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Americans Turning Against The
Empire:
Nearly Half Surveyed In WSJ/NBC
Poll Back AntiInterventionist
Stance That Sweeps Across Party
Lines
A Public Weary Of Foreign
Entanglements And Disenchanted
With A U.S. Economic System That
Many Believe Is Stacked Against
Them
Approval Of President Barack Obamas
Handling Of Foreign Policy Sank To The
Lowest Level Of His Presidency



April 30, 2014 By J anet Hook, Wall Street J ournal [Excerpts]

Americans in large numbers want the U.S. to reduce its role in world affairs even as a
showdown with Russia over Ukraine preoccupies Washington, a Wall Street
J ournal/NBC News poll finds.

In a marked change from past decades, nearly half of those surveyed want the U.S. to
be less active on the global stage, with fewer than one-fifth calling for more active
engagementan anti-interventionist current that sweeps across party lines.

The poll showed that approval of President Barack Obamas handling of foreign policy
sank to the lowest level of his presidency, with 38% approving, at a time when his overall
job performance drew better marks than in recent months.

The poll findings, combined with the results of prior J ournal/NBC surveys this year,
portray a public weary of foreign entanglements and disenchanted with a U.S. economic
system that many believe is stacked against them.

The 47% of respondents who called for a less-active role in world affairs marked a larger
share than in similar polling in 2001, 1997 and 1995.

Similarly, the Pew Research Center last year found a record 53% saying that the U.S.
should mind its own business internationally and let other countries get along as best
they can, compared with 41% who said so in 1995 and 20% in 1964.

The message from the American public to their leaders in this poll seems to be: You
need to take care of business here at home.

The poll found that 48% viewed globalization as bad for the U.S. economy, with 43%
calling it a good development.

Asked whether they preferred a congressional candidate who argued that free trade was
a positive force or one who called it a negative force, 46% favored the pro-trade
candidate and 48% the anti-trade candidate.


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AFGHANISTAN WAR REPORTS


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May 1, 2014 By Amir Shah, The Associated Press

KABUL - A car bomber detonated his explosives at a busy checkpoint in central
Afghanistan, killing at least 13 people Thursday, an official said. The Taliban quickly
claimed responsibility for the attack.

The attack on the entry checkpoint into Panjshir province killed five police officers
and one intelligence officer assigned to the post, provincial police chief Aziz
Ghyrat said.

Seven civilian construction workers also were killed in the blast, which Gyrat said
happened in the late afternoon as cars were lined up to be searched before entering the
province on a narrow mountain road.

When the police searched the car, they realized he was a bomber and the attacker
quickly detonated the explosives and blew up the car and himself, Ghyrat said.

Several other civilians in other vehicles were wounded in the blast, he said.

Many of the civilian victims were in a bus waiting to be searched, which marks the
entrance into Panjshir from Parwan province, said Najim Khan, provincial deputy police
chief of police.

Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said in a text message to journalists that one of its
fighters had exploded a car bomb in Panjshir.

Panjshir was known as a stronghold of resistance to the Talibans hard-line Islamic rule
over Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001, when the U.S.-led invasion toppled their regime for
sheltering al-Qaida terrorist leaders in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks.

The province was the home of Ahmed Shah Massoud, the ethnic Tajik leader of the
Northern Alliance who was dubbed The Lion of Panjshir for his defiance against the
Soviets during the Afghan war in the 1980s and later in the anti-Taliban Northern
Alliance

Massoud was killed by two suspected al-Qaida members posing as journalists two days
before the Sept. 11 attacks.

Presidential front-runner Abdullah Abdullah is also from Panjshir and once served as a
close aide to Massoud. The Taliban hopes to disrupt security during the presidential
elections which look set for a runoff between former Foreign Minister Abdullah and
ex-Finance Minister Ashraf Ghani in J une.

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02 May, 2014 Pakistan News Home

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

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


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SOMALIA WAR REPORTS


Insurgents Blow Up Top Police Officer

May 3 By Associated Press & May 1, 2013 Garowe Online

MOGADISHU, Somalia Five people died and six others were wounded when a bomb
exploded in Mogadishu, Somalias capital, an official said Saturday.

