For Immediate Release
November 3, 2008

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On Friday, November 7, the SS DIGNITY leaves at 5:00 pm from Larnaca to Gaza. This time, thirteen members of the European Parliament from the England, Ireland, Italy, Turkey, Wales, Switzerland, and Scotland are on board.

After two successful voyages, one in August and one last week, members of the Free Gaza Movement are pleased to bring yet another delegation to Gaza to see for themselves the devastation Israel has meted out to 1.5 million Palestinians.

“Our dream two years ago was to bring people to Gaza to witness what Israel is doing. This time, we are honored to have Parliamentarians from the world community coming with us,” said Mary Hughes Thompson, one of the original Free Gaza Movement organizers.

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Cambridge Journals writes:

Published in 2007, Gregory Clark’s A Farewell to Alms has attracted more attention than any economic history monograph since Fogel and Engerman’s Time of the Cross appeared in 1974. In recognition of its extraordinary impact, the European Review of Economic History has published a special symposium in which four of the world’s most eminent scholars reflect on Gregory Clark’s important and controversial propositions, followed by a response from the author himself.

If you would like to read – free of charge – Deidre McCloskey, Hans Joachim-Voth, George Grantham, Karl Gunnar Persson, as well as Gregory Clark himself, discussing this seminal work, simply click here. Please note: this offer lasts only until 30 November 2008.

Palin Prank Call: Masked Avengers, Canadian Comedy Duo, Convince Palin She’s Talking To French President Sarkozy (AUDIO)

By Ray Hanania, Southwest News-Herald, 17 October 2008

If Barak Obama’s association with 1960s radical William Ayers is a critical issue in this campaign, then Sen. John McCain’s role in protecting the actions of his father in the deaths of 34 American sailors is an issue, too.

While most Americans know all about the Ayers controversy, few know that McCain’s father, Navy Admiral John McCain Jr., was involved in the cover-up of the Israeli assault on the U.S.S. Liberty on June 8, 1967.

On that day, Israeli fighter jets, torpedo boats and helicopter assault ships killed 34 sailors and wounded 174 others during the Arab-Israeli war.

McCain and pro-Israel activists insist the attack was an “accident.” But eyewitnesses on the ship, American veterans in uniform who went into the Mediterranean Sea as champions of Israel, insist Israel wanted to sink the ship to force the United States to join the war against Egypt, then a Soviet client.

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Jonathan Cook, The National, 29 October 2008

Kafr Qassem, Israel // In a conflict that has produced its share of suffering and tragedy, the name of Kafr Qassem lives on in infamy more than half a century after Israeli police gunned down 47 Palestinian civilians, including women and children, in the village.

Yesterday, Kafr Qassem’s inhabitants, joined by a handful of Israeli Jewish sympathisers, commemorated the anniversary of the deaths 52 years ago by marching to the cemetery where the victims were laid to rest.

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