June 2010

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Hamas: don’t give in on Shalit – by Khalid Amayreh

by Khalid Amayreh June 30, 2010

By Khalid Amayreh* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz The cruel Israeli regime is organizing a fresh campaign to demand the release of one of its occupation soldiers, detained in a secret Gaza location. The new campaign, publicized by the Jewish-controlled media in Europe and North America, is assuming many expressions, including protests led by the [...]

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Warning Of War: Finding out the truth in time – by Fidel Castro

by SR Editor June 30, 2010

By Fidel Castro | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz When I was writing one of my previous reflections, as a disaster for humanity was rapidly approaching, my greatest concern was to fulfill the elemental duty of informing our people. Today I feel calmer than 26 days ago. As things continue happening in the short term, I [...]

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John Pilger: There Is a War on Journalism

by Haitham Sabbah June 30, 2010

Decmocracy Now! Interview With John Pilger: John Pilger, award-winning investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker. He began his career in journalism nearly half a century ago and has written close to a dozen books and made over fifty documentaries. He lives in London but is in the United States working on a forthcoming documentary about what [...]

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Guess Who Wants to Kill the Internet? by Maidhc Ó Cathail

by Maidhc Ó Cathail June 30, 2010

By Maidhc Ó Cathail* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz It would be hard to think of anyone who has done more to undermine American freedoms than Joseph Lieberman. Since 9/11, the Independent senator from Connecticut has introduced a raft of legislation in the name of the “global war on terror” which has steadily eroded constitutional [...]

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Iraq: The Hidden Story [A Must Watch Video]

by Haitham Sabbah June 30, 2010

In this 45 minute video, Channel 4 news presenter Jon Snow questions whether the Images of Iraq which dominate the Western TV news bulletins are sugar-coating the bloody reality of war and the sectarian violence under the US-led occupation. Iraq: The Hidden Story shows the footage used by TV news broadcasts, and compares it with [...]

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Sinking Ship – By John J. Mearsheimer

by SR Editor June 30, 2010

The attack on the Gaza relief flotilla jeopardizes Israel itself. By John J. Mearsheimer* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Israel’s botched raid against the Gaza-bound humanitarian flotilla on May 31 is the latest sign that Israel is on a disastrous course that it seems incapable of reversing. The attack also highlights the extent to which [...]

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Palestinian Centre for Human Rights 2009 Annual Report – by Stephen Lendman

by Stephen Lendman June 28, 2010

By Stephen Lendman* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Each year, PCHR publishes its annual report on Occupied Palestine, this year’s a detailed 250 page (PDF file) review of the past year, including the first days of Israel’s war on Gaza, Operation Cast Lead, “the major issue in the record of human rights and international humanitarian [...]

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Mark Morford – BP Welcomes You to the Apocalypse

by SR Editor June 28, 2010

By Mark Morford | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Please do not worry. Please do not fret about that one thing you always fret about, or that other thing, or even that third thing that might have something to do with erupting oil, dead pelicans and that sickening feeling in your gut that Something is Very [...]

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Kenneth O’Keefe – Countering Israeli Propaganda (Must Watch Video Interview)

by Haitham Sabbah June 28, 2010

Gaza Freedom Flotilla Eyewitness Report HARDtalk with Kenneth O’Keefe talks about the attack on the MV Mavi Marmara that was trying to run the blockade on Gaza. Part 1/3: Video link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wb7XOGJoCkg

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Jonathan Cook – Gaza Blockade – ‘Let Them Eat Coriander!’

by SR Editor June 27, 2010

By Jonathan Cook* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz As Israel this week declared the “easing” of the four-year blockade of Gaza, an official explained the new guiding principle: “Civilian goods for civilian people.” The severe and apparently arbitrary restrictions on foodstuffs entering the enclave – coriander bad, cinnamon good – will finally end, we are [...]

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Dr. Elias Akleh – Who is the Terrorist: Hamas or Israel?

by Dr. Elias Akleh June 27, 2010

By Dr. Elias Akleh* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Israelis justify their genocidal economic siege against Gaza Strip, their December 2008 barbaric war crime onslaught against 1.5 million Palestinian civilians in Gaza, and their international piracy against the international “Break the Siege Campaign” and the humanitarian aid Freedom Flotilla with the false claim that the [...]

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Paul Balles – Sometimes they tell me to shut up

by Paul J. Balles June 27, 2010

By Paul J. Balles* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Born and raised in America, I learned that my country was built on outstanding principles propped up by a great constitution. When I saw those principles violated and the constitution ignored, I complained. At times, I was told to shut up. The Vietnam War was well [...]

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David R. Henderson – War Makes Us Poor

by SR Editor June 26, 2010

Video link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OT5uw1Fb_0 By David R. Henderson* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Many people who aren’t comfortable with the U.S. invading other countries reassure themselves with the belief that at least war creates jobs for Americans. But is military conflict really good for the economy of the country that engages in it? Basic economics answers [...]

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Thumbnail image for Richard Forer – Cutting Through the Confusion About Israel/Palestine (Must Read)

Richard Forer – Cutting Through the Confusion About Israel/Palestine (Must Read)

by SR Editor June 25, 2010

By Richard Forer* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz In the spring of 2009, I was a member of a group that put up a billboard criticizing Israel’s lethal use of force during Operation Cast Lead in Gaza. A year later, the group received a letter from a college student – referred to as “J” below [...]

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Yvonne Ridley – Americans in Gaza Freedom Flotilla Prosecuted as Terrorists

by SR Editor June 25, 2010

By Yvonne Ridley* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz AMERICA is still embarrassed by the infamous McCarthy Hearings which ruined the lives of thousands of innocents during the Fifties. Anyone then, suspected of being linked to communism was arrested, interrogated and either imprisoned or forced to give names of others suspected of communist tendencies. And so [...]

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