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Vacy Vlazna                                      Intifada Palestine
 
In popular idiom, doppelgänger hails from the German, meaning “look-alike” in behaviour or physical appearance.

 
By Dr. Elias Akleh                  Intifada Palestine
 

The Israeli regime has reportedly placed thousands of detainees in prisons during their so-called legal proceedings over the last couple of years.

[This is an edited version of a speech given by me at the National Summit to Reassess the Israel-US Special Relationship, which took place at the National Press Center in Washington on March 7th. The all day event included speakers Stephen Walt, Justin Raimondo, Paul Pillar, Jeff Blankfort, Alan Brownfeld, Philip Weiss, Ray McGovern and Scott McConnell. It was broadcast live by C-Span and is still available on their site.]
 
by Philip Giraldi

 
Press TV has conducted an interview with Ken O’Keefe, activist and former US marine from Hawaii, about a new row erupting between the US government and the Congress over an investigation into the CIA’s torture program.

 
 Ali Abunimah
This morning I appeared on Democracy Now! along with Max Geller, a law student at Boston’s Northeastern University and a member of Northeastern Students for Justice in Palestine.

This is an excerpt from an interview with the Archbishop of Hassakeh-Nisibi for the Syriac Catholics, Jacques Behnan Hindo, where he expresses his anger at Western foreign policy that has been actively backing hardline Wahhabi terrorists to topple the Syrian government while causing all Syrians to suffer as a result.
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by FRANKLIN LAMB
North of Latakia, Syria
This observer is advised that every school kid here in Syria learns at an early age about the various colonial land grabs that have lopped off key parts of their ancient country and they receive instruction about their personal national duty to recover this sacred territory. This applies equally to still occupy Palestine, or at least it did before the 2011 uprising which has seen some Syrian government resentment over some Palestinian participation with rebel groups trying to topple their government.

by Finian Cunningham
Comedians say that the art of telling jokes relies on “timing.” Israeli’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the world’s top comic politician, seemed to be proving the point with his “timely” claims about seizing Iranian rockets aboard a cargo ship in the Red Sea.

By Patrick Cockburn