Gaza Running On Near Empty
By Mohammed Omer

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Gaza needs 850,000 litres of fuel every week, says Mahmoud al-Khozendar, vice-president of the Petrol Station Owners Association in Gaza. Israel allows in just 70,000 litres of it. He said Gaza also needs 2.5 million litres of coal gas a week. Only 800,000 litres per week comes in

There Are No Checkpoints In Heaven
By Ramzy Baroud

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“I am sick, son, I am sick,” my father cried when I spoke to him two days before his death. He died alone on March 18, waiting to be reunited with my brothers in the West Bank. He died a refugee, but a proud man nonetheless. My father’s struggle began 60 years ago, and it ended a few days ago. Thousands of people descended to his funeral from throughout Gaza, oppressed people that shared his plight, hopes and struggles, accompanying him to the graveyard where he was laid to rest. Even a resilient fighter deserves a moment of peace

Barack Obama: Operation Board Games For Slumlords
By Evelyn Pringle

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Barack Obama has a long history of working with Chicago Mayor Richard Daley and governors of Illinois, including the current Governor Rod Blagojevich, in doling government funding for housing development in Chicago. His history is hardly a model of success, except for the hundred of millions in profits made by the chosen few slumlords

Destroying Public Education In America
By Stephen Lendman

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A new Editorial Projects in Education (EPE) Research Center report released April 1 is revealing, disturbing but not surprising. It states only 52% of public high school students in the nation’s 50 largest cities completed the full curriculum and graduated in 2003 – 2004. This compares to the national average of 70%

The Protests In Tibet And The Discontent Below
By Li Onesto

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The main character and contours of these protests are hard to determine at this point because of the difficulty in getting reliable reports. And an analysis of this is beyond the scope of this article. But some things can be said at this point about the different class forces that are a part of this upsurge

Romancing The War
By Mustapha Marrouchi

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Iraq, the seat of the glorious Abbassid period , which gave us the Golden Age of Islam, is a contaminated place, full of dust, blood, and stench

Israel’s 60th Approaches, But Israeli Minister Of Public Security Can’t Even Secure Himself!
By Cherifa Sirry

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I am astonished that this item of news has not been headlines since it happened 2 days ago. Public Security minister Avi Dichter was shot at broad daylight and the shooting was even filmed

Zakariya Zubeidi, Number One Most Wanted: Then And Now
By Eileen Fleming

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My chance to interview Zakariya Zubeidi, then still commander of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades in Jenin, was nearly nine months ago. On April 4, 2008, Haaretz reported their interview with Zubeidi

The Zoo On The Road To Nablus
By Jim Miles

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Book Review: The Zoo on the Road to Nablus – A Story of Survival from the West Bank By Amelia Thomas

Kashmiri Nation- An Identity Of Their Own
By Rizwana Abbasi

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If the Kashmir issue is not resolved promptly, the growing expansion of defence capabilities in the region will have catastrophic results. In a war between India and Pakistan – a war which we are told is ‘unthinkable’, but which is still possible given the posture of the two armed forces and the political establishments — Kashmiris will fall the victim of the first use of nuclear arsenals in the sub-Continent. This is an outcome which sixty years of fruitless negotiations to date ought to have taught us to avoid at all costs

Women Behind The Bylines
By A Shaheen

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Book Review: Taking an introspective look at a profession that has a significant presence of women today (in terms of numbers though), Ammu Joseph’s Making News: Women in Journalism chronicles the experiences of more than 200 women journalists, reflecting upon gender and gender-related issues

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