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Gaza under Siege (by Dylan Murphy) - 19-jun-2013
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June 15, 2013 - In 2005 Israel withdrew its settlers from Gaza. Following this there were democratic elections which Hamas won. Since voting the "wrong way" the Palestinian people of Gaza have been subjected to a siege by Israel. The Palestinian people of Gaza are blockaded by land, sea and air by the Israeli Defence Force.The EU and America have failed to do anything to stop Israel’s war against the Palestinians of Gaza. Most notable were the massive military attacks of December-January 2008-9 which killed 1,500 Palestinians and the most recent attack of November 2012 which resulted in nearly 200 deaths.The International Red Cross and the United Nations have found the Israeli government’s siege of Gaza to be illegal under international law...
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Israeli firm helps NSA spy on Americans and Mexicans (Jimmy Johnson) - 19-jun-2013
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June 15, 2013 - Verint Systems has been contracted since 2006 for the mass interception of Mexican telecommunications, Wired magazine recently revealed, as part of US and Mexican interventions in the drug trade. Verint is the Israeli-American firm implicated in the National Security Agency’s mass wiretapping of US citizens beginning in 2001. In February 2013 Verint bought out its former parent company Comverse, a firm "directly influenced by [Unit] 8200 technology," becoming independent from Comverse. Unit 8200 is Israel’s version of the National Security Agency and is part of the intelligence apparatus that surveils Palestinian phone and Internet traffic. Retired Israeli general Hanan Gefen, Unit 8200’s former commander, told Wired that "Comverse’s main product, the Logger, is based on the Unit’s technology."..
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Col. Asaad: Many of FSA Officers were marginalized by Military Council, including me (by Abudllah Raja) - 19-jun-2013
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June 15, 2013 -The founder of the Free Syrian Army expressed his fears through a message to Zaman Alwasl of deviation the Syria Revolution, stressing that the Assad regime can't be toppled as long as the military and political efforts are not at a high level of coordination and unity...Regarding the newest restructuring of the Free Syrian Army by Gen Idriss, the colonel said that this step came as result of declining FSA control. So, it was necessary to reinforce the Leadership by 11 Generals. ''I think it's time to unify the revolution military, not to be fragmented.'' Asaad added.Asaad criticized including civilians in the FSA Chiefs of Staff, saying it will be at the expense of military officers what couldn't serve the revolution and military action...
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Tamarrod: Egyptians Organizing for June 30th (James Zogby) - 19-jun-2013
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June 15, 2013 - June 30th marks Mohamed Morsi's first anniversary as President of Egypt. It is also the date set for nationwide demonstrations protesting Morsi's increasingly authoritarian leadership and the role his Muslim Brotherhood is playing in post-Tahrir Egypt.The organizing effort for June 30th is called "Tamarrod" (rebel). They have, at last report, collected over 15 million signatures on petitions endorsing their protest movement and are convening nationwide organizing meetings in preparation for the big day. Expectations are running high that Tamarrod may replicate the government-changing events of January/February 2011.It remains to be seen whether this movement succeeds or fizzles, but what its early successes reflect is the fact that the Morsi government is in deep trouble. A recently completed poll of 5,029 Egyptians adults, conducted by Zogby Research Services (ZRS) found that Morsi, his government, and party have, in fact, suffered a dramatic loss of support and legitimacy...
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Democrats spearhead campaign against Snowden as evidence of illegal spying mounts (By Thomas Gaist) - 19-jun-2013
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June 16, 2013 -The US government, abetted by the media, is intensifying its campaign against former intelligence employee Edward Snowden for leaking evidence of massive and illegal spying.The Obama administration is preparing to file criminal charges and is pushing for Snowden’s extradition from Hong Kong. Snowden has said that he fears for his safety and has fled his hotel for an undisclosed location.On Friday, US Attorney General Eric Holder vowed that the US government would punish those responsible for leaks relating to government surveillance programs, which he characterized as "extremely damaging." At a news conference in Dublin, he said he was "confident that the person who is responsible will be held accountable."...
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Reclaiming Palestinian collective memory of the Nakba (Ramona Wadi) - 19-jun-2013
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June 15, 2013 -The treachery and massacres committed by the Zionists against Palestinians in 1948 marked an enforced physical disappearance of indigenous Palestinians, strengthening the myth of the barren land and the fictitious patriotism allegedly enshrined in religious texts. Last month's discovery of the mass graves in Jaffa revisited the intentional exclusion of Palestinians from Israeli historical narrative, and the ramifications of creating space for a fortified collective memory which derives its legitimacy from oral testimony, historical archives, academic studies and physical spaces which have been obliterated, altered or obscured in Israel's implementation of the Plan Dalet...
