By Noah Shachtman Wired 19 October 2009 America’s spy agencies want to read your blog posts, keep track of your Twitter updates — even check out your book reviews on Amazon. In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the CIA and the wider intelligence community, is putting cash into Visible Technologies, a software firm that specializes in monitoring [...]
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The level of poverty in America is even worse than first believed
Revised formula puts 1 in 6 Americans in poverty. Hope Yen Associated Press Writer October 20, 2009 WASHINGTON – The level of poverty in America is even worse than first believed. A revised formula for calculating medical costs and geographic variations show that approximately 47.4 million Americans last year lived in poverty, 7 million more [...]
Deformed babies in Fallujah
Iraq LETTER TO THE UNITED NATIONS Various undersigned 14 October 2009 H.E. Dr. Ali Abdussalam Treki President of the Sixty-fourth Session of the United Nations General Assembly United Nations New York, NY 10017 October 12th 2009 Your Excellency, RE DEFORMED BABIES IN FALLUJAH Young women in Fallujah in Iraq are terrified of having children because [...]
Israel holds 335 Palestinians without trial
Middle East Online - 14 October 2009 Rights groups say Israel in breach of international law amid absence of fair judicial process. TEL AVIV – Israel is currently holding 335 Palestinians without trial in breach of international law, two Israeli human rights groups said on Wednesday.
Israel tightens Jerusalem ‘siege’
Ma’an News – 7 October 2009 Jerusalem – Palestinians in Jerusalem’s Old City are describing it as a community “under siege” as Israeli forces continue to operate in large numbers fearing renewed demonstrations. Restrictions in the city were so severe Wednesday that children were prevented from reaching schools in the Old City.
Medics: Israeli forces fire on Gaza funeral, injuring 17
Ma’an News 26 September 2009 Gaza – Ma’an – Seventeen people were injured when Israeli forces opened fire on a funeral on Saturday for three Palestinian fighters who were killed by an Israeli airstrike a day earlier, according to medical officials.
Birth defects in Gaza due to illegal weapons used by Israel during the war
Saed Bannoura IMEMC 25 September 2009 The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza reported Friday that eight months after the Israeli war ended, several birth defect cases were reported among the Gaza Strip newborns.
The anatomy of Finkelstein’s Monster
A resurrected Docudays film festival reopens with‘American Radical,’ a profile of a complex American dissident By Jim Quilty Daily Star staff 23 September 2009 BEIRUT: A dissenting voice is a peculiar thing. For those with a stake in a political status quo, the more contentious the issue, the more the dissident must be silenced. How [...]
Nato forces rely on illegal Afghan militias, report says
Troops in Afghanistan said to use private armies for detention and interrogation Julian Borger, diplomatic editor guardian.co.uk 16 September 2009 Nato forces in Afghanistan are increasingly reliant on illegal militias, often run by warlords responsible for human rights abuses and drug trafficking, according to an independent report published tomorrow.
U.S. Death Squads Roam The Globe
Commando Raid in Somalia is Latest in Covert Operations Across the Globe By Bill Roggio “Long War Journal’ 17 September 2009 – Yesterday’s daring raid in southern Somalia that targeted and killed a senior al Qaeda leader wanted for several deadly attacks is the latest in a series of covert operations carried out by US and [...]
Victims’ Families Tell Their Stories Following Nato Airstrike in Afghanistan
‘I took some flesh home and called it my son.’ The Guardian interviews 11 villagers By Ghaith Abdul-Ahad in Kunduz The Guardian September 14, 2009 At first light last Friday, in the Chardarah district of Kunduz province in northern Afghanistan, the villagers gathered around the twisted wreckage of two fuel tankers that had been hit [...]
Mosque-Veto
Palestine Monitor September 14, 2009 A Palestinian woman died and dozens more were injured as they attempted to reach Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. Incompetent and inhumane policing turned the Qalandia checkpoint into a scene of chaos as worshippers gathered for prayer on the third Friday of Ramadan. Pictures:
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