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Aung San Suu Kyi is only the latest to fail the Rohingya. More of this and the result will be genocide Various political powers are shirking responsibility – including the British Government In recent days, Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, having just been awarded a prestigious human rights prize …

Starvation is being used as a military tactic against the besieged area of Moadamiyeh Fernande van Tets Beirut Wednesday 30 October 2013 Moadamiyeh has been cut off from the outside for almost a year. Activists claim there are thousands of citizens remaining in the area, which has endured electricity cuts, …

29 October, 2013 Countercurrents.org German policymakers are boasting of an improving economy while the number of households needing government support is on the rise. Citing figures released by the German Federal statistics office on October 28, 2013 a RT report [1] said: The number of those requiring welfare in Germany …

By Jeremy Scahill 29 October, 2013 TomDispatch.com [This epilogue to Scahill’s bestselling book, Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield, is posted with the kind permission of its publisher, Nation Books.] On January 21, 2013, Barack Obama was inaugurated for his second term as president of the United States. Just …

27 October, 2013 Countercurrents.org Thousands of American citizens have marched on the National Mall in Washington, DC to protest covert NSA surveillance operations on the 12th anniversary of the Patriot Act. The organizers have presented Congress with a petition which has acquired over 580,000 signatures. The march was organized by …

Azhar Vadi | Cii Analysis 25 October 2013 Originally made up of citizen volunteers who took up arms against their government and called the Free Syrian Army (FSA), the anti-government military formations in Syria have mushroomed into several hundred groupings numbering a few dozen to over 10 000 fighters. Many …

Posted On 23 Oct 2013 By : MRN In the end, though, Morsi’s flaws and failures pale into insignificance when compared with the trauma of the past 100 days It has become an almost established tradition for political analysts to review the first 100 days of any president or administration. …

24 Oct 2013 VOC.co.za Cyber crime is a national crisis costing the country a billion rand a year, a law firm said on Wednesday. The FBI in the US listed South Africa as the sixth most active country where cyber crime took place. Informal consensus within the private sector saw …

    OCTOBER 22, 2013 Nightmare in the Occupied Territories Although I have been living far from Palestine for a few years and I am now in my forties, I still have nightmares about the Israeli army invading my house when I was a child and about the first time …

By Neve Gordon 22 October, 2013 Al Jazeera For years when I travelled abroad, people would often inquire about my name and nationality. I, of course, would answer without hesitation: “I am Israeli”. Recently, however, I learned that there are no Israelis in Israel. Sounds odd? It does to me, …