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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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Snowden’s Gambit:
Expose NSA Domestic Spying Operation, Hold Global Spying Program in Reserve (by: Dave Lindorff) - 18-jun-2013
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June 14, 2013 - It’s a pretty sad spectacle watching the US Congress toading up to the National Security Agency. With the exception of a few stalwarts like Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and to a lesser extent Ron Wyden (D-OR), most of the talk in the halls of Congress is about how to keep the army of Washington private contractors from accessing too many of the government’s secrets (which need to be protected by government employees!), and about whether to try NSA whistleblower Ed Snowden for treason. NSA Director James Clapper was able to lie bald-facedly to the Senate Intelligence Committee last week without even a reprimand, much less a contempt citation, claiming that the NSA does not spy on millions of Americans’ telecommunications...
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The Painted Frog of Palestine (By Jeremy Salt) - 18-jun-2013
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June 14, 2013 -The good news from Palestine is that the 'painted frog’ of the Huleh valley is not extinct after all. Recently it turned up again after not having been seen for the past half century. Behind the disappearance of the painted frog stands a much bigger story, the fate of the Huleh valley after the conquest of Palestine by the Zionists and behind that story is the reality behind one of the foundation myths of the Zionists, that of a barren, stagnant and empty land awaiting redemption in the hands of the Jewish people.In the 19th century the Huleh wetlands were one of Palestine’s prize natural assets. They were formed over millennia by three rivers flowing south into the Huleh valley from their headwaters in Syria, the Hasbani, the Banias and the Liddan...
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Government Accountability Project Issues Statement on Edward Snowden & NSA Domestic Surveillance (By: Jesselyn Radack) - 18-jun-2013
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June 14, 2013 -Recently, the American public learned that the National Security Agency (NSA) has conducted, and continues to conduct, wholesale surveillance of U.S. citizens through a secretive data-mining program. The program collects the phone records, email exchanges, and internet histories of tens of millions of Americans who would otherwise have no knowledge of the secret program were it not for the disclosures of recent whistleblowers. The latest of these whistleblowers to come forward is former Booz Allen Hamilton federal contractor employee, Edward Snowden.As the nation’s leading whistleblower protection and advocacy organization, the Government Accountability Project (GAP) would like to be clear about its position on each of the following points that relate to these significant revelation...
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Unemployment Drives Graduates In Gaza to Drug Addiction (By: Rasha Abou Jalal) - 18-jun-2013
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June 14, 2013 - Hassan recounts how he fell into the swamp of addiction to Tramadol, a habit-forming drug prohibited in the Gaza Strip. He ascribes it to the absence of job opportunities after he completed his university education nearly two years ago.The 24-year-old Hassan graduated from Al-Azhar University in Gaza with a major in business administration. Despite this, he has been forced to join the long lines of unemployed workers, who account for 45% of Gaza’s labor force. Matters worsened as his economic, social and psychological problems deepened to the point where he found that his life had become unbearable...
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Israeli army detains a 10-year-old during the weekly demonstration in Kafr Qaddum (International Women’s Peace Service) - 18-jun-2013
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June 14, 2013 - On Friday 14 June, the Israeli army arrested a 10-year-old child during the weekly protest in Kafr Qaddum. Israeli soldiers fired tear gas canisters and sound bombs at the villagers; many local residents suffered from tear gas inhalation.At approximately 12:00, when residents and international solidarity activists started gathering for the demonstration before the Friday prayers, nearly 30 foot soldiers stormed the village from the main road leading toward the illegal Israeli settlement Qedumim. As they entered the village, they fired tear gas canisters directly at the group before the demonstration even began. Local youth resisted the incursion, chasing the soldiers back from the bystanders toward a hill overlooking the village.Over the next two and a half hours, soldiers shot tear gas and threw sound bombs at demonstrators in the olive groves next to the main road of the village. At approximately 12:30, soldiers detained a 10-year-old boy. While in their custody, soldiers tied his hands, grabbed him by the neck, beat him and threatened to "drop [him] from this rock."..
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Iraq: Protests, killings and rumors (The Common Ills) - 18-jun-2013
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June 14, 2013 - Friday in Iraq means protests. Has since December 21st. Above is the turnout in Baquba and the spokesperson for those with special needs states, "Disability will not keep us from rejecting injustice, tyranny and government repression." Iraqi Spring MC also notes that the people turned out in Baghdad and in Ramadi. National Iraq News Agency reports, "Thousands of citizens flocked since early hours of the day from from different parts and cities of Anbar Province to sit-ins of Falluja and Ramadi, to participate in Friday unified prayer." NINA also notes police were deployed and set up checkpoints in Falluja and Ramadi, imposing "tight security measures in the sit-ins squares." Iraqi Spring MC reports that Nouri's forces surrounded the platform at the Baquba sit-in in an attempt to frighten the protesters. NINA notes that in Samarra, Imam Diab Hamid called on the security forces to stop using security forces against the people and the Imam told the demonstrators that "several weeks ago you voted to replace UN representative in Iraq, Martin Kobler, and now the oppressor has been relieved of his post" (UN Secretary-General announced this week Kobler will be moving onto the Congo). The Imam congratulated the protesters on their peaceful accomplishments. In Diyala the call was to preserve the unity and security. In Balad Ruz, there was the call to continue the peaceful sit-ins...
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Father: Israeli interrogator threatened son with rape (Ma'an news) - 18-jun-2013
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June 14, 2013- An Israeli court on Thursday released a Palestinian teenager from Isawiya in East Jerusalem on bail.The father of 13-year-old Ismail Tawfiq Muheisin says he paid a bail of 1,000 shekels and signed a third-party bail of 5,000 shekels. The boy, added his father, is barred from approaching a hill near Hadassah Hospital, and he is not allowed to talk to his friends who were accused of arson for three months.Speaking to Ma’an, the father alleged that an Israeli interrogator threatened to "bring a Sudanese man to rape the boy" in order to force him to reveal information...
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