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Obama Regime Pressing A Government-Wide Crackdown On Security Threats Leaks To The Media Are Equated With Espionage
Millions Of Federal Employees Must Watch For High-Risk Persons Or Behaviors Among Co-Workers And

Could Face Penalties, Including Criminal Charges, For Failing To Report Them
Those Experiences, The Department Says In A Computer Training Manual, Include Stress, Divorce, Financial Problems Or Frustrations With CoWorkers Or The Organization

June 20, 2013 By Marisa Taylor and Jonathan S. Landay, McClatchy Washington Bureau [Excerpts] WASHINGTON Even before a former U.S. intelligence contractor exposed the secret collection of Americans phone records, the Obama administration was pressing a government-wide crackdown on security threats that requires federal employees to keep closer tabs on their co-workers and exhorts managers to punish those who fail to report their suspicions. President Barack Obamas unprecedented initiative, known as the Insider Threat Program, is sweeping in its reach.

It has received scant public attention even though it extends beyond the U.S. national security bureaucracies to most federal departments and agencies nationwide, including the Peace Corps, the Social Security Administration and the Education and Agriculture departments. It emphasizes leaks of classified material, but catchall definitions of insider threat give agencies latitude to pursue and penalize a range of other conduct. Government documents reviewed by McClatchy illustrate how some agencies are using that latitude to pursue unauthorized disclosures of any information, not just classified material. They also show how millions of federal employees and contractors must watch for highrisk persons or behaviors among co-workers and could face penalties, including criminal charges, for failing to report them. Leaks to the media are equated with espionage. As part of the initiative, Obama ordered greater protection for whistleblowers who use the proper internal channels to report official waste, fraud and abuse, but thats hardly comforting to some national security experts and current and former U.S. officials. They worry that the Insider Threat Program wont just discourage whistleblowing but will have other grave consequences for the publics right to know and national security. The program could make it easier for the government to stifle the flow of unclassified and potentially vital information to the public, while creating toxic work environments poisoned by unfounded suspicions and spurious investigations of loyal Americans, according to these current and former officials and experts. Some non-intelligence agencies already are urging employees to watch their coworkers for indicators that include stress, divorce and financial problems. It was just a matter of time before the Department of Agriculture or the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) started implementing, Hey, lets get people to snitch on their friends. The only thing they havent done here is reward it, said Kel McClanahan, a Washington lawyer who specializes in national security law. Im waiting for the time when you turn in a friend and you get a $50 reward. Employees must turn themselves and others in for failing to report breaches. Penalize clearly identifiable failures to report security infractions and violations, including any lack of self-reporting, the strategic plan says. The Obama administration already was pursuing an unprecedented number of leak prosecutions, and some in Congress long one of the most prolific spillers of secrets favor tightening restrictions on reporters access to federal agencies, making many U.S. officials reluctant to even disclose unclassified matters to the public.

The Department of Education, meanwhile, informs employees that co-workers going through certain life experiences . . . might turn a trusted user into an insider threat. Those experiences, the department says in a computer training manual, include stress, divorce, financial problems or frustrations with co-workers or the organization. A Defense Security Service online pamphlet lists a wide range of reportable suspicious behaviors, including working outside of normal duty hours. While conceding that not every behavior represents a spy in our midst, the pamphlet adds that every situation needs to be examined to determine whether our nations secrets are at risk. The Defense Department, traditionally a leading source of media leaks, is still setting up its program, but it has taken numerous steps. They include creating a unit that reviews news reports every day for leaks of classified defense information and implementing new training courses to teach employees how to recognize security risks, including high-risk and disruptive behaviors among coworkers, according to Defense Department documents reviewed by McClatchy. Its about peoples profiles, their approach to work, how they interact with management. Are they cheery? Are they looking at Salon.com or The Onion during their lunch break? This is about The Stepford Wives, said a second senior Pentagon official, referring to online publications and a 1975 movie about robotically docile housewives. The official said he wanted to remain anonymous to avoid being punished for criticizing the program. The emphasis on certain behaviors reminded [Ilana] Greenstein of her employee orientation with the CIA, when she was told to be suspicious of unhappy co-workers. If someone was having a bad day, the message was watch out for them, she said. There are numerous cases, however, of government workers who say theyve been forced to go public because theyve suffered retaliation after trying to complain about waste, fraud and abuse through internal channels or to Congress. Thomas Drake, a former senior NSA official, was indicted in 2010 under the Espionage Act after he disclosed millions of dollars in waste to a journalist. Hed tried for years to alert his superiors and Congress. The administration eventually dropped the charges against him. Greenstein said she become the target of scrutiny from security officials after she began raising allegations of mismanagement in the CIAs operations in Baghdad. But she never leaked her complaints, which included an allegation that her security chief deleted details about safety risks from cables. Instead, she relied on the agencys internal process to make the allegations.

