Citizens International

November 2012

Ahmed al-Jaabari: A life of fighting Israeli occupation

posted November 14, 2012 by Ahram Online Ahmed Jaabari, 52, assassinated in an Israeli air strike on a car in Gaza City, was one of the highest-ranking members of Hamas’s armed wing and a life-long activist in the struggle against occupation Ahmed al-Jaabari a high ranking member the Hamas movement’s armed wing was assassinated Wednesday by […]

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The Political Trial of a Caring Man and the End of Justice in America

by John Pilger posted November 10, 2012 by Dissident Voice In 1999, I travelled to Iraq with Denis Halliday who had resigned as assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations rather than enforce a punitive UN embargo on Iraq. Devised and policed by the United States and Britain, the extreme suffering caused by these “sanctions” included,

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Iran vs the Empire: Fighting dollarization

by Eric Walberg posted October 30, 2012 by PressTV The West’s attempts to destroy the Iranian economy through heightened sanctions-including most imports, oil exports and use of banks for trade operations-is having its affect. According to Johns Hopkins University Professor Steve Hanke, Iran is facing hyperinflation, with a monthly inflation rate of nearly 70% per

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The Muslim sisterhood

by Roula Khalaf posted November 2, 2012 by Financial Times Behind the scenes and on the street women are now stepping out of the shadows and emerging as a vital political force in Egypt Sondos Asem was five years old when Hosni Mubarak’s security men broke into the family home after midnight, dragged her father

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Ayatollah Khamenei Inaugural Speech at the 16th Non-Aligned Summit

posted August 30, 2012 by khamenei.ir The following is the full text of Ayatollah Khamenei’s inaugural address delivered on August 30, 2012 at the 16th Non-Aligned Summit in Tehran. In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful All praise belongs to Allah, the Lord of the Two Worlds, and may peace and blessings be

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