A top police officer, who was the apparent target of the attack, was among the five killed,
said Capt. Mohamed Hussein, a senior police official.

Somalias Islamic extremist rebels, al-Shabab, claimed responsibility for the attack which
killed police officer Abdikafi Hilowle.

Saturdays blast came hours after Somali police foiled an attempt on the life of a Somali
legislator when suspected militants planted a bomb in his car. Security forces removed
the bomb and detonated it after they were tipped off, according to Hussein.

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Unidentified assailants separately killed four J ubaland soldiers in the latest deadly
incident in the southern port city of Kismayo, Garowe Online reports.

J ubalands Minister of Interior Gen. Mohamed Warsame Darwiish said that security
forces have taken new measures after gunmen targetted soldiers and traditional leaders
with planned assassinations.

According to officials on Sunday, armed men shot and killed a soldiers followed by
another gun attack that last Sunday left three J ubaland soldiers dead in Kismayos Via
Afmadow neighborhood.



MILITARY NEWS


Iraqi Military Is Outmatched On
The Battlefield:
Demoralized Army Losing Fight
Against Insurgents;
Militants Are Better Armed, Better
Trained, And Better Motivated,
According To Iraqi And American
Generals, Politicians And Analysts
Were Almost Helpless, Says Staff
General Mohammed Khalaf Saied Al
Dulaimi


May 1, 2014 By Matt Bradley and Ali A. Nabhan, Wall Street J ournal [Excerpts]

QARA TEPE, Iraq

Even as an a militant group celebrated a major victory in Western Iraq last month,
militants from the same jihadist group launched another operation clear across
the country.

In coordinated predawn attacks, gunmen blew up two bridges in a village outside
the eastern town of Qara Tepe. They detonated a fuel tanker at a police base
close to nearby Injana, shot 12 soldiers and incinerated their bodies. By
afternoon, militants had attacked four other police and army checkpoints.

Instead of bolstering their ranks, some police and military checkpoints simply
packed up and left.

Lacking protection, hundreds of villagers fled their homes for larger towns.

The security forces are weak, and they are putting the responsibility for their weakness
on us, says Aziz Latif, a farmer who fled the village of New Sari Tepe after it was
attacked on March 21.

They are not professional.

More than two years after the last U.S. troops left Iraq, as the country prepares for
its first post-occupation parliamentary elections on Wednesday, its demoralized,
underequipped military is losing the fight against Islamist militants, who are better
armed, better trained, and better motivated, according to Iraqi and American
generals, politicians and analysts.

You can see how terrorism is eating our flesh. Were almost helpless, says Staff
General Mohammed Khalaf Saied Al Dulaimi, commander of 12th division of the Iraqi
army based in the northern city of Kirkuk.

Were facing a good, well-trained enemy. The attacks in this area were huge.


The Insurgents Are Able To Launch Surprise Raids, Seize Urban Ground
And Hold Their Positions For Days, Weeks Or Even Months, Even Far
Beyond Their Strongholds In The West

The insurgents are able to launch surprise raids, seize urban ground and hold their
positions for days, weeks or even months, even far beyond their strongholds in the west.

The growing disorder and violence threaten to open the country to interference by its
neighbors and dash what little hope remains that ordinary Iraqis might benefit from their
oil wealth.

ISIS [The Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham], which is expanding, has already
staked out positions on the capitals outskirts.

I see them gunning for Baghdad, says Jessica Lewis, research director for the
Washington-based Institute for the Study of War and a former U.S. military
intelligence officer.

With his army unprepared to handle the fallout, foreign diplomats, politicians and
analysts say Mr. Maliki [Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki] is governing over a state that is
failing in slow motion.

Iraqs Sunni minority, meanwhile, is accusing Mr. Malikis military of ethnic cleansing
under the guise of the fight against terrorisma claim that has fueled Sunni calls for an
autonomous region.

As stresses build, Mr. Maliki appears to be expanding his own writ as part of his push for
a third term.

Last month, he threatened to use a pliant judiciary to declare the gridlocked parliament
constitutionally illegitimate. That would grant him sole authority to control the countrys
nearly $150 billion budget by presidential decree.

