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Real Madrid will target Rennes wonderkid Eduardo Camavinga instead of Man Utd’s Paul Pogba in 2021, according to reports.
Pogba has been linked with a move to the Spanish giants for some time now, with rumours intensifying after he said it would be a ‘dream’ to play for Real.
The Frenchman now risks falling out with his teammates and the club hierarchy after his comments.
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However, it looks like Real will prioritise their future by signing Camavinga instead of Pogba in 2021.
According to Spanish source Ok Diario (via Goal), Real have made Camavinga their number one midfield target in the next summer transfer window.
Camavinga is one of the hottest properties in French football right now after breaking into the Rennes team. He’s made 38 league appearances for the club, despite being aged just 17.
On Wednesday, he became the second youngest player to score for the French national team as his side beat Ukraine 7-1 in a friendly.
Real will need to spend big if they are to get their man in preparation for next season. Camavinga has been linked with a host of top European clubs, including Man Utd, Barcelona and Borussia Dortmund.
The news leaves Pogba in a precarious position at Old Trafford. He said on Thursday: “All football players would love to play for Real Madrid.
“It is a dream for me, why not one day? I am in Manchester and I love my club. I am playing in Manchester, I’m having fun and I want to do everything to put the club where it deserves.
“I will give everything to the max, like my team-mates.”
His comments have angered some United fans as he is clearly open to leaving at some point in the future. It’s understandable for almost all footballers to dream of playing for Real, but it’s probably not the best time to admit this at the start of a new campaign.
Especially after being thrashed 6-1 by Spurs in your most recent club appearance.
Pogba and United will be aiming to bounce back with a big victory in their next Prem game. They face Newcastle away from home on Saturday 17th October.
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Jack Grealish says he did not “expect to play the way” he did in Aston Villa’s 7-2 thrashing of Liverpool last Sunday.
Liverpool were caught out time and again as they suffered a shock defeat to Aston Villa in the last round of Premier League fixtures.
Ollie Watkins scored a hat-trick as Aston Villa tore the Reds apart at Villa Park, while Grealish contributed two goals and three assists.
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However, Grealish has revealed that before the fixture against the Reds he had a late fitness test that could have ruled him out of the fixture.
“It was actually a weird one,” Grealish told The Guardian.
“I had a fitness test on the day of the Liverpool game (last Sunday).
“I hadn’t even trained for the two days before it because I had a sore hamstring. I didn’t expect to play the way I did.
“(It) doesn’t come around often in your lifetime as a footballer, it was crazy.”
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Luis Suarez has claimed that Barcelona sold him to Atletico Madrid because of his friendship with Lionel Messi.
LaLiga rivals Atletico were able to sign Suarez for €6m after the Catalan giants made it clear that they didn’t want the Uruguayan to stay.
Ex-Liverpool striker Suarez scored 198 goals in 283 appearances for Barca following a £74million move in 2014, but did not figure in the plans of new head coach Ronald Koeman, who replaced Quique Setien in August.
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Messi, who wanted out of Barcelona in the summer, stuck by his friend recently by saying that Suarez deserved better than being ‘kicked out’ of the Camp Nou.
And now Suarez thinks that he was shown the exit door at Barca after the club became “annoyed” by his friendship with the Argentine.
“I think they wanted to remove me from Messi’s side,” Suarez told ESPN.
“Maybe it annoyed them that I had a good relationship with Leo. Perhaps they didn’t want him to be with me so much.
“I can’t find any reason to think that would damage the team, though. We looked for each other constantly on the pitch, but for the good of the team. Maybe they wanted him to play with more teammates.
“That could have something to do with it. I can’t find any other reason to want to separate us because we got on well on the pitch.”
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Funeral services for Tony Robinson, the unarmed, biracial 19-year-old shot dead by a white Madison, Wisconsin police officer last week, are being held on Saturday.
Preliminary autopsy results, released Friday, show Robinson was shot in the head, torso, and right arm, according to news reports.
Madison police have said Officer Matt Kenny shot Robinson multiple times during an altercation in an apartment. Kenny arrived at the scene following 911 reports that Robinson was running in and out of traffic and acting agitated.
The Guardian explored the incident as well as Robinson’s early life and teen years in a piece published Friday.
“The community is still reeling from Robinson’s death,” wrote journalists Oliver Laughland and Zoe Sullivan. “Many questions remain unanswered, and protesters have vowed to continue mobilising on the issue.”
On Monday, close to 2,000 high school and college students occupied the Wisconsin State Capitol demanding “Justice for Tony.”