The CIA, however, tried to get the Justice Department to open a criminal case after Greenstein mentioned during a polygraph test that she was writing a book, which is permitted inside the agency as long as it goes through pre-publication review. The CIA then demanded to see her personal computers. When she got them back months later, all that shed written had been deleted, Greenstein said. They clearly perceived me as an insider threat, said Greenstein, who has since rewritten the book and has received CIA permission to publish portions of it. By saying I have a problem with this place and I want to make it better, I was instantly turned into a security threat, she said. The CIA declined to comment.

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The Same People Who Are Building A Ubiquitous Surveillance System To Spy On Their Own Citizens, Are Now Accusing The Person Who Exposed It Of Espionage
The Enemy Theyre Seeking To Keep Ignorant With Selective And Excessive Leak Prosecutions Are Not The Terrorists Or The Chinese Communists
Its The American People

If Anything Is A Crime, Its That Secret, Unaccountable And Deceitful Behavior: Not The Shining Of Light On It
The Obama administration does not hate unauthorized leaks of classified information. They are more responsible for such leaks than anyone. What they hate are leaks that embarrass them or expose their wrongdoing. Those are the only kinds of leaks that are prosecuted. 22 June 2013 by Glenn Greenwald, Guardian News and Media Limited The US government has charged Edward Snowden with three felonies, including two under the Espionage Act, the 1917 statute enacted to criminalize dissent against World War I. My priority at the moment is working on our next set of stories, so I just want to briefly note a few points about this. Prior to Barack Obamas inauguration, there were a grand total of three prosecutions of leakers under the Espionage Act (including the prosecution of Dan Ellsberg by the Nixon DOJ). Thats because the statute is so broad that even the US government has largely refrained from using it. But during the Obama presidency, there are now seven such prosecutions: more than double the number under all prior US presidents combined. How can anyone justify that? For a politician who tried to convince Americans to elect him based on repeated pledges of unprecedented transparency and specific vows to protect noble and patriotic whistleblowers, is this unparalleled assault on those who enable investigative journalism remotely defensible? Recall that the New Yorkers Jane Mayer said recently that this oppressive climate created by the Obama presidency has brought investigative journalism to a standstill, while James Goodale, the General Counsel for the New York Times during its battles with the Nixon administration, wrote last month in that paper that President Obama will surely pass President Richard Nixon as the worst president ever on issues of national security and press freedom.

Read what Mayer and Goodale wrote and ask yourself: is the Obama administrations threat to the news-gathering process not a serious crisis at this point? Few people - likely including Snowden himself - would contest that his actions constitute some sort of breach of the law. He made his choice based on basic theories of civil disobedience: that those who control the law have become corrupt, that the law in this case (by concealing the actions of government officials in building this massive spying apparatus in secret) is a tool of injustice, and that he felt compelled to act in violation of it in order to expose these official bad acts and enable debate and reform. But thats a far cry from charging Snowden, who just turned 30 yesterday, with multiple felonies under the Espionage Act that will send him to prison for decades if not life upon conviction. In what conceivable sense are Snowdens actions espionage? He could have - but chose not - sold the information he had to a foreign intelligence service for vast sums of money, or covertly passed it to one of Americas enemies, or worked at the direction of a foreign government. That is espionage. He did none of those things. What he did instead was give up his life of career stability and economic prosperity, living with his long-time girlfriend in Hawaii, in order to inform his fellow citizens (both in America and around the world) of what the US government and its allies are doing to them and their privacy. He did that by very carefully selecting which documents he thought should be disclosed and concealed, then gave them to a newspaper with a team of editors and journalists and repeatedly insisted that journalistic judgments be exercised about which of those documents should be published in the public interest and which should be withheld. Thats what every single whistleblower and source for investigative journalism, in every case, does - by definition. In what conceivable sense does that merit felony charges under the Espionage Act? The essence of that extremely broad, century-old law is that one is guilty if one discloses classified information with intent or reason to believe that the information is to be used to the injury of the United States, or to the advantage of any foreign nation. Please read this rather good summary in this mornings New York Times of the worldwide debate Snowden has enabled - how these disclosures have set off a national debate over the proper limits of government surveillance and opened an unprecedented window on the details of surveillance by the NSA, including its compilation of logs of virtually all telephone calls in the United States and its collection of e-mails of foreigners from the major American Internet companies, including Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Apple and Skype - and ask yourself: has Snowden actually does

