Former US Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Mairead Corrigan Maguire, and 19 other activists were freed by Israel after a week in detention. Their boat The Spirit of Humanity, carrying humanitarian aid for Gazans, was intercepted and boarded by Israel naval forces. The Free Gaza Movement reported that, despite the release,
Many passengers did not get all of their belongings back, many computers were stolen, some that were returned had their hard drives completely erased. Many of the pieces of camera equipment were not given back as well, and, of course, none of the tapes of the boarding, roughing up or incarceration of the 21 people who have been returned.
Thanks to Mondoweiss for posting the news and this video, from the Council on American-Islamic Relations:
SECRETARY CLINTON: I appreciate the opportunity to provide some information about what our government and the people of the U.S. are doing with respect to the humanitarian crisis that is affecting Pakistan. Read the rest of this entry »
Yesterday afternoon I drafted the passage, for an article for an electronic journal:
Even if one credited Obama’s general proclamation of “a comprehensive strategy that doesn’t just rely on bullets or bombs, but also relies on agricultural specialists, on doctors, on engineers”, military tactics undercut rather than supported that conception. In US-backed operations, civilians — if they are recognised by Washington — are offered not progress but sacrifice. As I write, up to 75 percent of the 1.3 million residents of Pakistan’s Swat Valley are now refugees.
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Yesterday afternoon I drafted the passage, for an article for an electronic journal:
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