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The Empire Holds Its War Council in Chicago (Glen Ford) - 18-may-2012
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May 17, 2012 - The administration imposed the most draconian police state legal structures in U.S. history before summoning the heads of NATO to Chicago. NATO accounts for 70 percent of military spending on the planet – combining the capacities of yesterday’s imperialists and the current superpower. "The Black man in the White House is seen, ironically, as the last best hope of the old colonial racial order and the rule of capital."...
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Iraq - new cyber crimes law: life in prison for visiting the wrong website (Khaled Waleed) - 18-may-2012
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May 17, 2012 - Iraq is about to introduce a new law to cover the cyber world. Authorities hope it will help fight terrorism. Critics say when ordinary Internet users could face of life in prison, it goes too far – and curbs freedom of expression. The draft of the law on crime in the cyber world has only been read in Iraq’s Parliament once so far. But already it has drawn its fair share of vehement detractors. On April 16, more than 40 organisations, both local and international, submitted a letter to Parliament demanding either changes, a re-write or an anullment of the law "because it threatens democracy in Iraq".
Additionally 600 journalists, acting independently, plan to file a group lawsuit demanding the legislation be withdrawn...
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The Local Coordination Committees' Statement Regarding the Deteriorating Conditions of the Syrian National Council (Local Coordination Committees of Syria) - 18-may-2012
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May 17, 2012 - The Local Coordination Committees in Syria deplores the situation of the Syrian National Council. The situation reflects the Council and the Opposition’s furthering from the spirit and demands of the Syrian Revolution. Furthermore, it reflects their distance from directions towards a civil state, democracy, transparency and the transfer of power desired in a New Syria. In recent months, we have witnessed apparent political deficits in the Syrian National Council and a lack of consensus between the Council and the revolutionary movement. Furthermore, the council continues to marginalize a majority of the representatives of the revolutionary movement such as members of the Council’s General Assembly....
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Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (10– 16 May 2012) (The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR)) - 18-may-2012
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May 17, 2012 - Summary: Israeli violations of international law and humanitarian law in the OPT continued during the reporting period (10 – 16 May 2012): Shooting: During the reporting period, IOF wounded 46 Palestinian civilians, including 3 journalists and 4 children, during the dispersion of peaceful demonstrations organized in protest to the construction of the annexation wall and settlement activities in the West Bank, in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails and on the 64th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba – the uprooting of the Palestinian people from their lands in 1948. Dozens of civilians also suffered from tear gas inhalation. IOF also arrested 5 demonstrators, including a Palestinian woman and a female Polish human rights defender. In the Gaza Strip, on 10 May 2012, Israeli naval troops arrested two Palestinian fishermen in the northern Gaza City, but released them later. IOF also confiscated the fishing boat....
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Israel: NGO threatened with arson and violence for helping Africans (Mya Guarnieri) - 18-may-2012
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May 17, 2012 - A human rights organization that assists foreigners received threats of arson and rape within hours of Interior Minister Eli Yishai’s remarks that African asylum seekers are "infiltrators" and most are "criminals" who "damage the Zionist project." The NGO has filed an incitement complaint against Yishai. The Hotline for Migrant Workers received three phone calls yesterday from unknown individuals who threatened to burn the office and seemed to threaten sexual violence against volunteers and employees. The calls came less then three hours after Yishai’s remarks on Army Radio...
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Murder for fun and "morale": Shocking video of lethal Israeli attack on sleeping Palestinian prisoners (Ali Abunimah) - 18-may-2012
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May 17, 2012 - The camera follows heavily armed Israeli security personnel raiding a prison dormitory, shouting at the prisoners to get out of bed, and that they would be shot if they didn’t obey orders. The prisoners can be heard screaming in terror at the surprise attack. It was a night of brutal and lethal violence that Israeli participants would describe as one that was "beautiful" and "happy." One of the Israeli attackers shouts, amid flashes, flame and smoke: "I want to open these gates and take care of these little sons of whores." Other Israelis shout vulgar Arabic insults at the prisoners regarding their mothers...
