How Israeli apartheid is coming unstuck

by Jonathan Cook
One incident of racism, though small in relation to the decades of massive, institutionalised discrimination exercised by Israel against its Palestinian Arab citizens, has triggered an uncharacteristic bout of Israeli soul-searching.

UN committee slams Israeli forces’ torture of Palestinian children

 
Al-Akhbar
A United Nations human rights body accused Israel on Thursday of mistreating Palestinian children, including by torturing those in custody and using others as human shields.

Progressive Radio News Hour
June 21, 2013
Stephen Lendman
Interview with Rick Rozoff
AUDIO
Rozoff’s an activist, anti-war supporter, and editor of the web site Stop NATO.
It “document(s) and oppose(s) global militarist trends and an expanding theater of war that began” by balkanizing Yugoslavia in the 1990s.

Death penalty hearings against five Guantanamo Bay detainees were quickly shelved today, and the courtroom ordered “cleared” during the defense lawyer’s questioning of a former Gitmo prison commander Rear Admiral David Woods sparked an angry exchange with the prosecution.

Welcome to http://NewWorldNextWeek.com – the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week:
Story #1: Brazil Protests Erupt Over Public Services And World Cup Costs
http://bit.ly/14g2pas
Peevski Protests Force Bulgaria PM Oresharski’s U-Turn
http://bbc.in/11Zay3W
Turkish Official Approves ‘Standing Man’ Protest

Libertarian television show host John Stossel and liberal creator of the acclaimed HBO series The Wire David Simon have reacted to the National Security Agency (NSA) spying scandal in a similar fashion – -namely, they suggest we stop worrying about it so much since there are worse things in the world.
This reaction is almost understandable given some of the salient points they raise after this terrible one.

This week, PPP released a survey showing that Republicans-- plus 4 New Dems who voted with them (Jared Polis, Dan Maffei, Joe Garcia and multimillionaire Scott Peters)-- are way on the wrong side of public opinion when it comes to education.

North Atlantic Treaty Organization
June 21, 2013
Training for logistics cooperation in Slovakia
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“Standards, common procedures and compatible equipment are key to interoperability. Without interoperability, there is no effective cooperation in logistics, and that can have an impact on the sustainability of a mission and the effectiveness of forces in combat, particularly in the case of out-of-area operations.”
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RT | June 21, 2013

The New York City Police Department’s latest attempt to fire Adrian Schoolcraft, the whistleblower who secretly recorded evidence of corruption among his superiors over three years ago, was blocked this week in federal court.

2013 is a bizarre year. Lots of whistleblowers. Yet the Mainstream media is for the most part attacking Edward Snowden. Michael Hastings was obviously killed and the corporate media says nothing. As I said several times before the Federal Institute of Technology of Zurich reported there are 147 corporations that run the world and that these companies are essentially one entity through interlocking Boards of Directors. That includes the media and Hollywood. The engine and transmission Hastings car was propelled 200 feet down the street.

By Noel Brinkerhoff | AllGov | June 21, 2013

Half a century after the U.S. Supreme Court banned prayer in public classrooms, religion is nonetheless very present in schools these days.

By Ralph Nader | June 20, 2013

Privacy is a sacred word to many Americans, as demonstrated by the recent uproar over the brazen invasion of it by the Patriot Act-enabled National Security Agency (NSA). The information about dragnet data-collecting of telephone and internet records leaked by Edward Snowden has opened the door to another pressing conversation—one about privatization, or corporatization of this governmental function.

Great minds think alike but, alas, we don't have many of those in Congress. Thank God we do have Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders in the Senate and Alan Grayson in the House. All three are skeptical-- very skeptical-- about the latest and most atrocious trade bill Corporate America is trying to shove down our throats, with the help of many of their colleagues and... el Presidente. Thursday all those Republicans who obstruct every Obama nomination were stumbling all over each other to vote to confirm the conservative American jobs killer Obama named as U.S. Trade Rep, Michael Froman.

Summarizing: The G-8 meeting. No concessions to the NATO tyranny.

Press TV – June 21, 2013

A new nationwide opinion poll indicates that over 77 percent of people in the United States do not trust mainstream newspapers and television reports.
The survey, which was conducted by Gallup on June 1-4, was based on nationwide telephone interviews with 1,529 American adults. Its results were released on June 17.

