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Americans Turning Against The Empire:

“Nearly Half Surveyed In WSJ/NBC Poll Back Anti—Interventionist

Stance That Sweeps Across Party Lines”

“A Public Weary Of Foreign Entanglements And Disenchanted With A U.S. Economic System That

Many Believe Is Stacked Against Them”

“Approval Of President Barack Obama’s Handling Of Foreign Policy Sank To The

Lowest Level Of His Presidency”

April 30, 2014 By Janet Hook, Wall Street Journal [Excerpts] Americans in large numbers want the U.S. to reduce its role in world affairs even as a showdown with Russia over Ukraine preoccupies Washington, a Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll finds. In a marked change from past decades, nearly half of those surveyed want the U.S. to be less active on the global stage, with fewer than one-fifth calling for more active engagement—an anti-interventionist current that sweeps across party lines. The poll showed that approval of President Barack Obama’s handling of foreign policy sank to the lowest level of his presidency, with 38% approving, at a time when his overall job performance drew better marks than in recent months. The poll findings, combined with the results of prior Journal/NBC surveys this year, portray a public weary of foreign entanglements and disenchanted with a U.S. economic system that many believe is stacked against them. The 47% of respondents who called for a less-active role in world affairs marked a larger share than in similar polling in 2001, 1997 and 1995. Similarly, the Pew Research Center last year found a record 53% saying that the U.S. “should mind its own business internationally” and let other countries get along as best they can, compared with 41% who said so in 1995 and 20% in 1964. “The message from the American public to their leaders in this poll seems to be: You need to take care of business here at home.”

The poll found that 48% viewed globalization as bad for the U.S. economy, with 43% calling it a good development. Asked whether they preferred a congressional candidate who argued that free trade was a positive force or one who called it a negative force, 46% favored the pro-trade candidate and 48% the anti-trade candidate.

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AFGHANISTAN WAR REPORTS

Resistance Action May 1, 2014 By Amir Shah, The Associated Press

KABUL - A car bomber detonated his explosives at a busy checkpoint in central Afghanistan, killing at least 13 people Thursday, an official said. The Taliban quickly claimed responsibility for the attack. The attack on the entry checkpoint into Panjshir province killed five police officers and one intelligence officer assigned to the post, provincial police chief Aziz Ghyrat said. Seven civilian construction workers also were killed in the blast, which Gyrat said happened in the late afternoon as cars were lined up to be searched before entering the province on a narrow mountain road. “When the police searched the car, they realized he was a bomber and the attacker quickly detonated the explosives and blew up the car and himself,” Ghyrat said. Several other civilians in other vehicles were wounded in the blast, he said. Many of the civilian victims were in a bus waiting to be searched, which marks the entrance into Panjshir from Parwan province, said Najim Khan, provincial deputy police chief of police. Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said in a text message to journalists that one of its fighters had exploded a car bomb in Panjshir. Panjshir was known as a stronghold of resistance to the Taliban’s hard-line Islamic rule over Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001, when the U.S.-led invasion toppled their regime for sheltering al-Qaida terrorist leaders in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks. The province was the home of Ahmed Shah Massoud, the ethnic Tajik leader of the Northern Alliance who was dubbed “The Lion of Panjshir” for his defiance against the Soviets during the Afghan war in the 1980s and later in the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance Massoud was killed by two suspected al-Qaida members posing as journalists two days before the Sept. 11 attacks. Presidential front-runner Abdullah Abdullah is also from Panjshir and once served as a close aide to Massoud. The Taliban hopes to disrupt security during the presidential elections — which look set for a runoff between former Foreign Minister Abdullah and ex-Finance Minister Ashraf Ghani in June.

************************************************************* 02 May, 2014 Pakistan News Home Three Afghan police and two militants were killed in a Taliban attack on police checkpoints in Dasht-e-Archi district of northern Kunduz province early Thursday, the district governor Hamid Agha told Xinhua.

Four policemen were killed when the Taliban launched an attack on security checkpoints in Ali Sheer district of eastern Khost province overnight.

