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Obama's Execution of the Drone War Should Terrify Even Drone Defenders (Conor Friedersdorf) - 15-jul-2012
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July 14, 2012 - Essayist Tom Junod's latest masterpiece, "The Lethal Presidency of Barack Obama," grapples at length with the unprecedented assassination program that the United States has waged since 2009. "Your lethality is expansive in both practice and principle; you are fighting terrorism with a policy of preemptive execution, and claiming not just the legal right to do so but the legal right to do so in secret," the piece, addressed to the president himself, states. "The American people, for the most part, have no idea who has been killed, and why; the American people -- and for that matter, most of their representatives in Congress -- have no idea what crimes those killed in their name are supposed to have committed, and have been told that they are not entitled to know."...
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Silencing pro-Palestinian speech on campus (Remi Kanazi) - 15-jul-2012
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July 14, 2012 - On July 9, 2012, the University of California's Advisory Council on Campus Climate, Culture and Inclusion presented its fact-finding report and recommendations on Jewish Student Campus Climate. According to a letter written by UC President Mark Yudof, the report was launched in response to the 2010 Berkeley student government vote to divest from companies selling weapons to the Israeli military and the 2010 UC Irvine protest against Israeli ambassador Michael Oren. The "climate report" was tasked with "fact-finding about the challenges and positive campus experiences of Jewish students at UC and to identify steps needed to make campuses more inclusive and welcoming for Jewish students". The council also presented a fact-finding report on Muslim and Arab Student Campus Climate...
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Washington's Man in Tripoli (by Stephen Lendman) - 15-jul-2012
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July 14, 2012 - ...Libya gives Washington another beachhead for greater African adventurism. Unspeakable crimes of war and against humanity were committed establishing it. Jabril's now its main man. He got his marching orders. He's expected to deliver. Otherwise another pro-Western hack will replace him....n early 2011, reports suggested Jibril urged Western intervention to oust Gaddafi. After bombing began, he reportedly met Senator John Kerry (D. MA) in Cairo. He outlined his vision for Libya’s future. Kerry chairs the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Jibril also met Clinton and French President Nicolas Sarkozy. Washington wants Libya transformed its way....
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This global financial fraud and its gatekeepers (Naomi Wolf) - 15-jul-2012
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July 14, 2012 - Last fall, I argued that the violent reaction to Occupy and other protests around the world had to do with the 1%ers' fear of the rank and file exposing massive fraud if they ever managed get their hands on the books. At that time, I had no evidence of this motivation beyond the fact that financial system reform and increased transparency were at the top of many protesters' list of demands. But this week presents a sick-making trove of new data that abundantly fills in this hypothesis and confirms this picture. The notion that the entire global financial system is riddled with systemic fraud – and that key players in the gatekeeper roles, both in finance and in government, including regulatory bodies, know it and choose to quietly sustain this reality – is one that would have only recently seemed like the frenzied hypothesis of tinhat-wearers, but this week's headlines make such a conclusion, sadly, inevitable...
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Anti-boycott group forced to pay $160,000 in damages to Olympia Food Co-op board members (Nora Barrows-Friedman) - 15-jul-2012
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July 14, 2012 - Following today’s hearing in Olympia, Washington, of a lawsuit brought on by anti-Palestinian, anti-boycott individuals — working with Israel lobby group StandWithUS — the judge in the case ruled that the 16 defendants (board members of the Olympia Food Co-op), must be awarded $10,000 each in damages. Almost exactly two years ago, the Olympia Food Co-op became the first grocery store in the US to de-shelve Israeli products as part of the Board’s committment to social justice and human rights. Since then, anti-boycott individuals and groups have relentlessly pursued legal options and outright intimidation of board members in an effort to force the store to rescind its decision to support the Palestinian-led movement of boycott, divestment and sanctions....
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Gaza's healthcare system in crisis – video (Simon Rawles, Noah Payne-Frank and Karl Schembri) - 15-jul-2012
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July 14, 2012 - Medical staff and the parents of patients discuss the effect of five years of Israeli blockade and Hamas rule on Gaza's healthcare system. Power cuts and shortages of drugs and equipment mean patients are suffering. Those in urgent need of medical care often seek treatment in Israel – but permission to travel is not always granted...
