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Monday, December 30, 2013

Destabilizing the Middle East.....




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Syrian Rebels Get Arms and Advice Through
Secret Cmmand Centre in Amman
By Phil Sands and Suha Maayeh
A secret operations command centre in Jordan,
staffed by western and Arab military officials,
has given vital support to rebels fighting on
Syria's southern front, providing them with
weapons and tactical advice on attacking regime
targets.
Beirut Murder: Dirty Tricks Get Dirtier
By Finian Cunningham
This pattern of sectarian destabilization within
Lebanon and across the Middle East by external
forces is consistent with the latest murder of
Mohamad Shatah in Beirut.
New Iran Sanctions Bill Could Drive Wedge
Between Israel Lobby, U.S. Public
By Chemi Shalev
Americans couldn't care less about AWACs - but
are dead set against war with Iran.
Mandela Is Dead:
Why Hide The Truth About Apartheid?
By Fidel Castro
The Apartheid regime -that brought so much
suffering onto Africa and arouse so much
indignation in most nations throughout the
world- was the fruit of European colonial
powers and was turned into a nuclear power
by the United States and Israel.
I Worked On The US Drone Program.
The Public Should Know What Really Goes On
By Heather Linebaugh
Few of the politicians who so brazenly proclaim
the benefits of drones have a real clue how it actually
works (and doesn't).
The US is a Knuckle-dragging, Low Grade
Moronic Culture - George Galloway
By John Robles
"Saudi Arabia is a gangster state and Bandar is
increasingly the chief capo. He is the man who
goes around delivering the severed horse's
head into the bed of whomsoever they wish to
intimidate."
NSA Reportedly Intercepting Laptops Purchased
Online to Install Spy Malware
By T.C. Sottek
The NSA, in collaboration with the CIA and FBI,
routinely and secretly intercepts shipping deliveries
for laptops or other computer accessories in order
to implant bugs before they reach their destinations.
Put the NSA on Trial
By David Sirota
With potential perjury by top officials, and
new questions about spying, let's stop assuming
everything is legal.
Could Edward Snowden get a fair trial in the U.S.?
Video
NSA whistleblower Thomas Drake and Edward
Snowden's legal advisor Jesselyn Radack explain
why they believe the NSA leaker wouldn't get a
fair hearing in the United States.
What If?
A New Years Dream
By Emanuel E. Garcia
What if
Mr. President went to battle
Against secrecy in government
And commanded that each
Meeting, council, caucus, courtroom and committee
Be televised and recorded
For the citizenry?
Forty Percent Of Workers Made Less Than
$20,000 Last Year
By Bryce Covert
Nearly 40 percent of all workers in the country made
less than $20,000 last year, more than half of all workers
made less than $30,000.
Christmas Versus Xmas: A Political Reading
By James Petras
The Christmas story does not resonate with the owners,
investors and publicists of big commercial enterprises
who have converted the multitude into worshipers of
their little plastic cards.

