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Israel being sued in Washington by victims of Gaza-bound ship attack

Charlotte Silver
The Electric Intifada
Tue, 12 Jan 2016 00:00 UTC

In what lawyers are calling a groundbreaking case, four individuals are suing Israel in US federal court over its lethal raid on a humanitarian flotilla almost six years ago.

The plaintiffs, three of them US citizens, were aboard the US-flagged Challenger I when it was intercepted and violently raided by the Israeli army on 31 May 2010. Challenger I was one of six vessels in the Gaza Freedom Flotilla.

While all six ships were attacked, the incident is most widely known for the Israeli commando raid on the Turkish-owned vessel Mavi Marmara, which resulted in the killing of nine civilian passengers. A tenth victim died from his injuries in May 2014.

Comment: The Mavi Marmara was in international waters and heading away from the Israeli coast when it was attacked.

The civil suit, filed in Washington, DC, late Monday, seeks compensatory and punitive damages. It accuses Israel and several of its ministries of committing war crimes, including torture and cruel and inhumane treatment. The complaint also alleges that soldiers confiscated and never returned passengers' personal property, money and all the medical supplies on board. The US ship was never returned by Israel.

Test case

Several legal actions have been been lodged on behalf of the victims' families, including in the United States and Turkey and in the International Criminal Court. However, all previous attempts to hold Israel accountable have targeted specific officials in the Israeli military and government for their roles in planning and executing the attack.

This is the first time that a civil suit in the US in respect to the incident has named the State of Israel as the defendant. "This case is filed against the State of Israel itself for the attack on a US flagged vessel, Challenger I, during which US citizens were injured and harmed, which brings it within the reach of US law," lawyer Rodney Dixon told The Electronic Intifada.

Comment: It is about time Israel faced consequences for illegal and deadly actions against innocent civilians, the mainstay of its "feeding" mechanism. Had US Marines in Iranian waters been given the same assault, imagine the US response!

Supporting Nazis: Pentagon funding bill opens the door to aid Kiev's neo-Nazi battalion

RT
Fri, 15 Jan 2016 01:35 UTC

Despite the unanimous support of US lawmakers for amendments banning aid to the openly neo-Nazi paramilitaries operating in Ukraine, the provisions were removed from the final versions of the Pentagon funding bill and the 2016 omnibus budget.

After the $1.8 trillion budget deal was struck between President Barack Obama and the Republican majority in Congress, the White House praised the removal of numerous "ideological riders," while Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin) trumpeted the $64 million aid for European countries "facing Russian aggression."

It now appears that one of those riders was the amendment passed unanimously by the House of Representatives last June that would have banned US aid to the notorious neo-Nazi 'Azov' battalion. The controversial unit is just one of many employed by the Kiev government against the residents of two eastern regions that have refused to accept the legitimacy of the government installed in the US-backed, February 2014 coup.

Comment: Nothing new here, the Empire has never had any qualms about using Nazis and other terrorists to further its aims.

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The Empire's prerogative: Navy uses US citizens as pawns in domestic war games

Dahr Jamail
Truthout
Mon, 11 Jan 2016 02:19 UTC

© Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class William S. Parker / US NavyNavy SEALs conduct a capabilities exercise at Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek-Fort Story on Virginia Beach, Virginia, July 21, 2012. Beginning in mid-January, Navy SEALs will be conducting war games across Washington State's coastal areas, including through public and private property.

These exclusive Navy documents outline plans for combat training exercises along vast areas of Washington State coastline. Each shows the areas the Navy is prepared to utilize.

Beginning in mid-January, Navy SEALs will be practicing unannounced and clandestine combat beach landings across Washington State's Puget Sound and many other coastal areas of that state.

The simulated combat exercises, which will include the use of mini-submarines and other landing craft, will deposit Navy SEALs carrying "simulated weapons" on 68 beach and state park areas in Puget Sound, the Strait of Juan de Fuca and Washington's west coast, unbeknownst to most of the relevant government agencies tasked with overseeing these areas.

Internal Navy emails, two slide shows (which can be viewed in full here and here) and other documents obtained exclusively by Truthout reveal the vast extent of the operations. They also reveal the fact that the Navy labeled the relevant files as "For Official Use Only" and emails as "Attorney-Client privilege," a move that exempts such documents from the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).

In the new scenario, which the military calls "realistic military training," Navy SEALs carrying "simulated" weapons may also travel across public and private property within city limits, and may swim through public and private marinas occupied by people living on boats. They could conduct war game patrols on roads through residential communities. In addition to tribal, state, federal and county lands, there are many properties on the Navy's list of training sites marked as private.