According to the Washington State Journal:
At a forum organized by African-American church leaders on Friday evening, Madison Police Chief Mike Koval asked for the community’s forgiveness. “I desperately seek that,” he said.
But in an op-ed published Friday, Alix Shabazz and Brandi Grayson, of Madison’s Young Gifted and Black coalition, called for action, not words.
“The ‘kinder and gentler’—and media-friendly—approach of the Madison Police Department after Tony Robinson’s death might look good in pictures and headlines, but it means nothing for the lives of black people here who live through—or die from—state violence,” they wrote.
Shabazz and Grayson added:
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With a desperate lurch to appease the far-right of the Israeli electorate in the final days before national elections in Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was able to declare a re-election victory for his Likud Party early Wednesday morning despite a nail-biting campaign and a recent surge by the more moderate Zionist Union party led by Isaac Herzog.
According to final results, Likud took 30 seats in the Knesset (Israeli parliament), while Zionist Union came in second with 24 seats. The Joint Arab List, a newly-formed coalition of Israeli-Arab parties, came in third and won 14 seats. The Jerusalum Post reported on the seats won by other parties in descending order: Yesh Atid (11); Kulanu (10); Bayit Yehudi (8); Shas (7); United Torah Judaism (6); Yisrael Beytenu (6); and Meretz (4).
“Against all odds: a great victory for Likud,” Netanyahu declared to supporters in Tel Aviv, shortly after Herzog conceded.
Netanyahu said he would swiftly form a new ruling government by joining forces with other far-right parties, including the pro-settlement Jewish Home Party (Bayit Yehudi) led by Naftali Bennett.
Head of the Arab Joint List, Ayman Odeh, described his party’s third-place finish “a historic day” for Arab citizens in Israel. “Today we are giving our answer to racism and to those who want to exclude us,” said Odeh. That silver-lining, however, seemed overwhelmed by Netanyahu’s re-election, quite markedly built on the back of the nation’s far-right forces.
In the days ahead of Tuesday’s election, Netanyahu was seen widely as “desperate,” lurching rightward from his previous positions as he disavowed the idea of ever allowing a Palestinian state, foreswearing the two-state solution, claiming the right to continue to build on Palestinian lands, fear-mongering over the potential voter turnout of Israel’s Arab citizens, and denigrating all of his opponents as a threat to Israel’s existence.
As the Guardian’s Peter Beaumont reports from Jerusalem:
Palestinian rights activists in the U.S. responded to Likud’s victory by mourning just how responsive the Israeli electorate appeared to be to Netanyahu’s fear-mongering and racist-tinged politics. “Between the two leading parties, there was little choice for those who want to see a just peace and equality for all Israelis and Palestinians,” said Naomi Dann, media coordinator for Jewish Voice for Peace, in a statement on Wednesday. “Should either party form the next government, either separately or in unity, the occupation and military rule over Palestinians will continue. The vote for Netanyahu was a vote of approval for his racism and war-mongering.”
Gideon Levy, the prominent Israeli journalist, also lamented in his column how Netanyahu’s victory shows “how truly broken” Israeli society has become.
“If after six years of nothing, if after six years of sowing fear and anxiety, hatred and despair, this is the nation’s choice, then it is very ill indeed,” Levy opined.
Though Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestinian Authority, had yet to officially respond to Netanyahu’s re-election as of Wednesday morning, Haaretz reports that senior PA officials said Netanyahu’s recent statements prove the Palestinians have “no partner in Israel” when it comes to a peaceful settlement.
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And as Haaretz columnist Ilene Prusher wrote in the wake of Likud’s victory on Wednesday, the final, desperate days of the election offered the world a look at Netanyahu’s “true face”:
Meanwhile, PA chief negotiator Saeb Erekat, did speak out on Tuesday night and indicated Likud’s victory would only strengthen his resolve to pursue other avenues to end the Israeli occupation and subjugation of Palestinian people and lands.
“It is clear that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will form the next government, so we say clearly that we will go to the International Criminal Court in the Hague and we will speed up, pursue and intensify” all diplomatic efforts, he told AFP.
And senior Palestine Liberation Organization official Yasser Abed Rabbo expressed his disappointment, saying, “Israel chose the path of racism, occupation and settlement building, and did not choose the path of negotiations and partnership between us.”
According to Beaumont, Netanyahu now “appears locked on a collision course with both Palestinians and the international community” after disavowal of the two-state solution and his contemptuous declarations over recent days.
And Chemi Shalev, also at Haaretz, looks at what comes next—both domestically and internationally—for Israeli politics after an election which turned uglier than most could have anticipated:
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Palestinians suffered a dramatic increase in fatalities last year, with more killed by Israel in 2014 than any other annual period since the 1967 war nearly 50 years ago.