The latest violence began in late December when Mr. Maliki ordered security
forces to disperse an anti-Maliki protest camp in Ramadi that he claimed was an
incubator for al Qaeda.

The raid was akin to batting a hornets nest.

Thousands of well-armed Islamist militants rose up in early January in the
surrounding province of Anbar and seized Ramadi, the provincial capital, and
Fallujah, a restive city less than an hour from Baghdad.


The Militants Displayed The Kind Of Battle Acumen Lacking In Iraqs
Troops

ISISs massive, sophisticated weapons arsenal suggested that the group had been
importing weapons from Syria, says Gen. Dulaimi.

The militants displayed the kind of battle acumen lacking in Iraqs troops. Many ISIS
fighters have returned battle-hardened from the conflict in neighboring Syria.

The security forces were surprised that the militants were better equipped than the
security forces themselves, says Gen. Dulaimi. Our soldiers dont have anything more
than AK-47s.

Iraq is still reeling from the U.S.-led Coalition Provisional Authoritys decision in
May 2003 to disband ousted President Saddam Husseins army. The military had
long acted as an adhesive bonding together young Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds.

The move created a bitter underclass of well-trained young Iraqi men. Now, the
leadership of the militias is populated by veteran generals from that disbanded army.

Despite nearly a decade of training from U.S. troops, the Iraqi army remains, by
comparison, poorly equipped and far less motivated, say Iraqi politicians, Gen.
Dulaimi and Hisham Hashemi, an Iraqi researcher on armed groups who is in
regular touch with militants in Anbar.

Even the most basic maneuvers can stymie the Iraqi military.


Without Meals, Some Soldiers Simply Leave

Regional commanders who lack basic knowledge of military logistics often are
clumsy when transporting food for soldiers on the move, leaving many enlistees
to scrounge for themselves or go hungry, say officers and observers.

Without meals, some soldiers simply leave.

Though there are no official statistics, military personnel cite desertion as a
persistent and growing problem, particularly for troops deployed in Anbar and
other areas to the north where ISIS is active.

There is hunger and a shortage of food, says Gen. Dulaimi, who is from Anbar
province and was deployed there as an adviser earlier this year. This is because
commanders werent trained in how to move troops from one area to another.

Every day, we have troops who just dont show up.

The lack of readiness of Iraqi forces almost cost the general his life.

In J anuary, Gen. Dulaimi says, he was passing through a dense urban area of Ramadi
in a column of nearly 50 Humvees, tanks and armored cars. They were ambushed by
what he describes as hundreds of militants carrying machine guns, grenade launchers
and improvised explosives.

When Gen. Dulaimi called a command center in Anbar for help, he was told that there
were no airplanes capable of operating at night, he says. He was on his own.

In the 1980s, during the war with Iran, we had to operate airplanes that could fly at
night, he says. Now, in 2014, we dont have that.

After nearly five hours, Baghdad sent a Russian-made prop plane loaded with two
missilesits maximum capacity. One of the missiles landed a direct hit, scattering the
antigovernment commandos.

Still under sniper fire, Gen. Dulaimi got out of his Humvee and fled on foot.

The Ramadi firefight is just one of the frustrations and humiliations that Gen. Dulaimi
says have allowed ISIS to expand north and east of Anbar province.

Iraqs military doesnt have adequate ammunition supplies, so it has had to use bullets
and tank shells in combat that were supposed to be set aside for training.

Because of a lack of armed-transport vehicles, convoys carrying heavy weapons
and vehicles routinely come under attack on the road from Baghdad even before
they have reached the battlefields of Anbar.

Gen. Dulaimi blames Iraqs losses on the U.S. Had Washington delivered Apache
helicopters Baghdad has been requesting for several years, the army could have quickly
ended the skirmish in which he was caught up, he says. Iraqs few armed helicopters
arent even outfitted with directed missilesan anachronism in a modern fighting force,
he says.

Requests for ammunition and sophisticated air power have gone unanswered, he says.
Thirty-six F-16 jet fighters ordered in 2011 and last yearIraq has no jet fighters in its
tiny air fleethave yet to be delivered, in part because of congressional objections to
supporting the Maliki regime.

