(MintPress) – Palestinian prisoner Samer Tariq Issawi’s health is rapidly deteriorating, and his supporters fear time may be running out for the 33-year-old activist. Issawi, who has been on hunger strike in Ramla Prison since July 29, 2012, nearly 190 days, was transferred to Assaf Harofeh Hospital on Jan. 19. Haithem El-Zabri of the Free […]
(NAMIBIA) MintPress – The head of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees visited the Shatila camp in Beirut, Lebanon this week, where thousands of Palestinians have taken cover from the violence in neighboring Syria. Commissioner-General Filippo Grandi, of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), told Reuters on […]
(NAMIBIA) MintPress - The head of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees visited the Shatila camp in Beirut, Lebanon this week, where thousands of Palestinians have taken cover from the violence in neighboring Syria. Commissioner-General Filippo Grandi, of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East
(MintPress) – It’s open season for the Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) aggressive drone war in Pakistan. The CIA is in the midst of creating a “rules of force playbook” to provide guidance on how the increasing drone war will be carried out under President Barack Obama’s second term. Yet the playbook leaves out a major […]
(MintPress) - It’s open season for the Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) aggressive drone war in Pakistan. The CIA is in the midst of creating a "rules of force playbook" to provide guidance on how the increasing drone war will be carried out under President Barack Obama’s second term. Yet the playbook leaves out a major component of that war
(MintPress) – For the first time in decades, a new president is giving hope for the future of Somalia — at least for some. The energy was electric inside the Minneapolis, Minn. Convention Center Friday night, as the Somali community awaited the arrival of newly elected President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, the representative of the first […]
(MintPress) – For the first time in decades, a new president is giving hope for the future of Somalia — at least for some. The energy was electric inside the Minneapolis, Minn. Convention Center Friday night, as the Somali community awaited the arrival of newly elected President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, the representative of the first Somali
Samer Al-Issawi is a man on a mission. Close to death and unable to move under his own power, Al-Issawi has been on an open hunger strike for more than 177 days. A Palestinian, Al-Issawi is protesting his detention in an Israeli prison. He has no charges against him. As reported on Mondoweiss, an Israeli […]
Samer Al-Issawi is a man on a mission. Close to death and unable to move under his own power, Al-Issawi has been on an open hunger strike for more than 177 days. A Palestinian, Al-Issawi is protesting his detention in an Israeli prison. He has no charges against
(MintPress) – The Idle No More movement in Canada has sparked widespread support for First Nations people calling on their government to honor treaties intended to protect the country’s natural resources currently on tap for destruction by the oil and logging industries. The First Nations’ call for a halt to resource tapping is nothing new, […]
(MintPress) – The Idle No More movement in Canada has sparked widespread support for First Nations people calling on their government to honor treaties intended to protect the country’s natural resources currently on tap for destruction by the oil and logging industries. The First Nations’ call for a halt to resource tapping is nothing new, but
(MintPress) – More than 200 activists were forcefully evicted from a tent village erected in the West Bank Sunday. The protest action, carried out mostly by Palestinians residing in neighboring towns, was designed to block construction of illegal settlements on land near Jerusalem that will all but end the possibility of a contiguous Palestinian state on […]
(MintPress) – More than 200 activists were forcefully evicted from a tent village erected in the West Bank Sunday. The protest action, carried out mostly by Palestinians residing in neighboring towns, was designed to block construction of