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4 Palestinians shot dead at protest in Syria (Videos ) (Ma'an news + Video) - 15-jul-2012
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July 14, 2012 - -- Four Palestinian refugees were killed and several others were injured after Syrian security forces opened fire at demonstrators in Al-Yarmouk refugee camp on Friday, sources said. Palestinians in the Damascus-area camp told Ma’an that hundreds of refugees had taken to the streets to protest the killing of 16 Palestinians earlier in the week. At the demonstration, Syrian forces opened fire on protesters, killing at least four, whom witnesses say suffered gunshot wounds to the upper body...
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NYTimes reporter among arrestees in West Bank protests (By the Popular Struggle Committee Coordination Committee) - 15-jul-2012
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July 14, 2012 - Four Israeli activists and six foreign citizens, including a New York Times correspondent, were arrested this Friday in Nabi Saleh. The Israelis and the reporter were released last night after a short investigation. The international activists remain in custody and will most likely be deported. According to various reports, New York Times reporter Ben Ehrenreich was in Nabi Saleh to write up a story for the magazine, and despite repeatedly showing IDF soldiers his press card and asking why he was being apprehended, he was detained for nearly 2 hours before being released without being told why. Ehrenreich is an acclaimed novelist and son of writer Barbara Ehrenreich...
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Syria: To oppose, or not to oppose? (By Maher Arar.) - 15-jul-2012
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July 14, 2012 - ...What I find lacking in many of the analyses relating to the Syrian crisis, which I find oftentimes biased and politically motivated, is how well the interests of the Syrian people who are living inside are taken into account. Dry and unnecessarily sophisticated in nature, these analyses ignore simple facts about why the Syrian people rebelled against the regime in the first place...When I was detained at the Sednaya prison in 2003, a 60-year-old man told me of a conversation that took place between him and a general in the Political Security Directorate. The old man was trying to have a rational dialogue with the general during the interrogation, by advising the him that the regime must treat people like human beings if it wanted to rightly earn the respect of the Syrian people. Those who still buy Assad’s anti-imperial rhetoric should know that the old man whose story is mentioned above was imprisoned simply because he and other fellow citizens organized a small rally to denounce the illegal US invasion of Iraq.In fact, it is not uncommon to find prisoners – including some of those I met in Sednaya prison – whose only "crime" was to help Palestinian groups. Also, how could a regime that claims to be anti-Israel not even dare to protect itself against the frequent Israeli air incursions throughout the past decade?...
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Israeli man sets himself on fire at the end of Tel Aviv march (+972blog) - 15-jul-2012
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July 14, 2012 - An Israeli man was rushed to the hospital this evening (Saturday) after he set himself on fire at the end of a march calling for social justice in central Tel Aviv. According to police estimates, some 10,000 people marched, marking the first anniversary of the J14 movement’s inception. After an otherwise uneventful march that culminated on Kaplan St., a man in his 50s distributed several copies of a typed letter, poured gasoline on himself, and torched his clothing...
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U.S. Has No Idea Who’s a Taliban ‘Leader,’ Still Boasts About Killing Them (By Spencer Ackerman) - 15-jul-2012
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July 13, 2012 - Since January 2011, the U.S.-led coalition in Afghanistan claims it’s killed or captured over 100 insurgent "leaders." Too bad it doesn’t have any clear idea what "leader" means. Any insurgent who commands another person apparently qualifies. And worse, by that criteria, Taliban and aligned insurgents have killed twice as many U.S. troops in the same time period. According to Danger Room’s count, since January 2011, ISAF troops have killed or captured at least 104 insurgent leaders. You might expect the insurgency to be battered from the loss of so many senior commanders in such a short period of time...
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Libya: Human Rights Worse After Gaddafi (By Mel Frykberg) - 15-jul-2012
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July 14 2012 - "The human rights situation in Libya now is far worse than under the late dictator Muammar Gaddafi," Nasser al-Hawary, researcher with the Libyan Observatory for Human Rights tells IPS. Hawary showed IPS testimonies from families whose loved ones have been beaten to death in the custody of the many militias that continue to control vast swathes of Libya. "At least 20 people have been beaten to death in militia custody since the revolution, and this is a conservative figure. The real figure is probably far higher," says Hawary, pointing to photos of bloodied bodies accompanying the testimonies.
