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'Drones, Missiles and Gunships, Oh My!' Welcome to the 2012 London Olympics (Dave Zirin) - 15-may-2012
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May 14, 2012 - As many as 48,000 security forces. Thirteen thousand five hundred troops. Surface-to-air missiles stationed on top of residential apartment buildings. A sonic weapon that disperses crowds by creating "head splitting pain." Unmanned drones peering down from the skies. A safe zone, cordoned off by an eleven-mile electrified fence, ringed with trained agents and fifty-five teams of attack dogs. One would be forgiven for thinking that these were the counterinsurgency tactics used by US army bases in Iraq and Afghanistan or perhaps the military methods taught to third-world despots at the School of the Americas in Ft. Benning, Georgia. But instead of being used in a war zone or the theater of occupation, they in fact make up the very visible security apparatus in London for the 2012 Summer Olympics...
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FBI Wants Greater Surveillance Powers (by Stephen Lendman) - 15-may-2012
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May 14, 2012 - FBI Director Robert Mueller wants Congress to enact greater surveillance powers following the false flag underwear bomb plot blamed on Al Qaeda. In May 9 testimony before the House Judiciary Committee, he said: "We've seen over the last several days, particularly with regard to the IED that was recently recovered, that terrorism is and should be and continues to be our No. 1 priority and the No. 1 priority of a number of our intelligence agencies." Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) surveillance provisions expire at yearend. National Intelligence Director James Clapper and Attorney General Eric Holder call renewing them the intelligence community's top legislative priority....
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The Palestinian Nakba: The Resolve of Memory (By Ramzy Baroud) - 15-may-2012
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May 14, 2012 - Many Palestinians remember and reference al-Nakba, also known as the Catastrophe, on May 15 every year. The event marks the expulsion of nearly a million Palestinians, while their villages were destroyed. The destruction of Palestine in 1947-48 ushered in the birth of Israel. Older generations relay the harsh and oppressive memory of their collective experience to younger Palestinians, many of whom live their own Nakbas today. In covering al-Nakba, sympathetic Arab and other media play sad music and show black and white footage of displaced, frightened refugees. They rightly emphasize the concept of Sumud, steadfastness, as they show Palestinian of all ages holding unto the rusty keys of their homes and insisting on their right of return....
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Third intifada is the only alternative left for Palestinians (By Abdel Bari Atwan) - 15-may-2012
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May 14, 2012 - For 64 years the Palestinians have patiently and steadfastly continued their struggle for justice, enduring the longest occupation in modern history.Recently, however, other events throughout the region have dominated the world’s press. First, the 'war on terror’, then the invasion of Iraq, apprehension about a nuclear Iran, and now the turmoil of the Arab revolutions.
Has the Palestinian cause been side-lined, or even forgotten, in the clamour for democracy and the horror of so much violence? Six Palestinian hunger-strikers lie close to death having refused food for up to 76?? days, but even in the Arab press their sacrifice is not given the attention it deserves...
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NATO in Chicago May 20-21: War Criminals Summit (Revolution) - 15-may-2012
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May 14, 2012 - NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, is holding a "heads of state" summit in Chicago on May 20 and 21. About 50 countries that are members of and allied with NATO are sending their political leadership to this summit. NATO presents itself, and is portrayed in the major media of this country and countries it is allied with, as a force for "humanitarian interests." On its website, NATO claims to be a "leading contributor to peace and security on the international stage." This benign self image is a vicious lie and masquerade that influences the thinking of far too many people in the U.S. and around the world. In reality, NATO is the world’s largest military alliance. Its 28 countries account for 65% of the world’s military spending, and far and away the largest of these is the United States....
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What Thaer Halahleh’s family told me about his release brings joy, but raises troubling questions (Linah Alsaafin) - 15-may-2012
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May 14, 2012 - At around 1:30am Palestine local time I was lying on my side in my bed trying to sleep and doing my best to ignore the queasy feeling in the pit of my stomach as I thought about how the 64th commemoration of Nakba Day would pan out. My phone suddenly vibrated jarringly. I grabbed it and the name of the last person I expected to call me was flashing on the screen: Abu Thaer Halahleh, the father of Palestinian hunger striker Thaer Halahleh. I immediately answered. What I learned in the conversation was a cause for both joy, and serious concern about a pattern of pressure to isolate prisoners and coerce them into accepting deals...
