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Ma Khin Khin Leh is Free!
[caption id="attachment_1288" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Ma Khin Khin Leh, © Private"][/caption] After serving nearly 10 years of a life sentence in Myanmar (Burma), prisoner of conscience and long-time AIUSA priority case…
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Hope and Change? U.S. makes $900 million pledge to Gaza
Yesterday, the U.S. State Department leaked an upcoming pledge of $900 million to reconstruct Gaza and support the Palestinian Authority. No money will pass through Hamas but will be filtered…
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Azerbaijan: Popular Website “Temporarily” Closed
First they came after dissenting newspapers such as Realni Azerbaijan. Then they came after foreign broadcasts such as BBC and Radio Free Europe. Now, just weeks before the March 18,…
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One Man's Story
“I am not asking to be taken at my word and to be released, although I very much want to go home to my family. All I am asking for…
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Under Fire: White Phosphorus, Civilians, and Arkansas
Israeli army 'using white phosphorus' - 12 January 2008 White phosphorus, often supplied by the US, has accounted for approximately 100 deaths and injuries in Gaza, as of February 3. …
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"What went on here?" : U.S. Lawmakers Assess the Damage in Gaza
In the first congressional visit since Hamas was elected in 2006, Representative Brian Baird from Washington, Rep. Keith Ellison from Minnesota and Senator John Kerry visited Gaza yesterday. They witnessed…
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An Interrogator Speaks
I should have felt triumphant when I returned from Iraq in August 2006. Instead, I was worried and exhausted. My team of interrogators had successfully hunted down one of the…
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The Torture Memos Won't Go Away
In the Afterword to her book The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals, Jane Mayer states: "The number…
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Major settlement expansion announced in West Bank
Palestinian land was declared 'state lands' recently by Israel to expand the settlement of Efrat, near Bethlehem. This announcement was made just two weeks before Secretary of State is due to meet with…
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Back to the Future
On Monday the International Commission of Jurists released the results of a three-year global study "Assessing Damage, Urging Action" into the adverse impact the Bush administration's prosecution of the Global War…
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UN Should Do More for Gaza
On February 12, 2009, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon announced that a UN Board of Inquiry had begun its work "to review and investigate a number of specific incidents that occurred…
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MIA Drops the G Word
[caption id="attachment_1145" align="alignright" width="250" caption="MIA on the Tavis Smiley show"][/caption] In an interview on the Tavis Smiley show, British born musician MIA likened the Sri Lanka government’s targeting of its Tamil…