Shooting unarmed demonstrators on the Gaza border would be a terrible and unforgivable crime

The Government of Israel has turned the Gaza Strip into a pressure cooker and the biggest open-air prison  in the world, through maintaining a siege in violation of International Law and depriving a poor populating of a million and half of gasoline and basic products.

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Responding to fear-mongering by the Bush administration, the Senate voted on February 12 to give retroactive immunity to the telecommunications companies that have turned over our telephone and Internet communications to the government.  These companies have violated several laws, including the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), Title III, the Communications Act, and the Stored Communications Act, as well as the First and Fourth Amendments to the Constitution.

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For the past 45 years, I have been a translator of Slavic Languages, and I have travelled extensively in Russia. There is one phrase used in almost all the Slavic languages which raises all kinds of alarms, bells, whistles, screetching brakes, sirens, etc., and it is the phrase, "in principle."

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No one, apart from those in total denial, can claim that the invasion of Iraq was not solely about oil related matters, control of Iraq's oil reserves and the attempted protection of the US dollar as the world reserve currency to be used internationally for oil trades.

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Call for protest to Israeli government  

Saturday the army representatives at the Erez checkpoint indicated that Monday our truckloads of relief would go through. We didn't rely on this vague promise too much but  gave it the benefit of the doubt. After all, we also heard from KM Dov Kheinin (Hadash) that PM Olmert had told him personally that our relief would be let through.

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Saturday 26.1.:  A countrywide relief convoy and Israeli demonstration in solidarity on the Gaza border with a parallel Palestinian demonstration in the Strip.

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Testimony in the trial of a U.S. military veteran and national officer of Veterans For Peace begins tomorrow, Wednesday, January 9th, at 11:00 a.m. ET, in District of Columbia Superior Court, room 313.

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I was employed by the MoD(UK) in security work, and the contract of employment clearly stated that I was entitled to shift payments, as did German Employment Law. Because I was denied these payments I was forced to take legal action. A German Government lawyer had decided that I was not entitled to shift payments because I lived 300mtrs from work. This was upheld by the court in the final verdict, even though my colleagues lived up to 91kms from work, and they also did not receive shift allowances.

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