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  1. 鈥楶roud to have shone the spotlight on Gaza鈥, says solidarity boat captain

    Among the 13 women on the Zaytouna-Olive were Irish Nobel Peace Prize recipient Mairead Maguire, New ... on October 5. It was towed to the port of Ashdod, and the women jailed and then deported. Israel has ... to tell the stories of the women, men and children who were waiting for Zaytouna to arrive on the ...

  2. A new generation of Black activists are fighting the new Jim Crow

    upon. War on drugs This approach deepened in the 1980s when crack, a new form of cocaine that was much ... by conservative Republicans, Democrats joined in the 鈥War on Drugs鈥. Draconian new laws against ... expanded the War on Drugs. Clinton launched a vast new program of greater police powers. Police ...

  3. How anti-terror laws make terrorists

    committing war crimes in Afghanistan. This is hardly a controversial statement. Indeed, on October 13, ... strength to, material and logistical support from Turkey, which is officially an ally in the 鈥war on ... activity On October 12, police cars descended at high speed on a laneway in the western Sydney suburb of ...

  4. United States: Jill Stein slams 鈥楾rump鈥檚 psychosis and Clinton鈥檚 distortions鈥

    anti-African-American legislation that opened the floodgates to this racist war on drugs and the endless expansion of ... the final debate in the US presidential race on October 19, Democracy Now! spoke to Dr Jill Stein, the ... debate under stringent rules set by the Commission on Presidential Debates, which is controlled by the ...

  5. With the US elections it is hard to see why anyone would oppose the US brand of freedom

    Goldman Sachs. Clinton looks on track for an easy win, to go by the polls. Of course she is, when the ... Land of the Free, the first thing that comes to mind is a billionaire who is literally on record ... boasting he is so powerful he can sexually assault women with impunity. Clinton, for her part, has been ...

  6. Anti-apartheid rugby protests showed how sport and politics are inseparable

    tour, and the tour and its aftermath 鈥 Winter begins by focusing on seven Wallabies players: Jim Boyce, ... with the Wallabies touring side to South Africa. On this tour, he and the other players were shocked by ... of 69 Black African men, women and children who had been protesting apartheid laws in 1960. Because ...