NY judge rules in favor of 1970s apartheid victims

Apartheid victims who accused automakers and IBM of helping the government of South Africa engage in violent repression to enforce racial segregation in the 1970s and '80s can go to trial with their claims, a judge ruled Wednesday.

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Court blocked from case: Too many investments

The Supreme Court tossed itself off a big case Monday.

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Court Reinstates Some Apartheid Claims

An appeals court Friday reinstated some of the class-action claims of millions of people who say they suffered under apartheid while living in South Africa because of the actions of American, Canadian and European companies.

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Ex-Apartheid Minister Sparks Debate

A former police minister whose name is synonymous with the brutal repression of the white establishment's political opponents during apartheid has apologized for his past actions, a government official said Monday.

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"A senior Kurdish official confirms Iran's start on the building of a wall separating the Islamic Republic with Iraq's Kurdistan Region, meant to prevent separatists from crossing the mountainous border"

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The collapse of the Palestinian Authority, the result of Israel's 42-year refusal to implement a two-state solution, leaves the Palestinians no option but to unilaterally declare an independent state. Israel acted unilaterally when it announced independence in 1948.

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LINKED? End Of Apartheid, Enactment Of China MFN - GATT - NAFTA - WTO, Tort Reform In Health Care Bill, 400 Billion Apartheid Slave Lawsuit, Global Economic Collapse, Federal Reserve, And President Obama's Support Of Free Trade

Multi-National companies did business in South Africa during Apartheid and exploited the social system engineered by the National Party responsible for the repression and exploitation of the majority of the population.

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Yes yes!! Apartheid lifestyle living, Organ donor late autumn harvests and our latest criminal attraction: "Jews can kill Gentiles - especially kiddies - if they pose a nuisance"

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"A series of controversial Israeli films are provoking outrage and plaudits in equal measure at the London Film Festival. The best documentary award has gone to one of the year's most controversial films."

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An Excellent (TM) article and another best seller to sit with pride on the mantle piece alongside: The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy Failed states : the abuse of power and the assault on democracy ENJOY!!

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Could it be that the age old game of "cause more blood and confusion" in the International Court of Public Opinion is about to rear it's ugly head - again?

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A private company has won a new five-year contract to transport prisoners in Victoria, Australia, despite being implicated in the death of a man in custody early last year in WA (an imprisoned Aboriginal elder was cooked to death)

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And so it goes.... As the world dithers on about the Goldstone Report and does.... Nothing !

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South African observer: "The UN recorded that over 52,000 houses, 800 industrial sites, 204 schools, 39 mosques and two churches were partially or completely destroyed during Israel's winter assault on Gaza."

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'Antony Loewenstein: "Moderate' Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad [of the minority Fatah administration] may be popular with western leaders, but under his watch the gulf between rhetoric and reality is growing"

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15 years after Apartheid's end, South African students still struggle with its dark legacy...

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UN inquiry, led by the former South African judge Richard Goldstone, reserved most serious condemnation for Israelis for committing Gaza war crimes in which 1,400 Palestinians and 13 Israelis were killed.

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Photography and it's effect on the human psyche

"A picture is worth a thousand words"

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..."The kind of blockade that Netanyahu wants qualifies as an act of war. Israel has long threatened to attack Iran on its own but prefers to draw in the US and NATO. Why does Israel want to initiate a war between the United States and Iran?

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Notice again how close to starvation everyone appears, just like they did two weeks ago

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Even as the noose tightens on the people of Palestine, Binyamin Netanyahu has the neck to talk about peace.

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Quote: "Ms Najjar says the settlers, who are often masked, sometimes stone the house. Once a petrol bomb set fire to a shed. She compares the attacks to raids by the Ku Klux Klan in the segregation-era United States."

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"The lesson that Israel must learn from the Holocaust is that it can never get security through fences, walls and guns," Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu of South Africa told Haaretz Thursday. Commenting on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's statement in Germany Thursday  …

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Settlement Activities: Israeli forces have continued settlement activities in the OPT in violation of international humanitarian law and Israeli settlers living have continued to attack Palestinian civilians and property.

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Nothing earth shattering here for those who already "see the writing on the wall" ( Apartheid wall surely?-Ed ) for the failed state of Israel There are 2 key factors that will change the dynamics of said terror "State" over time;

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"Jews for Boycotting Israeli Goods - support the call made by nearly 200 Palestinian civil society organisations in 2005 for a broad campaign of boycott, divestment and sanctions ... [for] ... Palestinian human rights"

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"Refugees from Darfur speak about the genocide, Omar el Bashir and the connection between Israel and Darfur

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Former Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters, an outspoken critic of Israel's policy in the West Bank, is now the voice behind a United Nations film documenting Palestinian life behind Israel's controversial separation fence, the AFP reported on Wednesday.

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The U.S. State Department on Wednesday criticized Israeli restrictions placed on foreign nationals entering the West Bank via the Allenby Bridge, calling the new regulations 'unacceptable'.

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