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US defends Israeli attacks on Gaza at emergency UN meeting

posted November 15, 2012 by Ahram Online Arab nations demanded the UN Security Council condemn Israel’s deadly attacks on Gaza at an emergency meeting, but the United States strongly defended Israel’s military strikes Palestinian UN observer Riyad Mansour speaks to reporters following a closed-door meeting of the Security Counsel at the United Nations, Wednesday (Photo: […]

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Google confirms: ‘Government surveillance is on the rise’

posted November 13, 2012 by RT Google report reveals a sharp increase in government requests for private data The email accounts of Generals David Petraeus and John Allen aren’t the only ones being targeted by the feds. Google has released its bi-annual transparency report and says that the government’s demands for personal data is at

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Dominance of the West over the Rest

Download ‘Dominance of the West over the Rest’ from here   About the publisher: Citizen International has been conceived as a global initiative to foster awareness, activism and advocacy on issues that are central to the stability and wellbeing of humanity at the beginning of the 21st century. As an independent, non-partisan, non-government and non-profit network,

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‘Open Veins of Latin America’ by Eduardo Galeano

Download ‘Open Veins of Latin America’ from here   About the author: Uruguayan essayist, journalist and historian. Galeano’s best-known works include Memoria del fuego (1982-1986, Memory of Fire) and Las venas abiertas de América Latina (1971, The Open Veins of Latin America), which have been translated into some 20 languages. Galeano defies easy categorization as an

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‘Decolonising the Mind’ by Ngugi wa Thiong’o

Download ‘Decolonising the Mind’ from here   About the Author: Ngugi Wa Thiong’o: A Profile of a Literary and Social Activist. Ngugi wa Thiong’o, currently Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine, was born in Kenya, in 1938 into a large peasant family. He was educated at Kamandura, Manguu and

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