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Netanyahu’s Speech Disrupted, Activist Hospitalized
Rae Abileah, a Jewish-American activist of Israeli descent with the peace group CodePink, disrupted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s congressional address yesterday, Democracy Now! reports. … According to Democracy Now!, as Abileah rose up, members of the audience tackled her to the ground and people in the hall cheered, drowning her out. She was escorted out of the chamber by security forces and taken to George Washington University Hospital where she was treated for neck and shoulder injuries. While at the hospital, police arrested and charged Abileah with disorderly conduct for disrupting Congress.
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Obama “Will Not Relent” on Libya; Where’s Congress?
Fox News is reporting: “President Obama warned Libyan leader Muammar al-Qaddafi that the NATO military campaign against his regime ‘will not relent,’ as both he and British Prime Minister David Cameron reaffirmed their commitment to the mission and called on Qaddafi to leave power.” Politico reports: “Obama administration belatedly threatens veto of detainee, war legislation.”
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Could Rand Paul Force the PATRIOT Act to Lapse this Week?
The Hill reported Tuesday that Sen. Rand Paul’s, R-Ky., actions in the Senate “might cause the Patriot Act to lapse at the end of the week.” BRUCE FEIN, bruce at thelichfieldgroup.com Fein was deputy attorney general under President Ronald Reagan and is author of “Constitutional Peril: The Life and Death Struggle for Our Constitution and Democracy” and “American Empire: Before the Fall.”
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Supreme Court California Prison Ruling
The New York Times reports today on the Supreme Court’s ruling on California’s prison system: “Conditions in California’s overcrowded prisons are so bad that they violate the Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment, the Supreme Court ruled on Monday, ordering the state to reduce its prison population by more than 30,000 inmates.”
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Obama, Netanyahu and AIPAC: Professional Wrestling or Real Fight?
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will address a joint meeting of Congress tomorrow. NOURA ERAKAT, nourae at mac.com Erakat works as an adjunct professor of international human rights law in the Middle East at Georgetown University and is the U.S.-based legal advocacy coordinator for the Badil Center for Palestinian Refugee and Residency Rights. She is also a contributing editor to Jadaliyya.com. She said recently on Democracy Now: “What Israel has been doing is trying to create its own de facto borders, and therefore not recognizing that there is an armistice line [the 1967 border].”
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Progressives Respond to Obama
AIMEE ALLISON, aimee at rootsaction.org Co-Ex…
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Beyond Obama’s Speech: A “U.S.-Saudi Axis” Backing Counter-Revolution
JOSEPH MASSAD, jam25 at columbia.edu Massad is…
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Obama on Mideast — Chomsky: More Deceptive Rhetoric?
The Huffington Post reports of Obama’s s…
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Japan Nuclear Disaster: Danger for U.S.
A New York Times piece titled “In Japan Re…
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Egypt: Attacking Protesters and Military Convicting Over 5,000
AP is reporting: “Former Egyptian Presi…
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