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SOMALIA WAR REPORTS

Insurgents Blow Up “Top Police Officer” May 3 By Associated Press & May 1, 2013 Garowe Online MOGADISHU, Somalia — Five people died and six others were wounded when a bomb exploded in Mogadishu, Somalia’s capital, an official said Saturday. A top police officer, who was the apparent target of the attack, was among the five killed, said Capt. Mohamed Hussein, a senior police official. Somalia’s Islamic extremist rebels, al-Shabab, claimed responsibility for the attack which killed police officer Abdikafi Hilowle. Saturday’s blast came hours after Somali police foiled an attempt on the life of a Somali legislator when suspected militants planted a bomb in his car. Security forces removed the bomb and detonated it after they were tipped off, according to Hussein.

********************************************** Unidentified assailants separately killed four Jubaland soldiers in the latest deadly incident in the southern port city of Kismayo, Garowe Online reports. Jubaland’s Minister of Interior Gen. Mohamed Warsame Darwiish said that security forces have taken new measures after gunmen targetted soldiers and traditional leaders with planned assassinations. According to officials on Sunday, armed men shot and killed a soldiers followed by another gun attack that last Sunday left three Jubaland soldiers dead in Kismayo’s Via Afmadow neighborhood.

MILITARY NEWS

Iraqi Military Is Outmatched On The Battlefield:

Demoralized Army Losing Fight Against Insurgents;

“Militants Are Better Armed, Better Trained, And Better Motivated,

According To Iraqi And American Generals, Politicians And Analysts”

“‘We’re Almost Helpless,’ Says Staff General Mohammed Khalaf Saied Al

Dulaimi”

May 1, 2014 By Matt Bradley and Ali A. Nabhan, Wall Street Journal [Excerpts] QARA TEPE, Iraq — Even as an a militant group celebrated a major victory in Western Iraq last month, militants from the same jihadist group launched another operation clear across the country. In coordinated predawn attacks, gunmen blew up two bridges in a village outside the eastern town of Qara Tepe. They detonated a fuel tanker at a police base close to nearby Injana, shot 12 soldiers and incinerated their bodies. By afternoon, militants had attacked four other police and army checkpoints.

Instead of bolstering their ranks, some police and military checkpoints simply packed up and left. Lacking protection, hundreds of villagers fled their homes for larger towns. “The security forces are weak, and they are putting the responsibility for their weakness on us,” says Aziz Latif, a farmer who fled the village of New Sari Tepe after it was attacked on March 21. “They are not professional.” More than two years after the last U.S. troops left Iraq, as the country prepares for its first post-occupation parliamentary elections on Wednesday, its demoralized, underequipped military is losing the fight against Islamist militants, who are better armed, better trained, and better motivated, according to Iraqi and American generals, politicians and analysts. “You can see how terrorism is eating our flesh. We’re almost helpless,” says Staff General Mohammed Khalaf Saied Al Dulaimi, commander of 12th division of the Iraqi army based in the northern city of Kirkuk. “We’re facing a good, well-trained enemy. The attacks in this area were huge.” “The Insurgents Are Able To Launch Surprise Raids, Seize Urban Ground

And Hold Their Positions For Days, Weeks Or Even Months, Even Far Beyond Their Strongholds In The West”

The insurgents are able to launch surprise raids, seize urban ground and hold their positions for days, weeks or even months, even far beyond their strongholds in the west. The growing disorder and violence threaten to open the country to interference by its neighbors and dash what little hope remains that ordinary Iraqis might benefit from their oil wealth. ISIS [The Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham], which is expanding, has already staked out positions on the capital’s outskirts. “I see them gunning for Baghdad,” says Jessica Lewis, research director for the Washington-based Institute for the Study of War and a former U.S. military intelligence officer. With his army unprepared to handle the fallout, foreign diplomats, politicians and analysts say Mr. Maliki [Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki] is governing over a state that is failing in slow motion. Iraq’s Sunni minority, meanwhile, is accusing Mr. Maliki’s military of ethnic cleansing under the guise of the fight against terrorism—a claim that has fueled Sunni calls for an autonomous region.

