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Corruption has no bounds in Iraq (By Fatih Abdulsalam) - 19-may-2013
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May 17, 2013 -The corruption in Iraq has turned into a phenomenon, which is certain to be there for generations to come. The only way to put an end to it is through the formation of a national unity government that will make fighting corruption its top priority. There are two tiers of corruption in Iraq and both are intimately related. Financial and political corruption are intertwined and have become two sides of the same coin...Corruption takes place at the expense of the most vulnerable in the society. It is the poor, the homeless, the downtrodden, the orphans, the widows and the elderly who are bearing the brunt of corruption in Iraq....
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DNA Tests Needed to Identify Bodies Found in Mass Graves in Iraq (Prensa Latina) - 19-may-2013
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May 17, 2013 - Deputy Governor in the Western Iraqi province of Al Anbar, Sadun Obaid al-Shalan, today called for using DNA tests to identify about a thousand bodies found in three mass graves on Thursday. Security forces and human rights organizations found the mass graves with containing around a thousand bodies in the northern city of Fallujah, and it appears that they were killed en masse in summary executions by U.S. occupation forces, said Sadun Obaid al-Shalan. Fallujah put up strong resistance in 2004 when U.S. troops were sent to occupy the city, which was almost completely destroyed after the fighting. After entering the town, the U.S. troops unleashed a fierce reprisal against male residents considered suspects for having participated in the resistance....
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A Saudi, a pressure cooker and the FBI… (Ali Khan Mahmudabad) - 19-may-2013
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May 17, 2013 - What do you get when you put a Saudi student, the FBI and a 'bullet coloured’ pressure cooker together? Kabsah! Talal al-Rouqi, an Arab student in Michigan had cooked his favourite rice and meat dish, Kabsah (also know as Mandi) and was walking over to share it with his other Arab friend when a neighbor spotted him strolling in public with a 'bullet coloured’ pressure cooker. Naturally, worried about the swarthy looking young man’s intentions, especially given the Tsarnaev brother’s use of the pressure cooker as a bomb container, the conscious citizen decided to report the incident to the FBI. Armed agents surrounded the Al-Rouqi’s apartment, asked to enter the premises and then quizzed him on his sojourn of two days earlier...In another incident a Saudi man who was being held for irregularities to do with his passport was also quizzed and detained for bringing two pressure cookers from Saudi Arabia for his nephew...Obviously, the threat from an 'Ay-Rab’ pressure cooker is much greater than one sold in the U.S. of A...Now that carrying everyday items is a sign of being a potential suspect, especially if one has too much melanin (even though the Tsarnaev brothers looked more Caucasian than anything else), I have some advice for brown people and in particular Muslims in America...
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Barack Obama's Shameful Crusade 'Against' Terrorism (By Dr. Sylvie Laurent*) - 19-may-2013
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May 17, 2013 - ...President Barack Obama bears a historic responsibility for the perpetuation of this state of lawlessness. He talks about closing Guantanamo - an old promise of his - while forgetting rather quickly that he is the one who signed the National Defense Authorization Act of 2005 [reauthorized in 2013], which to this day forbids the funding of prisoner transfers on American soil, and therefore, it is in his power to have the 86 exonerated prisoners at Guantanamo released or extradited. Far from being in line with his commitments and the honorable intentions he has declared, by putting Shakur on the list of "main terrorist threats to the country," his administration is participating in the malevolent phenomenon, part of which is to identify people of color as terrorists. The administration is also making its contribution to the lethal crusade against terror, now being fought in Obama's name...
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Standing Against Oppression in Palestine (by ISMAIL PATEL) - 19-may-2013
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May 17, 2013- Three years ago, I left Britain and flew to Turkey with the intention of joining the Freedom Flotilla bound for the shores of Gaza. Our intention was to break the illegal and immoral siege that was slowly draining the life from the densely populated land. I boarded the Mavi Marmara to take hope to the people of Gaza. What ensued was one of the toughest and most heartbreaking experiences of my life. Over 500 of us were on board the ship, and nine were dead before the end of our journey, having been shot and killed with a total of 30 bullets.My faith means I believe that they were all martyrs, who were killed while attempting to stand up against oppression...