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Syria News - July 13, 2012 (Warning: Graphic Videos) (Local Coordination Committees of Syria + Videos) - 15-jul-2012
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July 13, 2012 - The number of Syrian martyrs has risen to 80 so far, including 3 families. 28 martyrs were reported in Idlib, 14 in Homs, 13 in Yarmouk Refugees Camp in Damascus, 12 in Aleppo, 5 in Daraa, 3 in Deir Ezzor, 2 in Damascus Suburbs, 2 in Hama, and 1 in Lattakia....The Local Coordinating Committees in Syria recorded 738 demonstrations in Syria, on Friday, July 13, 2012. Despite the regime's attempts to suppress the peaceful demonstrations, which the Free Syrian Army tried to protect, people were able to go out in 106 more demonstrations today than a week ago...
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"The Third Degree" and Exporting Torture (The Salvador Option) - 15-jul-2012
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July 13, 2012 - Police Interrogation and American Justice is a detailed analysis of modern police interrogation methodology in the United States. Although the book primarily addresses the constitutional implications of domestic law enforcement interrogation practices, the chapter on the origin and development of police torture in the US, entitled "The Third Degree," provides important information about the evolution of American attitudes toward torture and sheds light on some of the salient characteristics of the interrogation system that would later be exported around the world by US military and police advisors during the first three decades of the Cold War...
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"The Jews of Our Time?": Israel's Deportation of the South Sudanese (by Mimi Kirk) - 15-jul-2012
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July 13, 2012 - Planeloads of South Sudanese refugees from Israel have been landing in South Sudan’s capital of Juba over the past few weeks. Many of them had been living in the poor neighborhoods of Hatikva and Shapira in southern Tel Aviv, working in such jobs as hotel chambermaids or waiters. Israel has justified the deportations with the explanation that because South Sudan seceded from Sudan in July 2011, the refugees can now return to their home country without fear. Their calls deliberately disregard ongoing violence between Sudan and South Sudan as well as aggression between rival South Sudanese groups. The Interior Ministry announced that the South Sudanese would receive 1,250 US dollars if they returned voluntarily and would face arrest and expulsion if they refused...
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Israeli blockade takes its toll on mental health in Gaza (Angela Robson) - 15-jul-2012
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July 13, 2012 - For as long as Farah can remember, her father has never worked. Nor, in recent years, has she particularly wanted to spend time with him. She and her three younger siblings love Abu Shawareb, insists their mother, Naima, but they have grown wary of him, particularly of his mood swings and violent outbursts. "It was like a part of me had gone for ever," says Shawareb, recalling the day five years ago when he suddenly lost his job. "I kept thinking, how am I going to feed my family? How will we live?"...
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Violations of Media Freedoms in the occupied Palestinian Territories During June 2012 (Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms (MADA)) - 15-jul-2012
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July 13, 2012 - Media freedoms in the occupied Palestinian territories suffered a setback in June 2012, due to Israel's continued policy of targeting journalists, and due to fading hopes for the implementation of the Palestinian reconciliation agreements, which was reflected negatively on media freedoms , and the violations committed against journalists by various parties continued last month. The Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms (MADA) monitored the disturbing violations against journalists – most notably the Iraeli occupation's on-going policy of arresting journalists, extending their administrative detention and preventing them from covering events...
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U.S., France Pressure PA Not to Seek International Inquiry into Possible Arafat Murder (Richard Silverstein) - 15-jul-2012
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July 13, 2012 - China’s Xinhua news agency reports that Palestinian officials told it that the PA has come under serious pressure from the U.S. and France not to seek an international tribunal to investigate the possible murder of Yasser Arafat: The Palestinians’ efforts to launch an international probe into the 2004 death of ex-leader Yasser Arafat face serious obstacles, a Palestinian official said Tuesday. The obstacles stem from the opposition by some countries including the United States and France, the official said on condition of anonymity. The United States has put pressure on the Palestinian leadership not to seek such an investigation because it can lead to some negative consequences on the Middle East peace process…
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Defence for Children International-Palestine's monthly bulletin on detention - Issue 30 - June 2012 (Defence for Children International-Palestine Section) - 14-jul-2012
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July 13, 2012 - In this issue: 64% increase in the number of children held in military detention since December 2011; UK lawyers and unions write to UK's Foreign Secretary re forcible transfer of children; New report by UK lawyers - "Children in military custody"; UNITE and two Dutch political parties resolve to campaign for Palestinian child detainees...
