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Only 127 US academics (many retired) sign to oppose study in Israel programs

Rehmat’s World | January 28, 2012

Under pressure from pro-Israel Jewish groups – California State University, Northridge (CSUN) has reinstated its three Israel Study Abroad programs at Haifa University, Hebrew University and Tel Aviv University in Israel. The programs were halted in 2002, with three students enrolled in the program, when the US State Department issued a travel warning. Now, the CSUN management is convinced that Israel is a safe place even though Benji Netanyahu government claims that Hamas, Hizbullah and Iran are planing to “wipe Israel off the map.”

The University Chancellor Charles Reed ignored the opposition by 127 US academics to reinstating the program was led by California  State Northridge professor David Klein, many from CSUN. One of the signatories, Long Beach Professor Emerita Sherna Gluck says: “I cannot support cooperation with Israeli universities and certainly cannot endorse our CSU students attending these institutions any more than I supported exchanges with South African apartheid universities.”

In late 2009, 389 signatories endorsed a letter to UC Davis Provost William Lacy protesting the system-wise reinstatement on the grounds that the program would be inherently discriminatory Muslims and Arab students. … continue

US to send ‘mothership’ to Middle East

Press TV – January 28, 2012

The US military plans to deploy a large floating base, unofficially dubbed the “mothership,” for commando teams to the Middle East amid recent developments in the region.

The Navy is converting an aging warship it had planned to decommission into a makeshift staging base for the commandos in response to requests from the US Central Command, which oversees military operations in the Middle East, The Washington Post reported on Saturday.

The floating base could accommodate smaller high-speed boats and helicopters commonly used by the United States Navy’s Sea, Air, and Land Teams, commonly known as Navy SEALs. … continue

Washington Wages War of Sanctions against Iran

By Ismail Salami | Intifada-Palestine.com | January 27, 2012

Washington’s double-edged sword of policies towards the Islamic Republic is not only exhausting the patience of the Iranian nation but it is provoking the ire of international conscience as well.

Goaded by Washington, EU foreign ministers decided on January 23 to impose a ban on oil imports from Iran under the fickle excuse that the country is pursuing a clandestine nuclear weapons program.

In a recent stance, Iran has threatened that it would never let a situation prevail where regional states could sell their oil while Iran couldn’t. Ali Akbar Velayati, senior adviser to the Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, has said, “When there is an absence of Iranian supply, oil prices will soar up dramatically and the western countries are well aware of this fact; However, Iran will never allow itself to land in a situation in which it cannot sell oil but other regional states can.”

It hardly needs saying that such a firm stance on the part of Iran has been given considerable thought and that the European Union should be prepared to face the consequences of their irrationality and blind servitude to Washington. … continue

Strikes, protests halt Italian transport

Press TV – January 28, 2012

A nationwide strike across Italy has paralyzed the country’s public transportation system as workers protest against the government’s proposed austerity measures, Press TV reports.

Buses, trains and the subway system experienced heavy delays or stoppages on Friday as Italian public transit system employees and union workers took to the streets demonstrating against Prime Minister Mario Monti’s government.

Other services such as sanitation, public schools and airport maintenance were also interrupted. … Full article

We Have Every Right to Be Furious About ACTA

By Maira Sutton and Parker Higgins | EFF | January 27, 2012

If there’s one thing that encapsulates what’s wrong with the way government functions today, ACTA is it. You wouldn’t know it from the name, but the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement is a plurilateral agreement designed to broaden and extend existing intellectual property (IP) enforcement laws to the Internet. While it was only negotiated between a few countries,1 it has global consequences. First because it will create new rules for the Internet, and second, because its standards will be applied to other countries through the U.S.’s annual Special 301 process. Negotiated in secret, ACTA bypassed checks and balances of existing international IP norm-setting bodies, without any meaningful input from national parliaments, policymakers, or their citizens. Worse still, the agreement creates a new global institution, an “ACTA Committee” to oversee its implementation and interpretation that will be made up of unelected members with no legal obligation to be transparent in their proceedings. Both in substance and in process, ACTA embodies an outdated top-down, arbitrary approach to government that is out of step with modern notions of participatory democracy.

The EU and 22 of its 27 member states signed ACTA yesterday in Tokyo. This news is neither momentous nor surprising. This is but the latest step in more than three years of non-transparent negotiations. … continue

ACTA Anger: Polish protests grow into anti-govt rage

RussiaToday | January 28, 2012

Filipinos protest military ties with US

Press TV – January 28, 2012

Philippine protesters outside the US embassy in Manila, January 28, 2012
People in the Philippines have gathered in front of the US Embassy in the capital city, Manila, to protest the expansion of military ties with Washington, demanding the withdrawal of American troops.

The Saturday protest, organized by the leftist New Nationalist Alliance (Bayan), was staged to denounce the ongoing negotiations between Manila and Washington to deploy more US troops and ships in the Philippines.

“If we allow more US troops to enter our country, the entire archipelago will be transformed into one military outpost for US hegemonic interests,” Bayan announced in a statement distributed at the rally.

Philippine officials say they plan to hold more joint military drills and let more US troops rotate through the southeast Asian country… Full article

Humanitarian organization says Israel must remove West Bank landmines

Ma’an – 28/01/2012

BETHLEHEM – The founder of humanitarian organization Roots of Peace said Friday that the group has demanded that Israel work to remove landmines from the Palestinian territories.

Heidi Kühn told Voice of Palestine radio that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his government would help to remove mines in the West Bank if the organization assisted with mine removal within Israel. [...]

Around 1.5 million landmines and unexploded ordinances prevent access to more than 50,000 acres of productive land in Israel, the West Bank and the Jordan River valley, Roots of Peace says.

The Israeli-Jordanian border areas and the Jordan Valley are still heavily land-mined, together with areas of the Golan Heights and the northern West Bank.

The mines no longer serve any military purpose.

Minister of Detainees Calls for Boycott of Military Courts

By Saed Bannoura | IMEMC & Agencies | January 26, 2012

Palestinian Minister of Detainees in the West Bank, Issa Qaraqe’, called for the boycotting of all Israeli military courts for their repeated rulings that confine thousands of detainees under administrative orders without filing any official indictments against them.

His statements came during a visit to the family of detainee, Ahmad Nabhan Saqer, aged 47, at the Askar refugee camp, near the northern West Bank city of Nablus.

