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Un report Isaraeli checkpoints continue restricting palestinian movement

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UN Report: Israeli Checkpoints Continue Restricting Palestinian Movement
UN News Centre


An Israeli military checkpoint in the occupied West Bank village of al-Ram.

 

May 28, 2009

Israeli obstacles continue to constrain the freedom of movement for Palestinians living in the West Bank, according to a new report by the United Nations humanitarian arm.

Despite several measures implemented by Israel which have eased traffic flow on some routes into the four main cities of Nablus, Hebron, Tulkarm and Ramallah, other actions have further controlled Palestinian access while easing the movement of Israeli settlers, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) report noted.

 

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Theres no way im going to deploy to Afghanistan

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“There’s No Way I’m Going to Deploy to Afghanistan”
Dahr Jamail

MARFA, Texas — "It’s a matter of what I’m willing to live with," Specialist Victor Agosto of the U.S. Army, who is refusing orders to deploy to Afghanistan, explained to IPS. "I’m not willing to participate in this occupation, knowing it is completely wrong."

Agosto, who returned from a 13-month deployment to Iraq in November 2007, is based at Fort Hood in Killeen, Texas.

While in Iraq, Agosto never left his base, located in northern Iraq.

"I never had any traumatic experiences, never fired my weapon," Agosto told IPS in a phone interview. "I mostly worked in information technology, working on computers and keeping the network functioning well. But it was in Iraq that I turned against the occupations. Through my reading, and watching what was going on, I started to feel very guilty."

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War is unsuitable for children another youtube outrage

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War is Unsuitable for Children: Another YouTube outrage
by Cindy Sheehan

 

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Last week, after being bombarded with pseudo-patriotic40of graveyards, gravestones and flags, I decided to begin posting40of maimed and killed Iraqis, but especially children and transform the mega-pseudo-patriotic Memorial Day to Remembrance of Victims of US Empire Day.

I got a great response to this and my friend and videographer, Clifford Roddy put together a short film called: finaledit, with the40I posted and with40that he took at a national cemetery in Santa Fe, NM where we were together for my Myth America book tour. I have a Cindy Sheehan You Tube page so we posted it there.

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