As stresses build, Mr. Maliki appears to be expanding his own writ as part of his push for a third term. Last month, he threatened to use a pliant judiciary to declare the gridlocked parliament constitutionally illegitimate. That would grant him sole authority to control the country’s nearly $150 billion budget by presidential decree. The latest violence began in late December when Mr. Maliki ordered security forces to disperse an anti-Maliki protest camp in Ramadi that he claimed was an incubator for al Qaeda. The raid was akin to batting a hornet’s nest. Thousands of well-armed Islamist militants rose up in early January in the surrounding province of Anbar and seized Ramadi, the provincial capital, and Fallujah, a restive city less than an hour from Baghdad.

“The Militants Displayed The Kind Of Battle Acumen Lacking In Iraq’s Troops”

ISIS’s massive, sophisticated weapons arsenal suggested that the group had been importing weapons from Syria, says Gen. Dulaimi. The militants displayed the kind of battle acumen lacking in Iraq’s troops. Many ISIS fighters have returned battle-hardened from the conflict in neighboring Syria. “The security forces were surprised that the militants were better equipped than the security forces themselves,” says Gen. Dulaimi. “Our soldiers don’t have anything more than AK-47s.” Iraq is still reeling from the U.S.-led Coalition Provisional Authority’s decision in May 2003 to disband ousted President Saddam Hussein’s army. The military had long acted as an adhesive bonding together young Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds. The move created a bitter underclass of well-trained young Iraqi men. Now, the leadership of the militias is populated by veteran generals from that disbanded army. Despite nearly a decade of training from U.S. troops, the Iraqi army remains, by comparison, poorly equipped and far less motivated, say Iraqi politicians, Gen. Dulaimi and Hisham Hashemi, an Iraqi researcher on armed groups who is in regular touch with militants in Anbar. Even the most basic maneuvers can stymie the Iraqi military.

“Without Meals, Some Soldiers Simply Leave”

Regional commanders who lack basic knowledge of military logistics often are clumsy when transporting food for soldiers on the move, leaving many enlistees to scrounge for themselves or go hungry, say officers and observers. Without meals, some soldiers simply leave. Though there are no official statistics, military personnel cite desertion as a persistent and growing problem, particularly for troops deployed in Anbar and other areas to the north where ISIS is active. “There is hunger and a shortage of food,” says Gen. Dulaimi, who is from Anbar province and was deployed there as an adviser earlier this year. “This is because commanders weren’t trained in how to move troops from one area to another. “Every day, we have troops who just don’t show up.” The lack of readiness of Iraqi forces almost cost the general his life. In January, Gen. Dulaimi says, he was passing through a dense urban area of Ramadi in a column of nearly 50 Humvees, tanks and armored cars. They were ambushed by what he describes as hundreds of militants carrying machine guns, grenade launchers and improvised explosives. When Gen. Dulaimi called a command center in Anbar for help, he was told that there were no airplanes capable of operating at night, he says. He was on his own. “In the 1980s, during the war with Iran, we had to operate airplanes that could fly at night,” he says. “Now, in 2014, we don’t have that.” After nearly five hours, Baghdad sent a Russian-made prop plane loaded with two missiles—its maximum capacity. One of the missiles landed a direct hit, scattering the antigovernment commandos. Still under sniper fire, Gen. Dulaimi got out of his Humvee and fled on foot. The Ramadi firefight is just one of the frustrations and humiliations that Gen. Dulaimi says have allowed ISIS to expand north and east of Anbar province. Iraq’s military doesn’t have adequate ammunition supplies, so it has had to use bullets and tank shells in combat that were supposed to be set aside for training. Because of a lack of armed-transport vehicles, convoys carrying heavy weapons and vehicles routinely come under attack on the road from Baghdad even before they have reached the battlefields of Anbar. Gen. Dulaimi blames Iraq’s losses on the U.S. Had Washington delivered Apache helicopters Baghdad has been requesting for several years, the army could have quickly ended the skirmish in which he was caught up, he says. Iraq’s few armed helicopters aren’t even outfitted with directed missiles—an anachronism in a modern fighting force, he says.

