Written by The US boat Freedom Flotilla-2 sailing en route to Gaza was stopped by a
Greek coastal guard and turned back 20 minutes off the coast. This comes a year after Israeli commandos killed 9 Turkish activists on a flotilla, challenging the naval blockade of Gaza on open seas. Now an international flotilla is trying to set out again to challenge the blockade. Adam Shapiro, whose wife is on the boat, brings RT the latest from Athens.
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Gaza Flotilla boat stopped by Greek coast guard
US, Vietnam team up to battle Agent Orange
HANOI, Vietnam — Vietnam kicked off the first phase of a joint plan with the United States to clean up environmental damage from the chemical Agent Orange on Friday.
The project concentrates on a hotspot where the defoliant was stored by Americans during the Vietnam War, which ended more than three decades ago.
A statement released Friday by the U.S. Embassy said Vietnam’s Ministry of Defense will begin sweeping areas around the Danang airport for unexploded ordnance. Then, both Vietnamese and Americans will work together to remove dioxin from soil and sediment at the site.
Contamination from dioxin — a chemical used in the herbicide that has been linked to cancers and birth defects — has been a lasting legacy of the war.
Palestinians plan ‘day of rage’ after US vetoes resolution on Israeli settlements
Palestinians are planning a “day of rage” on Friday in response to the US wielding its veto against a UN security council resolution condemning Israeli settlements.
The US decision to use its veto has sparked a furious reaction in the West Bank and Gaza.
Anti-US rallies took place in the West Bank towns of Bethlehem, Tulkarem and Jenin this weekend after the 14-1 vote on the resolution, in which the US stood alone against the rest of the security council, including Britain, Germany and France. It voted in contradiction of its own policy.
In Gaza, Hamas described the US position as outrageous and said Washington was “completely biased” towards Israel.
Ibrahim Sarsour, an Israeli-Arab member of the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, said it was time to tell the US president, Barack Obama, to “go to hell”.
“Obama cannot be trusted,” he wrote in an open letter to the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas. “We knew his promises were lies. The time has come to spit in the face of the Americans.”
Will You Hide a Muslim in Your Attic?
Written by There’s some scary stuff happening in this nation right now. It has to do with Muslims. No, I am not afraid of Muslims. No, I do not believe that they are out to destroy our way of life. No, I do not believe that they are inherently violent people who see Christians and Jews as demons that need to be wiped from the face of the Earth. No, I do not believe they are the new boogie man hiding around every corner with a belt of explosives waiting to duck into some nightclub to kill himself and as many other innocent people as he can in a blaze of glory. It is not the Muslims that scare me. It is the people who are trying to make me so paranoid of the Muslims that I will forsake my principles and turn against my fellow human beings because their ways are different than mine that scare me. It is those who believe that people should be treated differently simply because of their religion that scare me. READ MORE »
Russia’s seed bank under threat
One of the biggest and most important seed banks in the world is at risk of being replaced by a private housing development.
The facility near the Russian city of St Petersburg houses thousands of varieties of plants, not found anywhere else in the world.
68 Year Old Going To Jail For Destroying Public Property!
August 30, 2010 Q13 News
Katrina victims under eviction threat in Mississippi
Aftert Hurricane Katrina destroyed thousands of homes in the US states of New Orleans and Mississippi in 2005, the US government handed over billions of dollars to help with the recovery and rebuilding efforts.
In Mississippi, thousands of temporary homes were allocated to those displaced by the disaster.
However, now after hundreds of millions of dollars were diverted from the housing programme to rebuild a port, the possibility is eviction is looming for many.
Desecration protest in Jerusalem
Dozens of demonstrators in West Jerusalem have protested against the demolition of tombstones in the city’s historic Muslim cemetery.
The protesters say hundreds of graves were desecrated. But city officials say they simply did away with fake tombstones, placed there to deter developers.
Nisreen El-Shamayleh has the story.
Iroquois denied sovereignty
A Native American lacrosse team whose Iroquois-issued passports have been at the heart of an international dispute will default on the first game of the sport’s world championship on Thursday. Percy Abrams says that the Iroquois have been able to travel with their passports for years and they are trying to hold onto their nationality.
Peaceful march marks Oka, 20 years later
Twenty years after the Oka Crisis thrust Native land claim rights into the spotlight, several hundred Kanesatake Mohawks took part in a peaceful march to commemorate the 1990 conflict Sunday.
The Oka Crisis made national headlines during the summer of 1990 when Mohawk protesters faced off against Quebec provincial police and then the army after developers planned to expand a golf course onto disputed land in the townOka, Que.
The march, which started at 10:00 am on Route 344 in Oka, Que., concluded at the Pines of Kanesatake, where the notorious confrontation occured.
In a statement issued Sunday, Grand Chief Sohenrise Paul Nicholas said that the land claim dispute has not yet been resolved, but that “today, we are less far away from an agreement than yesterday.”
Evolution and Food, a Different Point of View
2011 Leave a Comment
I read a paper once on a native American tribe from the southwest. They had a larger than normal occurrence of diabetes. To put it in a nutshell, in trying to determine the cause of this the study found that the loss of a melon that had been natural to their diet contributed greatly to the rise in diabetes cases within the tribe. When the melon was reintroduced into their diet the occurrence of diabetes fell dramatically. It turns out that after ten thousand years of depending on this fruit for a major part of their diet their digestive systems had adapted to the point where taking the food source away caused it damage. READ MORE »