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Hunger-striking detainees sign deal with prison authority (Ma'an news) - 15-may-2012
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May 14, 2012 - Detainees on Monday signed a deal with the Israeli prison authority to end their mass hunger strike, officials told Ma'an.Prisoner representatives from each of the factions agreed to the deal in Ashkelon jail, prisoners society chief Qaddura Fares said in a statement.Israel's internal security service Shin Bet confirmed the deal, the Israeli news site Ynet reported.
Senior Hamas official Saleh Arouri, who was a member of the negotiations team, said Israel agreed to provide a list of accusations to administrative detainees, or release them at the end of their term....
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The Nakba is now 64 years old and counting (Ali Badwan) - 15-may-2012
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May 14, 2012 - May 2012 sees Israel entering the sixty-fifth year since it was established on the ruins of historic Palestine. Those years have been a colonial journey unprecedented in history. Israel was based on the philosophy of bringing people of one ethnicity from around the world to supplant another people indigenous to the land. To achieve this Israel has used genocide, "transfer" and ethnic cleansing, in a manner similar to what happened to Native Americans and aboriginal Australians and New Zealanders. The big difference, though, is that the Zionist-Israeli movement used ideological justifications based on mythology of a kind well-received by the colonial West..
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Shock-and-Awe Nation Building: Iraq's Neo-Liberal Reconstruction (by Haytham Bahoora) - 14-may-2012
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May 14, 2012 - The Iraqi government’s contractual delivery of Iraqi oil fields to foreign multinationals is perhaps the most consequential long-term economic consequence of the US invasion and occupation of Iraq. Contracts have been signed, production rights to massive oil fields sold, and a steady stream of propaganda disseminated about Iraqi oil production eventually rivaling that of Saudi Arabia and Iran... The de-nationalization of Iraq’s public wealth has been presented to the Iraqi public as a necessity due to Iraq’s destroyed infrastructure and lack of technical expertise after decades of war and economic sanctions, sanctions that are widely recognized to have "de-developed" Iraq. But what does this vision of Iraq’s privatized petro-future, the reversal of decades of social policy predicated on a nationalized public good, portend for Iraq’s people and their livelihoods? And how will reconstruction and "development" proceed in the context of foreign multinationals playing a dominant role in the context of the collapse and fragmentation of the Iraqi state? ...
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64 Years Since The Nakba (Ella David for PNN) - 14-may-2012
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May 14, 2012 - Tomorrow, Tuesday 15th May, is the 64th anniversary of the Nakba. Nakba means "Catastrophe" in Arabic. It refers to the destruction of Palestinian society in 1948 when more than 700,000 Palestinians fled or were forced into exile by Israeli troops. Because the Palestinians were not Jewish, their presence and predominant ownership of the land were obstacles to the creation of a Jewish state. The day will be commemorated in Palestine, by the Palestinian Diaspora and by solidarity activists all over the world tomorrow...
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Six Palestinian prisoners refuse to end hunger strike (KUNA) - 14-may-2012
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May 14, 2012 (KUNA) -- Six Palestinian longtime hunger striking prisoners refused Monday to end their protest against the Israeli policy of arbitrary detention until they are released. The prisoners, including Belal Thiyab and Tha'er Halahleh who have been on hunger strike for the 77th day, insist that the ruling of an Israeli court for their administrative detention until next August is illegal so they should be released immediately, Thiyab's brother Bassam told KUNA here this evening.Under the Israeli ruling, the administrative detention terms of Halahleh and Thiyab expire on August 6 and August 14 respectively, Bassam Thiyab noted.He identified the four other prisoners who go on the hunger strike as Hassan Al-Safadi - on hunger strike 72 days ago, Mahmoud Al-Sersek - 57 days, Omar Abu-Shallal - 69 days, and Jaafar Ezzeddin - 54 days....
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Statement No. 7 of the Strike Leadership (Central Committee of the Leadership of the Strike) - 14-may-2012
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May 14, 2012 - We have only two options: to achieve all of our demands, or to die. Free Palestinian people, masses of our nation, free people of the world…. We have entered a stage of legendary and draining human struggle, where we face real danger which threatens our lives. We are now very close to martyrdom, which is more precious and one of the best options for us. We are now at the state of a great test of wills and we reject completely the attempts of the Prison Service management to force us to accept partial settlements in order to bring an end to this epic humanitarian struggle for justice....