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How Qatar seized control of the Syrian revolution (By Roula Khalaf and Abigail Fielding-Smith) - 19-may-2013
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May 17, 2013 - ...In the shell-blasted areas of rebel-held Syria, few appear to be aware of the vast sums that Qatar has contributed – estimated by rebel and diplomatic sources to be about $1bn, but put by people close to the Qatar government at as much as $3bn. However, a perception is taking root among growing numbers of Syrians that Qatar is using its financial muscle to develop networks of loyalty among rebels and set the stage for influence in a post-Assad era. "Qatar has a lot of money and buys everything with money, and it can put its fingerprints on it," says a rebel officer from the northern province of Idlib interviewed by the FT. However, for Qatar, Syria is also the culmination of an opportunistic foreign policy which saw Doha become the unlikely backer of other Arab revolts in north Africa – and a friend of those who emerge as winners, in most cases Islamists. Qatar has supported the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and Tunisia’s Islamist al-Nahda party, which won the first elections after the popular revolts.... In Syria the Qataris worked through members of the exiled Muslim Brotherhood to identify rebel factions that should be supported. For example, she says, that is how they linked up with the Farouq brigades, one of the largest and more mainstream factions...
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Report: Forced displacement on both sides of the Green Line (By Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel) - 19-may-2013
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May 17, 2013 -A new Adalah report documents the parallels between two Palestinian villages, Al-Araqib in Israel and Susiya in the West Bank, which share a single story of struggle against home demolitions and forced displacement. The report sets out the methods of displacement used by Israel to expel Palestinian communities from their land on both sides of the Green Line, and examines the legal context in which it takes place...
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Senior BBC official insists that all of Jerusalem is an “Israeli” city (Amena Saleem) - 19-may-2013
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May 17, 2013 - The BBC has provided evidence this week that it prefers to use the territorial claims of the Israeli government to the whole of Jerusalem as a framework for its reporting, rather than acknowledging international law.International law considers only West Jerusalem, conquered in 1948 — amid the expulsion by Zionist militias of tens of thousands of Palestinians — to be under de facto Israeli control, while East Jerusalem, conquered in 1967 is occupied territory. This is reflected in the UK government’s position, which, since 1950, has recognized Israeli de facto authority in West Jerusalem, but not sovereignty, and considers East Jerusalem to be under military occupation...
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Israeli Outposts Remain Illegal Under International Law (By: Daoud Kuttab) - 19-may-2013
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May 17, 2013 - On the surface, the issue seems rather futile. The Israeli government, which has built hundreds of exclusively Jewish settlements in the occupied territories in violation of international law, is being criticized for "legalizing" four of these illegal settlements. What is it about "outposts" that makes them different from other settlements? A deeper look at the issue reveals decades of attempts to fool the international community about Israel’s commitment to peace...Whether they are settlements approved by the state of Israel or outposts built without approval, all this construction is considered illegal by the international community. The International Court of Justice ruled clearly that Israeli occupation-built and defended settlements are illegal. The only question that remains is when the international community will have the power to stop this crime...
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You Say You Want a Peaceful Revolution (Arthur Silber) - 19-may-2013
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May 17, 2013 -.... Now those who regularly follow politics know that the U.S. government claims it has the "right" to murder any of us it chooses, wherever we are in the world, for whatever reason it wishes. Tens of millions of Americans continue to suffer enormous economic hardship. Speaking generally, I think it is accurate to say that many more Americans are desperate and fearful today in ways they haven't been, even fairly recently. Desperation is a profoundly uncomfortable state of affairs for anyone. It opens up possibilities for action that hadn't existed before. And millions of Americans, on both the left and the right (using those terms broadly), see a government that is more and more oppressive and abusive, a government that claims unrestricted power, a government that claims it can destroy any one of us it wants to destroy...
