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Archives for avril 2016

NATO Greedy For Geopolitical Space, Wants To Encircle Those Who Disagree –Lavrov

“The reason why NATO needs new member states is simple – NATO seeks an ever-expanding geopolitical space to encircle those states that disagree with its politics, such as Russia and Serbia.”

RT
Par RT

NATO expansion to the East enables the alliance to deploy forces next to Russia’s borders and then accuse Moscow of “acting dangerously” near the alliance’s bases, the Russian foreign minister told a Swedish media outlet. “This is a dirty attempt to present things upside down,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told Sweden’s Dagens

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US Debates The Draft’s Future As House Committee Votes To Include Women

While the House Armed Services Committee voted to require women to register for the draft, other lawmakers and government agencies consider the Selective Service System an outdated and costly waste of government money.

Kit O'Connell
Par Kit O'Connell

WASHINGTON --- The House Armed Services Committee voted on Wednesday to require women to register for the draft. Virtually all men living in the United States between the ages of 18 and 25 are required to register with the Selective Service System within 30 days of their 18th birthday. However, amid calls for the military to open all jobs to all

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Native Americans, Black Americans & Palestinians Have More In Common Than You Might Think

The American attitude toward Native Americans was that they were “in the way;” that they interfered with God’s plan to settle and civilize the New Land. Therefore, they had to be swept aside. Zionists similarly justified the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians through the Nakba.

Richard Silverstein
Par Richard Silverstein

SEATTLE --- (Analysis) In his 2007 book, “Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East,” which celebrates the proto-Zionism of the early American colonists and the bonds between 18th century Puritanism and the ancient “Children of Israel,” Michael Oren leaves out some important information. What did the historian and former Israeli

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Mnar Muhawesh: A Force to Be Reckoned With

MintPress News publisher Mnar Muhawesh was inspired by her experiences as a child living in Palestine to speak for truth & a free press.

Zainab Merchant
Par Zainab Merchant

Mnar Muhawesh was nine years old when her family moved to Jerusalem from Minnesota. But even then, Mnar quickly realized she had moved into apartheid. “I saw road blocks, checkpoints, the building of the wall and families being separated from each other” she says from her meeting room in Minneapolis, Minn. A year later, when her family

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‘Blue Lives Matter’ Bill Adds Police To ‘Protected Class’

The bill would make resisting arrest a hate crime.

Matt Agorist
Par Matt Agorist
Police-Lives-Matter

Baton Rouge, LA — Last year, in an outburst of pure insanity, the National Fraternal Order of Police, a union representing over 300,000 officers, called for cops to be included under Congress’s hate crimes statute. This demand has now materialized into actual legislation being presented to Louisiana lawmakers. Bill HB 953 would change the state’s

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Pregnant Woman Gunned Down By Israeli Soldiers At Checkpoint

Eyewitnesses said the soldiers fired a barrage of bullets on the two Palestinians, and left them bleeding on the ground, in addition to preventing Palestinian medics from even approaching them.

IMEMC News
Par IMEMC News

Israeli soldiers shot and killed, on Wednesday, a Palestinian mother of two, who was also five months pregnant, and her brother, at the Qalandia terminal, north of occupied Jerusalem. The soldiers fired more than fifteen bullets targeting the woman, and prevented Palestinian medics from approaching the two. The Palestinian Health Ministry

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