Saqer has been imprisoned under administrative detention for over three years, since he was abducted in November 2008, and Israeli military courts have repeatedly issued administrative detention orders against him, without filing any formal charges.

Saqer was arrested three times before, and has spent a total of twelve years and counting, behind bars. … continue

Family miraculously survive Israeli shelling

Palestine Information Center – 28/01/2012

GAZA — Israeli occupation forces (IOF) advanced into eastern Gaza city at a late hour on Friday night and fired a shell that slammed into a Palestinian home and destroyed its kitchen shortly after the family left it.

Haithem Hajjaj, the father and a soccer coach, said that his wife and children had left the kitchen after super when the shell slammed into its roof and exploded inside it.

He said that the kitchen was completely destroyed and his family miraculously survived.

IOF soldiers stationed to the east of Gaza routinely fire shells at random at Palestinian neighborhoods.

The armed wing of the popular front for the liberation of Palestine fired four mortar shells at the IOF military post Nahal Oz to the east of Gaza in retaliation to the IOF incursion.

Palestinian teen hit by Israeli car at Jerusalem checkpoint

Ma’an – 28/01/2012

JERUSALEM – A Palestinian teenager was struck and injured by an Israeli driver near an East Jerusalem checkpoint on Saturday morning, witnesses told Ma’an.

Suleiman Abu Mahamid, 18, was waiting to catch a bus near al-Zayyem checkpoint between the West Bank and Jerusalem when a private car hit him and fled the scene.

Onlookers said the assailant was an Israeli settler using a road into the West Bank that is off limits to Palestinians. Witnesses from nearby East Jerusalem neighborhood Isawiya took the car number and photos of the incident, they said.

Abu Mahamid was taken to the Medical Compound in Ramallah to treat his bruising.

Demanding justice for Yousef, a quiet boy killed by Israeli settlers

Bekah Wolf | The Electronic Intifada | 27 January 2012

On 28 January 2011 at 6:30am, Yousef Ikhlayl, 17, went with his father Fakhri to their farmland on the outskirts of the West Bank village Beit Ommar, where they prepared the land around their grapevines. At approximately 7am, two groups of Israelis from the illegal settlements Bat Ayn and Kiryat Arba were taking a “hike” in the privately-owned Palestinian agricultural land belonging to the residents of Beit Ommar.

There was no indication that the settlers were planning on shooting. Yousef’s father reported that the first shot fired by the settlers hit his son in the head. The settlers then began shooting in the air and the surrounding areas to prevent others from approaching, as his father screamed desperately for help. … continue

Saudi Arabia to recognize, fund Syrian National Council; Russia rejects Syria resolution

Al Akhbar | January 27, 2012

Saudi Arabia will recognize the Syrian National Council (SNC) as the “official representative” of the Syrian people amid a joint Western-Gulf Arab push to have President Bashar Assad removed, a senior member of the opposition group said on Friday.

“Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal told an SNC delegation he met in Cairo last week the kingdom will recognize the Council as the official representative of the Syrian people,” SNC executive council member Ahmad Ramadan told Kuwait’s Al-Rai newspaper.

Ramadan did not specify when Saudi will make the call, or whether it will be backed by its Gulf Arab allies in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).

It was also reported in the UK’s The Times newspaper on Friday that Saudi Arabia and Qatar will begin funding the SNC as well as armed groups fighting the regime. … continue

Obama Mentions An Energy Company In His Big Speech And It Goes Bankrupt Instantly

By Michael Brendan Dougherty | Business Insider | January 26, 2012

Andrew Restuccia of The Hill is reporting that Ener1, a battery company that President Obama referenced in his State of The Union Speech on Tuesday as an example of successful energy investments, has just filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy.

That’s just two days after the speech. [...]

According to Phil Milford and Dawn McCarty at Businessweek, Ener1 had received a $118 million U.S. Energy Department grant to make electric-car batteries. … Read full article

Pentagon Budgets and Fuzzy Math

By Peter Hart - FAIR – 01/27/2012

By the tone of  some of the media coverage, you might have thought Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announced a plan to slash military spending yesterday.  On the front page of USA Today (1/27/12), under the headline “Panetta Backs Far Leaner Military,” readers learn in the first paragraph:

The Pentagon’s new plan to cut Defense spending means a reduction of 100,000 troops, the retiring of ships and planes and closing of bases–moves that the Defense secretary said would not compromise security.

The piece quotes critics of the cuts like Sen. Joe Lieberman and an analyst at the right-wing American Enterprise Institute. And the article talks about the most commonly cited figure of $487 billion in cuts over 10 years. As economist Dean Baker writes about such coverage–”Military Budget Cuts: Denominator Please”–there is no way people can assess the significance of what sounds like a lot of money if they don’t know how much the Pentagon is planning to spend over the same 1o-year period–roughly $8 trillion.

The PBS NewsHour did little to clarify the issue. The broadcast began with Jeffrey Brown announcing, “The Pentagon today outlined almost half a trillion dollars in budget cuts that would shrink the size of the U.S. military by trimming ground forces, retiring ships and planes, and delaying some new weapons.” PBS aired clips from Republicans Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich denouncing the budget cuts, and then interviewed a Pentagon official. … continue

State of the Apple (Rotten)

By JEFF BALLINGER | CounterPunch | January 26, 2012

President Barack Obama blew a kiss to Apple in the State of the Union speech, praising the entrepreneurial spirit of its founder, the late Steve Jobs, as the cameras panned to his widow in the audience.

Obama’s timing couldn’t be weirder. In the last month, Apple has released a damning audit which found that almost 100 of Apple’s supplier factories force more than half their workers to exceed a 60-hour week. The company announced responsibility for aluminum dust explosions in Chinese supplier factories that killed four workers and injured 77. Hundreds more in China have been injured cleaning iPad screens with a chemical that causes nerve damage. … continue

US vs. Genuine Reforms at the United Nations

By Ramzy Baroud | The Palestine Chronicle | January 26, 2012

The country that has long been known to abuse its powers and privileges in the United Nations is now leading a campaign to reform the same organization. While UN reforms are welcomed, if not demanded, by many of its member states, there is little reason to believe the recent US crusade is actually genuine. Rather, it seems a clear attempt to stifle any semblance of democracy in the world’s leading international institution.