anything to bring injury to the United States, or has he performed an immense public service? The irony is obvious: the same people who are building a ubiquitous surveillance system to spy on everyone in the world, including their own citizens, are now accusing the person who exposed it of espionage. It seems clear that the people who are actually bringing injury to the United States are those who are waging war on basic tenets of transparency and secretly constructing a mass and often illegal and unconstitutional surveillance apparatus aimed at American citizens - and those who are lying to the American people and its Congress about what theyre doing - rather than those who are devoted to informing the American people that this is being done. The Obama administration leaks classified information continuously. They do it to glorify the President, or manipulate public opinion, or even to help produce a pre-election propaganda film about the Osama bin Laden raid. The Obama administration does not hate unauthorized leaks of classified information. They are more responsible for such leaks than anyone. What they hate are leaks that embarrass them or expose their wrongdoing. Those are the only kinds of leaks that are prosecuted. Its a completely one-sided and manipulative abuse of secrecy laws. Its all designed to ensure that the only information we as citizens can learn is what they want us to learn because it makes them look good. The only leaks theyre interested in severely punishing are those that undermine them politically. The enemy theyre seeking to keep ignorant with selective and excessive leak prosecutions are not The Terrorists or The Chinese Communists. Its the American people. The Terrorists already knew, and have long known, that the US government is doing everything possible to surveil their telephonic and internet communications. The Chinese have long known, and have repeatedly said, that the US is hacking into both their governmental and civilian systems (just as the Chinese are doing to the US). The Russians have long known that the US and UK try to intercept the conversations of their leaders just as the Russians do to the US and the UK. They havent learned anything from these disclosures that they didnt already well know.

The people who have learned things they didnt already know are American citizens who have no connection to terrorism or foreign intelligence, as well as hundreds of millions of citizens around the world about whom the same is true. What they have learned is that the vast bulk of this surveillance apparatus is directed not at the Chinese or Russian governments or the Terrorists, but at them. And that is precisely why the US government is so furious and will bring its full weight to bear against these disclosures. What has been harmed is not the national security of the US but the ability of its political leaders to work against their own citizens and citizens around the world in the dark, with zero transparency or real accountability. If anything is a crime, its that secret, unaccountable and deceitful behavior: not the shining of light on it.

AFGHANISTAN WAR REPORTS

[Thanks to Mark Shapiro, Military Resistance Organization, who sent this in.]

Two Foreign Occupation Servicemember Killed Somewhere Or Other In Afghanistan: Nationality Not Announced
June 23, 2013 By Associated Press, Two foreign troops were killed in roadside bomb attacks Sunday in eastern Afghanistan. A second foreign servicemember died following a subsequent improvised explosive device attack in eastern Afghanistan today.

Burleson Soldier On His Third Deployment Killed In Afghanistan

Spc. William R. Moody, 30, of Burleson, was one of four soldiers killed in the attack. He was a motor transport operator. Credit: Department of Defense June 20, 2013 WFAA BURLESON -- The lawnmower cranked on and the sweat began to pour, but it was just a small gesture to honor a great sacrifice. Its horrible. I mean, hes over there fighting for us to be safe and stuff, Brett Bolejack said. He is part of the lawn crew that cares for a home in Burleson; a home with a yellow ribbon wrapped around a tree and four small American flags beneath it. A lawn where three kids have no doubt played with their daddy; a daddy who gave all.

