Day: May 17, 2013
Military Says No Presidential Authorization Needed To Quell “Civil Disturbances” By Paul Joseph Watson
17 May 2013 — Infowars.com
A recent Department of Defense instruction alters the US code applying to the military’s involvement in domestic law enforcement by allowing US troops to quell “civil disturbances” domestically without any Presidential authorization, greasing the skids for a de facto military coup in America along with the wholesale abolition of Posse Comitatus.
Military Says No Presidential Authorization Needed To Quell “Civil Disturbances” By Paul Joseph Watson
17 May 2013 — Infowars.com
A recent Department of Defense instruction alters the US code applying to the military’s involvement in domestic law enforcement by allowing US troops to quell “civil disturbances” domestically without any Presidential authorization, greasing the skids for a de facto military coup in America along with the wholesale abolition of Posse Comitatus.
BREAKING NEWS- How the Sunday Times Investigative Series on Sibel Edmonds & US Ties to Al-Qaeda Chief was Spiked
17 May 2013 — www.boilingfrogspost.com
The Sunday Times Journalists Describe How the Edmonds’ Story was Inexplicably Dropped under the Pressure of Undisclosed “Interest Groups” Associated with the U.S. State Department.
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.
BLACK AGENDA TV – "Black Diamonds”: South Africa’s Black Millionaires Act as Middlemen for Corporate Power
16 May 2013 — Black Agenda Report
By The Editors
An elite class of Black millionaires has “accumulate wealth at the expense of the vast majority” of South Africa’s people, said community organizer and researcher Molefi Ndlovu, on the latest edition of Black Agenda Television. These “Black Diamonds,” as they are called, have become “a sort of middleman, people who push the envelop for the people who hold real power in the country.”
Interview: Pentagon Plans to Penetrate Africa
16 May 2013 — Press TV
Thoughts from the first national meeting of Left Unity
17 May 2013 — Socialist Resistance
Terry Conway assesses the first national meeting of Left Unity, held in London on May 11:
Over a hundred people from fifty five local groups as well as members of the day to day organising group met for the first national meeting of Left Unity in London on Saturday May 12.
South Africa: Since 1994, a massive wealth shift from already poor to the 'uber-rich' By Dale T. McKinley
13 May 2013 — South African Civil Society Information Service
Johannesburg — If capital is to be believed, it is the worker who is the main source of our contemporary social and economic problems.
VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 16 May 2013: Israel’s Racist and Ethnocentric View
16 May 2013 — VTJP
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Army Kidnapped 28 Children In The first Half Of May, Dozens Injured
IMEMC – 293 Palestinian Children Kidnapped In The First Quarter Of 2013 According to reports by the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR), based in Gaza, and the Wadi Hilweh Information Center, in Silwan in occupied East Jerusalem, Israeli soldiers continued their aggression against the Palestinian children, kidnaped 28 children, dozens of children have been injured by Israeli soldiers and settlers in the first half of this month. …
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ICH 16 May 2013: 75 Years in Prison For Videotaping Police
16 May 2013 — Information Clearing House
Engineering Consent For Attack On Syria?
Syrians Describe Effects of Alleged Gas Attack
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A BBC news team has travelled to a town in northern Syria which eyewitnesses claim has been attacked with poisonous gas.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34967.htm
Syria: how the violence began, in Daraa By Tim Anderson
13 May 2013 — opednews.com
“The claim that armed opposition to the government has begun only recently is a complete lie. The killings of soldiers, police and civilians, often in the most brutal circumstances, have been going on virtually since the beginning.’ — Professor Jeremy Salt, October 2011 (Ankara)
“Cuban Democracy” versus “American Democracy” By Arnold August and Julie Lévesque
16 May 2013 — Global Research
The New Dark Age 