U.S. officials say they have worked to speed the transfer arms and already have
provided some ammunition, small arms, Hellfire missiles and helicopters. The officials
say they are ready to move forward with the F-16 sale and an Apache helicopter but are
awaiting Iraqi payments and upgrades to military installations. They also have been
trying to improve training of Iraqi forces.

American soldiers who helped train the Iraqi military say that Iraqis abandoned the
organizational and educational infrastructure U.S. forces had hoped would perpetuate a
professional military.

The whole concept of developing a professionalized security force just stopped right
there with the (end of the) U.S. presence, says Lieutenant General Robert Caslen, who
was the chief of the U.S. militarys Office of Security Cooperation in Iraq, which is in
charge of training troops, from September 2011 until May 2013.

Gen. Caslen and his predecessors helped build and run an Iraqi military academy
to feed trained personnel into Iraqs officer corps.

On a visit about a year after U.S. troops left in December 2011, Gen. Caslen says,
the academy was all but vacant.

To address the Iraqi militarys logistical challenges, Gen. Caslen says, the U.S. built a
large warehouse for spare military parts, complete with a computer automated inventory
system.

I went to that warehouse about a year later and all the parts were still beautifully on their
shelves, he says.

But when you moved the parts, you could see they were covered in dust.

The computer system had been switched off because of frequent power cuts. Gen.
Caslen says he was told that there wasnt enough gasoline available to run electrical
generators.

Gen. Caslen says the Iraqis preserved ethnic and sectarian diversity in the militarys
upper ranks, as instructed by the Americans. But the nations divisions permeated even
that arrangement.

Officers routinely bypassed the chain of command to deal with soldiers from similar
backgrounds, the general says.

There is a lot of distrust within the organization, says Gen. Caslen, now superintendent
of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.

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


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

In the year since Gen. Caslen left Iraq, militants have taken aim at the palm forests and
grasslands of northern Iraq that fall under Gen. Dulaimis command. With a mix of Kurds,
Sunni Arabs, Shiites and other minorities, the region is a crucible of the wider conflict
fracturing the country.

In a series of interviews recently, villagers displaced from the hamlet of New Sari Tepe
said they hadnt seen violence for nearly six years until the early morning of March 21,
when a car bomb destroyed a nearby bridge. Residents stumbled out of bed to find
masked fighters fanning out across the village and commandeering several houses near
a local police barracks.

What followed was a six-hour firefight between the soldiers and militants. With the bridge
into the town destroyed, reinforcements from the nearby town of Qara Tepe fired mortars
from the far riverbank until the insurgents eventually scattered.

Instead of chasing the gunmen, the soldiers turned on the residents of the Sunni-
majority village, complained Mr. Latif, the farmer.

Troops raided the homes the militants had used for cover and arrested a dozen
people, including two elderly men. All of them remain in prison without charge,
villagers said.

Security forces denied having any information about the detainees, said Ammar
Mozahim, New Sari Tepes provincial council representative.

Mr. Mozahim said a staff colonel who commanded a local battalion told him that because
of the continuing fight in Anbar, there werent enough troops to defend the regions small
villages. Mr. Mozahim said he was told the military would be withdrawing much of its
presence, leaving the countryside around Qara Tepe all but defenseless.

Gen. Dulaimi confirmed the decision, describing it as normal protocol considering the
personnel limitations. Mr. Malikis spokesman said the army sometimes does tactical
progress and retreat.

About a half-dozen similar attacks occurred in villages and towns along the Hamrin
Mountains, a low-lying ridge pocked with caves that offer sanctuary to Islamist militants.

In Bohruz, a suburb of Diyalas provincial capital Baqouba, a squad of ISIS fighters killed
an officer at a local police outpost. ISIS announced on militant Islamist websites that
they would make Bohruz, a Sunni enclave in Shia-majority Diyala, their base of
operations in the province.