Army Specialist William Moody graduated from Burleson High School in 2002 and joined the Army in 2004. He was a married father of three. Photos he and his wife posted on Facebook show a couple deeply in love, raising a family that loved to laugh. Two days after Fathers Day, at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, a rocket the Taliban launched killed William Moody and three other American soldiers. Moody was on his third tour of duty. His 13 awards included the Army Commendation Medal, the Army Achievement Medal, Combat Action Ribbon, Army Good Conduct Medal, Marine Corps Good Conduct Medal, the National Defense Service Medal, the Afghanistan Campaign Medal with Campaign Star, the Iraq Campaign Medal with Campaign Star, the Global War on Terror Service Medal, the Army Service Ribbon, Overseas Service Ribbon, NATO Medal, and the Drivers Badge for Wheeled Vehicles, according to a release from the Department of Defense. Two others in his unit, the 68th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion, 43rd Sustainment Brigade, 4th Infantry Division were also killed. Those soldiers were Spc. Ember M. Alt, 21, of Beech Island, S.C., and Spc. Robert W. Ellis, 21, of Kennewick, Wash. They served as a wheeled vehicle mechanic and as a motor transport operator, respectively. The additional soldier killed was Sgt. Justin R. Johnson, 25, of Hobe Sound, Fla, assigned to the 10th Transportation Battalion, 7th Sustainment Brigade. At Moodys home in Burleson, Bolejack shared a brief memory. He seemed like a very nice guy, he said, very caring, spending time with his kids, enjoying time home when he had a chance to be here. The two met for the first time two months ago, when the soldier was home on leave. When Bolejack heard about Moodys death, he had to do something. So he came to the home to mow for free. And hell keep coming back, just to give a little back to a man and a family who gave all. Were gonna do it the rest of the year, and not charge them anything, he said. I think its worth it.

POLITICIANS REFUSE TO HALT THE BLOODSHED THE TROOPS HAVE THE POWER TO STOP THE WAR

Afghan Insurgents Attack Presidential Palace And CIA Headquarters:

Taliban Gunmen And Bombers Using Fake NATO Identification Attacked
25 Jun 2013 MediaCorp Pte Ltd KABUL: Taliban gunmen and bombers using fake NATO identification attacked an entrance to the Afghan presidential palace in the heart of Kabul on Tuesday, just a week after insurgent leaders opened an office in Qatar for peace talks. A nearby building known to house a CIA base also came under attack as explosions and gunfire erupted for more than an hour in an area close to heavily secured Western embassies and ministry buildings. Three Afghan security guards and all five assailants were killed, the interior ministry said. Karzai, who lives in the palace, was due to hold a press event in Kabul on Tuesday morning. Officials confirmed that he was in the building at the time of the attack but not in danger. The strike also came during a visit to Kabul by US envoy James Dobbins after a dispute over the Taliban opening an office in Qatar as a first step towards peace talks ending 12 years of war. The three guards were killed close to the Ariana hotel building, used as a CIA base since about 2002, but officials said neither the palace nor the CIA property were breached. Two four-wheel-drive cars using fake badges from NATOs International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) tried to pass through a checkpoint to access the sprawling palace grounds at about 6:30am (0200 GMT). The first vehicle was checked and let in, and as the second car tried to get in the guards became suspicious and tried to prevent it, Mohammad Daud Amin, the Kabul deputy police chief, told AFP. The clash started and the cars were detonated. All the attackers were killed. Police said the cars had been fitted with radio antennae to make them look like ISAF vehicles and that the attackers were also wearing military uniforms.

The car bombs detonated near the CIA base, inside the first of several layers of outer checkpoints for the palace. A big group of attackers have struck against the CIA office as the main target and also the palace and the defence ministry nearby, Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told AFP. All roads to the presidential palace are permanently closed off, with multiple rings of heavy security around the complex keeping people far away.

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Residents Said The Security Personnel Responded To The Attacks With Firing Into The Air And Left Their Posts Without Putting Up Any Resistance
Jun 23, 2013 By Farid Tanha & Javed Hamim Kakar, PAN & 24 June 2013 TOLOnews & 25 June 2013 TOLOnews & Jun 26, 2013 By Qutbuddin Kohi, PAN & TOLOnews & June 27, 2013 The Hindu MAIMANA: Taliban insurgents killed five Afghan Local Police (ALP) members during attacks on three security posts in the Qaisar district of northwestern Faryab province, an official said on Wednesday. The security posts were attacked in Nawabad and Khwaja Kinti areas on Tuesday evening, the district chief, Abdul Jamil Siddiqui, told Pajhwok Afghan News. Another two members of the force were wounded and six machine guns were seized by the assailants, he added. The attacks were sparked by ALPs arbitrary actions, Siddiqui said. The slain ALP personnel had recently been deployed to the newly built posts in the area, said the provincial council secretary, Syed Abdul Baqi. However, residents said the security personnel responded to the attacks with firing into the air and left their posts without putting up any resistance. The Taliban torched the three posts and the ensuing fire burnt nearby wheat crops spread over tens of acres of land, they claimed. **********************************************

