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Syria News - May 19, 2013 (Warning: Graphic Videos) (Local Coordination Committees of Syria + Videos) - 22-may-2013

May 19, 2013 - By the end of Sunday the Local Coordination Committees were able to document 125 martyrs includes 6 woman, 12 children and 3 martyrs under torture: 56 martyrs were reported in Homs most of them in Qusair; 26 martyrs in Damascus and its Suburbs; 14 martyrs in Aleppo; 11 martyrs in Daraa; 7 martyrs in Hama; 7 martyrs in Deir Ezzor and 5 martyrs in Idlib. The Committees have documented 343 shelling points where the fiercest were in Qusair in Homs which witnessed an unprecedented shelling: shelling with warplanes was reported in 36 points; Cluster bombs were reported in Souha in Hama; Surface-to-Surface missiles were reported in Tal Refaat in Aleppo; Explosive barrels were reported in Salma in Lattakia and in Eastern Ghota in Damascus Suburbs; Rocket shelling was reported in 67 points while mortar shells were reported in 81 points, and artillery shelling was reported in 145 points across Syrian cities and towns...

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Rise Up or Die (By Chris Hedges) - 21-may-2013

May 19, 2013 - Joe Sacco and I spent two years reporting from the poorest pockets of the United States for our book "Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt." We went into our nation’s impoverished "sacrifice zones"—the first areas forced to kneel before the dictates of the marketplace—to show what happens when unfettered corporate capitalism and ceaseless economic expansion no longer have external impediments. We wanted to illustrate what unrestrained corporate exploitation does to families, communities and the natural world. We wanted to challenge the reigning ideology of globalization and laissez-faire capitalism to illustrate what life becomes when human beings and the ecosystem are ruthlessly turned into commodities to exploit until exhaustion or collapse. And we wanted to expose as impotent the formal liberal and governmental institutions that once made reform possible, institutions no longer equipped with enough authority to check the assault of corporate power...

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This Is What Winning Looks Like My Afghanistan War Diary (By Ben Anderson) - 21-may-2013

May 19, 2013 -"All it is now is about getting out and saving face. We're not leaving because we achieved our goals. We're leaving because we've given up on achieving those goals," he says. "All the fighting has been to introduce a hated and feared government, who in some areas make the Taliban look like the good guys."...

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The Children of Gaza’s Tunnels (By: Khaled Kraizim) - 21-may-2013

May 19, 2013- Inside a long corridor less than two meters wide, a dim ray of light sneaks through a small opening at the top of the basement where a border tunnel begins. A Palestinian child named Mohammad enters the tunnel in Gaza and walks thousands of meters in the dark to the other end, in Egypt. Dozens of Gaza's children repeatedly pass through these "crossings of death" — the tunnels separating the border between Egyptian Rafah and Palestinian Rafah. They do so because they are poor. They do so despite the danger that the tunnels might collapse. Lately, Egyptian security forces have been flooding the tunnels with sewage...

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Nerds, Jocks & Conscientious Objectors: The Hidden World of Israel’s High School War Resisters (by Sarah Lazare) - 21-may-2013

May 19, 2013 - When the 19-year-old Israeli war resister Noam Gur attends weekly demonstrations against the occupation of Palestine, the soldiers who suppress the protestors—with tear gas, stun grenades, and occasionally live fire—aren’t just strangers in uniform. Among them are her former high school classmates, who have been conscripted into the Israeli army. Gur was supposed to serve, too, but instead joined the shministim. This is a Hebrew term meaning high school students in their senior year, who face conscription into the army. But the word is also used to refer to students who publicly refuse conscription on ethical grounds...

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A Call to Release the WHO Report on Iraqi Birth Defects (Various undersigned) - 21-may-2013

May 19, 2013 - To the World Health Organization and the Iraqi Ministry of Health: "All studies done by the Ministry of Health prove with damning evidence that there has been a rise in birth defects and cancers" in Iraq. This is quoted directly from a senior official at the Iraqi Ministry of Health. This senior official was speaking on-camera during a BBC documentary, called "Born under a bad sign", which aired on March 22, 2013. During the same interview, two other Ministry of Health researchers confirmed that the situation with cancers and birth defects constitute a "big crisis" for the "next generation" of Iraqi children. The studies they refer to are the joint project between the Iraqi Ministry of Health and the World Health Organization which began in May/June 2012. The publication of the final report, most recently scheduled for early this year, has been delayed for unknown reasons...

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Drones Over the Homeland: From Border Security to National Security (By Tom Barry) - 21-may-2013

May 19, 2013 - The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) says it is the "leading edge" of drone deployment in the United States. Since 2005, DHS has been purchasing Predator drones - officially called unmanned aerial systems (UAS) - to "secure the border," yet these unarmed Predator drones are also steadily creeping into local law enforcement, international drug-interdiction and national security missions - including across the border into the heart of Mexico.,,,

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Syria News - May 18, 2013 (Warning: Graphic Videos) (Local Coordination Committees of Syria + Videos) - 21-may-2013

May 18, 2013 - By the end of Saturday the Local Coordination Committees documented 116 martyrs including 11 women, 9 children and 5 under torture; 37 martyrs in Damascus and its Suburbs; 29 martyrs in Aleppo; 27 martyrs in Homs; 6 in Hama; 6 in Idlib; 6 in Daraa; 3 in Deir Ezzor; 1 in Banias and 1 in Qunaitera.The Local Coordination Committees has documented 301 points of shelling including in 36 points warplanes the most violent was in Qosair Homs and the cities of East Ghouta Damascus Suburbs, Cluster bombs were reported in Kaferlata, Idlib and Halfaia Hama, Steric bombs were reported in Halfaia as well, explosive barrels were reported in four points in East Ghouta Damascus Suburbs, in Salma Latakia, Halfaia Hama, and in Raqaa. Surface-to Surface missiles were reported in Raqqa. The shelling using rocket launchers was reported in 58 points, mortar shelling was reported in 82 points, and artillery shelling was reported in 110 points in different areas in Syria...

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