Hard News
19 Syria rebels killed in fight for air base:
monitor:
At least 19 rebels were killed in eastern Syria on
Sunday in clashes for control of Deir Ezzor military
air base, the Syrian Observatory for Human
Rights said.
EU leaders should 'hang heads in shame'
over failure to take in Syrian r
efugees -Amnesty says:
UK one of ten EU countries which has failed to
resettle vulnerable Syrian refugees
Nigel Farage calls on government to let
Syrian refugees into UK:
"I think refugees are a very different thing to
economic migration and I think that this country
should honour the spirit of the 1951 declaration
on refugee status that was agreed," he told
BBC News.
Iraq attacks kill at least 18, including
army general: police, medics:
At least 18 people were killed in attacks
across Iraq on Sunday, including a military
general in a bombing in the northern city
of Mosul, police and medical sources said.
Yemeni army tank shells funeral: death
toll rises to 20:
The death toll from the army shelling of
funeral tents on Saturday in South Yemen
has risen to 20. Shells hit a gathering of
men and children paying condolences to
the family of a secessionist protester
who died in a clash with the government
forces.
Yemeni gunmen strike Hadramawt
oil pipeline:
"Gunmen belonging to an alliance of
Hadramawt tribes blew up the oil pipeline
linking Masila oilfield to al-Daba port
in the town of Shahr," the unnanmed
official said on Saturday.
Saudi Arabia pledges $3bn to
Lebanese army:
Lebanese President Michel Suleiman
announces largest grant ever given to
the country's armed forces. He said the
funds would allow Lebanon's military
to purchase French weapons. He did
not provide any further details of the deal.
French president to meet Hariri in
Riyadh:
French President Francois Hollande will
meet former Lebanese Prime Minister Saad
Hariri and Syrian opposition leader Ahmed
Jarba in Saudi Arabia, where he arrived
Sunday, said a member of his entourage.
Lebanon rocket fire draws Israeli
artillery strike:
Rockets launched from south Lebanon
struck northern Israel on Sunday and
Israel responded with artillery shells
across a border that has been largely
quiet since a war in 2006.
Palestinians have no partner for
"Peace" Haaretz Editorial: -
Even Israel's friends have given up
on defending its positions, and some
are already supporting sanctions against
Israel.
Palestinian villagers' complaints of
squatter violence are going unheard:
Residents of the West Bank village are
repeatedly attacked, but very few
complaints to the Israeli police and
army produce indictments.
Fact or propaganda?
US deal will trade off 'Jewish' Israel
for 1967 lines - report:
US Secretary of State John Kerry will
offer Israeli and Palestinian negotiators
a political trade-off: Israeli recognition
of the 1967 lines as a basis for the future
Palestinian state, in return for Palestinian
recognition of Israel as the state of the
Jewish people
Kerry reportedly says he will consider
freeing Israeli as part of prisoner swap:
Israel's Channel 10 TV station first reported
Friday that Kerry offered to free Pollard as
part of an exchange for the release of a
fourth group of Palestinian prisoners from
Israeli jails as peace talks resume between
the two sides.
PLO urges Hamas to sever ties
with Muslim Brotherhood:
A Fatah representative in the PLO executive
committee said Hamas should detach itself
from the Brotherhood, warning of political,
economic, and security consequences if
Hamas remained "subordinate" to "this
banned terrorist group."
Bahrain opposition leader Sheikh Ali
Salman charged:
Sheikh Ali Salman has been charged with
"incitement to religious hatred and spreading
false news likely to harm national security",
state media said. It comes after Mr Salman
was detained for a day and questioned over
a sermon he delivered on Friday.
Female suicide bomber kills 15 in Russia's
Volgograd (VIDEO):
Another 34 were injured, 8 of them more critically,
including a girl of 9. The child has been taken to a
local hospital. Her mother died in the blast, according
to the Committee.
7 Insurgents Killed, 2 Injured in Operations:
Seven insurgents were killed and two were injured
during a series of coordinated operations over the
past 24 hours carried out by the Afghan National
Army (ANA), Afghan National Police (ANP) and
National Directorate of Security (NDS), the Afghan
Ministry of Interior said in a statement on Sunday.
Time to own up: who really killed UK army
captain Richard Holloway in Afghanistan?:
Who was it that sent him and ten thousand other
British troops to fight a war which for years has
clearly been both pointless and unwinnable.
Taliban back in the saddle in Afghanistan by
2017 - leaked intel report:
Any success the US and its allies have enjoyed in
Afghanistan in the past three years will be
dramatically reduced by 2017, even if a US
military presence remains in the country,
according to a US intelligence report.
Protester killed during clashes in Bangladesh:
Clashes erupt between security forces and opposition
protesters calling for elections to be postponed.
