Blair Saved $200m Palestine Deal For JP Morgan
"Tony Blair mounted an intense political lobbying campaign to rescue a struggling mobile-phone business owned by a client of the bank that pays him a £2?million annual salary.
The firm, Wataniya, had already built a brand-new network in the Israeli-occupied Palestinian West Bank. But it...
Indigenous resistance, from Colombia to Palestine
Anna Baltzer writing from Lopez, Colombia, Live from Palestine, 16 September 2010
“They only see our water, our land, our trees. They don’t care about us. They want the land — without the people on it.”
These words are not of a Palestinian farmer but of Justo Conda, governor of Lopez...
Gillard authorizes force to put asylum seekers onto planes
A boat is intercepted by the Border Protection Command off Australia's north coast.
Prime Minister Julia Gillard has indicated that authorities on Christmas Island will be authorised to use force to make sure asylum seekers get on board aircraft taking them to Malaysia.
The first boatload of...
UK Only Backs 'Observer' Status for Palestine
Britain says it would recognize Palestine as a state but only if Palestinians agree to have the same 'non-member state' status at the United Nations as the Vatican. Palestinians have currently an observer status at the UN and the new proposal would help them boost their position though it...
UK Attempts to Stop Palestine UN Bid
British foreign secretary, William Hague, has met with the head of the Palestinian Fatah party, Mahmoud Abbas, in order to dissuade him from seeking UN recognition of Palestinian statehood.
As the British leaders have found themselves indecisive as to how to respond to the Palestinian...
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