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Syria: Deported Palestinian journalist speaks out about torture in custody (Amnesty International) - 18-may-2012
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May 17, 2012 - A prominent journalist has told Amnesty International how Syrian government forces tortured and detained him in deplorable conditions before deporting him to Jordan on Monday. Salameh Kaileh, a 57-year-old Jordanian national of Palestinian descent, has lived and worked in the Syrian capital Damascus since 1981. On 24 April, plain clothes officials from Syria’s Air Force Intelligence arrested him during a raid on his flat in Barzah, a Damascus suburb. Amnesty International considered him to be a prisoner of conscience, held solely for exercising his right to freedom of expression. "The main reason for my arrest, from what I understood, is a conversation I had on Facebook with a friend outside Syria about my position on the revolution and my opinion about the Muslim Brotherhood and so on," Kaileh told Amnesty International.Following his arrest, Kaileh was held at a Syrian Air Force Intelligence branch in Damascus, where he was insulted and beaten for days...
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Israel's Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Weapons (by Stephen Lendman) - 18-may-2012
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May 17, 2012 - Israel's long known open secret is its formidable nuclear arsenal. Less is known about its chemical and biological weapons (CBW) capability. More on that below.In 1986, Dimona nuclear technician Mordechai Vanunu revealed documents showing what many long suspected. Israel had been secretly developing, producing and stockpiling nuclear weapons for years. Experts called his information genuine. They revealed sophisticated technology able to amass a formidable nuclear arsenal. Today it's more potent than ever....
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The Political Drones Get Louder (By Ashfaq Yusufzai) - 18-may-2012
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May 17, 2012 - Growing numbers of activists are beginning to counter U.S. Drone attacks into Pakistani territory. The activists are confronting the U.S., but increasingly now the Pakistani government for allowing such attacks to continue. The Tehreek Insaf party led by former Pakistani cricket captain Imran Khan first stepped up the political heat against the Drones. Civil society groups, including Pakistani lawyers, and now also groups from the U.S. and Britain have joined the campaign."We believe Drone strikes are illegal according to international law because they kill innocent people," Imran Khan told IPS from Islamabad. "The U.S. or any other country has no right to violate frontiers of an independent state."...
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Hanging by a thread: Babylon World Wonder at risk from oil (RussiaToday) - 18-may-2012
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May 17, 2012 - The site of the legendary hanging gardens of Babylon is in danger of being wrecked by an oil pipe. The historic area in modern-day Iraq has seen many invasions over the years, from Roman to American, but now faces a domestic threat. The magnificent gardens allegedly built for a king’s homesick wife in the 6th century BC were one of the Ancient World’s seven wonders...Iraq’s Oil Ministry plans to extend a strategic route to export oil through six provinces at the center and south of the country...US troops turned ancient Babylon into a military base, damaging the historical site by "digging, cutting, scraping and leveling", according to a 2009 UNESCO report. The world-famous Ishtar Gate and Processional Way were among key structures damaged, while contents of the Nebuchadnezzar and Hammurabi museums and of the Babylon Library and Archive were stolen and destroyed during the war. Now, Babil Fortress that has withstood Assyrian, Roman, Islamic and American invasions, is under threat from the new Iraqi government’s desire for cheap oil exports...
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Never Forget That Bradley Manning, Not Gay Marriage, Is The Issue (By John Pilger) - 18-may-2012
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May 17, 2012 -- In the week Barack Obama received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009, he ordered bombing attacks on Yemen, killing a reported 63 people, 28 of them children. When Obama recently announced he supported same-sex marriage, American planes had not long blown 14 Afghan civilians to bits. In both cases, the mass murder was barely news. What mattered were the cynical vacuities of a political celebrity, the product of a zeitgeist driven by the forces of consumerism and the media with the aim of diverting the struggle for social and economic justice. The award of the Nobel Prize to the first black president because he "offered hope" was both absurd and an authentic expression of the lifestyle liberalism that controls much of political debate in the west. Same-sex marriage is one such distraction....
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US DEA Kills Innocent Civilians in Honduras -- US Media Silent (Dan Kovalik) - 18-may-2012
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May 17, 2012 - According to the Honduran newspaper, Tiempo, as well as the Honduran human rights group, COFADEH, the agents of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), dressed in military uniforms, killed at least four and possibly six civilians in a raid which took place on Friday, May 11. The victims included two pregnant women and two children. The newspaper Tiempo did not pull any punches, writing that those killed "were humble and honest citizens." Apparently, the DEA agents fired from helicopter gunships upon a boat carrying civilians on the Patuca back to their community of Ahuas which itself is located in the Mosquito coast of Honduras. According to Tiempo, the DEA mistakenly fired upon the civilian boat because it was well-lit while the intended target -- a boat carrying drug traffickers -- was floating down the river without its lights on...