Requests for ammunition and sophisticated air power have gone unanswered, he says. Thirty-six F-16 jet fighters ordered in 2011 and last year—Iraq has no jet fighters in its tiny air fleet—have yet to be delivered, in part because of congressional objections to supporting the Maliki regime. U.S. officials say they have worked to speed the transfer arms and already have provided some ammunition, small arms, Hellfire missiles and helicopters. The officials say they are ready to move forward with the F-16 sale and an Apache helicopter but are awaiting Iraqi payments and upgrades to military installations. They also have been trying to improve training of Iraqi forces. American soldiers who helped train the Iraqi military say that Iraqis abandoned the organizational and educational infrastructure U.S. forces had hoped would perpetuate a professional military. “The whole concept of developing a professionalized security force just stopped right there with the (end of the) U.S. presence,” says Lieutenant General Robert Caslen, who was the chief of the U.S. military’s Office of Security Cooperation in Iraq, which is in charge of training troops, from September 2011 until May 2013. Gen. Caslen and his predecessors helped build and run an Iraqi military academy to feed trained personnel into Iraq’s officer corps. On a visit about a year after U.S. troops left in December 2011, Gen. Caslen says, the academy was all but vacant. To address the Iraqi military’s logistical challenges, Gen. Caslen says, the U.S. built a large warehouse for spare military parts, complete with a computer automated inventory system. “I went to that warehouse about a year later and all the parts were still beautifully on their shelves,” he says. “But when you moved the parts, you could see they were covered in dust.” The computer system had been switched off because of frequent power cuts. Gen. Caslen says he was told that there wasn’t enough gasoline available to run electrical generators. Gen. Caslen says the Iraqis preserved ethnic and sectarian diversity in the military’s upper ranks, as instructed by the Americans. But the nation’s divisions permeated even that arrangement. Officers routinely bypassed the chain of command to deal with soldiers from similar backgrounds, the general says. “There is a lot of distrust within the organization,” says Gen. Caslen, now superintendent of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.

Gen. Caslen and Gen. Dulaimi agree on one thing: The failures of Iraq’s military are a function of the political disorder in Baghdad. Both men express little hope that Wednesday’s election will usher in a government capable of reforming the military.

“The Military Would Be Withdrawing Much Of Its Presence, Leaving The Countryside Around Qara Tepe All But Defenseless”

In the year since Gen. Caslen left Iraq, militants have taken aim at the palm forests and grasslands of northern Iraq that fall under Gen. Dulaimi’s command. With a mix of Kurds, Sunni Arabs, Shiites and other minorities, the region is a crucible of the wider conflict fracturing the country. In a series of interviews recently, villagers displaced from the hamlet of New Sari Tepe said they hadn’t seen violence for nearly six years until the early morning of March 21, when a car bomb destroyed a nearby bridge. Residents stumbled out of bed to find masked fighters fanning out across the village and commandeering several houses near a local police barracks. What followed was a six-hour firefight between the soldiers and militants. With the bridge into the town destroyed, reinforcements from the nearby town of Qara Tepe fired mortars from the far riverbank until the insurgents eventually scattered. Instead of chasing the gunmen, the soldiers turned on the residents of the Sunni-majority village, complained Mr. Latif, the farmer. Troops raided the homes the militants had used for cover and arrested a dozen people, including two elderly men. All of them remain in prison without charge, villagers said. Security forces denied having any information about the detainees, said Ammar Mozahim, New Sari Tepe’s provincial council representative. Mr. Mozahim said a staff colonel who commanded a local battalion told him that because of the continuing fight in Anbar, there weren’t enough troops to defend the region’s small villages. Mr. Mozahim said he was told the military would be withdrawing much of its presence, leaving the countryside around Qara Tepe all but defenseless. Gen. Dulaimi confirmed the decision, describing it as normal protocol considering the personnel limitations. Mr. Maliki’s spokesman said “the army sometimes does tactical progress and retreat.” About a half-dozen similar attacks occurred in villages and towns along the Hamrin Mountains, a low-lying ridge pocked with caves that offer sanctuary to Islamist militants. In Bohruz, a suburb of Diyala’s provincial capital Baqouba, a squad of ISIS fighters killed an officer at a local police outpost. ISIS announced on militant Islamist websites that they would make Bohruz, a Sunni enclave in Shia-majority Diyala, their base of operations in the province.