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Predator Nation : America as a Shining Drone Upon a Hill
On Staring Death in the Face and Not Noticing (by Tom Engelhardt) - 14-may-2012
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May 14, 2012 - ...In these last years, this country has pioneered the development of the most advanced killing machines on the planet for which the national security state has plans decades into the future. Conceptually speaking, our leaders have also established their "right" to send these robot assassins into any airspace, no matter the local claims of national sovereignty, to take out those we define as evil or simply to protect American interests. On this, Brennan couldn’t be clearer. In the process, we have turned much of the rest of the planet into what can only be considered an American free-fire zone....
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Yemen: The #NoDrones Campaign (Global Voices Online -) - 14-may-2012
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May 14, 2012 - Yemenis have launched a campaign on Twitter to express their condemnation of the United States' drone war in Yemen. They are tweeting under the hashtag #NoDrones, and have asked non-Yemenis to speak out and join them in their campaign. Mai Saleh in Yemen tweeted: @A4Mai: Take a moment and shout with us: No to the jungle law, No to the extrajudicial killings, No to the killing of innocent civilians #NoDrones...
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Escalating America’s Third War in Yemen (by Micah Zenko) - 14-may-2012
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May 14, 2012 - America’s Third War is escalating quickly in the skies over Yemen. Despite previous rebuffs from the White House, last month the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) and the CIA—which both run parallel drone campaigns in Yemen—were granted broad authority to conduct "signature strikes" against anonymous suspected militants, who are determined to support al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) based on the observed "patterns of suspicious behavior" from multiple intelligence sources...
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Confusion over reports of end to prisoner hunger strike (Omar Rahman) - 14-may-2012
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May 14, 2012 - Contradictory rumors began to circulate Monday evening regarding an agreement purportedly reached between the representatives of Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike and Israel. The deal was reportedly brokered by the Egyptian government, which played a pivotal role in the prisoner release deal signed between Hamas and Israel last year. Over 1,600 Palestinian prisoners have been on a collective hunger strike since April 17, and six others have been on individual hunger strikes for much longer. Two prisoners, Bilal Diab and Thaer Halahleh, have gone without food for 77 days, the longest hunger strikes in the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It was not immediately clear whether the deal meets the demand of the two for immediate release, or whether they have agreed to call off their strike. Other sources claimed that no such deal had been reached, and that reports to that effect constitute efforts by the Palestinian Authority to hijack the hunger strike....
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Israel subjects Bilal Diab to cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment on 77th day of hunger strike (Ali Abunimah) - 14-may-2012
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May 14, 2012 - Palestinian prisoner Bilal Diab is suffering frequent loss of consciousness and is close to death on his 77th day of hunger strike against his imprisonment without charge or trial by Israel.Despite this, Israel continues to subject him to cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment, blackmail and other unethical medical practices and to deny him proper care, according to his own account provided in statement from Palestinian prisoners’ rights group Addameer.
Diab is one of several long-term hunger strikers who are at immediate risk of death according to Addameer. Diab, along with Thaer Halahleh, are the longest strikers. Addameer’s lawyer was permitted to visit Diab, and prisoners Hassan Safadi and Omar Abu Shalal at Ramle Prison today...
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Watch: The Great Book Robbery, Israel’s 1948 looting of Palestine’s cultural heritage (Ali Abunimah) - 14-may-2012
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May 13, 2012 - On May 15, Palestinians mark the anniversary of the Nakba, the systematic expulsion of the Palestinian people by Zionist militias that began in late 1947 and lasted through 1948 and beyond. As well as land and properties, a lesser known aspect of that expulsion is that Israel looted Palestinian homes over their cultural treasures, among them books, manuscripts, personal papers, photographs and works of art. The The Great Book Robbery tells the story of the systematic looting in 1948 of tens of thousands of Palestinian books in a joint operation by the Haganah – what became the Israeli army – and the Israeli national library....
