March 2012
“The United States is a nation of laws, badly written and randomly enforced.”
– Frank Zappa (via hipsterlibertarian)
February 2012
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The Contradiction of "Jewish" and "Democratic" →
Apparently a number of people still believe in the myth that Israel can be both a Jewish and democratic state. Of course, any thinking person with a rudimentary understanding of democratic systems understands why this is impossible.
In Israel, the state is defined as being Jewish, but democracy safeguards the rights and equality of non-Jews. Nothing in this definition is contradictory in...
“I’ll be honest with you. I know a whole more about what freedom isn’t,...”
– Assata Shakur (on Freedom) (via oshaka)
“Don’t doubt your power, or you give power to your doubts.”
– Ernesto Che Guevara (via warriorsrise)
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“There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare.”
– Sun Tzu (via socialistscum)
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89% vote in favor of new Syrian Constitution →
Syria’s Interior Minister has announced that 89 per cent of those who took part in the referendum have voted in favor of a new constitution. The new law puts an end to five decades of one-party rule among other reforms put forward by President Assad.
Interior Minister Ibrahim al-Shaar announced the results of the referendum at a press conference on Monday.
The adopted constitution includes 14...
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Israel developed over 100 torture methods against... →
GAZA – The Center for Prisoners’ Studies in Gaza has revealed that Israel security forces has developed more than a hundred mental and physical torture methods designed to elicit confessions from Palestinians during interrogations.
Israel uses torture against the prisoners from the moment they are arrested until when they are let free, said CPS director Raafat Hamdouna, condemning Israel’s...
“If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of...”
– Che Guevara (via muacaiik)
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Palestinian woman in Israeli jail continues hunger... →
A Palestinian female prisoner protesting her illegal detention by Israeli forces continues her hunger strike into the ninth day. Hana Shalabi was released in a last prisoner swap deal between Hamas and Israel in October, 2011 but was detained again by Israeli forces on February 16. Shalabi, who spent 30 months in prison before her release last year, is
now under a six-month administrative...
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Foreign Aid to Israel is Illegal under U.S. Law →
The Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 was amended by Stuart Symington (D-Missouri) in 1976. His amendment banned all U.S. economic and military assistance to any country who develops, receives, delivers, or transfers nuclear technology when they do not comply with IAEA regulations and inspections. [Section 101, pp. 474]
Israel is not a signatory of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and has been...
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Syria's Assad is hitting Homs with the heaviest... →
Reports coming out of Homs, which has been pounded for weeks now by Bashar al-Assad’s military, indicate one of the worst days of shelling against a Syrian city since the war started there.
The Syria Observatory for Human Rights says that at least 16 civilians were killed in Homs’ Baba Amr neighborhood, three of them children. The BBC reports at least 30 dead in Homs, which has emerged as a...