United Nations: 2 peacekeepers killed in attack
on convoy in Sudan's South Darfur:
A statement Sunday on behalf of Secretary-General
Ban Ki-moon said a Jordanian and a Senegalese
peacekeeper were killed by "unidentified assailants"
while in a convoy travelling near Greida, South Darfur.
The statement said peacekeepers killed one of the
assailants and wounded another.
Egypt: student killed as police open fire on
protesters:
Buildings at Al-Azhar University, the world's
most important Islamic school, were set on fire
by students who have been protesting against the
coup that ousted President Mohamed Morsi
and the Muslim Brotherhood from government.
Egypt security forces arrest suspect in
Sharqiya blast:
Egyptian security forces have arrested a
suspect in Sunday's explosion targeting the
Military Intelligence Headquarters in Egypt's
Nile Delta Governorate of Sharqiya, the third
attack on the country in under a week, a
security official told state news agency MENA.
The existential struggle for the heart of
political Egypt: Op-Ed:
The violence itself is merely a symptom - and
only one of them - of a deepening divide cutting
Egyptian society into at least two, if not more,
hostile factions that view themselves as
exclusively legitimate and the other as entirely
illegitimate.
US army personnel briefly detained in
Libya:
Four members of the United States military
have been released after briefly being taken
into custody by the government, US officials have said.
US "embassy security" staff released
after arrest near Sabratha:
Some mystery still surrounds the details
of the arrests. The men were said to have
 been travelling in two vehicles when they
were stopped. One of these was reportedly
later set ablaze.
Thousands protest against Niger's
president:
At least 20,000 people march against
Mahamadou Issoufou's rule, accusing
government of corruption and media
censorship.
Judge Says the NSA Can Look at
Your Phone Records Because
They're Not Yours:
Pauley said, no one has a Fourth
Amendment right to stop the
government from examining
his telephone records, which are
not really even his:
Documents Reveal Top NSA
Hacking Unit:
The NSA's TAO hacking unit is
considered to be the intelligence
agency's top secret weapon. It
maintains its own covert network,
infiltrates computers around the
world and even intercepts shipping
deliveries to plant back doors in
electronics ordered by those it is
targeting.
Glenn Greenwald: 'A Lot'
More NSA Documents to Come:
"This is a digital agent orange. It took
the leaves from the forest where we
used to live and flourish," said Tim
Pritlove, one of the annual event's organizers.
Military sex assault reports jump
by 50 percent:
The number of reported sexual assaults
across the military shot up by more than
50 percent this year, an increase that defense
officials say may suggest that victims are
becoming more willing to come forward
after a tumultuous year of scandals that
shined a spotlight on the crimes and put
pressure on the military to take aggressive action.
Texas Pastor John Hagee Tells Atheists
To Get On A Plane, 'Leave The Country' -
Video -
John Hagee, began by declaring that
America was founded as, and still remains, a
Christian nation. As such, if atheists and
humanists don't like being wished a
"Merry Christmas" ... well, they can just
get out of the country.
As Federal Prison Population Spiked
790 Percent, Average Drug Sentences
Doubled:
The prison population explosion was not
driven primarily by a spike in crime, but
by a change in punishment. Over a 25-year
period, average drug sentences doubled
from 38.5 months in 1984 to 74 months in
2011.
Police Salaries and Pensions Push
California City to Brink:
Though few elected officials in America
want to say it, police officers and other
public-safety workers keep turning up
at the center of the municipal bankruptcies
and budget dramas plaguing many American
cities - largely because their pensions tend
to be significantly more costly than those
of other city workers.
High Stakes for Families Losing
Jobless Benefits: 'We Could End
Up Homeless':
The end of unemployment checks for
more than a million people on Saturday
is driving out-of-work Americans to
consider selling cars, moving and
taking minimum wage work after
already slashing household budgets
and pawning personal possessions to
make ends meet.
'Embarrassed' to use Facebook:
Teens shift to other sites to 'unfriend' with
parents: 2013 marked the start of what
looks likely to be "a sustained decline"
of what had been "the most pervasive" of
all social networking sites.

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Tom Feeley


Cost Of War

Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered In US War And Occupation Of Iraq "1,455,590"
Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America's War On Iraq: 4,883

Number Of International Occupation Force Troops Slaughtered In Afghanistan : 3,409
Cost of War in Iraq & Afghanistan
Total Cost of Wars Since 2001



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