17 June 2013 — WSWS
New reports indicate that the NSA engages in warrantless wiretapping of the audio content of telephone communications of Americans, and records and archives virtually all internet usage, everywhere.
Tag: AP
Syria: The Mother of All Battles
14 June 2013 — Strategic Culture Foundation
The Syrian army is successfully expanding its most important operation since the beginning of the civil war, launched on June 9 of this year. This operation, «Northern Storm», is aimed at liberating the opposition’s main stronghold – the city of Aleppo, the country’s largest city and most important economic center, located near the Turkish border – from rebel forces.
Wikileaks Newslinks 31 May 2013
31 May 2013 — williambowles.info
The WikiLeaks story exposed, but not resolved
Boston Globe
Alex Gibney’s overlong but fascinating “We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks” manages to convince you that both sides of the equation deserve consideration even as the film carefully separates the strands of a maddening snarl of event and accusation.
Verizon (and Google) Helped U.S. Government to Spy on Reporters By Pratap Chatterjee
23 May 2013 — CorpWatch Blog
CorpWatch cartoon by Khalil Bendib
Technology companies willingly provided information to U.S. government agencies to help the Obama administration snoop on reporters from the Associated Press (AP) and Fox news in order to ostensibly crack down on leaks that pose a “threat” to national security.
ICH 22 May 2013: Syria Rebels Threaten to Wipe Out Shiite, Alawite Towns
22 May 2013 — Information Clearing House
Syria: Turning Point in the Battle of Qusayr
By Radwan Mortada
Syrian government forces stormed the strategic town early on Sunday. Many opposition fighters fled, accusing their commanders of betrayal.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35042.htm
The Bigger Story Behind the AP Spying Scandal
21 May 2013 — Washington’s Blog
Attack on the Press
You know that the Department of Justice tapped scores of phone lines at the Associated Press.
You might have heard that the Attorney General of the United States isn’t sure how often reporters’ records are seized.
Rise Up or Die By Chris Hedges
19 May 2013 — Truthdig
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. Continue reading
How the U.S. Turned Three Pacifists into Violent Terrorists
17 May 2013 — Dissident Voice
In just ten months, the United States managed to transform an 82 year-old Catholic nun and two pacifists from non-violent anti-nuclear peace protestors accused of misdemeanor trespassing into federal felons convicted of violent crimes of terrorism. Now in jail awaiting sentencing for their acts at an Oak Ridge, TN nuclear weapons production facility, their story should chill every person concerned about dissent in the US.
Freedom of the Press: Obama Justice Department Secretly seized Associated Press Telephone Records By Barry Grey
15 May, 2013 — World Socialist Web Site
In a brazen and illegal attack on press freedom, the Obama Justice Department secretly subpoenaed the telephone records of Associated Press editors and journalists and tracked ingoing and outgoing calls on at least 20 telephone lines, including the national headquarters of the press agency and its news bureaus in New York, Hartford and Washington DC. Among the lines tracked was the telephone used by AP reporters working out of the House of Representatives press gallery in the Capitol.
Video: Chris Hedges: Monitoring of AP Phones a "Terrifying" Step in State Assault on Press Freedom
15 May 2013 — Democracy Now!
The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges joins us to discuss what could mark the most significant government intrusion on freedom of the press in decades. The Justice Department has acknowledged seizing the work, home and cellphone records used by almost 100 reporters and editors at the Associated Press. The phones targeted included the general AP office numbers in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Hartford, Connecticut, and the main number for the AP in the House of Representatives press gallery. Continue reading
ICH 14 May 2013: The Criminalization of Political Dissent in America
14 May 2013 — Information Clearing House
Syrian Minister: We Have the Right to Enter the Occupied Golan Heights Anytime
By Elad Benari
“Everybody should know that we are people who don’t forget to respond to an aggression against the aggressors, nor do we forget our martyrs and those who killed them,” said al-Zoubi.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34934.htm
VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 4 May 2013:
4 May 2013 — VTJP
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International Middle East Media Center
To Break Their Strike; Israel Denies Jordanian Detainees Access To Liquids
IMEMC – The Israeli Prison Authority decided, Friday, to deprive the hunger striking Jordanian detainees in its prisoners access to liquids in an attempt to force them end their strike that entered its second day. …
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US Unveils Iraq WMD "Curveball-Style" Lies Vs. Syria By Tony Cartalucci
25 April 2013 — Land Destroyer
As NATO terror front collapses in Syria, US attempts to justify intervention by drumming up familiar WMD lies.
VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 23 April 2013: Apologists for Israel take top posts at BBC
23 April 2013 — VTJP
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International Middle East Media Center
Police Arrests Two Israeli Teenage Settlers For Torching Palestinian Cars
IMEMC – The Israeli Police announced on Tuesday evening that it apprehended two Israeli teenage setters living in an illegal settlement outpost near Dir Jareer village, north east of the central West Bank city of Ramallah, as they are believed to be involved in torching 10 Palestinian vehicles earlier on Tuesday. …
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ICH 23 April 2013: Secret Story Behind Obama’s Assassination of Two Americans in Yemen
23 April 2013 — Information Clearing House
“Dirty Wars”
The Secret Story Behind Obama’s Assassination of Two Americans in Yemen
By Democracy Now!
The U.S. has basically outsourced anything vaguely resembling intelligence in Yemen to a network of Saudi spies and to Saudi intelligence.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34714.htm
The Ironic Lady: Margaret Thatcher, Supposed Champion of Freedom and Democracy, and Her Dictator Friends By Nima Shirazi
8 April 2013 — Wide Asleep in America
Margaret Thatcher in a British tank during a visit to British forces in Fallingbostel, Germany, September 17, 1986
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International Corporate Media Campaigns for Venezuela’s Opposition Candidate Capriles By TAMARA PEARSON
10 April 2013 — Venezuela Analysis
With just a few days to go till Venezuela votes for a new president, the mainstream media has stepped up its campaign in support of opposition candidate Henrique Capriles.
WARNING: "Final" Psy-Op Vs. Syria Begins
29 March, 2013 — Land Destroyer
Out of time, out of legitimacy, and out of options, the West is attempting once again to prop up its faltering terrorist proxies with another psychological operation aimed at breaking the will of the Syrian people, despite the West’s multiplying tactical and political shortcomings. It began with a suspicious CBS News/AP report titled, “AP: “Master plan” underway to help Syria rebels take Damascus with U.S.-approved airlifts of heavy weapons,” which claims to divulge a “covert” plan by the West to flood Syria’s northern and southern borders with increased weapons and fighters for a “final” push to take the capital. The article would claim:
Media: The Pope and Politics By Peter Hart
15 March 2013 — FAIR Blog
Argentine cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio was chosen as the new pope this week. But coverage often glossed over the most intense political controversies about him.
On NBC Nightly News (3/13/13), the network’s Vatican analyst George Weigel told viewers that Pope Francis was “a man of God… a man who is a great defender of democracy in a country where democracy is under real stress right now in Argentina.”
Austerity Can’t Solve Crises of Capitalism By Gene Clancy
8 February, 2013 — IACenter.org
Millions of workers across the United States received a rude and unpleasant jolt this January when they discovered that their take-home pay had just shrunk by 2 percent. The Social Security payroll tax cut of 2009 was restored, costing workers an average amount of $850 a year, a significant wage decrease for workers on the edge of financial ruin.
The New Dark Age 