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Party of the Laboring Masses - Philippines | 03.22.2011
No to imperialist intervention in the Libya! Saudi, UAE troops out of Bahrain! On March 17, 2011, the UN Security Council passed a resolution authorising military intervention by the Western imperialist powers or their puppets in Libya. The justification for this is to prevent further loss of life in fighting between forces remaining loyal Muammar Gaddafi and forces supporting the uprising that began on February 15 against his 42-year-old rule, and to support the pro-democracy forces.
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onion | 03.09.2011
"I have slain Pharaoh" were the words of the Egyptian military officer who lead rebel army commandos that assassinated former Egyptian dictator Anwar Sadat while he was reviewing a military parade in 1981 for selling his country out to the West and abandoning the Palestinian people's struggle for independence. On February 11, 2011 Egypt's latest dictator, Hosni Mubarak, who replaced Sadat in 1982 and ruled for 30 years as a modem Egyptian Pharaoh, was pushed out of power by a people's revolt inspired by the January people's revolt of Tunisia that ended the dictatorship of Zine Ben Ali who ruled Tunisia for over 20 years. Mubarak ruled Egypt unchallenged for 30 years and was considered America’s Man in the Middle East, he was also America's partner in terror, allowing his country to be used in the C.l.A.'s rendition program the United States used to transfer so-called terrorist suspects to be tortured for information useful to the U.S. war of terror. Mubarak‘s regime relentlessly tortured and imprisoned members of the opposition in Egypt and according to a classified U.S. diplomatic cable revealed by Wikileaks torture was reported to be so widespread and epidemic that it effected every layer of Egyptian society. Under Mubarak Egypt also received over 2 Billion dollars in U.S. aid, 70% of it is allotted to the Egyptian military which the U.S. used to prop up Mubarak's corrupt regime and the military equipment was aimed not at external enemies but rather at its own people. "I have slain Pharaoh" were the words of the Egyptian military officer who lead rebel army commandos that assassinated former Egyptian dictator Anwar Sadat while he was reviewing a military parade in 1981 for selling his country out to the West and abandoning the Palestinian people's struggle for independence. On February 11, 2011 Egypt's latest dictator, Hosni Mubarak, who replaced Sadat in 1982 and ruled for 30 years as a modem Egyptian Pharaoh, was pushed out of power by a people's revolt inspired by the January people's revolt of Tunisia that ended the dictatorship of Zine Ben Ali who ruled Tunisia for over 20 years.
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Stephen Lendman | 02.21.2011
liberating struggles Continued Middle East Uprisings and Violence - by Stephen Lendman What began in Tunisia spread to Egypt, Yemen, Jordan, Algeria, Bahrain, and now Libya, Morocco, Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. The entire region is erupting in protests, mischaracterized as revolutions. They're not, falling far short convulsive, violent, unstoppable tsunamis for change, removing old orders for new ones. So far, they're absent in the region, not even close despite popular passion for change. More on that below.
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Stephen Lendman | 02.18.2011
liberating struggles Middle East Protests, Violence and Strikes Continue - by Stephen Lendman Whatever set them off, the genie is out of the bottle and spreading from Tunisia to Egypt, Jordan, Yemen, Algeria, Bahrain, Iran, Libya, Iraq, and perhaps America, in Wisconsin over proposed wage, benefits, and union bargaining rights cuts. A forthcoming article covers outrage in the US heartland, inspiring others Ohio, Indiana, Tennessee, and perhaps wherever aggrieved workers reside, awaken, and react against intolerable outrageous policies. On February 17, New York Times writers Michael Slackman and Nadim Audi headlined, "Bahrain's Military Takes Control of Key Areas in Capital," saying:
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Stephen Lendman | 02.16.2011
liberating struggles Middle East Protests Continue - by Stephen Lendman They continue in Egypt, Yemen, Algeria, Tunisia, and most recently in Iran and Bahrain, Al Jazeera saying: "At least one person has been killed and several others injured after (Bahrain) riot police opened fire at protesters holding a funeral service for a man killed (a) day earlier." Police fired tear gas and rubber bullets at thousands in Manama, Bahrain's capital, demanding the regime's removal. Majority Shias want redress, saying Sunni rulers unfairly discriminate. However, more than sectarian issues are involved. Others include political freedoms, ending media and Internet state controls, prohibiting police use of excessive force, and addressing the extreme wealth gap between Bahrain elites and majority citizens.
