4 August 2013 — Care2PetionSite
Home Office: Stop Racist “Show Your Papers” Spot Checks
Day: August 4, 2013
VTJP Palestine-Israel Newslinks 3 August 2013
3 August 2013 — VTJP
News
International Middle East Media Center
Abbas Welcomes Barcelona Soccer Team In Bethlehem
IMEMC – Thousands Of Palestinians Welcome Barca [Saturday Evening August 3, 2013] Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, welcomed at his Presidential Headquarters in the West Bank City of Bethlehem, the players and coach of Barcelona soccer team, who are conducting their first visit to occupied Palestine. …
Continue reading
ICH 4 August 2013: What Google Knows About You
4 August 2013 — Information Clearing House
In Rare Interview Egypt’s Commanding General Sharply Criticized U.S.
By Lally Weymouth
“You left the Egyptians. You turned your back on the Egyptians, and they won’t forget that,” said an indignant Gen. Abdel Fatah al-Sissi.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35749.htm
Palestine: The Development of Fortified, Ethnically-exclusive Jewish Enclaves in The West Bank By Suzanne Harris-Brandts
4 August 2013 — arenaofspeculation.org
Amidst a series of dramatic events in recent weeks, the Palestinian strife of living under Israeli occupation for close to half a century has once again entered global media attention. Contributing to the headlines were two new Israeli announcements of Jewish-only settlement construction in the peripheries of East Jerusalem.
Video: Architecture, Occupation, and Resistance
30 July 2013 — Left Streamed
Justin Podur interviews architectural researcher Suzy Harris-Brandts, who studied and worked with the Decolonizing Architecture group in the West Bank. They discuss the limitations of negotiations, design tactics under occupation, and the responsibility of architects.
Snowden's Asylum and Double Standards By Peter Hart
2 August 2013 — FAIR Blog
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has been granted temporary asylum by Russia, which has generated coverage focusing on the U.S. outrage at Russia’s decision. “Defiant Russia Grants Snowden Year’s Asylum” is the headline at the New York Times (8/2/13), where readers were told of the “risk of a breach in relations with the United States” and that the Russian move “infuriated American officials.”
War on Terror: Crying Wolf, Wolf, Wolf
3 August 2013 — Moon of Alabama
After weeks under heavy pressure for limitless spying on people everywhere the U.S. intelligence services conveniently detect a “threat” of some undefined future attacks. The “detection”, we are of course told, was only possible because of limitless spying on people everywhere:
One Day After Russian Asylum for Snowden: Obama Administration Launches Terror Scare By Thomas Gaist
3 August 2013 — WSWS
Amid escalating denunciations and threats against both Edward Snowden, the National Security Agency (NSA) contractor-turned whistle-blower, and Russia, which granted Snowden temporary asylum on Thursday, the Obama administration on Friday issued a “global travel alert,” closing US embassies in Tripoli, Cairo, Tel Aviv, Baghdad, Riyadh and Doha based on supposed threats of Al Qaeda attacks.
The New Dark Age 