The Iraqi military moved to clear Bohruz of ISIS insurgents by recruiting the local chapter of a Shiite militia called Asaib Ahl Al Haq, according to Iraqi media. By the following day, 28 villagers had been killed and several houses and mosques were torched, local officials said. Residents of New Sari Tepe said the news left them frightened of both Sunni insurgents and the Shiite-dominated military. So the mostly Sunni residents fled to nearby Qara Tepe. New Sari Tepe remains abandoned and its bridges broken. Fed up with the Iraqi military, some displaced villagers said they hope Kurdish troops, who are widely considered more professional, will assume responsibility for the region. “We’re the victims of the both the government and the insurgency,” said Mr. Latif. “We were afraid that if we were left behind, we would become the targets of both the security forces and the gunmen.”

FORWARD OBSERVATIONS

“At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed. Oh had I the ability, and could reach the nation’s ear, I would, pour out a fiery stream of biting ridicule, blasting reproach, withering sarcasm, and stern rebuke. “For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. “We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.” “The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.”

Frederick Douglass, 1852

It would be a fundamental mistake to suppose that the struggle for democracy can divert the proletariat from the socialist revolution, or obscure, or overshadow it, etc. On the contrary, just as socialism cannot be victorious unless it introduces complete democracy, so the proletariat will be unable to prepare for victory over the bourgeoisie unless it wages a many-sided, consistent, and revolutionary struggle for democracy.” -- V. I. Lenin, Collected Works, 4th English Edition; Vol. 22

In God We Trust

Spokane, Washington 2006. Photograph by Mike Hastie

From: Mike Hastie To: Military Resistance Newsletter Sent: May 02, 2014 Subject: In God We Trust In God We Trust Phillip Jones Griffiths, a famous combat photographer who covered the Vietnam War, had this to say about that genocidal war: “The Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. is 150 yards long. It has the names of 58,000 American soldiers who were killed. If the same memorial was built for the Vietnamese that were killed, it would be 9 miles long.” Imagine yourself driving on a freeway going 60 miles per hour. It would take you 9 minutes to cover the lives of the Vietnamese who were killed by U.S. weapons in that war, based on the same

density of names on the “ Wall “ in Washington, D.C. American Family Values. The absolute myth of American society. A billboard sign for the ages. Mike Hastie Army Medic Vietnam May 2, 2014 Photo and caption from the portfolio of Mike Hastie, US Army Medic, Vietnam 1970-71. (For more of his outstanding work, contact at: (hastiemike@earthlink.net) T) One day while I was in a bunker in Vietnam, a sniper round went over my head. The person who fired that weapon was not a terrorist, a rebel, an extremist, or a so-called insurgent. The Vietnamese individual who tried to kill me was a citizen of Vietnam, who did not want me in his country. This truth escapes millions. Mike Hastie U.S. Army Medic Vietnam 1970-71 December 13, 2004

Veteran Goes Crazy After Reading Another Goddamn Article On Veterans

Going Crazy

The aftermath of the veteran’s violent outburst. (Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons)

Apr 23, 2014 By Dirk Diggler, Duffle Blog WATERTOWN, N.Y. — Watertown police have arrested Michael Dumont, a former Fort Drum soldier, after he ran through city streets on an expletive-filled rampage. “We’ve always been a little apprehensive about Mike,” Samantha Winegrass, one of Dumont’s coworkers, told reporters. “He seems friendly, but you know, he’s a veteran.” Coworkers say that Dumont served at Fort Drum for four years before getting a job as a disturbed military veteran teller at a local bank. “We weren’t certain what would set him off,” Winegrass continued. “Loud noises, backfiring cars … none of that triggered a PTSD-induced flashback.” That was until Wednesday, when Dumont read an article in the New York Times by Kathleen Belew, which linked all veterans to the recent killings in Overland Park, Kansas, allegedly perpetrated by a veteran. The article came just two days after The Huffington Post ran an article depicting locations of alleged veteran-perpetrated murders in America. “He just snapped,” Winegrass said. “He must have committed some sort of atrocity in Iraq. It’s the only explanation. It’s like all those articles really were true all along!” Witnesses say Dumont — who never deployed to a combat zone — violently slapped the palm of his hand against his head after reading the article, and loudly blurted out profane remarks. Seconds later, Dumont began screaming something terrifying, witnesses said. “Oh my God, the comments! The fucking comments! Gah!” he was reported as saying. Doctors warn that many seemingly innocuous events can trigger bursts of violence from veterans, including asking them if they killed anyone in Iraq, or by forcing them to view AFN commercials.