The Iraqi military moved to clear Bohruz of ISIS insurgents by recruiting the local chapter
of a Shiite militia called Asaib Ahl Al Haq, according to Iraqi media. By the following day,
28 villagers had been killed and several houses and mosques were torched, local
officials said. Residents of New Sari Tepe said the news left them frightened of both
Sunni insurgents and the Shiite-dominated military. So the mostly Sunni residents fled to
nearby Qara Tepe.

New Sari Tepe remains abandoned and its bridges broken. Fed up with the Iraqi military,
some displaced villagers said they hope Kurdish troops, who are widely considered
more professional, will assume responsibility for the region.

Were the victims of the both the government and the insurgency, said Mr. Latif. We
were afraid that if we were left behind, we would become the targets of both the security
forces and the gunmen.



FORWARD OBSERVATIONS




At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed. Oh had
I the ability, and could reach the nations ear, I would, pour out a fiery stream of
biting ridicule, blasting reproach, withering sarcasm, and stern rebuke.

For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder.

We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.

The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they
oppose.

Frederick Douglass, 1852


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


In God We Trust

Spokane, Washington 2006. Photograph by Mike Hastie

From: Mike Hastie
To: Military Resistance Newsletter
Sent: May 02, 2014
Subject: In God We Trust

In God We Trust

Phillip Jones Griffiths, a famous combat photographer
who covered the Vietnam War, had this to say about
that genocidal war:

The Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.
is 150 yards long. It has the names of 58,000 American
soldiers who were killed. If the same memorial was built
for the Vietnamese that were killed, it would be 9 miles
long.

Imagine yourself driving on a freeway going 60 miles per hour.
It would take you 9 minutes to cover the lives of the Vietnamese
who were killed by U.S. weapons in that war, based on the same
density of names on the Wall in Washington, D.C.

American Family Values.

The absolute myth of American society.

A billboard sign for the ages.

Mike Hastie
Army Medic Vietnam
May 2, 2014

Photo and caption from the portfolio of Mike Hastie, US Army Medic, Vietnam
1970-71. (For more of his outstanding work, contact at:
(hastiemike@earthlink.net) T)

One day while I was in a bunker in Vietnam, a sniper round went over my head.
The person who fired that weapon was not a terrorist, a rebel, an extremist, or a
so-called insurgent. The Vietnamese individual who tried to kill me was a citizen
of Vietnam, who did not want me in his country. This truth escapes millions.

Mike Hastie
U.S. Army Medic
Vietnam 1970-71
December 13, 2004


Veteran Goes Crazy After Reading
Another Goddamn Article On Veterans
Going Crazy

The aftermath of the veterans violent outburst. (Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons)

Apr 23, 2014 By Dirk Diggler, Duffle Blog

WATERTOWN, N.Y.

Watertown police have arrested Michael Dumont, a former Fort Drum soldier, after he
ran through city streets on an expletive-filled rampage.

Weve always been a little apprehensive about Mike, Samantha Winegrass, one of
Dumonts coworkers, told reporters. He seems friendly, but you know, hes a veteran.

Coworkers say that Dumont served at Fort Drum for four years before getting a job as a
disturbed military veteran teller at a local bank.

We werent certain what would set him off, Winegrass continued. Loud noises,
backfiring cars none of that triggered a PTSD-induced flashback.

That was until Wednesday, when Dumont read an article in the New York Times by
Kathleen Belew, which linked all veterans to the recent killings in Overland Park,
Kansas, allegedly perpetrated by a veteran.

The article came just two days after The Huffington Post ran an article depicting
locations of alleged veteran-perpetrated murders in America.

He just snapped, Winegrass said. He must have committed some sort of atrocity in
Iraq. Its the only explanation. Its like all those articles really were true all along!

Witnesses say Dumont who never deployed to a combat zone violently slapped
the palm of his hand against his head after reading the article, and loudly blurted out
profane remarks.

Seconds later, Dumont began screaming something terrifying, witnesses said.

Oh my God, the comments! The fucking comments! Gah! he was reported as saying.

Doctors warn that many seemingly innocuous events can trigger bursts of violence from
veterans, including asking them if they killed anyone in Iraq, or by forcing them to view
AFN commercials.



