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Home arrow Censorship arrow AP Erases Video
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Mar 31, 2006 at 01:04 AM

March 2006: AP Erases Video of Israeli Soldier Shooting Palestinian Boy

Alison Weir reports in Counterpunch, March 18/19: ”In the midst of journalism’s ‘Sunshine Week’ — during which the Associated Press and other news organizations are valiantly proclaiming the public’s ‘right to know’ — AP insists on conducting its own activities in the dark, and refuses to answer even the simplest questions about its system of international news reporting.

Most of all, it refuses to explain why it erased footage of an Israeli soldier intentionally shooting a Palestinian boy...”

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By Mordecai Briemberg
February 1, 2011

http://rabble.ca/news/2011/02/falling-arab-dictatorships-and-israeli-government-panic

The walls are crumbling. The walls behind which dictators indulge in decadent opulence while "their" people are mired in wretched circumstance. The walls behind which "leaders" secretly sell -- for personal gain -- the rights of the people they claim to represent.

Across North Africa and the Middle East, across the Arab world, for decades dictatorship and deepening corruption, firmly supported by imperial powers, seemed beyond challenge. Today, once "stable" regimes are now facing a popular reckoning.

From the vantage point of Palestine, there are three new dynamics.

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