ANNIVERSARIES

May 4, 1970: Dishonorable Anniversary:

Unarmed Students Murdered By Ohio National Guard Scum

Carl Bunin Peace History April 30-May 6 Ohio National Guard troops opened fire on anti-war protesters at Kent State University, killing four students and wounding nine others.

The previous day, President Nixon had announced a widening of the Vietnam War with bombing in neighboring Cambodia. There were major campus protests around the country with students occupying university buildings to organize and discuss the war and other issues.

CLASS WAR REPORTS

Rio Revolts Against Police: “We Are Tired. The Pressure Pot Is

Ready To Burst” “Hundreds Of Residents In The Same

Slums—Or Favelas—Protested Against The Shooting Of Two Residents With Residents Chanting ‘Killers’ At Stone-

Faced Police At The Scene”

Police enter a slum in Rio de Janeiro last week to probe the death of a professional dancer that sparked a demonstration near Copacabana Beach. Fotoarena/Sipa USA May 1, 2014 By Loretta Chao, Wall Street Journal [Excerpts]

A government initiative to clean up Rio de Janeiro’s violent slums is under attack just weeks before hundreds of thousands of foreign visitors flock to Brazil for the soccer World Cup. In the latest clash, police said two officers were injured in shootouts on Thursday in a sprawling collection of slums named Complexo do Alemão, where police have recently stepped up vigilance due to an onslaught of unrest. The confrontation came days after hundreds of residents in the same slums—or favelas—protested against the shooting of two residents in areas where police have been battling suspected drug traffickers. Smoke filled the air as residents torched three buses and vandalized a local public-health clinic, with residents chanting “killers” at stone-faced police at the scene. “We are tired. The pressure pot is ready to burst,” said Cleber Araujo, a 38-year-old resident of Complexo do Alemão. “There is only death in the favela.” The incidents come as popular support for hosting the World Cup soccer tournament declines in Brazil and authorities gear up for potentially chaotic protests during the monthlong event, which starts on June 12. Attitudes also have turned against a security program that was the hallmark of the seaside city’s revitalization. Launched in 2008, police have entered Rio’s hundreds of slums to expel the drug traffickers controlling them and install a “pacifying police unit,” or UPP, in their stead. The plan was to end long-standing crime in these communities where residents said it wasn’t unusual to see children toting automatic weapons and to walk by corpses in the street. Officials hoped, too, that by lowering Rio’s high crime rates ahead of the World Cup and the Olympics in 2016, Rio—a central attraction in both events—would attract both business investment and tourism. To an extent, the program has been successful. The 2010 pacification of Complexo do Alemão was considered a triumph because it opened the community up to new businesses, tourism and some government services such as new medical and community centers. Crime rates citywide also fell, including an almost 37% drop in robberies in the five years to 2012, according to government data. But the program has come under fire, especially since the disappearance in July of Amarildo Dias de Souza, a resident of the Rio favela Rocinha, who locals say was last seen with community police. Prosecutors have charged several police officers with torturing and murdering the man during an attempt to get information from him about drug trafficking. “Where’s Amarildo?” became a nationwide protest slogan.

Not all favela residents support violent tactics such as torching buses, which have become common in recent months in Brazil’s largest cities as a form of protest against failures of the government to provide better public services. But many who previously supported police presence are increasingly criticizing the program. Raul Santiago, a photographer who lives in Complexo do Alemão, said that in addition to police violence, officials have failed to follow pacification efforts with necessary investments in public services. “What is trafficking in the favelas if not a result of years of bad policies?” he asked. “Health care is bad, education is bad.” Residents in many Rio favelas say drug trafficking has fallen but continues in their communities with occasional outbreaks of gunfire between the traffickers and police. Last week, a demonstration broke out near the city’s famed Copacabana Beach over the death of a young professional dancer who may have also been caught in police crossfire. Police initially said the dancer fell to death. They later revealed that he had been shot, though it’s not yet clear by whom. Police are still investigating the death. But some residents now suspect he suffered the same fate as Mr. Dias de Souza, and are accusing police of a cover-up. Meanwhile, a resurgence in street crimes has plagued Rio, with robberies in popular tourist areas shooting up 37% in 2013. Anecdotally, Rio residents say this year hasn’t improved. Rio’s new governor Luiz Fernando Pezão went to Complexo do Alemão in response to this week’s events and said the government “will not tolerate attacks and violent acts, or any attempt to destabilize the peace process in communities.” Police said they were investigating the favela deaths.