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Military Resistance 10G13: Friday the 13th (Thomas F Barton) - 14-jul-2012
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July 13, 2012 - Today, the McConnells are a major force in Louisiana’s vast prison industry, playing a role in the incarceration of one in seven prisoners. The family’s fortunes have risen hand in hand with those of rural sheriffs who are the best-known face of Louisiana Incarceration-for-Profit Inc. More than half of the state’s 40,000 inmates are housed in local prisons run by sheriffs or private companies like LaSalle for the express purpose of making a buck. Whether a sheriff uses the revenue to buy shotguns or whether LaSalle uses it to build a gleaming new headquarters, the result is the same. If you are sentenced to state time in Louisiana, odds are you will be placed in a local prison -- a low-budget, for-profit enterprise where you are likely to languish in your bunk, day after day, year after year, bored out of your skull with little chance to learn a trade or otherwise improve yourself...
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Hundreds Protest in Bil'in, Ni'ilin and Kufr Qaddoum (Popular Struggle Coordination Committee) - 14-jul-2012
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July 13, 2012 - Some 300 Palestinians and a handful of Israeli and International solidarity activists joined the protest in Kufr Qaddoum. The demonstration opened with speeches, following which the crowd started marching towards the main road of the village. Without waiting very long and without any provocation, the army started attacking the march with ear-gas canisters and rubber coated bullets, as well as the 'skunk'. Large military units surrounded the village from all sides and continued shelling residential areas. Three people were injured and required medical treatment...
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Covering Up Debacles: The Sandusky Affair and the Vietnam War (John Grant) - 14-jul-2012
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July 13, 2012 - ...Since President Obama’s Memorial Day speech at the Vietnam Wall in Washington, Vietnam veteran friends and I have become aware of a $5 million-a-year Defense Department effort to clean up the image of the Vietnam War. It’s called the Vietnam War Commemoration Project, and it will be in operation for the next 13 years. ..There is a world of difference between Jerry Sandusky’s behavior and the truth about the Vietnam War. But in the realm of metaphor, there's no doubt the same strong urge to protect an institution, to clean up its image and to assure its recruitment capacity for the future is at play in the Pentagon’s Vietnam War Commemoration Project...
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The Pendulum Swings & A New Era Has Begun: Presbyterian Church (USA) Endorses Boycott, Splits on Divestment (by Anna Baltzer) - 14-jul-2012
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July 12, 2012 - There is a moment, just before a pendulum changes direction, when it is perfectly still. It is precisely that moment that marks the end of an old way and the beginning of a new one. That is what happened for divestment at the 2012 Presbyterian Church USA (PC(USA)) General Assembly in Pittsburgh.At the General Assembly, a coalition of groups rallied to support the Israel Palestine Mission Network (IPMN) in its efforts to pass a recommendation from the Mission Responsibility Through Investment committee to divest from Caterpillar, Motorola Solutions, and Hewlett Packard due to the companies’ profiting from the Israeli occupation. The IPMN also sought to pass an overture to boycott settlement products Ahava Dead Sea Mineral Skincare and Hadiklaim Israel Date Growers in addition to other pro-justice overtures...
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Election Over, Libyan Militias Still Hunting ‘Gadhafi Loyalists’ (by Jason Ditz) - 14-jul-2012
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July 13, 2012 - We’re now a week into post-election Libya, and we don’t really know what the new Libyan government will look like. This vote count, seemingly cementing Libya as "post-revolution," comes around the backdrop of Misrata’s military planning yet another offensive against "Gadhafi loyalists." After months of score-settling, always done in the context of one side accusing another of harboring secret loyalty, and mass detentions of suspected loyalists, the attacks are still going on, and the Misrata militia, always aggressive, is turning its eye once again toward the town of Bani Walid...
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