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OPINION - Human Rights Watch Must Retract Its Shameful Press Release on Palestine (by Norman G. Finkelstein, Counterpunch)

Mika — 2006-12-01T18:38:53Z

November 29, 2006 - Counterpunch - Even by the grim standards of Gaza, the past five months have been cruel ones.
Some four hundred Palestinians, mostly unarmed civilians, have been killed during Israeli attacks. (Four Israeli soldiers and two civilians have been killed.) Israel has sealed off Gaza from the outside world while the international community has imposed brutal sanctions, ravaging Gaza's already impoverished economy.
"Gaza is dying," Patrick Cockburn reported in CounterPunch, (…)

- Global / conflits / conflictos, droits humains / derechos humanos, violence / violencia, United States of America, opinion / opinión, Palestine / Palestina, Israel

ECUADOR - Rafael Correa Reaches the Government from the Left

Kintto Lucas, Mika — 2006-11-28T00:12:38Z

IPS - Rafael Correa, a leftist economist who plans to renegotiate Ecuador's foreign debt and oil company contracts while working with other left-leaning governments towards the consolidation of a South American bloc, won what appeared to be a landslide victory in Ecuador's presidential runoff Sunday.
An exit poll by the Quito-based Cedatos polling company showed that the leader of the Country Alliance Movement took 55 percent of the vote compared to 45 percent for his rival, banana magnate (…)

- Latin America and the Caribbean / politique / política, élections / elecciones, Ecuador

US - Hundreds Arrested in Week of Anti-War Actions (by Haider Rizvi)

Mika — 2006-09-27T22:04:00Z

IPS - Demonstrations, marches, rallies, vigils and prayer meetings continue to take place in dozens of cities across the United States this week as part of a nationwide campaign aiming to force the administration of President George W. Bush and Congress to end the U.S. occupation of Iraq.
Since last Thursday, when more than 500 anti-war groups and religious organisations signed on to the "Declaration of Peace", some 250 activists have been arrested in various cities for taking part in (…)

- United States / conflits / conflictos, United States of America, mobilisations / movilizaciones