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Binu Mathew

Lessons From The Holocaust
By Silvia Cattori

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85-year old Hedy Epstein is back in the limelight. Last week in Cairo, she embarked on a hunger strike to protest the ongoing blockade of Gaza. A Jewish Holocaust survivor whose parents perished in Auschwitz in 1942, she emigrated to the US in 1948 and first visited Palestine in 2003. Revolted by the Israeli Government’s oppression of the Palestinians, she has devoted her life to drawing public attention to this reality. Back from a visit to Palestine, she was interviewed by Silvia Cattori

A Year After Losing A Father And Sons,
A Gaza Family Copes
By Rami Almeghari

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“Four months after the martyrdom of my husband and two of my sons, my granddaughter Lina was born — the daughter of my martyred son Basel,” said Fathiya Abu Jbarah. Fathiya is the widow of Jihad Abu Jbarah and mother of Basil, 30, and Usama, 21 who were killed on 4 January 2009 by an Israeli missile that struck their home in al-Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip. Their home was hit during Israel’s 22-day air and land attack that killed more than 1,400 persons and wounded thousands of others

The Quiet American
By Uri Avnery

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The Quiet American resembles Mephistopheles in Goethe’s Faust, who defines himself as the force that “always wants the bad and always creates the good”. Only the other way round

The Other Side Of Oslo Peace Process
By Ershad Abubacker

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The post-Oslo Palestine has been a deep scar running deep in to the map of humanity. The tenacity and vision of world leaders behind Oslo and Camp David did promise a new beginning, but for ordinary Palestinians, it was the beginning of a new form of Israeli domination over the Palestinians

Congolese Women And Girls
Suffering The Insufferable
By Emily Spence & Brian McAfee

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Heavily armed militias are trying to increase the very same kinds of turmoil that charitable groups are striving to remedy. They are doing so in order to gain control of four main minerals: tin, tantalum, tungsten, and gold that garner an estimated $180 million in revenues each year

Marriage vs. Civil Unions: Separate Is Never Equal
By Mary Shaw

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The New Jersey State Senate recently rejected a bill that would have legalized same-sex marriage in the Garden State

Thoughtherding And The ‘Alternative Media’
By Sean Fenley

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A critique of the online progressive media

Farmer Suicides In Vidharbha Come In Handy
To Promote Bt Cotton
By Devinder Sharma

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I draw your attention to a front page news in The Indian Express today: First time in 4 years, annual suicide tally in Vidharbha is below 1,000. The blurb below spills out the business connection. It says – Key to the dip: Rs 1,300-crore loan waiver, Bt cotton crop, market prices. Now this line played up by the newspaper will leave an impression on you that Bt cotton was the saviour

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