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Photos sought of Guantanamo prisoner hit in clash (By BEN FOX — Associated Press) - 19-may-2013
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May 17, 2013 — A lawyer for a Guantanamo Bay prisoner is calling on the U.S. Justice Department to release photos of wounds the man suffered when struck with non-lethal rounds at a recent clash with guards at the prison.Attorney Ramzi Kassem's letter to a Justice Department official, which was released on Friday, also calls for a review of the April 13 incident, describing the wounds suffered by his client as more serious than portrayed by the U.S. military. Moath al-Alwi, a prisoner from Yemen, was struck with rubber-coated pellets fired from a shotgun-like weapon in the chest as well as in the thigh, left elbow and shoulder, leaving his clothes "blood-soaked and torn," according to the letter...
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Washington gets explicit: its 'war on terror' is permanent (Glenn Greenwald) - 19-may-2013
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May 17, 2013- ... Asked at a Senate hearing today how long the war on terrorism will last, Michael Sheehan, the assistant secretary of defense for special operations and low-intensity conflict, answered, 'At least 10 to 20 years.' . . . A spokeswoman, Army Col. Anne Edgecomb, clarified that Sheehan meant the conflict is likely to last 10 to 20 more years from today - atop the 12 years that the conflict has already lasted. Welcome to America's Thirty Years War. That the Obama administration is now repeatedly declaring that the "war on terror" will last at least another decade (or two) is vastly more significant than all three of this week's big media controversies (Benghazi, IRS, and AP/DOJ) combined. The military historian Andrew Bacevich has spent years warning that US policy planners have adopted an explicit doctrine of "endless war"...
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The Biggest Obama Scandals Are Proven and Ignored (Conor Friedersdorf) - 19-may-2013
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May 17, 2013- ...Has this president broken the law, lied under oath, or authorized war crimes? Yes, President Obama has broken the law on multiple occasions. Despite clearly stating, in a 2008 questionnaire, that the commander-in-chief is not lawfully empowered to ignore treaties duly ratified by the Senate, Obama has willfully failed to enforce the torture treaty, signed by Ronald Reagan and duly ratified by the Senate, that compels him to investigate and prosecute torture. As Sullivan put it earlier this year, "what Obama and Holder have done (or rather not done) is illegal." Obama also violated the War Powers Resolution, a law he has specifically proclaimed to be Constitutionally valid, when committing U.S. troops to Libya without Congressional approval. Or as Sullivan put it in 2011, "I'm with Conor. The war in Libya becomes illegal from now on. And the imperial presidency grows even more powerful." ....
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Photo essay: Israeli soldiers sing “We wish your whole village would burn down” to residents of Nabi Saleh (International Solidarity Movement) - 19-may-2013
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May 17, 2013 - Today Palestinian, international and Israeli activists marched towards a well that was stolen from the village of Nabi Saleh by the establishment of Halamish illegal settlement. As activists walked down the hill towards the well, Israeli soldiers shot tear gas at them which set fire to the ground around them. As they did so , soldiers sang "we wish your whole village would burn down". Activists were then blocked from reaching the spring by a large group of Israeli soldiers. At the same time, a skunk water truck entered the village spraying several of the homes in the village with the putrid smelling liquid. Eight international and Israeli activists were detained by Israeli soldiers who confiscated their passports. They were released within 30 minutes. Long after the demonstration was over, two Israeli military vehicles and several Border Policemen entered the village and drove slowly around the neighbourhood in a bid to intimidate its residents...
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Palestinian refugees are not at your service (Moe Ali Nayel) - 19-may-2013
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May 17, 2013 - Are you enjoying filming our misery? Film: it’s fine, you are like the others. You show up in the camp, film, leave, and we are still here."I used to reply: but we want to tell the world about your story. Always, with the same sarcasm, is the reply: "how much are you getting paid to tell the world our story?"Throughout my time working as a fixer with international journalists I never understood why people on the sidewalks of the camps’ busy streets always regarded our "humanitarian" mission with skepticism. But earlier this year I came to understand this skepticism of Palestinian refugees in camps in Lebanon.It was a gloomy day and clouds condensed above Sabra, a shanty town adjacent to Beirut’s Sports City stadium, overlooking the Palestinian refugee camp Shatila.We walked through a maze of narrow alleys in Sabra, led by Abdullah, a young Palestinian from Syria, doing relief work for his fellow Palestinian refugees who fled violence in Syria and were now seeking safety all over Lebanon...
