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CIA Spies on Investigation of CIA Torture
“The Senate’s report documents the lies and the deceit of the CIA and its leaders over the past decade, including lies to the Congress, the American people, and even the President of the United States. The CIA director, George Tenet, and the deputy director, John McLaughlin, were directly responsible for orchestrating the campaign.”
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Gaza: As Cease-fire Collapses, Death Toll Passes 1,400
“Rafah is isolated, under heavy random tank shelling, aerial bombardments.”
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Why Have Office Computers in Congress Been Blocked From Access to “Hackers on Planet Earth” Website?
“Previously, it has been reported that federal workers were banned from accessing WikiLeaks on government computers. And now, employees are prohibited from accessing a page for a prominent hacker conference. This appears to be another example of a culture of enforced ignorance being maintained.”
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Voices of Israelis “Outraged over Genocide in Gaza”
“I participated in my first demonstration against Israeli aggression 32 years ago, after the massacre of Sabra and Shatila. Over the past three decades, successive Israeli governments continued to use military aggression rather than diplomacy as the centerpiece of their foreign policy. As an Israeli citizen, a daughter of a holocaust survivor, and a conflict resolution expert, I feel a strong obligation to speak up against the ongoing military onslaught inflicted on Gaza. This genocide, perpetrated by Israel in the name of security has claimed the lives of over 1,200 Palestinians in Gaza and completely destroyed their infrastructure. Notwithstanding the…
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Why Won’t Administration Release Ukraine Evidence?
“As veteran intelligence analysts accustomed to waiting, except in emergency circumstances, for conclusive information before rushing to judgment, we believe that the charges against Russia should be rooted in solid, far more convincing evidence. And that goes in spades with respect to inflammatory incidents like the shoot-down of an airliner. We are also troubled by the amateurish manner in which fuzzy and flimsy evidence has been served up — some of it via ‘social media.'”
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Israel Bombs Power Plant; Water Going from “Undrinkable” to “Catastrophic”
“Since the start of the Israeli assault on Gaza on July 8, 2014, the water and wastewater infrastructure in Gaza has been heavily affected by Israeli airstrikes. Main water supply and wastewater infrastructure has been hit and as a result the water supply or sewage services to 1.2 million (2/3 of the total population in Gaza) have been cut or severely disrupted. The targeting of civilian objects under situation of hostilities is prohibited according to International Humanitarian Law and is considered a war crime.”
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Israel Using U.S. Weapons to Kill in Gaza
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The Trauma of Palestinian Children
“What can’t be seen or understood in the pictures and reporting coming out of Gaza is the long term impact the most recent Israeli assault is having on the young minds of children in Gaza. Unfortunately, our staff has seen this before — most recently in 2012 and 2009 during Operation Pillar of Defense and Operation Cast Lead.”
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War Crimes in Gaza? Genocide?
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, South African Navi “Pillay’s concern that the fire power being brought to bear on Gaza indicates that war crimes are being committed is well founded. The level of civilian deaths being caused is out of all proportion to whatever military objectives are being targeted.”
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Jewish Criticism of Israel
“During the latest crisis, the tone was set by July 8 when J Street’s home page carried the headline ‘J Street Expresses Solidarity with Israelis under Rocket Fire.’ It could have as easily read ‘J Street Expresses Solidarity with Israelis AND GAZANS under Fire,’ but that would have reflected an absent dedication to humanism. … As Israelis and Palestinians demonstrated in Jerusalem for a ceasefire, J Street’s statement said that the violence must stop, but in the context of Israel maintaining its self-defined security: ‘We fully endorse Israel’s right to defend its people from these reprehensible attacks. At the same…
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Howard Zinn