Tariq Barghouth, a prominent lawyer known for defending Palestinian prisoners held by Israel MEMO | July 31, 2019 An Israeli court sentenced the lawyer of the PLO’s Prisoners’ Committee to 13 years, six months in prison on Tuesday, Quds Press has reported. Tariq Barghouth was arrested by the Israeli occupation forces on 27 February this […]
Euro-Med | July 30,2019 The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor (Euro-Med) in a brief report today, shed light on numerous extrajudicial executions and other human rights violations carried out by the coalition-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) against civilians living in the eastern part of the country. SDF continues to violate the rights of Syrians in the […]
The creepy French “intellectual” Bernard-Henri Levy gets it wrong By Philip Giraldi • Unz Review • July 30, 2019 Eight days ago eleven Palestinian buildings containing seventy family apartments located in the illegally Israeli occupied East Jerusalem village of Wadi al-Hummus were demolished in a military-led operation by more than 1,000 Israeli soldiers, policemen and […]
RT | July 26, 2019 A unit of German multinational Siemens has been awarded an $829 million contract from the Pentagon “for energy savings and performance measures” at the US naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. According to a statement by the US Department of Defense, the work to be performed provides for the construction, […]
By Philip Giraldi | Strategic Culture Foundation | July 25, 2019 Government that actually serves the interests of the people who are governed has two essential characteristics: first, it must be transparent in terms of how it debates and develops policies and second, it has to be accountable when it fails in its mandate and […]
MEMO | July 15, 2019 Palestinians lose about 60 million work hours per year due to restrictions on movement in the occupied West Bank imposed by Israeli occupation forces, according to a study by the Applied Research Institute – Jerusalem (ARIJ). This loss is estimated at $270 million per year, as well as added fuel […]
Defence for Children Palestine | July 9, 2019 On September 20, 2017, Laith K., 17, was arrested by Israeli forces. He was held in administrative detention for nearly 46 weeks. Administrative detention is a form of imprisonment without charge or trial. Learn more: https://nwttac.dci-palestine.org/
teleSUR | July 5, 2019 Social leader Tatiana Paola Posso Espitia, 35, was shot twice in the head Wednesday morning in front of her house in El Copey located in the Department of Cesar when two men on motorcycles fired at the activist and fled the scene. The assassination occurred just as Espitia’s taxi driver, Wilson Ortega […]
By Peter Ford – July 5, 2019 Technically the measure will find UK Foreign Office lawyers to defend it, but other lawyers will deem the action illegal. While sending oil to Syria may be illegal under US law it is not illegal under EU law. The far-fetched justification seems to be that the Banyas oil […]
MEMO | July 3, 2019 Ethiopian-Israeli Solomon Tekah, shot dead by an off-duty policeman on 27 June, 2019 At least 47 police officers were injured and 60 people were arrested following protests across Israel after a police officer shot and killed an unarmed Ethiopian teen, Israeli authorities said Tuesday, reports Anadolu Agency. Nineteen-year-old Solomon Tekah, […]
