Shoks Mnisi Mzolo – Cii News | 22 May 2014/22 Rajab 1435 Until now, the names Bill Gates and Boko Haram meant entirely different things. Scratching the surface, Atheling P Reginald Mavangira finds a web of scheme that links Gates and Monsanto, a GM crops firm, white supremacy, US foreign policy, …
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By Ali Abunimah 21 May, 2014 Countercurrents.org A United States government call on Israel to investigate the cold-blooded videotaped killing of two Palestinian boys falls far short of a real demand for accountability and amounts to complicity in covering up the crime. The boys, 17-year-old Nadim Siam Nuwara and 16-year-old …
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Letter to my Modi-Supporting Indian Friend on BJP’s Election Victory (From a Pakistani-American Muslim) Dear Friend, Let this Pakistani-American first congratulate you on what went right in the Indian Elections 2014— clean and fair voting in the world’s largest democracy. I wish and pray that democracies in neighboring Pakistan, …
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| Posted by: MV Media By: John Pilger Source: http://www.truth-out.org/ Why do we tolerate the threat of another world war in our name? Why do we allow lies that justify this risk? The scale of our indoctrination, wrote Harold Pinter, is a “brilliant, even witty, highly successful act of hypnosis,” as if the truth “never happened …
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Overwhelming response to humanitarian crisis on the Platinum Belt Shoks Mnisi Mzolo – Cii News | 20 May 2014/20 Rajab 1435 The ongoing strike at the platinum belt, where organised labour downed tools more than 100 days ago, has again shone the spotlight on the mineworkers’ living conditions. Asks Media Review …
Read More »Accreditation of Muslim Marriage Officers Not Linked to Legal Recognition of Muslim Marriages Faizel Patel, Radio Islam News, 2014-05-20 The recent accreditation of one hundred Muslim Marriage Officers has sent confusing signals to the Muslim community. In a statement, The United Ulama Council of South Africa (UUCSA) said some people have …
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Phil Shiner: ‘I will not rest until I know how many Iraqis died in British custody’ The Chris Blackhurst Interview: The lawyer tells of daily death threats and why he’s optimistic the ICC can now investigate alleged war crimes in Iraq CHRIS BLACKHURST Sunday 18 May 2014 “They will phone my …
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By Mukul Dube 19 May, 2014 Countercurrents.org Related Articles: No! Indians Don’t Vote Intelligently Announcing The Monster Hindu Supremacist Bharatiya Janata Party Comes To Power In India BJP: The People’s Choice – But.. Narendra Damodardas Modi’s supporters cannot be blamed for using words like “historic” for their …
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REUTERS Pope Francis holds the book of the gospels as he leads the Italian conference of bishops meeting in the Synod Hall at the Vatican. Twenty-six women in love with Roman Catholic priests have written to the pope urging him to make celibacy optional. Vatican City – Twenty-six women …
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By Alan Hart 15 May, 2014 Alanhart.net Who was it? Justice Minister and chief negotiator (with the Palestinians) Tzipi Livni. What did she say? On 9 May she said on Army Radio that Israeli settlements were to blame for the failure of peace talks. “The settlers want to …
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