Comment: So the training is for "conducting operations in urban environments"? The creeping militarization of US society is becoming ever more blatant.

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FBI believed posing as militia in Oregon, Fire Marshal resigns in protest

John Vibes
Free Thought Project
Fri, 15 Jan 2016 01:20 UTC

This week, Harney County Fire Marshall Chris Briels resigned after discovering undercover FBI agents posing as militia members near the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, which has been the site of a standoff for weeks now. According to Briels, he found FBI agents who were impersonating militia members lurking around the town's armory. When he inquired about the undercover operation with county Judge Steve Grasty he was told to back off.

Just before this discovery was made, there were reports of people who looked like militia harassing locals, which is uncharacteristic of the protesters who initially assembled at the refuge. It turns out that these militia members suspected of harassing locals were actually undercover FBI agents.

During an impromtu press conference, Briels explained how he was so disrespected in his encounter with Grasty and was so disgusted with the situation in general, that he no longer wants to work for a government that he does not believe in. Briels added that he would still be helping people in the community with fire prevention and other issues that he has helped with in the past, but he will just no longer be doing it as a government employee. Briels went on to describe how he exposed undercover FBI agents who had come to town and were creating problems amongst the locals

Comment: Also see

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Pig headed: Cameron insists British-terrorist relations based on 'best intelligence estimate'

Fars News Agency
Fri, 15 Jan 2016 01:33 UTC

Mark Twain once said, "If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything." And remembering all the terrible things he has done to Syria is what British Prime Minister David Cameron has been busy doing these days.

Together with the United States and its regional "allies," Cameron used the claim of 70,000 "moderate" Syrian rebels ready to ally with the "coalition" as the centrepiece of his argument to expand the illegal war on Syria under the pretext of fighting ISIL - their own spawn. Now after more than four years of destruction and chaos, Cameron admits his claim was "false" - although he still has the guts to insist "it was the best estimate."

Clear enough, Cameron has finally admitted the figure was false, that many of those mythical rebels were narrow minded zealots and hard-core jihadists that joined the ISIL and Al-Qaeda ranks the moment they got their hands on American-British weapons, and that there are not "enough moderates" to decapitate the regime in Damascus in the way Britain wished.

Most of Cameron's comments also appear centred on shifting blame, saying it "wasn't a figure I invented" but came from intelligence agencies as a "best estimate." He does, however, refuse to name the agencies that the figure came from. Well, it is better to offer no excuse than a bad one. Cameron's rhetorical charade notwithstanding, what this darkly implies is that he is not upset that he made de facto alliance with ISIL and then lied to the world; he is upset that from now on no one will ever believe him. He couldn't be more accurate.

Comment: According to mush-for-brains Cameron, it's not so bad that the UK was supporting actual terrorists because they lied to everyone about how many there were in the first place. Makes sense, right?

See also: SOTT Exclusive: Al-Nusra and Al-Cameron agree! Those moderates ain't moderate

UN Gaza aid database gives Israeli information on future targets

Ali Abunimah
The Electronic Intifada
Wed, 13 Jan 2016 00:00 UTC

The UN was warned that its database of potential aid recipients in Gaza could provide Israel with targets for future attacks, a document obtained by The Electronic Intifada reveals. Diplomats and UN officials were also warned that plans for rebuilding Gaza after it was attacked by Israel in 2014 violated international law.

The UN-backed Gaza Reconstruction Mechanism (GRM) is illegal and violates the very "right to life" of the Palestinian people, according to a confidential legal opinion by a law professor who analyzed the mechanism for a major aid agency that works closely with the UN. The Electronic Intifada is publishing the full text of the GRM for the first time, along with the legal opinion. Both documents.

Recall that in 2014, The Electronic Intifada revealed that the GRM, the UN-brokered agreement that was supposedly going to facilitate reconstruction, would effectively reinforce Israel's control over Gaza. But the UN, the Palestinian Authority and Israel have kept the actual text of the GRM secret, despite demands for transparency from Palestinians whose ability to rebuild their lives has remained hostage to its suffocating restrictions.

The expert who wrote the legal opinion, the University of Nottingham's Professor Nigel White, warned that the UN was becoming an active participant in Israel's crimes, including enforcing the blockade Israel has imposed on Gaza since 2007. White, co-director of the Nottingham International Law and Security Centre, is considered one of the world's leading experts on United Nations law.

