2 August 2013 — WashingtonsBlog
Anyone Who Says the Government Only Spies On Metadata Is Sadly Mistaken
PBS interviewed NSA whistleblowers William Binney and Russell Tice this week.
Day: August 2, 2013
Snowden Leaks: Telecoms Giants give GCHQ unlimited access, develop own spyware
2 August 2013 — RT
Major telecom companies have been assisting the UK intelligence agency GCHQ by granting access to all the traffic passing through their fiber-optic cables – and by developing Trojan software, leaked papers obtained by German media reveal.
Which way for Left Unity? The case for the Left Party Platform
2 August 2013 — Socialist Resistance
[And here’s a defence of the ‘Party of Left Unity’. WB]
A debate has begun inside Left Unity – the project to set up a new party of the left in Britain – about what kind of party it should become. Here Tom Walker argues the case for the Left Party Platform
Socialist Platform Statement of Aims and Principles
1 August 2013 — Left Unity
[The following is a statement that defines the proposed new party of the left, ‘The Left Unity Party’ by the undersigned at the end of the doc. Though frankly, after reading it, I’m trying to figure out why they bothered, its 10-point plan differs not one iota from the ‘plans’ of other supposedly left parties here in the UK and elsewhere amongst the imperialist states. WB] Continue reading
Inside Syria: Britain Violates Own Anti-Terrorist Legislation by grtv
2 August 2013 — GRTV
Press TV has conducted an interview with Michel Chossudovsky, Centre for Research on Globalization (www.globalresearch.ca) from Montreal about Britain’s recent announcement that the al-Nusra Front group in Syria as an al-Qaeda terrorist group (inc. partial transcript).
VTJP Palestine-Israel Newslinks 1 August 2013
1 August 2013 — VTJP
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Hundreds rally in Negev against Israeli plan to displace Bedouins
8/1/2013 – NEGEV (Ma’an) – Hundreds of Palestinian residents of Israel rallied Thursday afternoon against Israel’s Prawer Plan which could displace thousands of Bedouin residents of the Negev from their land. The protestors gathered near al-Arakib village where Israeli forces have demolished tents and tin-roofed houses more than 50 times. A Ma’an reporter in the Negev said Israeli police deployed heavily in….
Israeli government is planning the largest single attempt at the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians since the 1948 Nakba
2 August 2013 — PAJU
The Begin-Prawer Plan, which is the name of the law calling for the mass relocation of the Bedouin, passed its first reading in the Israeli Knesset on Wednesday, June 23. If the law is fully passed and implemented, it will mean the destruction of up to 40 Bedouin villages. Over the ruins of these villages, the Jewish National Fund—an Israeli para-statal organization with a charitable branch in Canada—will plant forests and help to establish Jewish-only settlements as part of its four billion dollar campaign: Blueprint Negev
Hiroshima and Nagasaki: American High School Textbooks Perpetuate The Big Lie By Pat Elder
2 August 2013 — War is a Crime
Hiroshima and Nagasaki: American High School Textbooks Perpetuate The Big Lie
The Government Can't Prove Bradley Manning Hurt Anyone–but Joe Klein Knows By Peter Hart
1 August 2013 — FAIR Blog
WikiLeaks. They’re not having much luck–but perhaps they should call in Time columnist Joe Klein.
As the Washington Post reported today (8/1/13), retired Brig. Gen. Robert Carr testified about the work that was done by his Information Release Task Force–a 125-person group that “operated 24 hours a day, seven days a week” at a cost of $6.2 million–all to establish the harm done by Manning.
So what did they find?
The Government Can’t Prove Bradley Manning Hurt Anyone–but Joe Klein Knows By Peter Hart
1 August 2013 — FAIR Blog
WikiLeaks. They’re not having much luck–but perhaps they should call in Time columnist Joe Klein.
As the Washington Post reported today (8/1/13), retired Brig. Gen. Robert Carr testified about the work that was done by his Information Release Task Force–a 125-person group that “operated 24 hours a day, seven days a week” at a cost of $6.2 million–all to establish the harm done by Manning.
So what did they find?
Edward Snowden: Our man in Moscow By Pepe Escobar
2 August 2013 — Asia Times
So what is the “extremely disappointed” Obama administration, the Orwellian/Panopticon complex and the discredited US Congress to do? Send a Navy Seal Team 6 to snatch him or to target assassinate him – turning Moscow into Abbottabad 2.0? Drone him? Poison his borscht? Shower his new house with depleted uranium? Install a no-fly zone over Russia?
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ICH 1 August 2013: ‘I’ve Killed Lots Of Arabs In My Life And There’s No Problem With That’ : Israeli Minister
1 August 2013 — Information Clearing House
Fresh Evidence of CIA Drone Strikes on Rescuers
By Chris Woods
The tactic has previously been labelled a possible war crime by two UN investigators.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35723.htm
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