Seven Afghan National Police (ANP) officers were killed Sunday in a roadside bomb in southern Uruzgan province, reported provincial officials. The incident took place in the Chenarto district of the province, when a police vehicle was struck by a roadside bomb. All the policemen were killed in the blast which were on the vehicle, said Faize Mohammad, the districts governor. ********************************************** In Kabul, the Ministry of Defence announced six troops had been killed and five others injured in different parts of the country. The fatalities resulted from guerrilla attacks and bombings in Nangarhar, Parwan, Kandahar, Maidan Wardak, Paktia and Helmand provinces. Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said nine ANA troops had been killed and many others wounded. ********************************************** Afghan security officials have confirmed that two police officers were killed and two others injured in a Taliban attack in eastern Nangarhar province Monday night. The attack took place in the Bati Kot district of Nangarhar province, when the Taliban insurgents attacked several police checkpoints and started a gun-battle with the policemen, said Gen. Mohammad Amin Sharif, Nangarhar police chief. The clash continued for about two hours in the area. Two police officers were killed and two others injured in the gun-battle, said Gen. Mohammad Amin Sharif, Nangarhar Police Chief. Some Taliban insurgents were also among the casualties but there is no exact information available about their numbers. Bati Kot district is considered as one of the most insecure districts in the province where insurgents are activities and targeting the local security forces. ********************************************** Security officials have confirmed that four police officers were injured in a roadside bomb blast in eastern Paktia province early Wednesday. The incident took place in Gardez, capital of the province, when the police vehicle fell prey to a roadside bomb, said Rohullah Samoon, provincial governor spokesman. Rohullah Samoon, Provincial Governors Spokesman said, The victims condition was not serious and they have been rushed to a nearest hospital. **********************************************

Taliban fighters ambushed a national police patrol in western Afghanistan, killing a commander and four of his men, authorities said on Thursday.

IF YOU DONT LIKE THE RESISTANCE END THE OCCUPATION

SOMALIA WAR REPORTS

Kenyan Occupation Troops Arrest And Deport Somali Government Officials Theyre Supposed To Be Defending From Insurgents
June 28, 2013 Sh.Network Kismayu News just in from Kismayu the capital of the lower Juba region of Somalia confirm that federal government officials have been imprisoned by Kenyan authorities who part of the AMISOM peacekeeping force in Somalia. The officials were called by the Kenyan troops to attend a security enhancement meeting which was supposed to be held at the Kismayu airport as a witness revealed. Abas Ibrahim Gurey. Colonel Mohamed Ali Dubow and Colonel Mohamed Bule Ibrahim were detained by the Kenyan troops for unknown reasons. Other officials were ordered to return home and no conference or meeting occurred as previously said. Reports add that the three government officials have been deported to Wajir in Kenya and are currently in prison. The detention of the government officials sparked a heavy fighting inside Kismayu as locals opposed the continued Kenyan oppression inside Somalia. Locals have sided with colonel Bare Adan Shire who opposes Ahmed Mohamed Islam who is a pro Kenyan as locals view him. The detention of the top influential government officials might cause more conflict between locals and the Kenyan peacekeeping force who have clearly sided with a clan militia.

ANNIVERSARIES

June 26, 1918: Anniversary Of A Political Atrocity

Carl Bunin Peace History June 25 - July 1 [S]ocialist organizer Eugene Debs was arrested June 26, 1918, for giving an antiwar speech in Canton, Ohio, 10 days earlier. He was charged with uttering words intended to cause insubordination and disloyalty within the American forces of the United States, to incite resistance to the war, and to promote the cause of Germany, despite his repeated and vehement criticism in the speech of Germany and its landed aristocracy, known as the Junkers. And that is war in a nutshell. The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles. The master class has had all to gain and nothing to lose, while the subject class has had nothing to gain and all to lose especially their lives.