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Israel's dirty little secret: the 'internally displaced persons' it continues to deny basic rights (Dr. Daud Abdullah) - 19-may-2013
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May 17, 2013 -Inevitably, the 65th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba - Catastrophe - was overshadowed by calls to exercise refugees' right of return. Although the vast majority of Palestinians live in forced exile and the focus tends to dwell on their plight, there is now an estimated 370,000 'internally displaced persons' (IDPs) within the Israeli state. They are also denied the right to return to their homes and villages. No Nakba anniversary can pass without remembering them. Unlike their compatriots in the wider Diaspora, the displaced Palestinians in Israel enjoy little international assistance and far less protection. Ever since the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) stopped providing services for them in 1952, they have remained refugees in their own land and second-class citizens in the state established around them...
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Settlers Attack Schoolchildren Near Nablus (Saed Bannoura) - 19-may-2013
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May 17, 2013 - Thursday May 16 2013, a number of extremist Israeli settlers attacked several schoolchildren in Orif village, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus. Local sources reported that the settlers hurled stones at the students as they were leaving their school in the village. The terrified children ran away, some suffered anxiety attacks, the sources said. In related news, extremist settlers invaded the Einabous village, south of Nablus, and tried to burn a local school...
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A bombing and Nouri's SWAT forces kill protesters in Baquba (The Common Ills) - 19-may-2013
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It's Friday, which means protests in Iraq and, sadly, more and more means chief thug and prime minister Nouri al-Maliki's forces wound and kill Iraqis. Iraqi Spring MC reports a Baquba bombing has left many dead Protesters and bystanders who attempted to help the wounded to the hospital were attack and beaten by Nouri's SWAT forces. SWAT forces also surrounded Baquba General Hospital to prevent people from donating blood. Nouri's Tigris Operation Command forces are ordering the hospital not to reveal the number of dead and wounded they are receiving. Why is the Iraqi military being used against citizens, why is being used to harass medical providers?Because Nouri fears another scandal. In addition to the bombing, his SWAT forces began firing at protesters...
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Pentagon Has CNN Interview Female Guard on How Detainees are Abusing Guards at Guantanamo (By: Kevin Gosztola) - 19-may-2013
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May 17, 2013 - Billed as an exclusive, CNN sent their Pentagon correspondent Chris Lawrence to cover the hunger strike at Guantanamo Bay prison this week. At least two segments aired on Erin Burnett’s program. The Pentagon decided to have CNN interview a female guard who could talk about the "dire conditions" that guards face at the prison. "For the first time," Lawrence said, "we’re seeing the faces of those who guard the detainees."...Interviews and tours like this are all arranged by the Pentagon, and the military only has guards or officers at the prison participate in "exclusive" interviews because it will help the Pentagon present the prison to the public in the way it wants the prison to be perceived. In this case, the segment undercuts allegations of abuse by Guantanamo prisoners’ attorneys and those in the human rights community, as it gives voice to a young female guard, who the Pentagon wants the public to know has been a victim of aggressive acts by prisoners...
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Laborers hurt after Israel police dog attack near Hebron (Ma'an news) - 19-may-2013
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May 17, 2013-- Three Palestinian laborers were wounded on Friday in Beit Ula northwest of Hebron after Israeli forces fired rubber-coated steel bullets and unleashed police dogs at them, a local official said. Issa al-Amla, coordinator for the popular struggle committee, said that Omar Al-Amla, 31, and Abdulkadir Al-Amla, 28, suffered multiple dog bites in the neck and hands. The third laborer, Jihad Saleem, was shot in the leg with a rubber-coated steel bullet...
