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The shooting of Thomas Hurndall

There’s a doc­u­ment­ary drama on the UK’s Chan­nel 4 tomor­row night at 9 PM, telling the story of Thomas Hurndall’s murder by an Israeli sniper, and his family’s fight to uncover the truth.

I met Tom on the human shield action to Iraq in 2003. He left Iraq when war became inev­it­able and trav­elled on to Gaza where he was even­tu­ally shot in the head by Hayb, an award-winning Israeli marks­man, while try­ing to save Palestinian chil­dren who were hav­ing pot shots fired around them by Israeli snipers.

America’s Police State coming along just nicely

Glenn Gre­en­wald reports on the appalling events in Saint Paul, Min­nesota, where the Repub­lic­ans have been hold­ing their National Con­ven­tion over the week­end. It appears the Fed­eral Gov­ern­ment has been orches­trat­ing fascist-like police raids across the city on oppos­i­tion groups in attempt to shut them up. Pro­test­ers here in Min­neapolis have been tar­geted by a series of highly…

Free Gaza boats successfully break Israeli blockade

Over the week­end a group from the Free Gaza Move­ment, includ­ing my good friend Ken O’Keefe, set out in boats from Cyprus and suc­cess­fully broke Israel’s contempt­ible eco­nomic block­ade of Gaza. Ken emailed through a few pho­tos today, with this mes­sage: Some pic­tures to share of a day that may have largely ignored in the West, but was deeply…

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