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Collusion Course: Machinations of the Double-Headed Beast (Chris Floyd) - 19-jun-2013
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June 15, 2013 - Who would have thought that oil barons -- of all people! -- would be involved in dirty back-room dealings to gorge their gobs with even more swill from the trough? From the Guardian:The London offices of BP and Shell have been raided by European regulators investigating allegations they have "colluded" to rig oil prices for more than a decade. The European commission said its officers carried out "unannounced inspections" at several oil companies in London, the Netherlands and Norway to investigate claims they may have "colluded in reporting distorted prices to a price reporting agency [PRA] to manipulate the published prices for a number of oil and biofuel products" .. It warned: "Even small distortions of assessed prices may have a huge impact on the prices of crude oil, refined oil products and biofuels purchases and sales, potentially harming final consumers." Of course, these manipulations of "self-policing" mechanisms for setting prices are endemic across the economic heights commanded by our most illustrious financial and industrial elites, as Matt Taibbi noted last month...
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Report: "Tel Aviv University Received Finances From Settler Group" (Saed Bannoura) - 19-jun-2013
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June 15, 2013 - The Arabs48 News Website has reported that the Tel Aviv University is cooperating with right wing settler groups involved in excavations in Silwan Arab town, south of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, in occupied East Jerusalem.It said that the Elad settler group, involved is funding and financing settlement activities, is indirectly paying the salary of a Tel Aviv University researcher in charge of the excavations.Israeli daily, Haaretz, reported that the decision of the Archeology Center at the Tel Aviv University to initiate excavations in Silwan caused a stir due to allegations of cooperation with extremist right wing settler groups...
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Israeli forces paralyze youth at Jalazoun refugee camp (Defence for Children International-Palestine Section) - 19-jun-2013
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June 15, 2013 - —An Israeli soldier shot and seriously injured a young Palestinian boy in Jalazoun refugee camp near Ramallah late May as he attempted to retrieve his school bag. The victim, identified as Atta Muhammad Atta Sabah, 12, sustained a gunshot wound to the stomach and was reported to be in critical condition at Hadassah Ein Kerem hospital in Jerusalem, DCI-Palestine sources said. The bullet struck Atta in the stomach and exited through his back, severing his spinal cord and causing paralysis from the waist down. It also caused damage to his liver, lungs, pancreas and spleen...
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Rally Against Relocation: Demonstrators in Beersheba protest the Prawer Plan (By Sam Gilbert) - 19-jun-2013
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June 15, 2013 - Thousands demonstrated in Beersheba this Thursday to protest the Prawer Plan and the continued demolitions and displacement of the Bedouins in the Negev. The government sponsored Prawer Plan, if fully implemented, would uproot some 40,000 Palestinian Arab Bedouins living in the 35 unrecognized villages in the area and "relocate" them to one of the seven government-planned townships. Palestinians with Israeli citizenship gathered in the center of Beersheba and marched to the government offices in the southern Israeli city. Protestors waved Palestinian flags and chanted slogans...
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“Let the Bad Guys Kill Each Other” (Mostafa Zein) - 19-jun-2013
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June 15, 2013 -Neoconservative theorist Daniel Pipes, the man behind the concept of "militant Islam", has advised the United States and the West not to allow one side to triumph over the other in the war taking place in Syria, so as to "let the forces of evil fight each other as long as possible". Pipes backs his argument with precedents from modern and contemporary history. In 1982, Iranian forces were able to achieve a significant advance over Iraqi forces, which prompted the United States to support Baghdad in order to alter the balance of power. Then when Iraq achieved some progress, Washington struck what became known as the "Irangate" deal, by which it supplied Tehran with weapons in order to preserve this balance...
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Gaza: 7th Year of Unlawful Blockade (UN HRC SR Press Release) (Richard Falk) - 19-jun-2013
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June 15, 2013 – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied by Israel since 1967, Richard Falk, called today on Israel to end its blockade over the Gaza Strip, six years after it was tightened following the Hamas takeover in June 2007. The human suffering of the land, sea and air blockade imposed on the 1.75 million Palestinians living in one of the most densely populated and impoverished areas of the world has been devastating. "Six years of Israel’s calculated strangulation of the Gaza Strip has stunted the economy and has kept most Gazans in a state of perpetual poverty and aid dependency," said the UN expert. ..
