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Salem-News.com (Feb-18-2011 13:53)

`Courage to Resist` Honors Bradley Manning, Wikileaks and Other Whistleblowers

Bradley Manning is an American hero.

(SALEM, Ore.) - RESIST war Vic Sadot says 'A tribute to GI Resistance in 2011' was especially inspired by the 22-year old Army private named Bradley Manning who languishes behind bars for telling the truth as an American about his own nation' lawbreaking.

The song also credits the mission of Julian Assange's Wikileaks.

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Salem-News.com (Feb-16-2011 15:23)

Gaza`s Forgotten Children

"We, the children here in the buffer zone," says Heba, the black-haired girl with the blue ribbon from Khuza’a’s school, "we carry our souls unprotected on our hands."

(GAZA) - Children of Gaza On a sunny day in March 2009, Wafaa Jehad Elnagar, now 17 years old, did something that millions of children did on that day, and do on every day: she went home from school.

But unlike other children in this world who do that safely every day, for Wafaa walking home is a serious danger.

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Salem-News.com (Feb-16-2011 14:57)

Jerusalem: an Occupation Set in Stone?

"This forceful documentary...introduces us to Jerusalemites we rarely hear from." —San Francisco Jewish Film Festival

(LONDON) - Jerusalem: an Occupation Set in Stone? This is a tribute to the thousands of Palestinians living in East Jerusalem without access to life's most basic amenities.

Filmmaker Marty Rosenbluth details the devastating effects of Israel's urban planning policies that, according to many, aim to uproot the Palestinian presence in the Holy City. It was made in 1995.

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Salem-News.com (Feb-15-2011 17:02)

I Only Have You

"I am an old man," Nasser Abu Said says, 37-years old, "to me it is no longer important, but what about my children? Don’t they have the right to life, the right to grow up in safety and with some joy?"

(GAZA) - Abu Said Family. Photo: Vera Macht "I only have you to count on. From now on, my children depend on you ". This is the desperate call of a man who sees no way out for himself and his children, and we ISM members who came to his phone call, receive it in helpless silence.

It is not the first time that we visit this family, and every time we go home more horrified.

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Salem-News.com (Feb-15-2011 16:23)

The Egyptian Blockade of Gaza - March 4, 2011 March to Gaza

To everybody who knows injustice, everybody who knows tyranny, we are all brothers and sisters with the people of Palestine. Let us act like it!

(GAZA) - Tahrir Square Cairo Feb. 11, 2011 Egyptians have just shed their puppet dictator; they rendered his weapons and henchmen impotent. We can now remove one of the most shameful policies of this dictator.

I say shame on us all if we do not march on Gaza with significant numbers. If our lives or the lives of our loved ones depended on it, we would mobilize by the thousands. Just consider the global family as one, for a moment.

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Salem-News.com (Feb-13-2011 18:48)

Mubarak Regime Orchestrated the Church Blast to Please USA and Israel

This uprising in Egypt has exposed the fallacy of a lot of arguments and political convictions and at the same time revealed new surprising findings.

(ALEXANDRIA, Egypt) - Mubarak - Netanyahu As I was driving my car along the famed corniche of the historic city of Alexandria to join the march calling for Mubarak to step down last week I kept looking- or gazing if you like- at the nearly empty streets.

Except for scattered armed vehicles and tanks squatted beneath the silent buildings on the side of the road and it seemed as if I was driving across a deserted city and not the never go to sleep 5 millions dwellers-city I used to know.


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Salem-News.com (Feb-13-2011 18:18)

US Duplicity in Egypt

Time will tell how this will play out, but make no mistake about it, we will do our very best to insure it is not good for the Egyptian people nor the American public.

(JAMESTOWN, R.I.) - US and Egypt flags While extolling democracy the Obama administration tiptoed through the struggle for democracy in Egypt trying not to offend anyone, but creating the appearance of supporting dictatorship in Egypt.

He justified his lack of action by saying we did not want to interfere in Egyptian affairs, a specious argument because the US has been interfering for the past thirty years by propping up Mubarak and his military.

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Salem-News.com (Feb-13-2011 15:33)

Visions; Failed Endeavors, and Wishful Optimism

The will of the people is bound to prevail.”

(DUBAI) - Tahrir Square Yes, a fine sentiment. But when has it ever and, when it has, how long did it last? Freedom, Liberty and the dignity of man, must be built on more than slogans!

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Salem-News.com (Feb-13-2011 14:20)

Will Democracy in Egypt Benefit the Palestinians?

Unless a majority of Israelis are beyond reason, that could be a game changer which would benefit the region and the whole world, not only the Palestinians.

(LONDON) - Palestine and Egypt and Brothers For decades, and despite much rhetoric to the contrary, American-led Western policy has been to prefer Arab dictatorship to Arab democracy. This preference was determined by two main assessments.

One was that corrupt and repressive Arab regimes were the best possible guarantee that oil would continue to flow at prices acceptable to the West, and, that there would be almost no limits to the amount of weapons that could be sold to the most wealthy Arab states.

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Salem-News.com (Feb-13-2011 13:58)

Gaza`s Egyptian Hope

The people of Gaza would not be the people of Gaza if they let this undermine their joy and their will to survive.

(GAZA) - Gaza celebratio When the news from the overthrow of Mubarak came through, the people of Gaza flowed joyously into the streets.

They celebrate the victory, they celebrate the Egyptian revolution, which has become the symbol of their own ambitions.

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