The Essential Terrorist” (By Pat Strickland) - 20-may-2013

May 18, 2013 - Mainstream media outlets are marred with depictions of Palestinians as kuffiyeh-draped militants who indoctrinate in their children a "culture of hate" and take up arms against their morally superior, democratic and pluralistic Israeli opponent. Equally flawed and Orientalist in character, more subtle presentations frame debates in strictly policy-oriented lexicon and fail to contextualize Palestinian political violence against a historical backdrop of the infinitely greater violence inherent to forced dispossession, colonization and occupation. The late Palestinian intellectual Edward Said wrote in a 1986 essay, "Whether the deflection will be longstanding or temporary remains to be seen, but given the almost unconditional assent of the media, intellectuals and policy-makers to the terrorist vogue, the prospects for a return to a semblance of sanity are not encouraging." ...

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Syria News - May 17, 2013 (Warning: Graphic Videos) (Local Coordination Committees of Syria + Videos) - 20-may-2013

May 17, 2013 - By the end of Friday, the Local coordination committees documentated 113 martyrs between 7 women, 4 children and 1 martyr under torture: 39 martyrs were reported in Damascus and its suburbs; 17 martyrs in Idlib; 15 martyrs in Homs, inlcuding 3 unidentified martyred in Damascus suburbs; 14 in Deir Ezzor; 8 in Hama; 8 in Daraa; 8 in Aleppo; 2 in Raqqa; and 2 in Hassakeh. The committees have documented 323 points of shelling as 32 warplane air strikes were recorded, fiercest of which was in Yabroud, Damascus Suburbs, shelling with explosive barrels was recorded in 3 points: Yabroud in Damascus Suburbs, and Helfaya and Fletah in Hama, also the use of thermobaric and cluster bombs were documented in Helfaya. Shelling with mortars was recorded in 103 points, and artillery shelling in 95 points, whole rocket shelling was recorded in 88 points in different Syrian cities and towns.

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Libyans in North Africa scared to return home (IRIN News) - 20-may-2013

May 18, 2013 - Until government and revolutionary forces attacked the Libyan town of Bani Walid, about 170km southeast of the capital Tripoli in October last year, Abdullah Warfella had been determined never to leave. But after two weeks of imprisonment and torture, the 68-year-old former contractor fled. "They accused me of supporting [former ruler Muammar] Gaddafi during the revolution, which is not true at all," Warfella told IRIN in Cairo. "These people have turned life into hell for people, not just in Bani Walid, but everywhere in Libya." Warfella is one of tens of thousands of Libyans who have fled to Egypt. Many are accused, often falsely they say, of having fought in pro-Gaddafi forces in 2011, or having publicly expressed support for him.Far from home, many struggle to find employment and affordable accommodation, and lack almost any formal support. But they fear revenge attacks should they return home...

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