Choking the life out of Gaza
Israel is responsible for a hell of a lot of the misery and human rights violations in the Gaza Strip: but Hamas is also harassing, interrogating and mistreating civilians. Between them, Israel and Hamas are choking the life out of the people trapped inside Gaza. Continue reading ... Comment on this post- G7 plus 13: lucky for some by David Ransom What’s missing is not money but democracy
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- Women in Zimbabwe by Sokari Ekine One of the most underreported aspects of the ongoing crisis in Zimbabwe, is its effects on women
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- Welcome to 'Obamamerica' by Sokari Ekine Already the media in the US and UK are awash with proclamations that racism has ended – gone, dead
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Special Features
- Tigers or neutrinos A huge new scientific experiment plans to go looking for tiny particles in the middle of India’s oldest Biosphere Reserve, moving mountains of rock and earth as it goes.
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- Divorcing the US Shane Bauer went to Pine Ridge to find out why some Native Americans have ripped up the treaties and declared an independent country – Lakotah.
- Venturing into the impossible ‘Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.’ – Sir Arthur C Clarke
- China panic It’s official – according to new NI columnist Anna Chen– 2008 isn’t just the Year of the Rat and the Beijing Olympics. It’s also China Panic Year.
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