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WikiLeaks Trial Nears Closing Arguments ABC News
A military judge is refusing to dismiss theft charges against an Army private who leaked reams of classified information to the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks. Col.
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VTJP Palestine-Israel Newslinks 25 July 2013
25 July 2013 — VTJP
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Families Denied Prison Visit After Objecting To Strip Search
IMEMC – The International Solidarity Foundation for Human Rights (ISFHR) reported that dozens of families of Palestinian detainees held by Israel at the Nafha prison have been denied family visits after a young Palestinian woman refused to be strip searched by the soldiers. …
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Statewatch News Online, 26 July 2013 (12/13) UK News
25 July 2013 — http://www.statewatch.org/ – e-mail: office@statewatch.org
1. UK: The IPCC has today published their annual statistics on deaths during or following police contact
2. UK: Independent Police Complaints Commission report (IPPC): Metropolitan Police Service handling of complaints alleging race discrimination
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Statewatch News Online, 26 July 2013 (11/13): EU-USA: Data surveillance
25 July 2013 — http://www.statewatch.org/ – e-mail: office@statewatch.org
1. EP Inquiry: Letter from Martin Schulz, MEP, President of the European Parliament to the Council Presidency
2. GERMANY-USA: DATA SURVEILLANCE: ‘Key Partners’: The Secret Link Between Germany and the NSA
3. Extract from the Minutes of the 4 July 2013 meeting of COREPER II: EU-US High Level expert group on security and data protection
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Statewatch News Online, 26 July 2013 (10/13)
25 July 2013 — http://www.statewatch.org/ – e-mail: office@statewatch.org
1. USE OF DRONES: A new poll has found that the US policy of drone strikes remains unpopular around the world
2. EU: FREEZING AND CONFISCATION OF ASSETS
3. EU: ACCESS TO EU DOCUMENTS: Council’s public register of documents hits 2 million mark
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PAMBAZUKA NEWS 640: SPECIAL ISSUE: BRAZIL: SIZING UP AFRICA’S NEW SUITOR
26 July 2013 — Pambazuka News
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The Rolling Stone Cover and the 'New Ideological Threat' By Emily Masters
26 July 2013 — FAIR Blog
The Controversial Rolling Stone “Bomber” Cover
The cover of Rolling Stone (8/13), featuring a self-portrait of Dzhokhar Tsaernav taken weeks before the Boston bombing, has fueled a strong backlash. Discussing the cover, Fox News‘ Lisa Daftari (7/18/13) said:
In the aftermath of 9/11, if you look back over a decade ago, this country had an awakening, an understanding, that we have a new ideological threat that is on our soil. People became aware. But we’ve since gone very far from that, almost gone too far from that. We are almost becoming overcompensating, for fear of being Islamophobic. Political correctness is leading us to put a terrorist on the cover of a national magazine like this.
Bradley Manning Newslinks 26 July 2013
26 July 2013 — williambowles.info
Bradley Manning’s court-martial for leaking US secrets to WikiLeaks …
The trial of Pfc. Bradley Manning enters its eighth week Thursday at Fort Meade, near Baltimore. The former intelligence analyst from Crescent, Okla., is charged …
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