ANNIVERSARIES


May 4, 1970:
Dishonorable Anniversary:
Unarmed Students Murdered By Ohio
National Guard Scum



Carl Bunin Peace History April 30-May 6

Ohio National Guard troops opened fire on anti-war protesters at Kent State
University, killing four students and wounding nine others.

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



CLASS WAR REPORTS


Rio Revolts Against Police:
We Are Tired. The Pressure Pot Is
Ready To Burst
Hundreds Of Residents In The Same
SlumsOr FavelasProtested Against
The Shooting Of Two Residents With
Residents Chanting Killers At Stone-
Faced Police At The Scene

Police enter a slum in Rio de J aneiro last week to probe the death of a professional
dancer that sparked a demonstration near Copacabana Beach. Fotoarena/Sipa USA

May 1, 2014 By Loretta Chao, Wall Street J ournal [Excerpts]

A government initiative to clean up Rio de J aneiros violent slums is under attack just
weeks before hundreds of thousands of foreign visitors flock to Brazil for the soccer
World Cup.

In the latest clash, police said two officers were injured in shootouts on Thursday in a
sprawling collection of slums named Complexo do Alemo, where police have recently
stepped up vigilance due to an onslaught of unrest.

The confrontation came days after hundreds of residents in the same slumsor
favelasprotested against the shooting of two residents in areas where police have
been battling suspected drug traffickers. Smoke filled the air as residents torched three
buses and vandalized a local public-health clinic, with residents chanting killers at
stone-faced police at the scene.

We are tired. The pressure pot is ready to burst, said Cleber Araujo, a 38-year-old
resident of Complexo do Alemo. There is only death in the favela.

The incidents come as popular support for hosting the World Cup soccer tournament
declines in Brazil and authorities gear up for potentially chaotic protests during the
monthlong event, which starts on J une 12.

Attitudes also have turned against a security program that was the hallmark of the
seaside citys revitalization.

Launched in 2008, police have entered Rios hundreds of slums to expel the drug
traffickers controlling them and install a pacifying police unit, or UPP, in their stead.

The plan was to end long-standing crime in these communities where residents said it
wasnt unusual to see children toting automatic weapons and to walk by corpses in the
street.

Officials hoped, too, that by lowering Rios high crime rates ahead of the World Cup and
the Olympics in 2016, Rioa central attraction in both eventswould attract both
business investment and tourism.

To an extent, the program has been successful. The 2010 pacification of Complexo do
Alemo was considered a triumph because it opened the community up to new
businesses, tourism and some government services such as new medical and
community centers. Crime rates citywide also fell, including an almost 37% drop in
robberies in the five years to 2012, according to government data.

But the program has come under fire, especially since the disappearance in J uly of
Amarildo Dias de Souza, a resident of the Rio favela Rocinha, who locals say was last
seen with community police.

Prosecutors have charged several police officers with torturing and murdering the
man during an attempt to get information from him about drug trafficking.
Wheres Amarildo? became a nationwide protest slogan.

Not all favela residents support violent tactics such as torching buses, which have
become common in recent months in Brazils largest cities as a form of protest against
failures of the government to provide better public services.

But many who previously supported police presence are increasingly criticizing the
program.

Raul Santiago, a photographer who lives in Complexo do Alemo, said that in
addition to police violence, officials have failed to follow pacification efforts with
necessary investments in public services.

What is trafficking in the favelas if not a result of years of bad policies? he
asked. Health care is bad, education is bad.

Residents in many Rio favelas say drug trafficking has fallen but continues in their
communities with occasional outbreaks of gunfire between the traffickers and police.

Last week, a demonstration broke out near the citys famed Copacabana Beach
over the death of a young professional dancer who may have also been caught in
police crossfire.

Police initially said the dancer fell to death. They later revealed that he had been
shot, though its not yet clear by whom.

Police are still investigating the death.

But some residents now suspect he suffered the same fate as Mr. Dias de Souza,
and are accusing police of a cover-up.

Meanwhile, a resurgence in street crimes has plagued Rio, with robberies in popular
tourist areas shooting up 37% in 2013. Anecdotally, Rio residents say this year hasnt
improved.