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EU denounces Israel’s destruction of aid projects in West Bank (Daan Bauwens) - 18-may-2012
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May 17, 2012 - All 27 foreign ministers of the European Union have strongly spoken out against Israeli demolitions in Area C of the West Bank. Since the beginning of 2011 not less than 60 EU-funded projects have been demolished while 110 others are currently at risk. Several analysts claim the Israeli authorities are specifically targeting EU-funded projects. Area C comprises about 60 percent of the West Bank and is under full Israeli military and civilian control under the Oslo Accords. The EU's focus on this area is a consequence of alarming reports that show an increase in Israeli demolitions of Palestinian homes and infrastructure, including projects paid for with European taxpayer money....
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Seven Injured By Israeli Shells In Gaza (Saed Bannoura) - 18-may-2012
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May 17, 2012 - Palestinian medical sources reported Thursday that seven Palestinians were wounded when Israeli soldiers fired several artillery shells into the Al-Shujaeyya neighborhood, in Gaza. The shelling came after the army carried out two invasions in the northern and southern parts of the Gaza Strip. Adham Abu Salmiyya, spokesperson of the Medical and Emergency Services in Gaza, stated that two of the seven wounded residents suffered serious injuries; the remaining five suffered moderate wounds...
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US drone strikes kill civilians in Yemen (By Bill Van Auken) - 17-may-2012
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May 17, 2012 - Missile strikes by US drones claimed the lives of at least a dozen civilians in Yemen’s southern Abyan province Tuesday, as Washington escalated its military intervention in the impoverished Arab country. The attack took place in the town of Ja’ar, which together with the provincial capital of Zinjibar and several other towns was seized by Islamist insurgents during the protracted popular uprising against the US-backed regime of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who was forced to relinquish his post last February. Saleh’s former vice president and successor, Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, has aligned himself even more closely with Washington, taking his orders from the US embassy and American special operations "advisers" who have been sent back into the country after being withdrawn during the recent popular upheavals...
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Syria News - May 16, 2012 (Warning: Graphic Videos) (Local Coordination Committees of Syria + Videos) - 17-may-2012
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May 16, 2012 - The number of martyrs in Syria has gone up to 40 thus far, including a child and 21 martyrs during the Shammas Massacre in Homs last night. In addition, 26 martyrs were reported in Homs,5 in the Damascus Suburbs, 4 in Daraa, 3 in Idib,1 in Hama and 1 in Deir Ezzor...Daraa: The number of wounded and martyrs has risen after an ambulance was targeted by the security forces gunfire and other ambulance cars and doctors were prevented from aiding them....Damascus Suburbs: Kesweh: The UN Observers came to the city for a brief period, no longer than 5 minutes, to visit one street. They did not leave their vehicles, nor speak with any residents...
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The Children of Palestine (By Julie Holm) - 17-may-2012
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May 16, 2012 - Yesterday Palestinians all over the world marked Nakba-day, which commemorates the forced exodus of hundreds of thousands of their kin after the establishment of the Israeli state in 1948. It is a day when Palestinians remember the fatal events 64 years ago and remind each other that they will not give up until Palestine is free. Together with thousands of people I took to the streets of Ramallah, joined by a group of amazing women and their children. Even my colleague and friend who is very pregnant and passed her due date defied the sun and the crowds of people to be part of this day. The children had only half a day of school which was reflected in the crowd where children, dressed in school uniforms, carrying Palestinian flags looked like they had done this a hundred times before. A little girl walked by me wearing a hair band with a piece of yellow cardboard attached that had "We will return" written on it in Arabic....
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Did the White House Direct the Police Crackdown on Occupy? (by Dave Lindorff) - 17-may-2012
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May 16, 2012 - ...While methodically mobilizing the Democratic Party’s left wing to politically co-opt the movement, the Obama administration simultaneously schemed with law enforcement to "disrupt and crush the Occupy Movement." Heavily redacted documents from the Department of Homeland Security show the broad outlines of "a national campaign of spying, disruption and repression against Occupy activists."...