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DANGER: CAPITALISTS AT WORK

OCCUPATION PALESTINE

Zionist Occupation Forces Arrest Palestinian Journalist,

Activist; “He Has Been Denied Access To An Attorney, Standard Procedure

For Israeli Palestinian Security Suspects”

“This Persecution Is Part Of The Ongoing Effort By Israeli Secret

Police To Criminalize Israeli Palestinian Nationalism”

“Any Such Political Expression Viewed As Sedition And Criminally Prosecuted

By The State”

Israel’s security services secretly arrested Palestinian activist-journalist Majd Kayyal.

The arrest is under gag order April 12, 2014 by Richard Silverstein, Richardsilverstein.com/ I received an urgent message from Jamil Dakwar of the ACLU that Palestinian journalist and political activist, Majd Kayyal, age 22, was arrested on his return to Israel from a trip to Lebanon and Jordan. I’ve checked with an Israeli source who tells me he was arrested as a national security suspect. The combination of his trip to Lebanon, where he attended an event celebrating the 40th anniversary of As-Safir (considered a pro-Hezbollah publication), his participation in a 2011 flotilla voyage to break the Gaza siege, and his activist role in Adalah (where he was the website editor) and Balad (Hebrew), made him a ready target. Kayyal also edits the political and cultural website, Qadita and the English-language blog, Message to the Tricontinental. At midnight Saturday Israel-time, a few hours after his arrest, the security police raided his Haifa home and confiscated his computer and other electronic devices and materials.

Jamil reports he has been denied access to an attorney, which is standard procedure for Israeli Palestinian security suspects. A judge will be asked to extend his remand tomorrow and will automatically do so, again as is standard for the Only Democracy in the Middle East. Majd can also expect abuse and even torture from his security service interrogators just as Ameer Makhoul did. For those with good memories, who’ve been reading this blog for several years, you’ll recall his case. He was also a Palestinian community activist from Haifa who founded the Ittijah NGO. He too returned from a trip to Jordan, where he allegedly met a fellow activist Hassan Jaja at an environment conference. The Shabak made Jaja out to be a key Hezbollah operative, when in reality he owned a landscaping business in Amman. My guess is that Shabak discovered a similar meeting Kayyal had with a suspect individual who the security forces can turn into an Islamist bogeyman. This persecution is part of the ongoing effort by Israeli secret police to criminalize Israeli Palestinian nationalism. As I’ve reported here, Yuval Diskin, then Shabak chief, said in 2007 that any such political expression would be viewed as sedition and criminally prosecuted by the State. That is what is happening in this case. Nothing more. Here is a Mondoweiss interview published with Kayyal before he joined the 2011 Gaza flotilla. Read the words of this ‘mortal danger’ to the Jewish State: “Are you concerned you will be treated worse because you are Palestinian? “I hope not, but usually Palestinian activists face more problems from Israeli armed forces. However, as a Palestinian citizen of Israel, it’s extremely important to show the unity of the Palestinian people to the international community and remind the political leadership that they cannot abandon our rights and must include the status of ‘48 Palestinians in any just solution. “How do you see the Palestinian struggle right now? “I think that the Arab spring is the most inspiring and is providing us with a renewed motivation. “I see that we need to rebuild the popular struggle on the ground. We need to revitalize the participation of the youth and the students in forging a more powerful movement, as we can see their importance in the uprisings of Egypt, Tunisia and others.

“Now is the time to move beyond partisan problems and focus on the main target, which is the colonial and racist regime Israel has imposed on the Palestinian people.” This arrest, which constitutes a severe assault on press freedom, since Kayyal is an Israeli Palestinian journalist, is under gag order in Israel. It has not been reported in Israeli media. I hope this publication will poke a hole in the shroud of opacity that favors such assaults by the security apparatus. An international group of activists joined together to fight on Ameer’s behalf. I’ve begun a process which I hope will lead to the same support for Majd.

