Articles by Sarah Lazare
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How US Colleges Have Become Ground Zero for Suppression of Palestine Solidarity
Sarah Lazare – Common Dreams,
5 Oct 2015
Two new reports highlight the systematic intimidation, harassment, and censorship that are silencing free speech critical of Israel. The study highlights the common tactic of conflating anti-Semitism with criticism of Israel, and equating all Jews with the Israeli state, in an effort to shut down debate.
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Sarah Lazare – Common Dreams,
30 Mar 2015
Tens of thousands of people marched in the pouring rain through Tunisia’s capital on Tuesday [24 Mar 2015] to kick off the 14th World Social Forum and bring the message of peace and solidarity to the site of last week’s deadly attack on the National Bardo Museum.
→ read full articleResearchers Confirm: When NSA Watches Your Metadata, It Is Watching You
Sarah Lazare – Common Dreams,
17 Mar 2014
Stanford University researchers have confirmed what civil liberties advocates have warned since the NSA scandal broke: metadata surveillance is a window to highly sensitive personal information, including medical issues, financial history, and even marijuana cultivation.
→ read full articleAfter 20 Years of NAFTA Poverty, Lawmakers Move to Fast-Track TPP
Sarah Lazare – Common Dreams,
13 Jan 2014
On the heels of NAFTA’s “20 years of regret” anniversary, U.S. lawmakers are aggressively pushing legislation to fast-track what has been called NAFTA on steroids: the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).
→ read full articleIn Afghanistan, ‘Security Deal’ Means US Occupation Forever
Sarah Lazare – Common Dreams,
25 Nov 2013
In addition to immunity, US demands right to enter Afghan homes in ‘bi-lateral security agreement.’ If you reduce the amount of occupation forces but keep them there forever, then the occupation continues and the war on people’s everyday lives is not actually over — no matter what the US government or mainstream media tells us.
→ read full articleWikiLeaks in Baghdad
Sarah Lazare and Ryan Harvey – The Nation,
9 Aug 2010
One by one, soldiers just arriving in Baghdad were taken into a room and questioned by their commanding officers. “All questions led up to the big question,” explains former Army Spc. Josh Stieber. “If someone were to pull out a weapon in a marketplace full of unarmed civilians, would you open fire on that person, even if you knew you would hurt a lot of innocent people in the process?” It was a trick question. “Not only did you have to say yes, but you had to say yes without hesitating,” explains Stieber.
→ read full articleTHE ARCHITECTURE OF APARTHEID
Sarah Lazare and Clare Bayard - Znet,
30 Nov 2009
The word "Revenge" is scrawled in Hebrew on a Palestinian school in Hebron. The windows are covered with screens and the play yard obstructed with more screens tipped with barbed wire, to obstruct the stones regularly pelted down by Jewish settlers. The space between the school and the neighboring building is blocked off with large, […]
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