OCCUPATION PALESTINE

Interview With Two Palestinian Paramedics:

They Dont Care If We Are Medics Or Not. They Target Everything
They Think We Are Palestinian So We Have To Die
They Tried To Kill Me!

Palestinian medics evacuate a Palestinian youth after he was shot by Israeli soldiers during clashes at Ofer prison. (Photo by Activestills) 16th June 2013 International Solidarity Movement, Ramallah Team Nabi Saleh, Occupied Palestine M. and A. are two independent paramedics who regularly attend different protests against Israeli occupation of the West Bank.

Israeli forces usually respond to Palestinian popular resistance with extreme violence, including the shooting of tear gas canisters, rubber coated steel bullets and live ammunition. Considering that injuries are very common and that the nearest hospital is usually far from the village where the protests are taking place, the presence of medical personnel in these demonstrations is essential and highly appreciated by protesters. Last Friday, we had the opportunity to talk to M. and A. during the weekly demonstration in Nabi Saleh, which they regularly attend. International Solidarity Movement: How long have you been volunteering as paramedics? Why did you choose to volunteer? M: Since 2009. In the beginning I was working in a project with the Danish Red Cross Youth and then I joined the Red Crescent. A: I have been volunteering since 2004. I do it because I like to help people and this is the way I want to do that. ISM: You go to a lot of demonstrations as paramedics why do you think that these protests are important to the community and to Palestine? M: Well it is better to do something than to do nothing. Also, when there are medics at demonstrations people have more courage to go to the front because they know that we are there to assist them in case something happens. A: As you know, we live under occupation so people have to move and do something to end it. We have to protest and attend demonstrations anytime and anywhere. ISM: Nabi Saleh demonstration, for example, receives a lot of press coverage. What lesser known demonstrations do you cover and how are these different? M: Sometimes there are protests at Ofer during the night and no one knows anything about this. This is one of the unknown protests. Also at Qalandiya, there is no press, there are often no medics, only a few people there. I go sometimes to these clashes. A. is always there. A: Yes, Im always there, at Ofer, Qalandiya. But no one knows about it. All the media is in Nilin, Bilin, Nabi Saleh the villages outside Ramallah. Those other places, nobody know about them, especially the media. However, I think the places where there is no media can be good for shabab (Palestinian youths) as they can do whatever they want for the resistance. M: But it is also good for the soldiers, they can also do whatever they want and no one will film them. A: This is the difference. But even if there is media, the Israeli soldiers can do whatever they want, no one can stop them, we know that.

A medic treating an injured protester from rubber coated steel bullet in Nabi Saleh. (Photo by Tamimi Press)

ISM: Do you think that the presence of internationals, such as ISMers, makes any difference at demonstrations in Palestine? M: Actually, there is difference between internationals and ISMers. Some internationals like to be here because they think they are going to liberate this country but they are actually doing nothing, they are just messing up the situation more and more. But some people, like ISMers, do something at least. They try to help in an organised way. But it depends, there are different internationals, some just come to see what is happening, some come to take photos, there are differences. It depends on which international we are talking about. A: I will say like him, in short way, there are people who come here just to take a photo, like if this was an adventure. They think there is adventure in the West Bank so they come. And there are people who come to support Palestinian cause and popular resistance. M: Some people think it is a game. A: Yes, they think there is adventure they think lets go to see it, to try it. ISM: There have been some deaths of paramedics. Do you think medics are deliberately targeted at demonstrations? M: There is a difference between us, medics who work in the field, and people who work in the ambulances.