“The ‘Hacktivist’ Organization Anonymous Unleashed A Day Long Cyber-Attack On A Broad Series Of

Israeli Websites “Among Them Were The Official Website

Of The Israeli President, The Israeli Police And The Ministry Of Foreign

Affairs”

April 15, 2014 By Claire Matsunami, The Palestine Monitor On Monday 7 April the ‘hacktivist’ organization Anonymous unleashed a day long cyber-attack on a broad series of Israeli websites as part of the third year of OpIsrael. The attack specifically targeted a list of Israeli governmental websites, made public on the eve of the event. This year’s OpIsrael attack succeeded in temporarily shutting down several websites and defacing others with pro-Palestinian slogans, among them were the official website of the Israeli President, the Israeli Police and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, according to the OpIsrael Facebook page and Times Magazine. An update on the website OpIsraelBirthday, set up by Anonymous affiliated hacker AnonGhost, stated that over 400 websites were successfully breached. All websites allegedly targeted by the group are now back up and running. On Sunday 6 April, one day before the attack, Anonymous gave Israel warning via the popular video-sharing website, YouTube. In the video, a computerized voice reads a message to the government of Israel detailing the reasons behind OpIsrael’s actions: “Your vicious campaigns to attack Palestinian solidarity groups worldwide through censorship and legal wrangling have also NOT gone unnoticed. “We see through the propaganda that you circulate through the mainstream media and lobby through the political establishment. We will NOT allow you to maintain these attacks on a sovereign country based upon a campaign of lies. Your games of deception will now be met by the wrath of elite cyber squadrons from around the world. Your grip over humanity will weaken and man will be closer to freedom.” The video calls upon cyber activists around the world to “hack, deface, hijack, database leak, admin takeover, and DNS terminate the Israeli Cyberspace by any means necessary.” OpIsrael has taken place on 7 April for 3 years now. It was first launched in 2012 during an Israeli assault on Gaza, initially infiltrating over 700 websites and subsequently publishing the personal information of approximately 5000 government workers. In 2013 the coordinated cyber attack targeted various Israeli sites to shut them down or deface them, including the Ministry of Education and the Bureau of Statistics. The operation had minimal success, but as Yitzhak Ben Yisrael of Israeli National Cyber Bureau explained to The Guardian in 2013, “Anonymous doesn’t have the skills to damage the country’s vital infrastructure. And if that was its intention, then it wouldn’t have announced the attack ahead of time. It wants to create noise in the media about issues that are close to its heart.” Mohammad Rub, Professor of Media Studies at Birzeit University, spoke with Palestine Monitor about the way that cyber activism is changing the frontier for information dispersal. Operations like OpIsrael, explained Rub, are “challenging and breaking the silence of the mainstream media.”

He also believes that this is an effective way for international individuals to stand in solidarity with Palestinians, despite the fact that these activists aren’t physically present, saying “I think this is an effective way to support the Palestinian issue because it raises awareness and can potentially change public understanding towards the Palestinian narrative.”

Heroic Zionist Forces Shoot Unarmed Palestinian Gaza Fishermen, As Usual

04/27/2014 Ma’an GAZA CITY -- A Palestinian fisherman was shot and injured by Israeli forces off the coast of the Gaza Strip early Saturday, security sources said. Gaza security sources told Ma’an that Israeli naval squadrons off the coast of northern Gaza fired at a Palestinian fishing boat, hitting a man in the foot. The man was taken to Kamal Udwan Hospital for treatment, the sources said. An Israeli military spokesman did not immediately return calls seeking comment. In the Oslo Accords, Israel agreed to a 20-nautical-mile fishing zone off Gaza’s coast, but it has imposed a three-mile limit for several years, opening fire at fishermen who stray further. Israel has controlled Gaza waters since its occupation of the area in 1967, and has kept several warships stationed off the coast since 2008. To check out what life is like under a murderous military occupation commanded

by foreign terrorists, go to: http://www.maannews.net/eng/Default.aspx and

http://www.palestinemonitor.org/list.php?id=ej898ra7yff0ukmf16 The occupied nation is Palestine. The foreign terrorists call themselves “Israeli.”

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