Articles by 21st Century Wire

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Account from a Doctor on Board the Freedom Flotilla Boat Al-Awda Hijacked by the Israeli Navy
Dr Swee Ang | 21st Century Wire – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Aug 2018

4 Aug 2018 – The last leg of the journey of al-Awda (the boat of return) was scheduled to reach Gaza on 29 July 2018. Prior to the beginning of this last leg, we had spent 2 days learning non-violent actions and had prepared ourselves in anticipation of Israeli invasion of our boat. Vulnerable individuals especially those with medical conditions were to sit at the rear of the top deck with their hands on the deck table. The leader of this group was Gerd, a 75 year old elite Norwegian athlete and she had the help of Lucia a Spanish nurse in her group.

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Smart Power & the Human Rights Industrial Complex
Patrick Henningsen - 21st Century Wire, 9 May 2016

Billionaire philanthropists, political luminaries and transnational corporations working together in the name of social justice forging a better, fairer and more accountable world. The story reads well on paper. After all, the 20th century saw a string of failures by governments to halt horrific exhibitions of genocide and crimes against humanity. As a result, the door opened for many high-profile charities and human rights organizations to play a bigger role in moderating international affairs.

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MH17 One Year On: What Really Happened and Why
Patrick Henningsen - 21st Century Wire, 20 Jul 2015

17 Jul 2015 – This month marks the one year anniversary of the downing of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 – an incident that took place against a backdrop of a brutal proxy war – pitting Kiev and its supporters in Washington DC, the EU and NATO – against rebel forces in eastern Ukraine and Russia. As with most 21st century conflicts, truth has been the first casualty of war here.

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Britain Launches ‘Big Brother’ System, Uploads One Third of Population to Facial Recognition Database
21st Century Wire – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Feb 2015

To describe what has happened to British society, one can no longer call it a “slippery slope”, as it’s abundantly clear from this latest news that Britain has already fallen off the edge, and is presently tumbling into an Orwellian canyon.

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