Most American politicians actually despise the UN. While the Security Council is directed or tamed by the US veto (often to shield the US and its close ally Israel from any criticism), other UN bodies are not as easily intimidated. When the UN education and science agency, UNESCO, accepted Palestine’s bid for full membership last October, following a democratic vote by its members, the US could do little do stall the process. Still, it immediately cut funding to the agency (about 20 percent of its total budget).

The move was devoid of any humanitarian considerations. The UNESCO provides vital services to underprivileged communities all over the world, including the United States. Yet, State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland, insisted on sugarcoating what was an entirely injudicious political act. “Today’s vote by the member states of UNESCO to admit Palestine as member is regrettable, premature and undermines our shared goal of a comprehensive just and lasting peace in the Middle East,” said Nuland… continue

The writing has always been on the wall

By Sam Bahour – Bitter Lemons – 23/1/2012

The human body is an amazing creation. It’s not only the most complex system known to mankind, but it embodies within it signals that tell its owner that something has gone wrong. A similar signaling system exists in political bodies. Those tasked with reading the signals–be they individuals, physicians or politicians–can choose to consciously ignore the warning signs. The Middle East peace process between Palestinians and Israelis has been emitting SOS signals for decades, but only recently are those signals being received and analyzed for what they are transmitting–a clear and irreversible message that the entire paradigm of “two states for two peoples” has collapsed.

Like doctors who peddle medications instead of practicing medicine, many politicians are under the influence of their narrow political interests and prefer not to call situations by their name. After so many years of failure–political, legal, diplomatic and economic–those who are paid to diagnose and treat reality are being replaced with voices from all corners of the world, voices convincingly making the case that the entire premise undertaken by the Palestine Liberation Organization, starting as far back as 1974, is no longer feasible.

Some will say that the PLO was tricked by the West into a path that was never intended to succeed. Others may claim that the PLO had no option but to acquiesce to the pressures placed upon it to enter, more recently, the Oslo peace process, in hopes that the West (mainly the US) would then pull its weight in bringing Israel in line with international law and UN resolutions. Regardless of the analysis of the past, very few people on the ground who are intimately involved in the attempt to resolve the Palestinian-Israeli “conflict” would venture to spend any additional political credit on the notion that two independent states, Israel and Palestine, remain a way out of this man-made tragedy. … continue

A Pledge for Anti-interventionist Progressives in 2012

By John V. Walsh  | Dissident Voice | January 27th, 2012

There are distressing signs that some antiwar progressives are withdrawing support for Obama as the 2012 election draws near.    A few have gone so far as to whisper a begrudging respect for Ron Paul, although they have scrupulously refrained from acting on it.  It is high time to stem this tide carrying votes away from our president, to take a stand, to show some ovarian fortitude and to slog on for Obama.  In just such a spirit this pledge is offered for anti-interventionist progressives, a term redundant under Bush but edging closer to oxymoronic under Obama.

I pledge in the year 2012 to link the fight against war to the fight for justice and to do so without exception.  With equal vigor I pledge to fight for justice with total disregard for the fight against war whenever it suits me.  I pledge to follow the MoveOn segment of the Occupy Wall Street movement in so doing.  I pledge that this will be the cornerstone of my approach, to be known henceforth as Van Jones Logic.

I pledge to exclude potential allies who do not share my notions of justice from the antiwar movement.  After all the antiwar movement belongs to progressives.  I pledge to keep at bay libertarians, paleoconservatives and, above all, the average American Jane and Joe, with an unscalable Chinese Wall of political correctness.  Let’s keep out the riff-raff.  For this I pledge to look for leadership to “Progressive” Democrats of America, UFPJ, Peace Action and Juan Cole.

I pledge neither to sponsor nor to join any large antiwar marches or demonstrations this election year. For if there are antiwar marches, it is a sure sign that there are wars.   I pledge, if forced into such marches of folly in order to preserve my credibility or my donor base, to censor any mention of Obama.   I pledge to treat impeachment as a taboo subject. … continue

Billionaire Gingrich backer Adelson regrets he served in US instead of Israeli military

By Ali Abunimah – The Electronic Intifada – 01/27/2012

Billionaire Sheldon Adelson, who along with his wife, has donated $10 million dollars in recent weeks to Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich, has said that he wishes he had served in the Israeli army instead of the US military and that he wants his son to grow up to “be a sniper for the IDF.”

Gingrich himself has also doubled down on anti-Palestinian comments, asserting during a CNN debate last night that they were “invented” in the 1970s.

Adelson’s explosive comments are reported this morning… continue

NYPD found promoting Islamophobia

PressTVGlobalNews | January 27, 2012

NATO trucks remain stranded in Pakistan

Press TV – January 27, 2012

Thousands of NATO trucks are crowding the port in Pakistan’s southern city of Karachi, two months after Islamabad imposed a blockade on supplies destined for the US-led foreign forces in neighboring Afghanistan.

Many of the drivers, fed up with waiting and running out of money, are starting to desert. Some have already abandoned their trucks and returned to their homes. … Full article

US lobbies Pakistan to drop Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline project

Press TV – January 27, 2012

The United States has urged Pakistan to abandon the Iran-Pakistan (IP) gas pipeline project promising Washington will help Islamabad with the consequences of the decision.

Spokeswoman of the US State Department Victoria Nuland said on Friday that Pakistan was “one of the countries that we’re working with, primarily from the US Embassy,” to stop buying gas from Iran.

On December 31, 2011, US President Barack Obama signed into law new sanctions against Iran, which seek to penalize foreign institutions that do business with Iran’s central bank and oil sector.

“We’re talking to countries around the world about the implications of this legislation and our efforts to cut global dependence on Iran,” Nuland added. … continue

Libya: Detainees tortured and denied medical care

Médecins Sans Frontières | January 26, 2012

TRIPOLI/BRUSSELS – Detainees in the Libyan city of Misrata are being tortured and denied urgent medical care, leading the international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) to suspend its operations in detention centres in Misrata, MSF announced today.

MSF teams began working in Misrata’s detention centres in August, 2011, to treat war-wounded detainees. Since then, MSF doctors were increasingly confronted with patients who suffered injuries caused by torture during interrogation sessions. The interrogations were held outside the detention centres. In total, MSF treated 115 people who had torture-related wounds and reported all the cases to the relevant authorities in Misrata. Since January, several of the patients returned to interrogation centres have even been tortured again.