A new report from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the occupied Palestinian territory found that, overall, Israel was responsible for 2,314 Palestinian deaths and 17,125 injuries last calendar year.
Entitled Fragmented Lives, the study concludes that Israel’s 50-day military assault on Gaza last summer was the most significant driver of casualties. Between July 7 and August 26, Israel killed at least 2,220 Palestinians and wounded 11,231 in the war. According to researchers, 1,492 of those killed were civilians, but the number could be far higher, as 123 are listed as unverified. At least 551 children are numbered among the dead.
When compared with Israeli deaths, the human toll is asymmetrical. The report notes that 71 Israelis, 66 of them soldiers, were killed, in addition to one foreign national.
But this high magnitude of human loss is not limited to Gaza.
The West Bank, including East Jerusalem, “witnessed the highest number of Palestinian fatalities in incidents involving Israeli forces since 2007 and the highest number of Palestinian injuries since 2005, when OCHA began collecting data,” the report notes.
There was a drastic spike in child casualties specifically, as well as a a dramatic rise in Palestinian injuries, driven by a “sharp increase in the Israeli forces’ use of live ammunition.”
This trend appears to be continuing into 2015.
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Earlier this week, Defence for Children International-Palestine reported that, in the first three months of this year, at least 30 children in the West Bank and East Jerusalem were shot with live ammunition by Israeli forces during protest, with several left in critical condition.
But the human toll was not limited to immediate deaths and wounds, the UN report notes.
In the West Bank and East Jerusalem, Palestinians endured a dramatic rise in incarceration for alleged security offenses, including a monthly average of 185 Palestinian children held in military detention. Defense for Children International – Palestine has documented abuse and torture that Palestinian children endure in Israeli prisons, where they are denied due process.
Furthermore, in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, home demolitions, discriminatory planning, and settler violence led to high levels of displacement last year. More than 7,500 Palestinian Bedouins in 46 West Bank communities face the immediate threat of forcible transfer by Israeli authorities, thanks to a controversial relocation plan, the report notes.
In Gaza, nearly half a million people—28 percent of the population—were internally displaced last year by the war, and as of the end of December, approximately 100,000 remain displaced.
The report was released just days after Israel and close ally and backer the United States boycotted a UN human rights session aimed, in part at addressing Israeli human rights violations.
Yousef Munayyer, executive director for the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, told Common Dreams that the UN report underscores the importance, right now, for the international community to exert pressure to enforce real change.
“Palestinians continue to pay highest price for the status quo,” said Munayyer. “The failure to do something to resolve this situation is a stain on the moral conscience of international community.”
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In a reversal, Republican Governor of Arkansas Asa Hutchinson announced Wednesday he won’t sign a controversial ‘Religious Liberty’ bill into law unless changes are made that make it clear the measure does not authorize discrimination. The bill passed by Arkansas legislators on Wednesday mirrors enacted in Indiana last week that created a national backlash and a wave of criticism against similar laws in other states.
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Despite the national outcry and political fallout from a similar bill in Indiana, the Republican-controlled Arkansas state legislature passed the so-called ‘Religious Liberty’ law on Tuesday, sending it to the desk of Governor Asa Hutchinson for final approval.
Like the controversial new law in Indiana, aka the ‘Religious Freedom Restoration Act’ (or RFRA), the proposed measure which received final approval by both the Arkansas House and Senate says, in part, that “state action shall not substantially burden a person’s right to exercise of religion.” However, critics point out that those protections for religious freedom already exist and that what the law is really trying to do is offer legal cover, under the guise of religion, to those who would discriminate against others—particularly gays and lesbians—of whom they disapprove.
“Religious freedom is a fundamental value, but it should not be used to justify harm or discrimination against others,” said Rita Sklar, executive director of the ACLU of Arkansas, which opposes the bill.
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With the bill now officially on the desk of Gov. Hutchinson, also a Republican, the only way to stop it from becoming law is to issue a veto. His other choices include signing it into law, or doing nothing, in which case the bill automatically becomes law after five days. Hutchison has voiced support for the law and indicated he will sign it, but the ongoing controversy and outcry over the law in Indiana may at least give him pause.
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As the Huffington Post reports:
On behalf of the ACLU, Sklar said, “The legislature and governor of Arkansas should heed the economic damage and vocal public outcry that Indiana is facing and stop this bill in its tracks.”
If signed into law, Arkansas would become one of 21 states which have passed some version of the RFRA. As a national trend, LGBTQ rights groups and civil liberties advocates see it largely as backlash against the wave of legal victories won for same-sex marriage in recent years.
