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Archives for February 2015

Anonymous Launches #Gitmo2Chicago to Shut Down NDAA Style Secret Detention Center By Chicago Police

Anonymous & activists will go to social media using #‎Gitmo2Chicago‬ to bring attention to Chicago Police’s secret detention facility that mirrors the CIA’s “black sites.” Is the NDAA here?

Nick Bernabe
By Nick Bernabe

  (ANTIMEDIA) Various activist groups and concerned citizens are coming together to oppose the Chicago Police’s secret torture detention center also known as Homan Square. A bombshell report from The Guardian detailed Homan Square’s practices on Tuesday. We concluded from the report that, Chicago Police are operating a secret

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Why Iran Believes ISIS Is A US Creation

“We believe that the West has been influential in the creation of ISIS for a number of reasons. First to engage Muslims against each other, to waste their energy and in this way Israel’s security would be guaranteed or at least enhanced,” says Ganji. “Secondly, an ugly, violent and homicidal face of Islam is presented to the world. And third, to create an inconvenience for Iran.”

Mint Press News Desk
By Mint Press News Desk

By Kay Armin Sergoie for Time Magazine .  Iran has taken a lead role in defending the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad and strengthening the Baghdad government in the war against the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS). But that doesn’t mean Iran views the United States as an ally in that war, even if they share a common enemy in

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Rights Group: Israel Used “Disappearance” Of Soldier As Pretext For Killing Spree Of Palestinians

Israel’s response to the disappearance of the three Israeli teens was one of “shooting at anything and anybody,” according to an analysis published this week by the Palestinian human rights group Al-Haq.

Electronic Intifada
By Electronic Intifada

Israel used the “disappearance” of a soldier in Gaza as a pretext to kill 225 Palestinians over a three-day period last summer, a new study suggests. On 1 August last year, the Israeli military reported that one of its lieutenants, Hadar Goldin, had gone missing in the Rafah area, close to Gaza’s border with Egypt. Israel’s response was one of

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Is Israel Denying Asylum to Jewish African Refugees Because They Are Black?

Since 2009, 17,778 Africans, mostly Jews, have applied for asylum in Israel seeking refuge in the Jewish state. Only 45 of these applicants have been granted refugee status, as most applications have been denied & withdrawn or imprisoned in the Negev Desert allegedly on the basis of being Black.

Sean Nevins
By Sean Nevins
In this Friday, June 27, 2014 file photo, African migrants clash with Israeli soldiers after they left Holot detention center in southern Israel and walked towards the Border with Egypt near the southern Israeli Kibbutz of Nitzana.

Amnesty International released its “The State of the World’s Human Rights” on Wednesday. In the report, the NGO asserts that Israel has denied the rights for fair determination of African asylum seekers and held more than 2,000 African asylum seekers in indefinite detention in a prison in the Negev Desert in 2014. “None of it is surprising,”

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Angry At Local Police, Gunman Kills 8 In The Czech Republic

Czech public radio said the perpetrator called a local television station before the attack, complaining that police weren’t solving his problems and threatening that he would “take things into his hands.”

Associated Press
By Associated Press
Czech Shooting

A police officer guards the entrance to a building where a gunman opened fire in a restaurant and killed eight people before fatally shooting himself in Uhersky Brod, eastern Czech Republic, Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2015. The gunman was a local man around age 60, said Patrik Kuncar, mayor of the southeastern town of Uhersky Brod. It was the worst shooting

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Mobile Technology A Lever For Women’s Empowerment

Mark West, a UNESCO project officer says that the fact that 25 percent fewer women than men currently access the Internet “was alarming” and that changes needed to occur early in education so that girls were not left out of future jobs.

Inter Press Service
By Inter Press Service
cell phone

Providing women with greater access to mobile technology could increase literacy, advance development and open up much-needed educational and employment opportunities, according to experts at the fourth United Nations’ Mobile Learning Week conference here. “Mobile technology can offer learning where there are no books, no classrooms, even no

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