“Some officials have sought to exploit and obstruct MSF’s medical work,” said MSF General Director Christopher Stokes. “Patients were brought to us in the middle of interrogation for medical care, in order to make them fit for further interrogation. This is unacceptable. Our role is to provide medical care to war casualties and sick detainees, not to repeatedly treat the same patients between torture sessions.”

MSF medical teams were also asked to treat patients inside the interrogation centres, which was categorically refused by the organisation. … continue

The Japanese Nuclear Establishment vs. the Two-Thirds ‘Minority’

By Jim Naureckas | FAIR | January 26, 2012

There’s a news article in the Washington Post today that really captures that paper’s view of the way the world works, and how it ought to work. Headlined “After Earthquake, Japan Can’t Agree on the Future of Nuclear Power,” Chico Harlan’s piece begins:

The hulking system that once guided Japan’s pro-nuclear-power stance worked just fine when everybody moved in lockstep. But in the wake of a nuclear accident that changed the way this country thinks about energy, the system has proved ill-suited for resolving conflict. Its very size and complexity have become a problem.

And what exactly is that problem?

Nearly a year after the triple meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi facility, Japanese decision-makers cannot agree on how to safeguard their reactors against future disasters, or even whether to operate them at all.

Some experts say this indecision reflects the Japanese tendency to search for, and sometimes depend on, consensus–even when none is likely to emerge. The nation’s system for nuclear decision-making requires the agreement of thousands of officials. Most bureaucrats and politicians in Tokyo want Japan to recommit to nuclear power, but they have been thwarted by a powerful minority–reformists and regional governors.

The obstruction by this “powerful minority,” the Post goes on to say, has “heavy consequences”: “record financial losses for major power companies and economy-stunting electricity shortages.” The story warns that “Japan, once the world’s third-largest nuclear consumer, could be nuclear-free, if it is unable to win approval from local communities to restart the idled units.”

Then, after musing about the “elaborate network of hand-holding” that used to govern Japan’s nuclear infrastructure, Harlan slips in a fact that changes everything:

Since the March 11 accident, just enough has changed to stall that cooperation. Two-thirds of Japanese oppose atomic power. … continue

Marwan Barghouti sent to isolation after Israel comments

Ma’an – 26/01/2012

RAMALLAH – Jailed Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti was sent to solitary confinement on Wednesday after making critical comments about Israel to journalists.

After testifying in a Jerusalem court on Wednesday the Fatah leader briefly spoke to reporters.

Upon returning to Hadarim prison in Israel, Barghouti was not allowed back into his regular cell and was instead put in isolation, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society said Thursday. … Full article

The Arab Spring: An Open Society Project

By Maidhc Ó Cathail | The Passionate Attachment | January 26, 2012

Gene Sharp will be speaking in London on January 30 on the theme of “From Dictatorship to Democracy.” The event is being hosted by the Frontline Club, whose founder has kindly offered his large and comfy manor house as a bail haven for Julian Assange, an Antiwar.com cause célèbre whose Wikileaks played a key role in fomenting the “Arab Spring.” And guess who is behind Vaughan Smith?

Mr. Smith set up Frontline by borrowing £3 million ($5.7 million) against his family’s estate in Norfolk, England, and has received financing for its events from the Open Society Institute, a philanthropic organization set up by the billionaire investor and philanthropist George Soros.

Intensive Diplomatic Visits to Russia in Attempt to Change Stance on Syria

Al-Manar | January 26, 2012

Britain, France and the United States are making efforts in cooperation with Qatar and Morocco, and the support of the Arab League Secretary General to release a new decision against Syria in the UN Security council.

The Security Council resolution draft states that it “supports an Arab League facilitation to a political transition in Syria.”

In this field, Moscow has been witnessing lately a wide diplomatic movement that aims at persuading the country to change its stance on Syria.

Arab ministers from the Gulf Cooperation Council are preparing to visit Russia, after Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglou concluded his visit that included talks with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov.

Lavrov expressed to Davutolgu his rejection to any one-sided decision against Syria in the UN Security Council.

“We are open to any constructive suggestion for a solution to the crisis in Syria… and we don’t support any suggestion that proposes taking one-sided decisions against Syria, such as the sanctions that were imposed without previous negotiations with Russia, China, and the rest of the member countries of BRICS… any decision against Syria in the international security council must not be seen as a justification to foreign intervention,” the Russian Foreign Minister said.

Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Jeffrey Feltman and his assistant Fred Hof also held meetings in Moscow with Russian diplomats.

According to the US embassy, the two parts agreed on moving on with their cooperation on the Syrian file.

What the Adelsons will want for their money

The $10 million in pro-Newt money that transformed the GOP primary appears to be all about US policy toward Israel

By Justin Elliott | Salon | January 26, 2012

Casino magnate Sheldon Adelson and his wife Miriam have transformed the Republican primary by pumping $10 million into a pro-Newt Gingrich super PAC, thereby enabling his surge against Mitt Romney. So it’s surprising that comments Gingrich made last week about what the Adelsons expect in exchange for their money haven’t gotten more attention. … continue

New Venezuelan Social Network Takes Off

By Tamara Pearson | Venezuelanalysis.com | January 25, 2012

The new Venezuela social network, called Plaxed, which allows streams of short posts (200 characters), as well as event invitations, polls, and questions, was created as an alternative site so that files or personal details found on the network “aren’t blocked, erased, or followed” by U.S laws, said its creator, Cesar Cotiz, a systems engineer student.

The idea for the website began one and a half years ago, but it was on trial for a long time. “Then the project became a success, we had 10,000 people register in just one day, which collapsed our servers,” Cotiz said.

“We want a social network specifically for Venezuela, for phones and for desktops, and that is completely free. Anyone can create a social network, be it for personal use or business,” Cotiz said.

Plaxed is still under development. Based on the freeware, StatusNet, it still contains a lot of English, which is gradually being replaced. It has no advertising, and its name, according to Cotiz, doesn’t mean anything.