As the New York Times explained in a Q&A on the issue:
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In case you weren’t already worried about the current and rapid acidification of the world’s oceans, a new report by leading scientists finds that this very phenomenon is to blame for the worst mass extinction event the planet earth has ever seen—approximately 252 million years ago.
The findings, published this week in the journal Science by University of Edinburgh researchers, raise serious concerns about the implications of present-day acidification, driven by human-made climate change.
“Scientists have long suspected that an ocean acidification event occurred during the greatest mass extinction of all time, but direct evidence has been lacking until now,” said lead author Dr. Matthew Clarkson in a statement. “This is a worrying finding, considering that we can already see an increase in ocean acidity today that is the result of human carbon emissions.”
The paper looks at the culprit behind the Permo-Triassic Boundary mass extinction, which wiped out more than 90 percent of marine species and two-thirds of land animals, making it even more severe than the die-off of the dinosaurs.
The scientists evaluated rocks in the United Arab Emirates that, 250 million years ago, were on the bottom of the ocean. Researchers then employed a climate model to determine what drove the extinction.
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A summary of the researchers’ findings explains the mass die-off “happened when Earth’s oceans absorbed huge amounts of carbon dioxide from volcanic eruptions. This changed the chemical composition of the oceans—making them more acidic—with catastrophic consequences for life on Earth.”
The kicker? The carbon that drove this process during the Permian-Triassic Boundary extinction was “released at a rate similar to modern emissions,” the report summary concludes. “This fast rate of release was a critical factor driving ocean acidification.”
Over the past 200 years alone, international oceans have become dramatically more acidic, putting coral reefs and sea life at risk, and even, in some cases, causing snails’ shells to dissolve.
As Dr. Rachel Wood of the University of Edinburgh told the Independent, “The important take-home message of this [report] is that the rate of increase of CO2 during the Permian mass extinction is about the same rate as the one to which we are exposing the ocean to today.”
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A new investigation into the United States’ killer drone campaign in Yemen, published Tuesday, finds that not only does that program fail to conform to protocols established by U.S. President Barack Obama, but that the strikes have in fact led to increased anti-American sentiment and greater regional destabilization.
The study by the Open Society Justice Foundation comes as Yemeni civilians, already under siege, face even greater threat from international “counterterrorism” efforts as a U.S.-backed attack on that country has killed an estimated 364 civilians, including at least 84 children and 25 women.
The report, Death by Drone: Civilian Harm Caused by U.S. Targeted Killings in Yemen (pdf), found that since President Obama’s May 2013 assertion that drone attacks should only be conducted if there is “near-certainty that no civilians will be killed or injured,” eight civilians, including two children, were killed in four separate strikes.
“This report goes to the question of the inevitability of civilian casualties with drone strikes,” Phyllis Bennis, senior fellow at Institute for Policy Studies, said in an interview with Common Dreams. “The administration can make the claims it wants about standards of near certainty, but this report make clear they are not abiding even by that.”
Through extensive research including the gathering of eye-witness accounts, report authors uncovered the details of nine cases in which a total of 39 civilians, including 5 children, were killed or injured by drone attacks between May 2012 and April 2014.
And Abdulrasheed al Faqih, executive director of Yemen-based Mwatana Organization for Human Rights, which co-authored the report, said: “In incident after incident, eye-witnesses told us of watching civilians being burned alive, or of losing parents, siblings and children in U.S. drone strikes. Civilians wanted to know why they had been targeted when they were not affiliated with al-Qaeda. They wanted justice.”
In addition to conducting the strikes in complete secrecy and refusing to acknowledge the identities or number of civilians killed, the U.S. and Yemen governments have never instituted any means of reparations for civilian harm as a result of U.S. drone strikes.
“I believe that America is testing its lethal inventions in our poor villages, because [it] cannot afford to do so at any place where human life has value. Here, we are without value.”
—Moqbel Abdullah Ali al-Jarraah, a villager from Silat al-Jarraah
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The report raises numerous questions regarding the validity of U.S. official claims that strikes only target individuals who pose “a continuing and imminent threat to the American people” and who cannot be captured.
Thus, the study argues that the U.S. drone campaign in Yemen has established a “dangerous” international precedent by flouting international law, in addition to its own alleged parameters, and has had a “terrorizing effect” on the civilian population which local residents say has “strengthen[ed] al-Qaeda by generating outrage and a desire for revenge.”
In one account, a man whose brother was one of the victims of a September 2, 2012 attack that killed 12 civilians including 3 children and a pregnant woman told researchers: “The U.S. government should come to the region to see what targets it has hit. All of them were innocent and poor people who had nothing to do with any terrorist group. We had hoped that America would come to the region with educational and development projects and services, but it came instead with aircrafts to kill our children.”
