Palestinians Fleeing Syria Face Hardship, Refoulement In Neighboring Countries

(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 […]

Janessa Schilmoeller
By Janessa Schilmoeller

(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

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CIA Omits Pakistan In Drone Playbook For Obama’s 2nd Term

(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 […]

Trisha Marczak
By Trisha Marczak
Supporters of Pakistani cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan rally to condemn U. S. drone attacks in Pakistani tribal areas on al-Qaida and Taliban hideouts, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Friday, Oct 28, 2011. (AP Photo/B.K.Bangash)

(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

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US Officially Recognizes Somali Government: Will It Lead To More Stability?

(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 […]

Trisha Marczak
By Trisha Marczak
Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud greets thousands of Somalis Friday, Jan. 18, 2013 at the Minneapolis Convention Center. The new president met the day prior with President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, marking a historic turn in the future of Somali-U.S. relations. (Photo Trisha Marczak/MintPress)

(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

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Starving For Justice: The Case Of Samer Al-Issawi And The Use Of The Hunger Strikes

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 […]

Frederick Reese
By Frederick Reese
Palestinians hold pictures of Hasan Safadi, who according to relatives has renewed a hunger strike for 87 days, during a protest calling for his release from an Israeli jail, in the West Bank city of Nablus, Saturday, Sept. 15, 2012. (AP Photo/Nasser Ishtayeh)

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 magistrate has denied al-Issawi’s

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Idle No More Poses Serious Threat To Canadian Oil, Logging Industries

(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, […]

Trisha Marczak
By Trisha Marczak
An Idle No More protest is shown in this photo taken on Dec. 19, 2012. (Photo by Mary Kosta via Flikr)

(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

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IDF Dismantles Legal Palestinian Non-Violent Protest Camp

(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 […]

Martin Michaels
By Martin Michaels
Israeli border police evict a Palestinian activist from an area known as E-1 near Jerusalem, Sunday, Jan 13, 2013. Palestinian activists erected tents in the area on Friday saying they wanted to "establish facts on the ground" to stop Israeli construction in the West Bank. (AP Photo/Nasser Shiyoukhi)

(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

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