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• Palestine: Israeli Police Abusing Detained Children

  By konigludwig on April 15, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  (Jerusalem) – Israeli security forces are abusing Palestinian children detained in the West Bank. The number of Palestinian children arrested by Israeli forces has more than doubled since October 2015. Interviews with children who have been detained, video footage, and… Read More ›

• Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Despotic Zeal

  By konigludwig on March 9, 2016 • ( 1 )

  

  By Sevgi Akarcesme Istanbul — THE virtual control he already has of a majority of Turkey’s newspapers and TV stations apparently isn’t enough for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. On Friday, with the zeal of its despotic leader, his government seized… Read More ›

• Trump Won Super Tuesday Because America Is Racist

  By konigludwig on March 3, 2016 • ( 3 )

  

  By Brittany King I woke up Wednesday morning to a slew of confused Facebook statuses and tweets. Most of them read something like this: “So disappointed in my country right now. How could we let a blatant racist get so… Read More ›

• War Crimes: Russian and Syrian Forces Target Hospitals in Syria

  By konigludwig on February 26, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  From As Bombs Hit Syrian Hospitals, Medical Workers Fear They Are the Target – The New York Times By Anne Barnard BEIRUT, Lebanon — The hospital in the northern Syrian town of Maarat al-Noaman was not just grazed, or damaged,… Read More ›

• European Parliament delegation denied access to Gaza by Israeli authorities

  By konigludwig on February 13, 2016 • ( 1 )

  

  A delegation from the European Parliament was prevented by the Israeli authorities from accessing the blockaded Gaza Strip this week, the delegation said in an official statement. The authorities gave no justification to explain the refusal at the time. The… Read More ›

• Syrian Coalition: Russia Practices State Terrorism in Syria

  By konigludwig on February 7, 2016 • ( 1 )

  

  The Syrian Coalition strongly condemned the Assad regime’s and Russia’s barbaric onslaught on northern Rural Aleppo, holding the international community, Moscow and the Friends of Syria Group responsible for the death of innocent civilians. In a statement released today, the… Read More ›

• 120 International Organizations Appeal for Lifting Siege on Syrian Communities

  By konigludwig on January 23, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  More than 120 humanitarian organizations and United Nations agencies issued a joint appeal today urging the world to raise their voices and call for an end to the Syria crisis and to the suffering endured by millions of civilians. The… Read More ›

• Bayard Rustin Was Here

  By konigludwig on January 18, 2016 • ( 4 )

  

  Before Martin Luther King, Jr., there was Bayard Rustin, an openly gay black man fighting for equality in a society steeped in institutionalized racism and homophobia. Despite orchestrating the 1963 March on Washington, and being personally embraced by King and… Read More ›

• Trapped in Madaya: ‘We Have Become Like Animals, Even in My Dreams I Dream About Food’

  By konigludwig on January 8, 2016 • ( 10 )

  

  “Hold on, hold on. I’m almost there.” Out of breath, Abdullah Burhan, a 25-year-old citizen of the Syrian town of Madaya rushes back to his house so he can get good enough reception for our phone call. Burhan was a… Read More ›

• World News Forum: 2015 in review

  By konigludwig on January 4, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

    Congratulations to our friends enormousgherkin, lakeviewpilgrim, storyartist and Alan Curtis Montgomery for their outstanding posts on World News Forum. To see the full WordPress report, click on the image above or read it here. Happy New Year!