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First All-Europe Racist/Fascist Gathering Overshadowed in Denmark

“EDL summit in Denmark humiliated by low attendance” - The Guardian

(COPENHAGEN) - On March 31, some 5000 Danes and a couple hundred like-minded anti-racists from other Scandinavian countries and England marched in Aarhus, to stop the spread of racist/fascist groupings popping up around Europe. Some have ties in the United States.

Their march was a counter-demonstration to the first all-Europe rally against Muslims.

Hundreds of Israelis March in Tel Aviv to Protest War with Iran

Anti-war protest comes amid growing Facebook campaign linking Israelis and Iranians; campaign leaders: We have nothing to do with the protest rally.

(TEL AVIV Ha'aretz) - Hundreds of Israelis marched in Tel Aviv on Saturday to protest against a possible Israeli strike on Iran's nuclear facilities.

The protest came amid a recent Facebook campaign linking Israeli and Iranian citizens in their opposition to war between the two nations.

Palestinian Hunger Striker `At Risk of Death` Highlights Injustice of Administrative Detention

Hana Shalabi began her hunger strike in protest against ill-treatment during her arrest on 16 February.

(LONDON Amnesty International ) - Israeli authorities should immediately release a Palestinian detainee or charge her with a recognizable criminal offence and promptly try her, AI said amid fears that the woman could die in detention after 37 days on hunger strike.

Hana Shalabi, 30, from the village of Burqin in the northern West Bank, has never been charged with a criminal offence.

Is it an Israeli False Flag Again?

Read the story of Naeim Giladi, an Israeli agent operating in Iraq in the late 1940’s, and then decide.

(LONDON) - Israeli press reported this evening that French gunman Mohamed Merah had been on a trip to Israel in the past.

According to the report, Merah's passport had Israeli stamps in it. The purpose of his visit is unknown. Israeli analysts suspect he was either trying to visit the Palestinian territories or preparing for a terror attack.

NATO `Covers Up` Libyan Death Shame

The Libyan Health Minister of the National Transitional Council estimated that about 30,000 were killed during the conflict.

(ROME) - NATO has failed to investigate scores of civilian deaths incurred during its seven-month military campaign in Libya, Amnesty international says.

NATO expressed its “regret” for civilian casualties but has taken no steps to initiate an investigation.

World War II Veteran Receives French Legion of Honor

The French Consulate's speech embodied the heart felt appreciation of the French people.

(LOPEZ ISLAND, Wash.) - Roy Moore fought the Germans throughout France in an effort to liberate them from the grasp of the Nazis.

About 200 friends, family members and guests recently gathered to watch as now retired Col. Roy Moore Jr. was awarded a Chevalier of the French Legion of Honor, for his actions in France during World War II.

Morocco: Rescind ban on Le Nouvel Observateur and Le Pèlerin

Salem-News.com Eye on the World Report.

(SAYDABAD, Bangladesh) - The banning of the French weeklies violates the right of Moroccans to read – or not to read — publications of their choosing...

Reactor Reax: Nuclear Industry Report

Examining the risks and ongoing situations that today define nuclear power and energy.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - This week in Reactor Reax we hear more about the ongoing problems in Japan based on the recent tsunami and nuclear disaster in Fukushima prefecture.

An LA Times report details the short-circuiting of the U.S. nuclear renaissance of new power plant construction.

US Recalibrating Iran War Plan

It is apparent that Washington and Tehran are at crossed swords now and one cannot recall a time when Tehran was so boldly defiant in the face of the US cudgel-brandishing policies.

(TEHRAN) - From the recent massacres happening in Iraq and Syria, one can gather that Washington has adamantly trodden on a path which is to be seen as a way to redefine the war in Iraq, an effective stratagem to bring the regime of Assad to its doom and recalibrate a comprehensive plan to topple the Islamic government of Iran.

Immediately coinciding with the withdrawal of US forces from Iraq, a coordinated string of deadly explosions gripped Iraq...

US Sanctions no coup de grace for Iran

The table Washington has set for Iran seems to be big enough to hold more options for the Islamic Republic.

(TEHRAN) - Will Washington dispense with a new round of sanctions against the Islamic Republic of Iran? Or will the warmongers in the White House march for war against the country?

In a dramatic move which was apparently contrary to his desire, Barack Obama on Saturday signed into law tough new sanctions against Iran targeting the country's Central Bank and financial sector in a bid to administer an economic coup de grace against Iran.