“It’s important that Venezuelans gradually take on new technology and create new social networks… in order to start to eliminate this dependence that we have on websites made in other countries, which fall under the law of those countries, so they can take the information we put there at any time and do whatever they want with it,” Luigino Bracci, an information systems graduate told the Correo del Orinoco. … continue

California professor under attack for opposing “study in Israel” scheme

Nora Barrows-Friedman | The Electronic Intifada | 25 January 2012

A mathematics professor at the California State University at Northridge is the target of an attack campaign by various pro-Israel lobby groups and individuals because he maintains a website that supports the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement, and for his outspoken criticism of Israeli policies.

Recently, Dr. David Klein has come under fire for organizing in opposition to the 23-campus-wide California State University (CSU) system’s resumption of a study abroad program in Israel, which was discontinued in 2002 because of a US State Department warning on travel to the region during the second Palestinian intifada.

In an open letter delivered to to CSU Chancellor Charles Reed last month, Klein — along with the signatures of more than 80 CSU faculty and staff members, and dozens of students statewide — urged the CSU administration to not reinstate the study abroad program.

In addition to an explanation of the historic injuring and killing of US citizens — including university students — by Israeli soldiers during unarmed protests in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, the letter states that CSU students interested in this study abroad program “could face discriminatory treatment, based on race and ethnicity” (“An open letter to CSU Chancellor Charles Reed regarding the CSU-Israel study abroad program”).

It is well-known that at border crossings and the airport, Israel discriminates against — as well as regularly detains and deports — US citizens with Middle Eastern ancestry, or Arabic or Muslim names.

The US State Department’s travel warning explicitly states that Palestinian-American dual citizens — persons who were born in the West Bank or Gaza Strip and have become naturalized US citizens — “are considered by the Israeli government to retain their Palestinian nationality, and Israeli authorities will view them as Palestinians.” … continue

January – 2012

• Court to Vermont: “Drop Dead”

• We Aren’t The World: Obama, Iran, and The Arrogance of Empire

• International Privacy Day: Fighting Data Retention Mandates Around the World

• The Jirga Medal of Honor

• Lying About the Harlem Protest Against Obama

• The Arab Spring’s National Security Cheerleaders

• U.S. Government Pledges $3.8 Billion In Loan Guarantees To Israel

• Gitmo, clear breach of international law: UN human rights chief

• Capitalism Seen in Crisis by Global Investors Citing Widening Inequalities

• Obama stresses US allegiance to Israel

• Obama Satisfies Jewish Supporters with Vow to Prevent ‘Nuclear Iran’

• Fukushima Update: Why We Should (Still) Be Worried

• Speaker Of Palestine Parliament Receives Six Months Administrative Detention

• Zionist fabrications, smears intensify ahead of Penn BDS conference

• Sabra hummus ad uses images of Arabs, Africans to cover up Israel army connection

• Veolia must stop assisting the occupier and leave Jerusalem, says Hamas spokesperson

• Arab League plan ‘outrageous meddling’ in Syria

• Connect with the Palestinian Students’ Campaign for Academic Boycott of Israel

• Jeffrey Goldberg pushes false neocon smear scrubbed by Washington Post

• Israeli special forces kidnap Jerusalemite MP, minister from Red Cross premises

• British Jews cancel Abbas meeting

• Gingrich’s Major Backer Arch-Zionist Sheldon Adelson

• Soldiers raid community center, arrest local activist

• UN rights chief urges US close Guantanamo

• Iran To Survive US Oil Embargo

• Facebook shows its tyrannical face, blocks solidarity page of hunger striker

• No more back room deals — Users must have a voice in governing the Internet

• Corn Prices Rise Worldwide Due to U.S. Ethanol Policy

• Mobile nuclear meltdowns: Coming soon to a town near you?

• The Radioactive Waste Crisis

• US to send old warship to Persian Gulf

• Is Israel Planning ‘Pearl Harbor’ False Flag Attack in the Persian Gulf?

• Scandalous new campaign video: Obama takes Israel pandering to dangerous levels

• Creating American Terrorists

• The Main Purveyors of Islamophobia

• Undercover police had children with activists

• Britain Bans Press TV

• Venezuela’s Armed Forces Under Fire by Washington

• U.S. government promoting Internet aggression against Cuba

• Regime Change Inc at work in Cuba

• “Talk to us,” says Hamas in rare visit to Europe

• Incitement intensifies against Arab MKs

• Seven Truths Inconvenient to U.S. Foreign Policy

• Occupy Wall Street at the Crossroads

• A Failure for the “Progresssive” Peace Movement: New Hampshire Primary

• Speaker of Legislative Council: I was arrested to prevent the PLC from convening

• Afghan Farce

• Congressmen Who Received Money for SOPA Vote

• Congress Needs to Get to Work

• New Pro-Israel Hasbara Meme: Blackwashing

• NATO rapped over ‘war crimes’ in Libya

• French Scientists: Childhood Leukemia Spikes Near Nuclear Reactors

• Japanese government set to allow Tokyo Electric to hike household rate

• NYPD to use body scanners in New York

• UK jamming IRIB signals from Bahrain

• Dutch lawmaker incites Israel to build more colonies, violate international law

• Antiwar.com – Your Best Source for Antiwar News?

• Kuwait decides to deport angry stateless

• Qatari Emir secretly visited Israel

• Israeli courts impose $5,200 “guarantee,” blocking cases by victims of Gaza massacre

• Ahmad Sa’adat – Ten Years a Hostage

• Truth Tiptoeing through Antisemitism Minefield

• UK MoD’s £5 billion fiasco

• PBS, NPR Try to Defend Iran Distortions

• Most Syrians back President Assad, but you’d never know from western media

• Syria releases prominent opposition activists

• “Nuclear Iran Will Limit Israel’s Ability to Protect Borders”

• Pro-Israel University of California president denies Jewish students face “hostility”

• The Distinguishing Features of Latin America’s New Left in Power: The Governments of Hugo Chavez, Evo Morales, and Rafael Correa

• Decline ‘Friend’ Request: Social Media Meets 21st Century Statecraft 

• Litani Project Launched: “New Victory against Israel”

• After Fukushima, fish tales

• Radioactive Gravel from Japanese Nuke Disaster Used in Buildings

• Jewish man arrested for swastikas, anti-Semitic calls

• Venezuela Withdraws Consular Personnel in Miami

• Occupy Belfast seizes bank building

• UK Labour Party student officials face backlash over free tour of Israel, settlements

• Cost of EU embargo on Iran – IMF loans to Greece, Italy, Spain?