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What the NSA Revelations Tell Us about America's Police State (By Tom Burghardt) - 19-jun-2013
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June 15, 2013 - Ongoing revelations by The Guardian and The Washington Post of massive, illegal secret state surveillance of the American people along with advanced plans for waging offensive cyberwarfare on a global scale, including inside the US, underscores what Antifascist Calling has reported throughout the five years of our existence: that democracy and democratic institutions in the United States are dead letters.Last week, Guardian investigative journalist Glenn Greenwald revealed that NSA "is currently collecting the telephone records of millions of US customers of Verizon, one of America's largest telecoms providers, under a top secret court order issued in April."That order from the FISA court "requires Verizon on an 'ongoing, daily basis' to give the NSA information on all telephone calls in its systems, both within the US and between the US and other countries."...
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From Guantánamo, Shaker Aamer Speaks, As His Lawyers Urge Cameron to Ask Obama for His Return at the G8 (Andy Worthington) - 19-jun-2013
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June 15, 2013 - Despite being cleared for release under President Bush in 2007, and again under President Obama in January 2010, when a sober and responsible inter-agency task force of government officials and representatives of the intelligence agencies included him in its recommendations to release 156 of the 240 prisoners held at the time, he is still imprisoned, and still in solitary confinement, and is on a hunger strike, along with the majority of the 166 men still held. Even according to the US authorities, whose figures have failed to match those given by the prisoners themselves, 104 prisoners are taking part in the hunger strike, and 43 of those men are being force-fed. The prisoners state that the true total of those taking part in the hunger strike is around 130...
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'NY Times' publishes defense of racial segregation in Israel (By Mairav Zonszein) - 19-jun-2013
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June 15, 2013 - Imagine that Six Flags Great Adventure, a New Jersey adventure park, quietly instituted separate days for black and white schoolchildren. Exposed by the media, the management claimed they had acted in response to complaints from some white parents about the behavior of the black children, saying they behaved badly and cursed at the white children. Senior government ministers, including President Obama, said they were outraged and suggested the incident merited an official investigation. And then a white person wrote an op-ed defending the Six Flags management’s decision. In an article saturated with links and references to right-wing media outlets like Fox News, the Washington Free Beacon and the Drudge Report, the white author claimed that Six Flags’ policy was not racist. And the New York Times published the piece...
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Syria News - June 14 2013 (Warning: Graphic Videos) (Local Coordination Committees of Syria + Videos) - 19-jun-2013
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June 14 , 2013 - By the end of Friday, the coordination committees were able to document 58 martyrs, among them 5 children, 2 women, and 2 martyrs under torture: 24 martyrs were reported in Damascus and its suburbs; 13 in Aleppo; 7 in Raqqa; 5 in Homs; 3 in Daraa; 2 in Banyas; 1 in Hama; 1 in Idlib; and 1 in Quneitra. Moreover, the committees have documented 425 points of shelling in Syria: Air strikes by warplanes were recorded in 36 points, 4 surface-to-surface missiles have landed in Yelda, Damascus Suburbs, cluster bombs have shelled Saraqeb in Idlib, while rocket shelling was recorded in 142 points, artillery shelling in 138 points, and mortar shelling in 104 points across Syria...
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Military Resistance 11F7 Eyes on (Thomas F Barton) - 19-jun-2013
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June 14, 2013 -To hide his role in championing the use of Section 215 of the USA Patriot Act to collect of Americans' phone data and other "tangible things", one of the architects of that legislation, Wisconsin Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner, edited a quote in a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder Thursday to
suggest he never knew how the FBI and NSA were using the authority his legislation had granted: "Section 215 has been used to obtain driver's license records, hotel records, car rental records, apartment leasing records, credit card records, and the like." ...
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Teen novel depicts Israeli settlements as unnatural (Sarah Irving) - 19-jun-2013
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June 14, 2013 - William Sutcliffe’s The Wall is a young adult novel that follows Joshua, who discovers a secret tunnel leading from his fictional Israeli settlement of Amarias to the adjacent Palestinian town, where he meets Leila. In a tautly-written, thoughtful book, Joshua encounters reality on the other side of "the wall" and discovers the damage which his own actions can inflict on others.The Wall joins Naomi Shihab Nye’s Habibi, Randa Abdel-Fattah’s Where the Streets had a Name and Elizabeth Laird’s A Little Piece of Ground on the list of young adult fiction tackling the subject of Palestine. The differences of authorship are interesting; Shihab Nye and Abdel-Fattah are women of Palestinian origin, and Laird worked in association with Palestinian writer Sonia Nimr, and they write about Palestinian protagonists...
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Guantanamo Bay: A Medical Ethics–free Zone? (by George J. Annas, J.D., M.P.H., Sondra S. Crosby, M.D., and Leonard H. Glantz, J.D.) - 19-jun-2013
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June 14, 2013 - American physicians have not widely criticized medical policies at the Guantanamo Bay detainment camp that violate medical ethics. We believe they should. Actions violating medical ethics, taken on behalf of the government, devalue medical ethics for all physicians. The ongoing hunger strike at Guantanamo by as many as 100 of the 166 remaining prisoners presents a stark challenge to the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) to resist the temptation to use military physicians to "break" the strike through force-feeding...
