Thousands took to streets across the world’s cities on Saturday to protest the use of GMO products, with Giant Monsanto being the main target. Over 50 countries have been taking part in the march for world food day, and across 47 different US states.

In other words, Saperstein asked whether Israel could “lose” American Jews because of its own self-destructive, anti-peace policies. You don’t need polls to realize that this is already happening with young American Jews.

As U.S. politicians of both political parties are still shuffling back and forth between the White House and the Capitol Hill without striking a viable deal to bring normality to the body politic they brag about, it is perhaps a good time for the befuddled world to start considering building a de-Americanized world.

Profit über alles: Für Jean Ziegler ist der Hunger in der Welt die Folge grenzenloser Habsucht räuberischer Oligarchen des globalisierten Finanzkapitals und der Weltwirtschaftsordnung. Alles nicht neu.

„Weil wir aus Sicht der Rechts- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften Modelle verwenden, die auf die alten Römer zurückgehen. (..) Aber es dient dazu, gesellschaftliche Eliten mächtig und reich zu erhalten, deswegen ändert sich nichts.“

Jill Abramson says she was approached by UK embassy officials after announcing collaboration with Guardian over NSA files

Im Großen und Ganzen geht es in diesem Buch um die Aktionen der CIA und des Aussenministeriums während der ersten Periode des Kalten Kriegs, besonders von 1947 bis in die späten 1960er und um die Rolle, die die Gebrüder Dulles in dieser Zeit spielten. John Foster Dulles war Aussenminister und Allen Dulles Direktor der CIA. Das Buch geht besonders ein auf sechs Regimewechsel-Operationen in der Amtszeit der Gebrüder Dulles: im Iran, in Guatemala, Indonesien, Vietnam, Kuba und im Kongo, darunter die ersten vom Präsidenten angeordneten Ermordungen von ausländischen Führern in der amerikanischen Geschichte.

Sheikh Zuweid (also spelled Sheikh Zoweid or Shaykh Zuwayd) is a Bedouin town in the North Sinai Governorate of Egypt near the border with the Gaza Strip.

Article 2 of Annex I of the Peace Treaty called for the Sinai Peninsula to be divided into zones. Within these zones, Egypt and Israel were permitted varying degrees of military build-up: (..)

Zone C: Between Line B and the Egypt-Israel border. Only the MFO and the Egyptian civilian police are permitted within Zone C.

SFM operations officially ceased in April 1982 when the Multinational Force and Observers (MFO) came into existence. (..)

In 1975, Israel made a key compromise to withdraw from the strategic Giddi and Mitla passes in the Sinai Peninsula in exchange for monitoring by third parties. The United States established the Sinai Field Mission to monitor access to the passes utilizing seismic, aural and infra-red sensors monitored from three watch stations.

A U.S. embassy official said a U.S. citizen had died as the result of an apparent suicide at the Ismailia prison. Egyptian authorities made no immediate comment.

Henry was first detained on 29 August in Sheikh Zuweid, North Sinai, an area in which the Egyptian army is currently waging a controversial counter-insurgency against Islamist extremists.

Henry aroused suspicion because he had allegedly broken curfew, and because he was carrying „a map of Egypt and a very hi-tech electronic device“, said Badr Abdellatty, a spokesman for Egypt‘s foreign ministry.