• The Toxic Crash of Phobos-Grunt

• Nigeria slashes fuel prices over strike

• Georgia failure not the only ethanol misadventure

• Israel calls for tougher Iran sanctions

• Israeli higher court refuses reunion of Jerusalem families

• More deaths and injuries from US tear gas in Palestine, around the M.E., and in Oakland

• WHO’S RUNNING COVERT OPS AGAINST IRAN? THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION PROTESTS TOO LITTLE.

• Clash of Civilization, Iran Part II

• Archbishop: Targeting Syria Aims at Dividing Nation, Liquidating Palestinian Issue

• Syrian President Issues General Amnesty for Unrest Crimes

• Voters Choice: Ron Paul or Bibi Netanyahu

• US will “absolutely” continue drone war on Iran

• Tunisia: Pride and despair one year after revolt

• Biofuels Land Grab: Farmers Lose Plots and Prosperity to “Energy Independence”

• Israeli Mossad training Iranian exiles in Kurdistan: French newspaper

• Any conflict on Iran is a direct threat to Russia’s security – Rogozin

• Truth about Syria: Crazy Men in Grey Suits

• World Civilian Coalition Gathers for Global March to Jerusalem

• Turkey denies Israeli report that Mavi Marmara lawsuits dropped

• Death threats and attempts to intimidate the French BDS Campaign

• Clinton Revives Dubious Charge of “Covert” Iranian Nuclear Site

• Discord among Arab monitors as Russia warns of Syria intervention

• Israeli Soldier Acquitted Despite Killing Palestinian Civilian

• Three Years After the Bombs Fell on Gaza

• Israel FM seeks to dissolve Arab parties

• ‘IAEA leaked secret info to Iran enemy’

• Israeli court rules against citizenship for Palestinians married to Israelis

• Israel’s High Court upholds racist ‘Citizenship Law’ to avoid “national suicide”

• The very real conspiracy against Assad

• Professor of Hate: Israeli “scholar” urges ethnic cleansing of Bedouins

• Jewish settlers vandalize mosque, attempt to burn vehicles

• Anti-Semitic Arson, Vandalism In Midwood May Be Insurance Scam, Not Hate Crime

• Are Drones Watching You?

• Gitmo Chief Military Defense Lawyer Orders His Attorneys Not to Agree to Communication Monitoring

• Jewish settlement activity witnessed unprecedented upsurge in 2011

• Israeli Source: Assassination of Iranian Nuclear Scientist Joint Mossad-MEK Operation

• Condemn Use of U.S. Military to Escort Scab Grain Ship in Longview WA

• Psychologists’ Collusion in Ongoing Illegal Detentions

• The Delusions of ‘Liberal’ Zionism

• Israel’s student debate champions are “hasbara” agents for the state, says their coach

• Military court approves illegal interrogation of a minor

• My children keep asking me ‘will there be another war’

• Pro-Israel billionaire saves Gingrich

• Third Parties Are Not Spoilers

• Ballot Access Concerns

• Fordo atomic site runs under IAEA watch

• ‘US builds hospitals in Georgia, readies for war with Iran’

• Sabbath-observant Jew named Obama’s new White House chief of staff

• Waging War against Iran is a Criminal Act, in Violation of International Law

• Forced Military Testing in America’s Schools

• SOPA-Supporting News Outlets Aren’t Covering SOPA

• Community Media in Venezuela Gets Funding from Telecoms Authority

• Dispute Mars Emir of Qatar’s Mauritania Visit

• China rejects US limits on Iran trade

• Qatar urges West to intervene in Syria

• Arab League Ministers Assess Syria Mission in Cairo Meet

• Homeland Security monitors journalists

• CNN’s “Technical Difficulty” or Censorship?

• US spends over $200 million to subvert Cuba’s government

• French protesters slam police brutality

• Judge dismisses claims of “anti-Semitic climate” at UC Berkeley

• Jewish settlers break into Muslim shrines to perform Talmudic rituals

• The Slow Death of Adham Baroud: Welcome to Gaza

• UK’s student body endorses divestment

• Who Are the Palestinians

• A mistaken case for Syrian regime change

• No jail for Jewish extremists in “price tag” attacks

• 2012 – Iran and the Israeli poodles

• National-Security Assassination of Americans in 1973

• Nuclear Agency Squabbling Throws Smokescreen Over Safety Lapses

• Iran shrugs EU oil ban, looks to Asia

• Chinese airlines refuse to pay EU carbon tax

• Israeli students to get $2,000 to spread state propaganda on Facebook

• Twisted Logic of Using Violence to Achieve Peace

• Skewed Coverage by Democracy N​ow!

• China rejects US-led sanctions on Iran

• Israeli occupation authorities install CCTV cameras inside the Aqsa Mosque

• Film footage from Palestine back in 1896

• Bahrain Government Pushed for Pro-Regime Article in Washington Times

• Favourable Verdict for Venezuelan Government on Exxon Nationalisation Case

• When Can the President Assassinate Americans?

• Our Innocents Abroad?

• ‘The drone will bomb me if I go out’

• Traditional farming ‘can save threatened species’

• America shuts fire houses, cuts infant nutrition while subsidizing Israeli sushi courses

• Dutch Church abused 1000′s of children

• Settlers ‘Help’ Soldiers Man Roadblocks

• Israel escalates violations against journalists in 2011

December – 2011

• Russian Elections Duplicity

• Obama Signs Indefinite Detention Bill Into Law

• Glenn Greenwald presents 25 reasons to register as a Republican

• Israel isolates 125,000 Palestinians from Jerusalem

• Imperialism and the “Anti-Imperialism of the Fools”

• A Funny Thing Happened on the Road to (Regime Change in) Damascus…

• Concerning Mondoweiss, Racism and Freedom of Speech

• Crackpot Anti-Islam Activists, “Serial Fabricators” and the Tale of Iran and 9/11

• TSA Funding Up in 2012 Consolidated Appropriations Act

• Israel’s Repressive Permit System

• Campaign launched against French purchase of Israeli drones

• Marching Towards the Past in Guatemala

• Venezuela’s Chavez Speculates over Coincidence of Leftwing Latin American Presidents with Cancer

• New Report: “Recording Everything” Details How Governments Can Shape the Dynamics of Dissent

• Two Thirds of U.S. Foreign Aid is Really Military Aid

• It’s Sick to Depend on War for Economic Health

• Biofuels not food the biggest driver of ‘land grabbing’ deals, says report

• Israel killed 180 Palestinians including 21 children in 2011

• Whatever happened to Tom MacMaster, the “Gay Girl in Damascus” hoaxer?