In an analysis published at Consortium News on Monday, researcher Jonathan Marshall wrote, “Washington’s single-minded focus on counter-terrorism not only created new recruits for al-Qaeda but predictably helped set the stage for the latest crisis.”
A growing number of countries—including Australia, Denmark, Djibouti, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Saudi Arabia, and the United Kingdom, as well as NATO—have reportedly participated in U.S. drone strikes. Amrit Singh, a senior legal officer who heads the Open Society Foundation Justice Initiative’s work on human rights abuses related to counterterrorism, warns that the U.S. campaign in Yemen has set a precedent, saying there is a “danger that other states will adopt and entrench the problematic aspects of the U.S. model.”
Moqbel Abdullah Ali al-Jarraah, a villager from Silat al-Jarraah, where a January 23, 2013 U.S. airstrike hit a civilian house, told researchers: “I believe that America is testing its lethal inventions in our poor villages, because [it] cannot afford to do so at any place where human life has value. Here, we are without value.”
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Prove it. Let the American voters, the press, and the global public see and read the fine print of this so-called “free trade” deal.
That’s the basic message contained in a new statement released by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) after President Obama said earlier this week that she and other opponents of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) were “wrong” when it came to their objections to the pending 12-nation agreement.
“We’ve all seen the tricks and traps that corporations hide in the fine print of contracts. We’ve all seen the provisions they slip into legislation to rig the game in their favor. Now just imagine what they have done working behind closed doors with TPP.” —Sen. Elizabeth Warren”The Administration says I’m wrong – that there’s nothing to worry about,” Warren wrote in a blog post addressed to constituents and the general public on Wednesday. “They say the deal is nearly done, and they are making a lot of promises about how the deal will affect workers, the environment, and human rights. Promises – but people like you can’t see the actual deal.”
Warren’s statement came as members of the Senate Finance Committee on Wednesday evening—despite an attempt by Sen. Bernie Sanders to slam the brakes on the process—voted to pass trade promotion authority, or Fast Track, that would give President Obama and his administration the ability to negotiate the final terms of the TPP (as well as a similar deal with Europe), while relegating the congressional role to “all or nothing” up-or-down votes on the trade pacts.
Passed by a vote of 20-6, the Fast Track measure received support of seven Democrats on the committee and all but one Republican. In addition to Sen. Ron Wyden (Ore.), who co-sponsored the bill, the other Democrats who voted in favor of Fast Track were Sens. Maria Cantwell (Wash.), Ben Cardin (Md.), Bill Nelson (Fla.), Tom Carper (Del.), Mark Warner (Va.), and Michael Bennet (Colo.).
In his recent comments, Obama has called the TPP the “most progressive trade deal in history,” but critics like Warren have responded by saying if that is true—if the deal is so great and wonderful—why won’t the administration release the details so the American public can see for themselves? Though lawmakers have received numerous briefings and can see draft versions of the agreement, they are forbidden from disclosing the details of what it contains.
So why hasn’t the deal—other than through bits and pieces of un-sanctioned leaks—been made available to the general public even though corporate interests have had a seat at the table throughout the multi-year negotiating process? According to Warren, and despite assurances from Obama and others, the reason is simple: “We can’t make this deal public because if the American people saw what was in it, they would be opposed to it.”
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Sen. Warren also appeared on The Rachel Maddow show on Wednesday night to explain her opposition. When mentioned by Maddow that the White House has now promised that there would be a “public comment period” after the TPP was approved by Congress but before President Obama signs it, Warren laughed out loud. “They’re asking [Congress] to vote now on greasing the skids,” Warren said in response, “so that we give up any chance to be able to amend it, any chance to be able to block it, any chance to be able to slow it down. [The White House is saying,] ‘Give all that up and then you’ll get to see the deal on the other side.’ I just don’t think that’s reasonable.”
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With a separate vote on Fast Track scheduled for Thursday in the House Ways and Means Committee, the debate in Congress—and across Capitol Hill—has now reached a fevered pitch.
In extended comments from the Senate floor on Wednesday, Sen. Sanders explained his ongoing opposition to TPP and his attempt, though only briefly successful, to slow down the legislative push by TPP proponents who are currently moving as fast as they can to ram the deal through:
And as Sen. Warren concluded in her latest statement, “We’ve all seen the tricks and traps that corporations hide in the fine print of contracts. We’ve all seen the provisions they slip into legislation to rig the game in their favor. Now just imagine what they have done working behind closed doors with TPP. We can’t keep the American people in the dark.”
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