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The National Lawyers Guild has posted step-by-step information about what communities and families can do when a loved one is detained by immigration authorities, especially within the first 24 hours. Also included is how you can protect yourself from future raids, facts about the ICE detention and deportation system as well as flyers and other resources.
Since 1994, the U.S. Defense Department has entered into 3,061 contracts with 12 U.S.-based private military companies.
Private military companies – a recently coined euphemism for mercenaries – are just one face of the increasing trend of the privatization of war. Arms dealers have profited from a massive unregulated sell off of low price surplus armaments into … Angola, Sudan, Ethiopia, Colombia, Congo-Brazzaville, Sri Lanka, Burundi and Afghanistan – where conflicts have led to the deaths of up to 10 million people during the past decade.
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Since 1990, each large-scale U.S. intervention has
left behind a string of new U.S. military bases in
a region where the U.S. had never before had a
foothold. The new U.S. military bases were not merely
built to aid the interventions, but the interventions
also conveniently afforded an opportunity to station
the bases.
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Although the Camp David summit
ended almost three months before the beginning of
the Intifada, and negotiations continued
between the Israelis and Palestinians even as
violence raged, many pro-Israeli commentators
maintain that Arafat launched the Intifada
as a direct response to the Camp David proposals,
just because he prefers war to peace!
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One of the most powerful myths propagated in the US media today is that at the Camp David summit in July 2000, then Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak made an amazingly generous offer to the Palestinians that Yasir Arafat wantonly spurned, broke off negotiations and then launched a violent uprising against Israel.
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Over the past 18 months, Israel has systematically attacked all the facilities of the Palestinian Authority, including police stations, prisons and intelligence headquarters, and killed and assassinated many Palestinian security officers. Hence while crippling and killing the Palestinian security forces, Israel makes the ludicrous demand that these same forces go out and work on Israel’s behalf.
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Even before Yasir Arafat’s statement on 13 April 2002 condemning terrorism Arafat had repeatedly condemned suicide bombings both in Arabic and in English. Here are just two examples obtained from BBC monitoring.
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The supreme power of goodness now shoulders enormous burdens. A system of total self serving government domination and power is now over running democracy throughout the world. The facts are incontestable that the spirit of obscurity is growing especially now that we have recently declared an undefined war on terrorism worldwide.
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Israel’s brutal actions in the occupied territories are
designed to consolidate and entrench the
occupation and expand Israeli colonization, and
are therefore, by definition, not defensive in
nature.
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Israel and its supporters claim that while Palestinian suicide bombers deliberately target Israeli civilians, Israel tries to avoid harming Palestinian civilians and that those who have died are “collateral damage.” Hence, they argue, there is no moral equivalence between the killing of civilians by Israel and Palestinians. This defies both common sense and all the available evidence.
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