Rios new governor Luiz Fernando Pezo went to Complexo do Alemo in response to
this weeks events and said the government will not tolerate attacks and violent acts, or
any attempt to destabilize the peace process in communities.

Police said they were investigating the favela deaths.


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OCCUPATION PALESTINE


Zionist Occupation Forces
Arrest Palestinian Journalist,
Activist;
He Has Been Denied Access To
An Attorney, Standard Procedure
For Israeli Palestinian Security
Suspects
This Persecution Is Part Of The
Ongoing Effort By Israeli Secret
Police To Criminalize Israeli
Palestinian Nationalism
Any Such Political Expression Viewed
As Sedition And Criminally Prosecuted
By The State

Israels security services secretly arrested Palestinian activist-journalist Majd Kayyal.
The arrest is under gag order

April 12, 2014 by Richard Silverstein, Richardsilverstein.com/

I received an urgent message from J amil Dakwar of the ACLU that Palestinian journalist
and political activist, Majd Kayyal, age 22, was arrested on his return to Israel from a trip
to Lebanon and J ordan.

Ive checked with an Israeli source who tells me he was arrested as a national security
suspect.

The combination of his trip to Lebanon, where he attended an event celebrating the 40th
anniversary of As-Safir (considered a pro-Hezbollah publication), his participation in a
2011 flotilla voyage to break the Gaza siege, and his activist role in Adalah (where he
was the website editor) and Balad (Hebrew), made him a ready target.

Kayyal also edits the political and cultural website, Qadita and the English-language
blog, Message to the Tricontinental.

At midnight Saturday Israel-time, a few hours after his arrest, the security police raided
his Haifa home and confiscated his computer and other electronic devices and materials.

Jamil reports he has been denied access to an attorney, which is standard
procedure for Israeli Palestinian security suspects.

A judge will be asked to extend his remand tomorrow and will automatically do so,
again as is standard for the Only Democracy in the Middle East. Majd can also
expect abuse and even torture from his security service interrogators just as
Ameer Makhoul did.

For those with good memories, whove been reading this blog for several years, youll
recall his case. He was also a Palestinian community activist from Haifa who founded
the Ittijah NGO.

He too returned from a trip to J ordan, where he allegedly met a fellow activist Hassan
J aja at an environment conference.

The Shabak made Jaja out to be a key Hezbollah operative, when in reality he
owned a landscaping business in Amman.

My guess is that Shabak discovered a similar meeting Kayyal had with a suspect
individual who the security forces can turn into an Islamist bogeyman.

This persecution is part of the ongoing effort by Israeli secret police to criminalize Israeli
Palestinian nationalism.

As Ive reported here, Yuval Diskin, then Shabak chief, said in 2007 that any such
political expression would be viewed as sedition and criminally prosecuted by the State.
That is what is happening in this case. Nothing more.

Here is a Mondoweiss interview published with Kayyal before he joined the 2011 Gaza
flotilla.

Read the words of this mortal danger to the J ewish State:

Are you concerned you will be treated worse because you are Palestinian?

I hope not, but usually Palestinian activists face more problems from Israeli armed
forces. However, as a Palestinian citizen of Israel, its extremely important to show the
unity of the Palestinian people to the international community and remind the political
leadership that they cannot abandon our rights and must include the status of 48
Palestinians in any just solution.

How do you see the Palestinian struggle right now?

I think that the Arab spring is the most inspiring and is providing us with a renewed
motivation.

I see that we need to rebuild the popular struggle on the ground. We need to revitalize
the participation of the youth and the students in forging a more powerful movement, as
we can see their importance in the uprisings of Egypt, Tunisia and others.

Now is the time to move beyond partisan problems and focus on the main target, which
is the colonial and racist regime Israel has imposed on the Palestinian people.

This arrest, which constitutes a severe assault on press freedom, since Kayyal is
an Israeli Palestinian journalist, is under gag order in Israel.

It has not been reported in Israeli media.

I hope this publication will poke a hole in the shroud of opacity that favors such assaults
by the security apparatus.

An international group of activists joined together to fight on Ameers behalf. Ive begun
a process which I hope will lead to the same support for Majd.