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Walden Bello* | 01.28.2011
He was an officer in the Saudi Royal Navy assigned to the strategic Saudi base of Jubail in the Persian Gulf. She was a single mom from Mindanao, in the Philippines, who saw, like so many others, employment in Saudi Arabia as a route out of poverty. When he picked her up at the Dammam International Airport in June, little did she know she was entering, not a brighter chapter of her life but a chamber of horrors from which she would be liberated only after six long months. The tale of woe recounted by Lorena (not her real name) was one of several stories of rape and sexual abuse that were shared by domestic workers with members of a fact-finding team of the Committee on Overseas Workers’ Affairs (COWA) of the Philippines House of Representatives, of which I was a member. The high incidence of rape and sexual abuse visited on the women we met in Philippine government-run shelters for runaway or rescued domestic workers in Saudi’s key cities of Jeddah, Riyadh, and Al Khobar most likely reflects a broader trend among Filipino domestics. “Rape is common,” said Fatimah (also an alias) who had been gang-raped in April 2009 by six Saudi teenagers. “The only difference is we escaped to tell our story whi
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STOP the War Coalition Philippines | 06.05.2010
STATEMENT OF SOLIDARITY from the STOP the War Coalition Philippines More than 100 Philippine-based organizations under the Stop the War Coalition Philippines join the rest of the world in condemning the Israeli military assault on the humanitarian mission, Freedom Flotilla. The Flotilla's six ships were on their way to deliver humanitarian aids—including medicines and school and construction supplies—to the blockaded Palestinians living in destitute conditions on Gaza strip. The attack which was made on international waters 65 kilometers off the Coast of Gaza and the detention of passengers after the Israeli forces dragged the ships to the port of Ashdod constitute what can be called state-sponsored terrorism that has no place in civilized society.
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newswires | 10.09.2009
CONSPIRACY THEORIES are rampant in the Middle East. Many people are made to believe that America and Israel are running the whole world and are behind every problem in their countries - from defective chewing gum to Farouk Hosny's failure to head UNESCO. Speaking out against anti-Semitism is a risky business
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a-films | 06.12.2009
The anarchist media collective a-films has just published a new short film ("A Sip of Coffee"/26min) from the destroyed Nahr al-Bared Refugee Camp in northern Lebanon. In May 2007, the battle between Fatah al-Islam and the Lebanese army broke out in Nahr al-Bared Refugee Camp in northern Lebanon. Amidst heavy fighting, the Lebanese army had systematically destroyed the entire camp by September 2007. Two years later, nearly all the rubble has been cleared from the "old camp", the core of Nahr al-Bared. However, though the displaced residents grow increasingly desperate, reconstruction has yet to begin.
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Rabbi Arthur Waskow, Shalom Center | 01.10.2009
Two weeks after the outbreak of carnage and war in Gaza and in Southern Israel, as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan continue, as children die from bombs made with our money, as the present government of the United States refuses to act to end these wars — our communities gather for Jumat, for Shabbat, and for the Lord's Day. This is no time for solidarity with governments — American, Palestinian, or Israeli. It is a time for solidarity with God... Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel taught that prayer, which he called the song the universe sings to itself, is useless unless it is subversive — shattering pyramids of callousness. He also taught that some kinds of political action — not all — could become a form of prayer, as when he said after marching for voting rights alongside Dr. Martin Luther King, "I felt that my legs were praying." Read On for subversive prayer resources | Image: Heschel (2nd from right) and King (4th from right) in the Selma Civil Rights March, March 21, 1965 | Shalom Center Website | | | Gaza Solidarity Coverage: from Indymedia.US | from Indymedia.Org  Two weeks after the outbreak of carnage and war in Gaza and in Southern Israel, as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan continue, as children die from bombs made with our money, as the present government of the United States refuses to act to end these wars -- our communities gather for Jumat, for Shabbat, and for the Lord's Day. We gather to pray and to learn what God teaches. We are sending you several prayers and several passages of wisdom about war, peace, and the fearful silence that refuses to confront them, from Dr. Martin Luther King and from his close co-worker Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel. They are Torah and Prophecy in the broadest sense. We encourage you to use them in all our communities. 
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