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Israel`s Latest Battle Against Ken O`Keefe

One of the human race's leading activists addresses baseless allegations that thwarted an Overland Convoy to Gaza.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Our writer Ken O'Keefe, one of the the world's most well known activists for Gaza, is constantly fighting snakes.

Regardless, 'undeterred' still addresses this champion for human beings who suffer under oppressive occupation.

The Truth about Israel`s Attack on the Mavi Marmara, as Opposed to what The BBC Reports

Does The BBC have its own Rupert Murdoch? Is it Jane Corbin?

(SALEM, Ore.) - Has The BBC become one of the world's least credible broadcasters? Some believed that to be the case after last summer's Panorama program, 'Death in the Med'.

It contained so many factual errors about Israel's attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, that it is an apparent violation of the British Broadcasting Corporation's own charter on non-partiality.

How Would Murdoch`s Downfall Affect Israel? Don`t Ask the US Media

Thus far, the Murdoch “hacking scandal” has reached ten former staffers and News Corp executives who have been arrested by British police.

(CHICAGO) - JTA columnist Ron Kampeas has been a lone voice in sounding the alarm to his Jewish readers:

“Pro-Israel leaders in the United States, Britain and Australia are warily watching the unfolding of the phone-hacking scandal that is threatening to engulf the media empire of Rupert Murdoch.”

Israel used an Imposter and a Belly Dancer to Counteract Flotilla II

The Flotilla II was counter attacked by propaganda stunts.

(ALEXANDRIA, Egypt) - Though Israel has managed to abort the planned course of the freedom flotilla II that was aiming to break the Israeli naval blockade on Gaza, it utterly failed to divert the attention of the international community from the inhumane Israeli siege on Palestinians imprisoned in their own homeland.

Libyan Forum 101 - Student Questions From Tripoli

Libyans demand answers from the White House, NATO and even from the distrusted western media housed in Tripoli’s Rexis Hotel.

(AL NASSER UNIVERSITY, Tripoli) - "When I grow up, I want to be just like you guys,” this increasingly flaccid middle-aged American visitor joked to his teenage to early 30’s Libyan interlocutors, as we parted last night and promised to meet again soon to continue our dialogue on our chosen subject of “What the hell is going on in Libya and why?”

Except I wasn’t entirely joking and I felt wistful as I reflected on our latest five-hour conversation that seemed like it began only 30 minutes earlier.

Huseyin Oruç talks to Silvia Cattori- Whenever the Palestinians need it, the Mavi Marmara will go

"The Turkish ship Mavi Marmara will continue to challenge the Gaza blockade ... Whenever the Palestinians need it, the Mavi Marmara will go..."

(LONDON) - In mid June, Bülent Yıldırım, chairman of the Humanitarian Relief Foundation, declared that the “Mavi Marmara” ship, which was hard hit in the Israeli raid, could not take part in the “Freedom flotilla II” but will “definitely set sail for Gaza when it completes repair and maintenance works.”

Was it a realistic decision for the flotilla organizers to set sail without the “Mavi Marmara”? Huseyin Oruç, deputy of the Turkish Humanitarian Relief Foundation explains his position in this interview.

Human Rights Workers Continues to Face Israeli Aggression in Gazan Waters

The fishing community is often similarly targeted as the farmers in the 'buffer zone' and the fishing limit is enforced with comparable aggression, with boats shot at or rammed as near as 2nm to the Gazan coast by Israeli gunboats.

(GAZA STRIP) - The Israeli navy attacked Civil Peace Service Gaza volunteers along with international press and Palestinian fishermen today. One of the Israeli ships targeted the boats with high pressure water cannons.

Meanwhile, a small naval boat approached the Oliva and hit it from behind, stopping the boat and causing serious damage to the engine.

From Eugenics to the Holocaust

After Hitler came to power in 1933, Germany passed comprehensive sterilization legislation and over the next 6 years, 375,000 German citizens were sterilized.

(SAN FRANCISCO ) - In his book, Mad in America:  Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill, author Robert Whitaker discusses a pseudoscientific theory called eugenics.

According to this theory, the gene pool was being polluted by the mentally ill, that the severely mentally ill were carriers of defective "germ plasm" and thus, were a threat to the health of American society.

Murdoch is not the only maggot in the rotten apple

Britain, as everyone knows, has carved an unfortunate niche for itself as America's poodle.

(LONDON) - Having disposed of the Murdoch menace - for the moment anyway - it's time for the British public to turn the spotlight on the other villains our craven politicians pay homage to.

Public enemy Number One is the pro-Israel lobby. An organization called the Conservative Friends of Israel states it has “twin aims of supporting Israel and promoting Conservatism. With close to 2000 activists as members – alongside 80% of Conservative MPs – CFI is active at every level of the Party".

Libya`s Palestinian Refugees and the current crisis (Part I of II)

Smoke rises in Tripoli following air attack by Nato forces.

(TRIPOLI) - As Tripoli’s Palestinian Refugees awakened the morning of 7/17/11, like the rest of us here, they saw in the western sky over the Mediterranean a vast swatch of black stratocumulus clouds of acrid smoke from last night’s NATO bombing.

This latest attack, in the Ain Zara and Tajoura districts in the eastern suburbs of Tripoli killed 3 more civilians increasing the more than 1,100 total civilian deaths by NATO, according to Libyan Ministry of Health statistics.