security
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Repressing “Un-American Activities”: The Historical Roots of Today’s Homeland Surveillance State By Greg Guma
Political rights are so easily taken for granted – until they’re threatened or curtailed by repressive laws. In the United States, they are usually most vulnerable when people are anxious about some outside threat. Continue reading
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PAMBAZUKA NEWS 633: MILITARISM, CHINA IN AFRICA AND SILENCING TRUTHS
7 June 2013 — Pambazuka NewsThe authoritative electronic weekly newsletter and platform for social justice in AfricaPambazuka News is delivered free to you with the support of donations from Friends of Pambazuka. Continue reading
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Syrian opposition launch rocket attacks in Lebanon By Thomas Gaist
Fighting raged in Lebanon on Sunday between Hezbollah militants and US-backed Syrian rebels, with at least 12 killed. According to a Lebanese security official, the clashes broke out as Syrian opposition elements prepared to launch rocket attacks against the city of Baalbek, in north-east Lebanon. These clashes near Baalbek come as another indication that the… Continue reading
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Opposition Terrorists Target Hospital: Largest Cancer Treating Hospital in Syria Closed ‘Temporarily’ By Arabi Souri
Al-Biruni University Hospital near Harasta, Damascus countryside, was closed ‘temporarily’ last Wednesday 29 May 2013 due to the security situation near the location, the patients were discharged, 2 only were transferred to Public Muwassat Hospital for monitoring. Continue reading
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A Hefty Bill: Guarding Assange in London By Binoy Kampmark
We live in an age of austerity, if we are to believe the scorched earth cult that has taken over most Western governments. Budgets are being slashed by economic irrationalists. Outlays are being trimmed. The nippers and snippers are doing their worst, and here, we have an astonishing statistic. The British government, through its police… Continue reading
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UK pays price for MI5 courting terror By Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed
In 1996, Omar Bakri founded Al Muhajiroun with Anjem Choudary. According to John Loftus, a former US Army Intelligence Officer and Justice Department prosecutor, three senior Al Muhajiroun figures at the time – Bakri, Abu Hamza, and Haroon Rashid Aswat – had been recruited by MI6 that year to facilitate Islamist activities in the Balkans. Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 28 May 2013: ACT! Stop mass eviction of Bedouins in Israel
28 May 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterChild Forced Under House Arrest In JerusalemIMEMC – Tuesday May 28 2013, the Wadi Hilweh Information Center in Silwan, in occupied East Jerusalem, reported that the Israeli Police released an 11-year-old child, identified as Saif Roweidi, after kidnapping and interrogating him for several hours. … Continue reading
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Mercenaries surrender to Syrian military in Qsseir By Luis Brizuela Bringuez
The Syrian Arab Army continued its advance today the offensive in Qsseir, central province of Homs, after mercenaries group members surrendered to the authorities in the northern and central districts of the city. Continue reading
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PAMBAZUKA NEWS 631: SPECIAL ISSUE: AU/OAU AT 50, CELEBRATION AND REFLECTION
23 May 2013 — Pambazuka News The authoritative electronic weekly newsletter and platform for social justice in AfricaPambazuka News is delivered free to you with the support of donations from Friends of Pambazuka. Continue reading
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Videos: Battle for strategic Qusair: Syrian army, Hezbollah fight rebels for supply corridor
Earlier Monday, Syrian state news agency SANA reported that the army had “restored security and stability to most Qusair neighborhoods” and was “chasing the remnants of the terrorists in the northern district.” Continue reading
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Syria : One Year After the Houla Massacre. New Report on Official vs. Real Truth By Adam Larson
A week from now it will be one year since the world first heard about the horrors of a place in Syria called “Houla.” On the afternoon and evening of Friday, May 25, 2012, a reported 108 civilians were massacred there. They were executed inside their homes, with guns and “sharp tools,” and maybe a… Continue reading
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Continued Cover-up of Contacts of Boston Bombing Suspects with FBI and US Intelligence By Barry Grey
In testimony before the US Senate Thursday, Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Robert Mueller continued the official cover-up of the advance warnings and extensive contacts between the FBI and other intelligence and security agencies and the suspects in the April 15 bombings at the Boston Marathon. Continue reading
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Military Says No Presidential Authorization Needed To Quell “Civil Disturbances” By Paul Joseph Watson
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. Continue reading
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Military Says No Presidential Authorization Needed To Quell “Civil Disturbances” By Paul Joseph Watson
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. Continue reading
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How the U.S. Turned Three Pacifists into Violent Terrorists
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… Continue reading
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