• Israeli policies disconnect Palestinian political prisoners from their families

• Public health fallout from Japanese quake

• Surveillance System Tags, Tracks And Follows

• EPIC Sues DHS Over Covert Surveillance of Facebook and Twitter

• Spoiling for a Fight with Syria and Iran

• Wall Street Journal “Determines” Russian Election a “Fraud”

• 8,000 US troops remain in Iraq

• Press TV’s CEO response to Ofcom

• The use of solitary confinement on Palestinian children held in Israeli detention

• Israeli navy attacks international observers, injures Palestinian in Gaza waters

• Complaint filed over secret donors to “friends of Israel”

• Lebanon PM: We Have No Solid Evidence of al-Qaeda Presence

• 70,000 Palestinian Jerusalemites to be re-classified as West Bank citizens

• Netanyahu Slams West: Rhetoric on Iran Should be Matched with Deeds

• Exercising the Right to Torture

• The NDAA Repeals More Rights

• Egypt to try Israelis for arms trafficking

• Israel indicts Arab Knesset member for Syria visit

• The Israeli occupation the world forgot: the Golan Heights

• Israeli “satire” show incites hatred of Muslims, Europeans

• Euromed: Israeli occupation authority barred travel of 4,000 Palestinians in 2011

• Racist outburst by Israeli minister in charge of ‘combating antisemitism’

• Army Radio instructed to call West Bank by biblical ‘Judea and Samaria’

• Israeli FM: No Peace in Next Decade

• Report: Israeli air-force attacked targets in South Sudan

• Dirty War suspect extradited to Argentina

• New York to Host Israel’s Top Drone Lab

• Right-wing attack group caught fabricating quotes in effort to smear critics of Israel

• Arabic place names erased in Municipality’s campaign to Hebrew-ize Jerusalem

• Pentagon asks for extra $100 million to Israel for Iran defense, Congress doubles the tip

• Veolia, In Severe Blow, Fails To Win 485 Million Pound Contract In West London

• Francis Boyle: US threat to nuke Iran is criminal

• Helen Thomas: Israel should get that Hamas was chosen democratically

• Palestinians stopped from crossing roadblock because they refused a strip-search

• TSA to start searching ground transportation

• Venezuela’s Attorney General: Extradition of FARC Singer Conrado Shouldn’t Proceed

• Running from Climate Change: The Obama Administration’s Changing Rhetoric

• Biofuels production is not our wisest use of limited land resources

• Brutal assault on 16 year old boy

• UN to Israel: Compensate Lebanon

• US Judge Rules Iran Responsible for 9/11

• CIA defends helping NYPD spy on Muslims

• Two critiques of Norman Finkelstein’s recent appearances

• Live sniper-fire injures protester in Nabi Saleh

• UK flexes nuclear muscles against Argentina

• Erdogan: France Committed Genocide in Algeria

• A Checkpoint Isn’t Just a Construction

• One year after FBI subpoena, civil liberties protections in US frighteningly eroded

• “Bickering” Britain accommodates Israeli settlements

• Chevy Volt Costing Taxpayers Up to $250K Per Vehicle

• Congress Cuts Winter Heating Aid For The Poor While Boosting The Defense Budget

• Venezuela provides home heating assistance to 400,000 Americans

• MKs allocate more money for Israeli ‘defense’ budget

• 1,500 deaths reported in India custody

• Kim Jong-il’s Death is a Danger for North Korea, not its Neighbors

• Meet the Republican Chickenhawks

• NATO’s Depraved Disregard for Libyan Civilian Casualties

• Do Private Military Contractors Have Impunity to Torture?

• Strange Contours: Resistance and the Manipulation of People Power

Iranian electrical engineers kidnapped in Syria

• Mehanna verdict compromises First Amendment, undermines national security

• Israel Bulldozes Industrial Structures In Silwan

• Israel digs trench to isolate farms in the Jordan Valley

• Israeli forces demolish main road near Nablus

• Britain ‘Mired in Mendacity’ Refuses to Review Dr David Kelly Case

• 14,000 U.S. DEATHS TIED TO FUKUSHIMA REACTOR DISASTER FALLOUT

• City lights spy on Farmington Hills, Michigan

• ‘US bases in Afghanistan serve spy ops’

• Japanese FM: Iranian oil imports must continue

• Israel lobbying for Iran oil embargo

• Is UK “friends of Israel” group breaking law on political funding?

• Israel hosts British MPs to buy support

• Israeli university bids to set up on Roosevelt Island in NY

• Issawiya: a Palestinian village, boxed in by the occupation

• Shu’fat: Forced to pay taxes from behind a checkpoint and wall

• Not a drop: Israel takes a spring and childhood memories with it

• Jewish extremists attack Christmas carolers

• Israel to build 1,028 new illegal settler units

• In blow to Israel, French BDS activists acquitted of crime in calling for boycott

• Obama assures Jewish Conference: US support for Israel is ‘unshakeable’

• Occupy activists shut down Obama campaign offices

• Italian workers go on strike over cuts

• Japanese media skeptical about containment claims

• Rally to Thank Obama for Supposedly Ending War in Iraq Turns Up Audience of 10

• Cameron Argues that Britain is actually Christian

• Lebanon’s STL: In Context of US Policy and International Law

• Jaffa neighborhood undergoes further Judaization

• Dangerous lies: US Media Outlet Falsely Accuses Venezuela of Terrorist Plot

• Understanding Unemployment

• U.S. Abandons Toxic Burn Pits as it Withdraws from Iraq and Afghanistan

• Lebanon files complaint against Israel

• Russia Stops Iran From Importing Medical Isotope

• The Criminal in Chief

• Palestine: Wave of Arrests since First Phase of Prisoner Exchange

• Activists file lawsuit against Minnesota State Board of Investment over Israel bonds

• Revisiting the rules of war in Israel and Palestine

• The CIA, Cuba and Operation Peter Pan

• WaPo Editorial: US should back opposition in Syrian civil war — to save more lives!

