10 Mar
Events of Interest and Analyses, A Foreign Perspective
News
News
Assad tells Annan ‘terrorists’ block solution
Former UN chief visits Syria as attacks continue, while Russia and Arab nations agree in Cairo on need to halt violence.
Last Modified: 10 Mar 2012 15:42 GMT
Middle East
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Death toll climbs after Israeli raids on Gaza
Medics say at least 15 Palestinians have been killed and a dozen injured after Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip.
Last Modified: 10 Mar 2012 15:41 GMT
Middle East
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Rally staged against new US electoral laws
Controversial legislation condemned at protest in Alabama on 47th anniversary of landmark civil rights march.
Weiss: Zionism has created ‘rivers of blood’
Talk to Al Jazeera10 Mar 2012 11:17 GMT
Rabbi Yisrael Dovid Weiss explains why he believes that Israel as a state is not legitimate.
To the Last Drop
Witness
08 Mar 2012 09:02 GMT
Residents of one Canadian town are engaged in a David and Goliath-style battle over the dirtiest oil project ever known.
The new legal theory that enables homophobic evangelising in US schools
Katherine Stewart:
A campaign funded by the religious right has effectively rewritten the constitutional separation of church and state in education
Last month, 8,000 public high school students in Montgomery County, Maryland, went home with fliers informing them that no one is “born gay” and offering therapy if they experienced “unwanted same-sex attraction”.
The group behind the flier, Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays and Gays (PFOX), isn’t the kind one expects to find represented in student backpacks. Peter Sprigg, a board member of PFOX who doubles as a senior fellow at the Family Research Council, recently told Chris Matthews that he believes “gay behavior” should be “criminalized”. PFOX president Greg Quinlan told another talk show host that gays and lesbians practice “sexual cannibalism”……………………..