Voice of Russia
June 21, 2013
Will Syrian “rebels” swear they’re not going to eat someone’s organs? – Rozoff
Recorded on June 10, 2013
AUDIO

A child sits in front of a destroyed home in Rafah. (Photo: European Commission DG ECHO/cc/flickr)

Al-Akhbar | June 20, 2013

A United Nations human rights body accused Israel on Thursday of mistreating Palestinian children, including by torturing those in custody and using others as human shields.

A good case can be made-- should be made-- that conservatives are waging a relentless war against American women and that it has to be stopped by voters at the polls by defeating the Republican Party. The GOP anti-women jihad is out of control in every state where they've seized power and in the U.S. House of Representatives. But the DCCC isn't the organization to make the point, not if anyone is expected to believe it. Here's the e-mail the DCCC sent out to tens of thousands of Democrats this week:

Al.com
June 20, 2013
MEADS demonstrates ability to successfully network with NATO systems
By Leada Gore

The Medium Extended Air Defense Systems, or MEADS, successfully demonstrated the ability to network with NATO systems during Joint Project Optic Windmill exercises held in May and June.

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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
Henri Barbusse: Selections on war
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Henri Barbusse
From Light (1918)
Translated by Fitzwater Wray

Al-Akhbar | June 21, 2013

An Israeli security guard shot dead a Jewish visitor at Jerusalem’s Western Wall, the holiest site where Jews can pray, on Friday. The visitor was shot after being mistaken for a Palestinian militant.

RT | June 20, 2013

Turkey has announced plans to purchase 100,000 gas bomb cartridges and launch a central cyber security agency, local media report. This comes after protests across the country which also saw a series of attacks on government websites.

On U.S. military intervention in Syria’s civil war, where “both sides are slaughtering each other as they scream over an arbitrary red line ‘Allahu akbar’ … I say let Allah sort it out.” So said Sarah Palin to the Faith and Freedom Coalition conference. And, as is not infrequently the case, she nailed it. Hours [...]

On a visit to Washington a couple of months ago, I was surprised to discover Politico has a dead-tree edition: there it was at the local Starbucks alongside the Washington Post and the New York Times, right next to the double-chocolate scones. As assorted government workers, policy wonks, and aspiring demagogues waited patiently in line [...]

Physics lesson time guys.
So we’ve heard in the past 24 hours that:
a) Some guys totally built an X-ray death beam to kill Obama and/or “enemies of Israel”
b) Those guys were KKK but somehow pro-Israel too
c) The whole thing was a “portable Hiroshima” that ran entirely off the van’s cigarette lighter
d) They didn’t have the “radioactive” material yet

As soon as Jim DeMint took over the already right-wing Heritage Foundation, he made sure it would be even more extreme and, especially, more racist. Their first big effort under his regime was to put out a phony "study" claiming immigration would cost American taxpayers gazillions of dollars-- or, to be more "exact," 6 trillion dollars.

Brief History of the Saudi Wahhabism and Conspiracies
 

The rise of extremism in the form of the Wahhabi movement during the twentieth century could not have taken place without the huge investments made by the Al-Saud family in conjunction with the American in the name of democracy, freedom and human rights to destroy Arab nationalism, socialism, secularism, and of course Islam.

Tightened security in Nineva and Anbar provinces was successful in preventing any major attacks against voters today. However, some violence did occur. At least 12 Iraqis were killed in it, and another 16 were wounded. Only two provinces participated in polling. Elections in 12 other provinces took place in April.

It has now been over three years since the world lost a true patriot and warrior against  the Jewish supremacists bent on world domination....

For years now, I have been advocating in this blog for everyone to absolutely NOT take any vaccines, and in particular so called "flu vaccines"..... The facts are simple...

The plucky professor and the last bigoted democracy
In a just world, the Israeli president would be arraigned at the ICC (Courtesy Palestine Chronicle)
 
By JAMAL KANJ
ISRAELI president Shimon Peres is hosting in Jerusalem this week a presidential conference called “Facing Tomorrow”. Its theme is the “human factor and its role in shaping our tomorrow”.

"The University of Texas's admission policies have enabled it to increase diversity.

