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The Turbulent 2011 at a Glance

The Turbulent 2011 at a Glance

Kourosh Ziabari
2011 was a turbulent year for the world. With chained revolutions in the Arab world, mounting financial crisis in Europe and the unprecedented wave of protests and mass demonstrations in the U.S. against the corporate system of the government which has long swallowed the rights of the defenseless majority of the people.

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Terror and Revenge Engulfs NATO’s Libya

Terror and Revenge Engulfs NATO’s Libya

Franklin Lamb
Those increasingly being targeted by “disappearance squads” are family members and associates, even former domestic employees such as gardeners, handymen, and household staff of former regime affiliates. Homes, cars, furniture, of former regime affiliates are being systematically confiscated. Torture has become the normal means to elicit information regarding the whereabouts of individuals thought to still be supporting the former regime.

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Jewel in the Crown of the Arab Spring

Jewel in the Crown of the Arab Spring

By Sami Moubayed
The upcoming Palestinian move in the United Nation General Assembley, with Israel’s defence minister Ehud Barak saying: “We are facing a diplomatic-political tsunami that the majority of the [Israeli] public is unaware of and that will peak in September. It is a very dangerous situation.

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Hypocrisy and Western-centric Human Rights

by Jamal Kanj
Israel has the most to gain from turning peaceful protests into war zones and the West’s crocodile tears over human rights violations is belied by their failure to stop financing human rights violation in occupied Palestine.

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