The Israeli forces target a lot of ambulances in Gaza and also the hospital there. But, yes, sometimes they do target us as well. Sometimes they just shoot directly. If there is no media, then theyre just going to do it. They did it at Ofer and also here at Nabi Saleh several times. One time he (pointing at A) got shot they shot him directly with a tear gas canister. Directly at him. He ducked just in time, so he didnt get shot in the head. A: They tried to kill me! M: Once they targeted me when I was with just a couple of other protesters before the demonstration because there was no media, and it was before the protest had started they just shot directly at us. So yes, sometimes they do this, yeah. They dont care. A: They think we are Palestinian so we have to die. They dont care if we are medics or not. They target everything. M: Also at Qalandiya on Nakba Day, they (Israeli forces) started restricting the ambulances from the PMRC and the Red Crescent they dont want them to help the shabab (Palestinian youths) because if there are more ambulances, the shabab will just keep going, because they know someone will carry them and help them if they get shot. ISM: You told us about the Israeli army aiming at your head could you tell us about your injuries? M: Yes, that day I was walking towards him (A) and then they started shooting directly tear gas at his back so I shouted (A) at him, so he turned and ducked and just got two shots in his legs. T hey (Israeli soldiers) called the ambulance and told them Yeah, one of your medics got shot. A: Yes, they called the driver and asked him how is the medic? If you want to take him to hospital, you can go through the checkpoint you can cross it. But actually they wanted to arrest me. I didnt go in the ambulance. M: A bit later, the ambulance took someone else and the soldiers stopped the ambulance for fifteen minutes checking the ambulance. A: They were asking the driver where is the medic? the ambulance driver called me and said theyre looking for you. They had been targeting me he shot me from close distance, maybe 40 metres. He saw it and then they wanted to arrest me. About my injuries? I dont know about him (M), but me, I have been injured many times. At Nabi Saleh, Ofer, Qalandiya, Biliin, M: They also once shot directly at us just over there (pointing) but I went like this (dodging) so it hit him! A: I am like a magnet. ISM: So this is despite the fact that you are wearing medics clothes and backpacks you are easily identified as medics?

M: Yes, its obvious that we are medics, so they shouldnt be shooting us or targeting us, according to international humanitarian law. But they dont care about this. A: Actually, with this uniform they are targeting us, we are clear there is a medic, we can shoot him directly now, he is clear for us. ISM: So you spoke about the ambulance being stopped at the checkpoint and searched, obstructing medical care. In what ways has the Israeli army obstructed your work? M: Actually the thing with the ambulance has an explanation they (the Israeli army) are allowed to check ambulances for fifteen minutes no longer than that. Because in the second intifada there was a suicide bomber inside an ambulance and they stopped it at Jaba and the Israelis brought all the media and filmed it. So since that they are allowed to stop the ambulances and check them for fifteen minutes. That was part of the agreement. Once in Nabi Saleh they didnt allow the ambulance to get in after a girl who got shot down the hill with a tear gas canister. For three hours we kept calling the Red Cross, the Red Crescent but nothing happened. In the end they brought another ambulance from Nablus so they came from the other direction. And there was a guy who got shot with a rubber coated steel bullet from a short distance, grazing the top of his head and leaving him with a three centimetre cut but he was fine. They (the ambulance crew) told him, if we pick you up and take you to the hospital then theyre going to arrest you. So he decided to stay in Nabi Saleh. After that, when a guy got shot with a dum dum bullet thats the only time that they let the ambulance get out. We had to take the other two guys with a service (shared taxi) to Ramallah hospital. ISM: How many injuries do you usually treat at a demonstration, and what kind of injuries are they typically? A: That depends! If the soldiers are having a nice day, maybe they will shoot fifteen, sixteen. But if theyre angry, more than this number. Twenty, twenty-five. M: They use tear gas and rubber coated steel bullets the worst is the rubber coated steel bullets, because they go randomly and hit many people. When they aim with live bullets they just shoot one guy, but when its rubber coated bullets, its spread over many. It also depends if you want to count the tear gas inhalation as an injury. A: You can see, in Nabi Saleh there are maybe five or six injuries in the protest. Maybe more sometimes. But if you look at Ofer, eighteen, nineteen even one hundred, sometimes even more. M: Usually they just use tear gas and rubber coated steel bullets. I think in Nabi Saleh there was just one guy who was shot with live ammunition.

A: In Nabi Saleh, no, not just one. Three. One of them was shot on this mountain in his leg with a live bullet. Another in his hand. And Rushdi, who died last year, was shot in his leg on that mountain. [To check out what life is like under a murderous military occupation commanded by foreign terrorists, go to: www.rafahtoday.org The occupied nation is Palestine. The foreign terrorists call themselves Israeli.]