Failed ‘Hasbara’ insults just bounce off Alice Walker


by Stuart Littlewood
 
Hasbara has become a dirty word, thanks to it’s dirty practitioners and the dirty job they are trained to do.
It’s a Hebrew word for Israel’s sophisticated public relations machinery that’s set up to cynically justify the Jewish entity’s crimes and to create for Israel a ‘brand image’ completely at odds with the ugly truth.

Protesting Turks?  The collusion between NATO, Turkey and terrorists continues.

By Noel Brinkerhoff and Danny Biederman | AllGov | June 20, 2013

NATO Communications and Information
June 20, 2013
NATO contracts major missile defence upgrade

​On 20 June, the NATO Communications and Information (NCI) Agency signed with ThalesRaytheonSystems a 136 million Euro contract for a significant upgrade to NATO’s current theatre missile defence command and control capability.

During the Vietnam War I never thought I'd actually return to the U.S. I was so ashamed of what my country was doing to the people of Southeast Asia. But one morning I woke up in Amsterdam and realized I had been dreaming in Dutch. I decided to go home and I was back in America within 2 weeks. I had been away for nearly seven years and I had a real period of readjustment, especially when I washed up in San Francisco, a city I had never lived in.

Press TV – June 19, 2013

Communications satellite services provider Intelsat has announced the suspension of its services to the channels launched from Iran as the West’s campaign against free speech intensifies.

Introduction by Tom Engelhardt

By Tamara Pearson | Venezuelanalysis | June 20, 2013

A Venezuelan public media journalist breastfeeds as she works. Public breastfeeding is fairly accepted in Venezuela (blog.chavez)

By BILL QUIGLEY | CounterPunch | June 20, 2013

Thanks to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden many more people in the US and world-wide are learning about extensive US government surveillance and spying.  There are publicly available numbers which show the reality of these problems are bigger than most think and most of this spying is happening with little or no judicial oversight.

By Cyrus Safdari | Iran Affairs | June 19, 2013

North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Allied Command Operations
June 20, 2013
STRIKFORNATO Participates in U.S. Naval Exercise

Oeiras, Portugal: STRIKFORNATO will participate in the U.S. Fleet Synthetic Training-Joint 2013/2 (FST-J 13-2) Exercise as the Combined Force Maritime Component Headquarters on board USS Mount Whitney (LCC 20) later this month.

North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Allied Command Operations
June 20, 2013
Albania-US Team mentors Afghan Army
Story by Albanian Army Lt. Zamir Sadikaj, NTM-A Public Affairs

“If they fail, it’s because of us!”

My first serious, non-hippie job-- my friend Andy started calling me "corporate Howie"-- was working for Sire Records. At the first label meeting, Seymour Stein assigned me responsibilty for The Ramones, Talking Heads, The Smiths, Depeche Mode, Erasure, The Replacements, Echo and the Bunnymen, Ice-T, Aztec Camera, Book of Love, Throwing Muses, the Tom Tom Club, Ofra Haza, Yaz, Seal, k.d. lang, Kid Creole & the Coconuts, My Bloody Valentine, Dinosaur Jr. and The Pretenders.

The High North and International Security Conference

"In Yemen we are close to the bottom in all kinds of measures like income and education, but there’s one statistic where we come out on top: the number of prisoners in Guantanamo," laughed Mohammad Naji Allaw, a successful Yemeni lawyer who ploughs his firm’s profits into the National Organization for Defending Rights and Freedoms. "Over 90 of 166 Guantanamo prisoners are from Yemen. Most of them, 56 to be exact, have already been cleared by the US government for release but the US government still won’t send them back."

NSA whistleblower Russ Tice joins us for an eyeopening hour-long interview on the real extent of the NSA spying scandal. Beyond PRISM and beyond metadata, we explore the facts of NSA spying: that every electronic communication is being copied and stored by the US government. We talk about the political implications of this information, including the almost limitless power for blackmailing that this power gives those in charge of the wiretapping. Tice also names names on who has been targeted by these wiretaps.

Welcome to http://NewWorldNextWeek.com – the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week:

Tehran Times | June 19, 2013

LONDON – The UK Supreme Court has ruled in favor of Bank Mellat, Iran’s largest private bank, in a result which will see it removed from the United Kingdom’s sanction list.