Comment: This revelation should give everyone a wake up call as to how pervasive is the Israeli infiltration of not only governments and organizations, but also its ability to manipulate and hold hostage the stupidity of the UN and the PA to create co-operators in the destruction and demise of the Palestinian people.

See also: Sweden calls for 'thorough' investigation into Israel's killing of Palestinians

'Sultan' Erdogan now targeting academic community to curb freedom of speech

Sputnik
Thu, 14 Jan 2016 00:00 UTC

Following the crackdown on journalists, the Turkish government has now targeted the academic community in a desperate attempt to curb freedom of speech in the country, Turkish Professors Tahsin Yesildere and Fatih Yasli told Sputnik in an interview.

It all started after 1,128 academics from 89 Turkish universities, as well as some foreign scholars, signed a document urging the government "to stop the massacre" of Kurds in the southeastern part of the country. Turkish academics called on the government to return to negotiations and said they no longer wanted to be "the accomplices of this crime."

The publication of the the document enraged President Recep Tayyip Erdogan who subsequently lashed out at the professors.

"Hey, you so-called intellectuals! You aren't enlightened, you're dark people... You're ignorant and know nothing about the situation in the East and South-East [of Turkey]," Erdogan said during his speech in an annual meeting with Turkish diplomats in Ankara.

Comment: The only thing of importance to Erdogan is power and control, and like most of his ilk he will do anything necessary to maintain his position.

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India and BRICS are so over the petrodollar

Rakesh Krishnan Simha
Modern Diplomacy
Thu, 14 Jan 2016 20:19 UTC

The last time a country decided to dump the dollar in the oil business, the US destroyed it. Now India, the world's third largest economy, and Iran have agreed to settle their outstanding oil dues in rupees. What's more, the two countries may conduct all future trade in their national currencies.

This follows an agreement between Iran and India in mid-2011 in which both sides decided to settle 45 per cent of India's oil import bill in rupees and the remaining 55 per cent in euros. In March 2012 the two countries inked the Rupee Payment Mechanism that allowed India to buy crude oil in its national currency. Iran then used the funds to buy products from Indian manufacturers.

Ironically, it is the US itself which is responsible for the dollar's elimination from India-Iran trade. The Rupee Payment Mechanism was set up to skirt American economic sanctions on Tehran. Iranian oil forms a significant portion of India's energy requirements. Similarly, the Iranians rely upon India for steel, medicines, food and chemicals.

Replacing the dollar

India and the US may have come closer in recent years, but that hasn't blinded New Delhi to the toxic nature of America's currency as well as manipulation by Britain.

The US is literally writing its own cheque with its unrestrained printing of the dollar, the bedrock of America's post-war hegemony. It is the reserve currency status of the dollar that allows the US to fund its endless wars and topple governments with impunity.

Comment: The Unites States economic influence is waning and it really is just a matter of time until reality corrects the gross imbalance that has been imposed on the world. Regional partners have been preparing during the past years, and it would behoove those living in the west to do the same.

Another year for blood: Egypt extends participation in military operation in Yemen

Sputnik
Thu, 14 Jan 2016 21:05 UTC

Egypt's National Defense Council on Thursday decided to extend the country's participation in a Saudi-led military operation in Yemen for another year, media reported Thursday.

"The National Defense Council agreed to extend the participation of the necessary elements of the Egyptian armed forces in a combat mission outside its borders to defend the national security of Egypt and the Arab world... This is for a year or until the end of the combat mission," the Egypt's presidency said in a statement, as quoted by Al Yamania News.

Comment: More blah, blah, blah about national security. Is Yemen threatening Egypt or anyone else?

Jund Al-Sham ringleader: Resistance against Syrian Army no longer possible

FARS News Agency
Thu, 14 Jan 2016 19:11 UTC

Leader of Jund al-Sham terrorist group Abu Walid al-Shishani announced that his forces can no more block the Syrian army advances.

Appearing in a video message on Wednesday, Shishani referred to the dire situation of his forces in Syria, and underlined that they are no more able to stand against the Syrian army in Lattakia province any more.

He also said that the preparedness and number of his forces have decreased.

He made the remarks after the Syrian army and the popular forces captured and imposed full control over more than 300 square kilometers of lands in the Northern parts of Lattakia province.

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Tomb of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

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I do believe that there will be a clash between East and West. I believe that there will be a clash between those who want freedom, justice and equality for everyone and those who want to continue the systems of exploitation. I believe that there will be that kind of clash, but I don't think that it will be based upon the color of the skin.

- Malcolm X

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