The Hacktivist Organization
Anonymous Unleashed A Day Long
Cyber-Attack On A Broad Series Of
Israeli Websites
Among Them Were The Official Website
Of The Israeli President, The Israeli
Police And The Ministry Of Foreign
Affairs


April 15, 2014 By Claire Matsunami, The Palestine Monitor

On Monday 7 April the hacktivist organization Anonymous unleashed a day long
cyber-attack on a broad series of Israeli websites as part of the third year of
OpIsrael. The attack specifically targeted a list of Israeli governmental websites,
made public on the eve of the event.

This years OpIsrael attack succeeded in temporarily shutting down several
websites and defacing others with pro-Palestinian slogans, among them were the
official website of the Israeli President, the Israeli Police and the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs, according to the OpIsrael Facebook page and Times Magazine.

An update on the website OpIsraelBirthday, set up by Anonymous affiliated
hacker AnonGhost, stated that over 400 websites were successfully breached.

All websites allegedly targeted by the group are now back up and running.

On Sunday 6 April, one day before the attack, Anonymous gave Israel warning via the
popular video-sharing website, YouTube. In the video, a computerized voice reads a
message to the government of Israel detailing the reasons behind OpIsraels actions:
Your vicious campaigns to attack Palestinian solidarity groups worldwide through
censorship and legal wrangling have also NOT gone unnoticed.

We see through the propaganda that you circulate through the mainstream media and
lobby through the political establishment. We will NOT allow you to maintain these
attacks on a sovereign country based upon a campaign of lies. Your games of deception
will now be met by the wrath of elite cyber squadrons from around the world. Your grip
over humanity will weaken and man will be closer to freedom.

The video calls upon cyber activists around the world to hack, deface, hijack, database
leak, admin takeover, and DNS terminate the Israeli Cyberspace by any means
necessary.

OpIsrael has taken place on 7 April for 3 years now. It was first launched in 2012
during an Israeli assault on Gaza, initially infiltrating over 700 websites and
subsequently publishing the personal information of approximately 5000
government workers.

In 2013 the coordinated cyber attack targeted various Israeli sites to shut them down or
deface them, including the Ministry of Education and the Bureau of Statistics. The
operation had minimal success, but as Yitzhak Ben Yisrael of Israeli National Cyber
Bureau explained to The Guardian in 2013, Anonymous doesnt have the skills to
damage the countrys vital infrastructure. And if that was its intention, then it wouldnt
have announced the attack ahead of time. It wants to create noise in the media about
issues that are close to its heart.

Mohammad Rub, Professor of Media Studies at Birzeit University, spoke with Palestine
Monitor about the way that cyber activism is changing the frontier for information
dispersal. Operations like OpIsrael, explained Rub, are challenging and breaking the
silence of the mainstream media.

He also believes that this is an effective way for international individuals to stand in
solidarity with Palestinians, despite the fact that these activists arent physically present,
saying I think this is an effective way to support the Palestinian issue because it raises
awareness and can potentially change public understanding towards the Palestinian
narrative.


Heroic Zionist Forces Shoot Unarmed
Palestinian Gaza Fishermen, As Usual

04/27/2014 Maan

GAZA CITY -- A Palestinian fisherman was shot and injured by Israeli forces off the
coast of the Gaza Strip early Saturday, security sources said.

Gaza security sources told Maan that Israeli naval squadrons off the coast of northern
Gaza fired at a Palestinian fishing boat, hitting a man in the foot.

The man was taken to Kamal Udwan Hospital for treatment, the sources said.

An Israeli military spokesman did not immediately return calls seeking comment.

In the Oslo Accords, Israel agreed to a 20-nautical-mile fishing zone off Gazas
coast, but it has imposed a three-mile limit for several years, opening fire at
fishermen who stray further.

Israel has controlled Gaza waters since its occupation of the area in 1967, and has kept
several warships stationed off the coast since 2008.

To check out what life is like under a murderous military occupation commanded
by foreign terrorists, go to:
http://www.maannews.net/eng/Default.aspx and
http://www.palestinemonitor.org/list.php?id=ej898ra7yff0ukmf16
The occupied nation is Palestine. The foreign terrorists call themselves Israeli.


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