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Syria News - May 16, 2013 (Warning: Graphic Videos) (Local Coordination Committees of Syria + Videos) - 19-may-2013
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May 16, 2013 - By the end of Thursday, the coordination committees have documented 110 martyrs, including 3 women, 7 children, and 1 martyr under torture: 60 martyrs were reported in Damascus and suburbs; 17 in Aleppo; 10 in Homs; 8 in Hama; 5 in Idlib; 5 in Daraa; 4 in Deir Ezzor; and 1 in Raqqa. The committees have documented 379 points of shelling as air strikes by warplanes were recorded in 37 points fiercest of which was in Helfaya in Hama, shelling with phosphoric bombs was recorded in Helfaya, Hama and Mleiha in Damascus Suburbs, shelling with thermobaric and cluster bombs was also recorded in Helfaya, Hama, while artillery shelling was recorded in 127 points, and mortar shelling in 108 points, also rocket shelling was recorded in 103 points in different Syrian cities and areas...
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Against Push for Peace Talks, Outposts Continue Israeli Land Grab (By Jillian Kestler-D'Amours) - 18-may-2013
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May 16 , 2013 - Ibrahim Makhlouf reaches for two wooden planks lying in the hallway and places them expertly in an L-shape along the seams of his front door. "Open [the door]," he beckons, knowing that doing so is nearly impossible. "Every night, we put this here," he explains. "For the settlers."Makhlouf’s home sits on the outskirts of the West Bank village of Asira Al-Qibliya, only 500 metres from the illegal Israeli settlement outpost of Shalhevet Farm, an offshoot of the equally illegal settlement of Yitzhar. Makhlouf told IPS that his house is attacked by Israeli settlers at least two times per week and has been vandalised over 100 times. The windows on Makhlouf’s two-story home all have bars on the outside to prevent them from shattering when settlers throw stones...
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Military Resistance 11E10 : Outstanding (Thomas F Barton) - 18-may-2013
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May 16, 2013 - ...Regardless of any of this, the U.S. military will issue a statement saying that the bombing shows that the insurgency is increasingly desperate. The Afghan government will issue a news release obliquely blaming Pakistan. And we, the reporters, will start chasing down leads.
Some of us will go after the "color" at the site – touring the blown up building and writing down details like the clothes on the corpses or the shattered glass on the street and hoping to find someone who saw it all happen...
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Eyal Checkpoint, Qalqilya: A Testament of Human Resilience (By Sam Gilbert) - 18-may-2013
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May 16, 2013 - The sun has not yet risen on Eyal checkpoint in the northwestern city of Qalqilya. Already hundreds of Palestinians queue up and wait to cross into Israel and begin the workweek. In the coming hours, roughly four thousand Palestinians from the Qalqilya region and the northern West Bank will pass through the encaged L-shaped corral, through the single turnstile all destined for work in Israel’s cities and towns. 42-year-old Erak is eating his breakfast and drinking his morning coffee, each purchased from one of the many makeshift food vendors that line the road leading up to the checkpoint. Noticeably tired but relentlessly friendly, Erak describes a routine that echoes the lives of many of the Palestinians waiting to cross over ..
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Patriotic Yardsticks for Unpatriotic Giant Corporations (by Ralph Nader) - 18-may-2013
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May 16, 2013 - Why are big, global U.S. corporations so unpatriotic? After all, they were created in the U.S.A., rose to immense profit because of the toil of American workers, are bailed out by American taxpayers whenever they’re in trouble, and are safeguarded abroad by the U.S. military. Yet these corporate Goliaths work their tax lawyers overtime to escape U.S. taxes. Many pay less than you do in federal income taxes. Imagine corporations, like General Electric, have not paid federal income taxes on U.S. profits for years. Mega corporations have abandoned U.S. workers by entrenching "pull-down" trade agreements that make it easier than ever to ship jobs and whole industries to fascist and communist regimes abroad which keep their workers near serfdom. Remember, the U.S. has run large trade deficits for the past 30 years as a result of anti-American trade deals pushed by these global companies. These Goliaths are pressing for the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a trade agreement that will further pull down our economy...
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