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Challenging Unconstitutional Spying (by Stephen Lendman) - 19-jun-2013
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June 14, 2013 - Edward Joseph Snowden revealed what's vital to know. He exposed unconstitutional spying. He did so courageously. The 1989 Whistleblower Protection Act protects federal employees who report misconduct. Federal agencies are prohibited from retaliating against those who do so. Don't expect rogue Obama officials to act responsibly.Whistleblowers may report law or regulatory violations, gross mismanagement, waste, fraud, abuse of authority, and/or acts endangering public health, welfare or safety. Unconstitutional spying violates core rule of law principles. Doing do gravely compromises public health, welfare and safety...
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Richard Falk Will Not Be Another Richard Goldstone (By: Clovis Maksoud for Al-Monitor) - 19-jun-2013
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June 14, 2013 - On Monday, June 10, professor Richard Falk, UN human rights investigator for the Palestinian territories, accused Israel of imposing collective punishment on 1.75 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip in his report to the UN Human Rights Council. He also criticized UN Watch — a pro-Israel organ affiliated with the American Jewish Committee — for its numerous defamatory remarks against his character. He ultimately called on the UN to investigate the organization to determine whether it qualifies as an independent organization per the UN’s standards. In response to Falk’s report, the US ambassador to the UN Human Rights Council, Eileen Chamberlain Donahoe, described Falk as "unfit to serve in his role as a UN special rapporteur." According to Falk, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon "joined in the attacks."....
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On Prism, partisanship and propaganda
Addressing many of the issues arising from last week's NSA stories (Glenn Greenwald) - 18-jun-2013
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June 14, 2013 - ...How can anyone think that it's remotely healthy in a democracy to have the NSA building a massive spying apparatus about which even members of Congress, including Senators on the Homeland Security Committee, are totally ignorant and find "astounding" when they learn of them? How can anyone claim with a straight face that there is robust oversight when even members of the Senate Intelligence Committee are so constrained in their ability to act that they are reduced to issuing vague, impotent warnings to the public about what they call radical "secret law" enabling domestic spying that would "stun" Americans to learn about it, but are barred to disclose what it is they're so alarmed by? Put another way, how can anyone contest the value and justifiability of the stories that we were able to publish as a result of Edward Snowden's whistleblowing: stories that informed the American public - including even the US Congress - about these incredibly consequential programs? What kind of person would think that it would be preferable to remain in the dark - totally ignorant - about them?..
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America's private prison system is a national disgrace (Jill Filipovic) - 18-jun-2013
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JUne 14, 2013 - The privatization of traditional government functions – and big government payments to private contractors – isn't limited to international intelligence operations like the National Security Agency. It's happening with little oversight in dozens of areas once the province of government, from schools to airports to the military. The shifting of government responsibilities to private actors isn't without consequence, as privatization often comes with a lack of oversight and a series of abuses. One particularly stunning example is the American prison system, the realities of which should be a national disgrace...
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Travel Restrictions Take Toll On Palestinian Relationships () - 18-jun-2013
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June 14, 2013 - Seven years ago, Abu Sido, then 22, met the girl of his dreams online. While he lived in Gaza, his girlfriend was a Ramallah [West Bank] resident. He already knew that gaining access to the West Bank was hard, yet he didn't think it was impossible. "I thought it was a hardship like many others that relationships may face, but it was beyond my abilities to overcome it," Abu Sido explained, while lighting his cigarette. Abu Sido could see and talk to his girl during the six years they spent together, but only via Internet and telephone. He had tried all conventional and unusual ways to obtain an Israeli permit to the West Bank, but all his attempts were shattered on the rock of Israeli rejection...
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Spying, Control and Murder Under the Imperial Presidency
Surveillance and the Corporate State (by ROB URIE) - 18-jun-2013
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June 14, 2013 -With all of the fear mongering the subject has received in recent decades, Americans have in fact had remarkably little to fear directly from 'terrorism.’ While actual attacks have been spectacular—they were designed to garner attention, they are both rare and far less dangerous than opportunistic politicians and the dim bureaucrats of the 'security’ state care to communicate. As comedian Stephen Colbert (correctly) pointed out, including the attacks of September 11, 2001 and more recently in Boston, more Americans have died from furniture falling on them than from terrorist attacks. Depending on which statistics you choose, 10X – 20X more Americans die every year from (preventable) medical errors than have died in the entirety of U.S. history from terrorist attacks. In practical terms, terrorism is among the least probable threats Americans face...
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