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Social Justice/社会正義
Waving in the Front Row by Uri Avnery
from https://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/avnery/1421437291/THE THREE Islamic terrorists could have been very proud of themselves, if they had lived to see it.By committing two attacks (quite ordinary ones by Israeli standards) they spread panic throughout France, brought millions of people onto the streets, gathered more than 40 heads of states in Paris. They changed … [Read more...] about Waving in the Front Row by Uri Avnery
Anti-Nuclear news in Japanese
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