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New Proof Gaza's Still Occupied (by Emily L. Hauser) - 17-may-2012
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May 16, 2012 - Here’s a small story out of Gaza, one not likely to get picked up much in the Western press but which speaks volumes about the nature of Israel’s continuing control over life in Gaza, despite the 2005 withdrawal: Israel allowed on Monday the export of Palestinian-made clothes from the Gaza Strip for the first time in at least five years, a Palestinian official said. Raed Fattouh, who coordinates supplies into Gaza, said a truck carrying 2,000 pieces of mainly woolen garments were exported through the Israeli-controlled Kerem Shalom crossing towards an Israeli seaport en route to Britain...
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Reflections on the Great Palestinian Prison Hunger Strikes of 2012 (Richard Falk) - 17-may-2012
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May 16, 2012 - Ché Guevara was once asked what was at the root of his revolutionary commitment. His response, which we should all take some moments to reflect upon, "it is about love." Reading the words of Khader Adnan ('Open Letter to the People of the World’) and Thaer Halahleh ('Letter to my Daughter’), or the comments of Hana Shalabi’s mother and sister, or Bilal Diab’s father, led me to recall Guevara’s illuminating comment. Only those with closed minds can read such words of devotion without feeling that the animating hunger of these Palestinians is for peace and justice, for love and dignity, and that their heroic strikes would have impossible without cherishing life and future freedom for the people of Palestine.
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Gaza- Occupied Lives: Not knowing what your son looks like (The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR)) - 17-may-2012
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May 16, 2012 - Abu Hosni Sarfiti (61), who lives in Sheik Radwan, Gaza City, is very familiar with the issue of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails: "I have three sons and four daughters. Two of my sons were killed by the Israeli army: my oldest son, Hosni, was 23 years and Mohammed was 7 years old when he was killed. My only living son, Ali Nidal al Sarfiti, has been in prison since 7 July 2002, when he was arrested at the Erez crossing. He had been given a permit by the Israeli authorities to travel through the crossing, but when he arrived there that day, he was taken to jail. He was sentenced to 16 years in prison for participating in resistance activities during an army incursion in Jabaliya. Ali is now 32 years old. He was engaged when he was arrested, but that has ended."...
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Victim of Torture and CIA Rendition Gets His First Day in Court — in Europe (By Jamil Dakwar, ACLU) - 17-may-2012
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May 16, 2012 - Tomorrow, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), Europe's top human rights court based in Strasbourg, France, will hear arguments in El-Masri v. "the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia." Tomorrow's hearing marks the first case to come before the court against a European nation for complicity in the CIA's "extraordinary rendition" program. The case was brought against Macedonia by the Open Society Justice Initiative on behalf of Khaled El-Masri. El-Masri, a German citizen, who was abducted by Macedonian authorities at a border crossing in December 2003 and held incommunicado for 23 days. He was then handed over to CIA operatives who drugged, hooded, and strip-searched him before putting him on a secret flight to Afghanistan where he was secretly held, tortured and abused for about four months, only for the U.S. government to realize that they had the wrong person...
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Lower Courts to Hear Iraqi Civilians’ Claims of Beatings, Forced Nudity, Broken Bones, and Rape at Hands of Corporate Defendants (Center for Constitutional Rights) - 17-may-2012
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May 16, 2012 - Today, a federal appellate court dismissed the appeals of two private military contractors who had argued they were immune from litigation when they engage in torture. The corporate defendants, CACI and L-3, have argued that they should receive the same protections as the United States government and that, therefore, any of their wartime activities – including torture – are similarly beyond review of the courts. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, sitting en banc, remanded the cases to the district courts that had previously rejected the corporations’ novel claims of immunity, in order to allow fact-finding to proceed. The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) is co-counsel on the cases, which were filed in 2008. "Today’s ruling provides an opportunity for victims of torture at Abu Ghraib to tell their stories to an American court and to obtain justice from the private military contractors who played such a prominent role in one of the most shocking episodes of abuse in recent American history," said CCR Legal Director, Baher Azmy, who co-argued the case...
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