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Syria News - May 13, 2012 (Warning: Graphic Videos) (Local Coordination Committees of Syria + Videos) - 14-may-2012
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May 13, 2012 - The number of martyrs in Syria has risen to 30 thus far, including 3 women, 1 child and 2 defected soldiers; 11 martyrs were reported in Hama (Taman’ah Al-Ghab), 5 in Daraa, 4 in Homs, 4 in Idlib, 3 in Deir Ezzor, 2 in Damascus Suburbs, and 1 in Aleppo.Hama: Taman'ah Al-Ghab Under Fire: ... Today morning, the village has witnessed a new raid by shabiha, backed by security protection, from Azizieh village. They stormed the village and conducted a campaign of burning and destruction of a large number of homes and private properties, and killed 7 civilians, including at least 1 woman...Hama: Sahl Al-Ghab: At least 3 martyrs fell due to continuously bombing villages... Homs:Rastan:The child Ahmad Obaid was martyred due to the artillery shelling on the city...Homs: Rastan: More than 255 shells have fallen, and the number of wounded has risen to more than 60 amid a severe shortage of medical supplies.
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Activists Seal Off Settlement in solidarity with hunger strikers (Video) (Popular Struggle Coordination Committee) - 14-may-2012
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May 13, 2012 - 50 Palestinian, Israeli and international activists blocked the entrance of the Ma’ale Adumim settlement today, in support of the Palestinian prisoners’ massive hunger strike, now on its 27th days. The protesters managed to halt traffic at the entrance to the settlement for about 20 minutes, before Israeli forces managed to remove them from the road and onto the pavement. Two of the Palestinian protesters were detained and taken to the adjacent police station....
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Hunger strikers expose an inhuman system (EDITORIAL, The Observer,) - 14-may-2012
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May 13, 2012 - The disclosure that six of almost 1,600 Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike to protest against the Israeli policy of "administrative detention" are close to death has profound implications for Israel and for the stalled Middle East peace process. The rule of law and fair and proper judicial processes, where those accused of a crime may be charged and are guaranteed an opportunity to speak in their own defence in open court, is a key human right that a properly functioning democracy should guarantee even in a troubled period of peacetime. Internment for prolonged periods without charge on the suspicion of secretive and unaccountable intelligence agencies, whose claims cannot be adequately tested – in Guantánamo Bay, the UK or in Israel – must always be opposed...
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Israel: Thousands take part in May 12 protests, ten arrested (+972blog) - 14-may-2012
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May 13, 2012 - Around 5,000 protesters in Rabin Square. took part yesterday (Saturday) night in what was labeled "the first social justice demonstration of the summer." Smaller events took place in other Israeli cities. The protest was part of the international May 12 protest movement, and a live feed from similar rallies around the world was displayed in the square. The demonstration was organized by a network of local activists, and not by the leaders of last year’s J14 movement. It also did not feature any speeches from politicians, though many of the activists who spoke denounced the recent unity deal between Kadima and the Likud. One of the popular slogans in the rally was "the entire nation is the opposition." At least 10 protesters were detained by police after the rally...
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Military Resistance 10E5: Blackmail (Thomas F Barton) - 14-may-2012
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May 13, 2012 - Ore.—A case challenging the use of the federal government's "no-fly" list, set to be heard here Friday, will raise the larger issue of whether Muslims are singled out for harassment by authorities. A lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union alleges that members of the U.S. Muslim community were put on the no-fly list of potential security risks without a means to correct their status, depriving them of freedom to travel. The 15 plaintiffs also allege that current federal rules deprive them of means to get off the list.
One of the plaintiffs is the imam of Portland's largest and oldest mosque, the Masjed As-Saber Islamic Center...
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Controversy and Deadly Destruction Arising from Drone Use (Johanna Treblin) - 14-may-2012
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May 13, 2012 - Grasshoppers and other insects might become the next generation of drones, if researchers with the Israeli research centre Technion who are studying the movements of these insects succeed. Ultimately, they hope to be able to remotely control where the insects fly. Since their introduction more than a half-century ago, drones have dramatically increased in complexity, as the Israeli research would suggest. But they also remain as controversial as they are fascinating, as a new book by Medea Benjamin launched in New York in early May, "Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control," demonstrates. The book is the result of in-depth research on drones, their proliferation and their impact on civilians. It also presents an overview of the controversy surrounding, opposition to and activism against this technology. Benjamin is an activist in and leader of the peace movement and the struggle for human rights and social justice....
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