CLASS WAR REPORTS

Massive Protests Are Sweeping Chile

100,000 Students And Workers March Demanding End To RichPoor Divide:

Chileans Of All Ages Joined The Protests

The Country Is Known For Lowest Public Spending For Education, Which Deepens Wealth Inequalities And Increases Disadvantages The Poor

Demonstration against the government to demand changes in the public state education system in Valparaiso city, about 75 mi northwest of Santiago, Chile, on June 13, 2013. Chileans have been protesting against what they say is profiteering in the state education system. (Reuters/Eliseo Fernandez) [Thanks to Alan Stolzer, Military Resistance Organization, who sent this in.] 28 June, 2013 By Countercurrents.org Chile police have arrested 224 students, including some 100 minors in protests and sweeps to clear schools of occupiers demanding education reform, said media reports. According to the countrys Interior Minister Andres Chadwick, protesting students occupied 28 schools including 21 in Santiagos metropolitan area and seven in four other regions of Chile. These schools are to serve as polling stations in upcoming presidential primary elections on June 30, 2013. But a June 27-morning operation by police evicted the dissident

students occupying the schools. Weve restored order, Chadwick said in a televised speech on June 27-morning. However, the students said they are finished talking with the government of president Sebastian Pinera and have stepped up protests in demand of free, quality education with an eye to upcoming parliamentary and presidential elections in November. The student movement, which began in 2011, held massive protests June 26, 2013 that included the participation of teachers and healthcare, copper and port workers. At Santiagos main Alameda Avenue, some 100,000 protesters gathered peacefully at the Los Heroes central square, but more radical groups, faces covered with hoods or masks, clashed with riot police for several hours, throwing away roadblocks. Police used tear gas and water cannons to disperse the crowds. In the hours before the national march, students attacked and briefly occupied the ministry of education. Another group protested outside Codelco, the state-run copper mining company, with signs reading Copper for Education in reference to Chiles massive revenue from copper exports and student demands for free university education for all. Thousands also marched on June 26, 2013 in the southern city of Concepcin. The dissident students described the protests as a success and condemned the violence, and indicated they will be taking part in a nationwide strike on July 11 organized by the trade unions. The countrys powerful student movement has staged massive protests to demand free and improved education in the stratified country over the past two years, during which thousands of students have taken over schools and universities intermittently. The students have demanded a wider redistribution of the countrys copper wealth, a reform of the educational system putting the state back in control of mostly privatized public universities, and tax increases for the rich. Chile television channels showed police bursting into schools barricaded with chairs and isolated clashes between youth and police early on June 27, a day after a march for education reform. Student leaders have countered that the political establishment in Chile, ranked the most unequal country of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, does not represent them. This is continuing to seek out confrontation and not profound solutions to the problem of education, said former student leader Camila Vallejo, who is now running for a seat in Congress.

Massive protests are sweeping Chile as students and workers demand a reversal of school privatization drives and wealth inequalities gripping the country. Chileans of all ages joined the protests, which are driven by a range of issues. Much of the energy comes from the ranks of public schoolchildren. Instead of football or skateboarding, teenagers often gather after school in public parks to draft declarations and manifestos. The only way in which education reforms respond to what the country in demanding is if there is direct participation from all social actors, declared Andrs Fielbaum, leader of the Student Federation of Universidad de Chile. More than half of all schools and universities in the country are in private sector, which runs for profit. The country is known for lowest public spending for education, which deepens wealth inequalities and increases disadvantages the poor.

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Agency Busy Spying on Three Hundred Million People Failed To Notice Snowden

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June 24, 2013 by Andy Borowitz, The Borowitz Report WASHINGTON A U.S. intelligence agency was so busy spying on three hundred million Americans that it failed to notice one dude who was working for it, a spokesman for the agency acknowledged today. I guess we were so busy monitoring the everyday communications of every man, woman, and child in the nation that we didnt notice that a contractor working for us was downloading tons of classified documents, the agency spokesman said. Its definitely embarrassing, for sure. Despite having an annual budget in the neighborhood of ten billion dollars, the agency had no idea that a dude who was working for it five days a week was getting ready to send those classified documents to a journalist who would then tell everybody in the world. Maybe if we hadnt been so busy keeping our eye on those other three hundred million people, we would have noticed that this one guy who was working right under our noses was up to something totally fishy, the spokesman said. But you know what they say about hindsight. As for where that guy who leaked the documents was planning to go next, the spokesman admitted, We dont have a clue. I know what youre thinkingan intelligence agency probably should know that Hong Kong has an international airport and that its departures board lists flights to Moscow and whatnot, the spokesman said. I dont know what to say. Maybe we need a bigger budget or something.

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