• The Plot to Oust America’s Nuclear Watchdog

• Newt’s New York visit for funds was about Israel

• U.S. to establish new fund supporting NGOs in Russia

• US Still Seeking Legal Immunity for Defense Contractors in Iraq Beyond 2012

• ‘New Yorker’ editor tells American readers one thing– and Israeli readers something else

• Israel nuclear workers say radiation gave them cancer

• The Price of “Freedom” in Syria: Ending Resistance to Israel?

• US Fear and Loathing over Spy Drone

• BDS Update: BDS Unites East and West

• McJournalism: The Unbearable Lightness of Thomas Friedman

• White House Backs Away from Defense Bill Veto Threat

• Life next to the separation wall, with Israeli soldiers on the roof

• Investigating the Pentagon’s African Holocaust

• Palestinian village struggles against “quiet transfer”

• Russia Rejects Sanctions on Syria, Deems UN ‘Evidence’ Unbalanced

• Pakistan to redraw key pacts with US

• Panetta Declares US ‘Winning’ in Afghanistan

• Trapped in Tripoli, Libya’s Tawargans Fume Over Ill-Treatment

• Newt Unleashes His Tetrodotoxin at the Palestinians

• Israeli authorities inaugurate new checkpoint in Shufat

• Israel lobby cutout urges US to provide Syrians with ‘means of self-defense’

• Homs: The Bleeding Capital of Syria’s Revolt

• No Mandatory Mental Health Screening for Children!

• Israeli excuses on death of Mustafa Tamimi don’t hold up

• Hebrew University hosts meeting discussing religious regulations for killing gentiles

• ‘Ha’aretz’: Hundreds of pro-Palestinian activists storm ‘Jewish supermarket’!

• Newt Draws Rebukes After Condemning Palestinians as Terrorists

• ‘NYT’ continues to fiddle with the Nakba

• Gingrich would “instruct” CIA to “hunt down” freed Palestinian prisoners

• ‘Huffpo’ gives Ginsberg platform to push for illegal covert war against Iran

• Home Depot encourages Israel’s colonial expansion

• Israeli SodaStream: Maybe Green, Definitely Not Clean

• Israeli forces killed 19 Palestinian children in Gaza in 2011

• Gingrich comments on Palestinians a “play” for “Jewish” money, former strategist says

• The AFL-CIO’s Covert Ops in Venezuela

• No miracle yesterday in Nabi Saleh: Mustafa Tamimi murdered

• Iran protests U.S. drone incursion

• Qatar’s Delirious Ambitions

• The Face of the Killer Who Is Your President

• UN Renews Demand that Israel Comply with Resolutions Related to Occupied Golan

• UN General Assembly Passes Nine Resolutions On Israel-Palestine

• Israel Bombards, Sheep, Chicken Farm In Beit Hanoun

• Who will watch the watchdog?

• Lawsuit fights hotel’s decision to bar Muslim employee from serving Israelis

• Moscow sees ‘no military component’ in Iran’s nuclear program

• I’ll Never Do It Again

• Hezbollah Condemns Attack against UNIFIL’s French Battalion

• AIPAC Economic Warfare Also Targets US

• Gaza Attack: “My Uncle Died in my Arms”

• Venezuela Responds to “Slanderous” Israeli Accusations

• Palestinian protester severely injured in Nabi Saleh

• Israel re-arrests prisoner after swap deal

• Israel deputy FM: UNRWA ‘morally, politically unacceptable’

• TEPCO: Fukushima Radiation Isn’t Our Problem

• Downed US Drone in Iran Reveals Broader Covert War

• Here Is The Drone

• Years Of Drone Flights Find No Iranian Nuclear Weapons Program

• Appeal denied in Holy Land Five case

• Climate FAIL from A to Z presented at Durban

• My Occupy LA Arrest

• FOX fakes Moscow protest with footage of Athens clashes

• Russia raps US for inciting unrest

• STL Not Interested in Evidence Implicating Israel

• Obama: The “Trust-Buster” Who Never Busted a Trust

• Libya Still a Killing Zone

• How we started ‘Radio against Apartheid’ in Philly

• Out of the Backyard: New Latin American and Caribbean Bloc Defies Washington

• NPR’s domestic drone commercial

• Human rights paper exposes Israeli violence against detained children

• UN Committee Demands Israel Stop House Demolitions Forthwith

• Settlers torch West Bank mosque

• Human rights Monitor calls for bringing Obama and Netanyahu to international justice

• Bombing Towards A Sectarian War?

• Pre-Election Polls Confirm Russian Election Results

• Israel lawmaker wants to force Palestinians to swear “Zionist” oath

• Breaking the Silence: An interview with Yehuda Shaul

• Settler “professor” top attraction at EU-Israel science show

• UNRWA: Israel’s displacement of Palestinians ‘doubles’

• Jerusalem lawmaker to be deported to Ramallah

• A Revolution Against Resistance?

• Dubious Dealings: Syria and the Arab League

• Nuclear experts reject IAEA Iran report

• A point for the Israel lobby theory, from Panetta

• ‘US landmines still threaten Vietnam’

• Internment-Resettlement Specialist (31E) – US Army job posting

• Tepco Says More Radioactive Water Leaks at Fukushima Plant

• Japan: Scientists Call for Dumping Radioactive Soil Into Sea

• Questions swirl around $6 billion nuclear lab

• Veolia blows it again by trying to promote “peace” through normalization sports event

• Misreading the Fight Over Military Detention

• Israeli forces destroy stone-cutting facility in Qalqiliya

• Israeli Court Drops Charges Against Tortured Detainee

• US Begins Pullout From Pakistan’s Shamsi Airbase

• Spies and Provocateurs: Police Spying on Occupy Movement not Likely Limited to Los Angeles

• How Iran Acquired A Stealth Drone

• Iran captures ‘lost’ U.S. spy drone — the first remote hijacking?

• Israeli campaign to attract UK tourists wipes Palestine and Syria off the map

• The Road to Hell: Libya and Now Syria?

• Extremist settlers hurl concrete blocks at Hebron’s Old Market

• Egyptians in US protest gas manufacturer

• America.gov, Cognitive Infiltration, and Obama appointee Cass Sunstein

• Occupation forces set up tent next to the home of liberated captive

• The High Price of Nukes: Weapons We Don’t Need at a Cost We Can’t Afford