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The Swedish government’s failure to permit undocumented immigrants access to basic healthcare has been investigated by the organisation Läkare Utan Gränser (Doctors Without Borders), which discovered a catalogue of serious human rights failings….

Illegal immigrants in Sweden face a stark choice: life or death, what can you afford?
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As the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah raged on and conventional media outlets covered the news from the ground, major players in the liberal blogosphere were keeping, by their own admission, decidedly quiet.

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Bloggers on Israeli retaliation. By Christopher Beam
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Middle East Crisis: Who backs an immediate ceasefire?

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The horror of Israel’s Invasion and destruction of Lebanon.

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Yet another leak from Microsoft. So much for proprietary software!
Microsoft warns of PowerPoint virus
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Fisk has been writing now -indefatigble, careful, undaunted–a careful, critical, and powerful voice of sanity and clarity –writing for over 30 years from the Middle East. His latest piece Elegy on Beirut is in the tradition
of the great epic poets–the inexorable march of violence in the name of ‘civilisation.’
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I wake up today as I have for the last three years–in my quiet home in suburban Bethesda–where the bombs do not fall; where the sheets are an immaculate white; and life comes asunder at the threat of a rainstorm. Bethesda is home to the best hospitals and schools in the area, and has [...]

That greatest of Capitalism’s trumpets, Japan, is one of the worst human rights abusers.
Its human rights violations include abuse of “every person’s right to humane conditions of detention, freedom from torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment and the right to a fair trial conforming to international laws and standards”.
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Salvadoran students have been shot at and killed by the national army. Well, the freedom bells for the smallest country in Central America have stopped ringing since quite some time now. And no wonder, President Elias Antonio Saca, who is backed by the US, is a leader of the conservative Nationalist Republican Alliance party. Opposition [...]

“See the irony is that what they need to do is get Syria to get Hezbollah to stop doing this sh*t and it’s over,” Mr. Bush told Blair as he chewed on a buttered roll.

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Media activist Gopal Krishna has posted the following on Mediavigil.
Ruedi and I are in Lebanon as the Israeli invasion continues. The situation is very precarious and seems to be getting worse. The disproportionate scale of retaliation on Lebanon for the 2 Israeli soldiers kidnapped by Hizbollah is a scar on humanity and an international scandal.
I [...]

Found the story on a public forum posted by Abhishek Srivastava
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Fake Awards & Special Journalists of our times!

When we talk of journalism, journalistic activism, media’s social responsibility and accountability, let’s never forget about the journalism awards which are being given anually in the name of many renowned journalists, sponsored by big [...]

Israel widens bombing campaign as Lebanese militia groups retaliate. Israeli forces blockaded Lebanese ports and bombed runways at Beirut airport yesterday in a series of fierce reprisal attacks that Lebanese officials say have killed 55 civilians.
The biggest military operation since Israel’s withdrawal from Lebanon six years ago came in response to a raid by Hizbollah [...]

Classic divide and rule situation. Fight the Shia against the Sunnis. Sunnis against the Shia. Then a need to control both!
US Labor Against the War : US admits more troops are needed
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