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Israel Murders Journalists
by Stephen Lendman
Israel threatens press freedom. Repressive Knesset legislation targets speech, assembly, association, and the right to dissent. So does Kafkaesque justice.
Military censorship bans, buries or sanitizes information about its crimes of war and against humanity it wants suppressed.
It willfully suppresses what everyone needs to know. It does so on the spurious pretext of national security.
It gags foreign correspondents. It forces them to abide by a Censorship Agreement. Its main provisions are:
- preventing publication or broadcast of what's called security related information;
- permitting news and analysis of political issues except when they include what Israel calls classified information; and
- informing the media which issues demand approval; they're subject to change; they include two main issues - state security and Jewish immigration from nations hostile to Israel.
Russia on Unilateral Start of Ukraine Humanitarian Aid
Michael Collins
What will prevent this leadership of the "free world" from attacking their own citizens or denying those citizens humanitarian aid when they are in need? For them, the Ukraine is just practice.
For weeks now, all involved parties have known of the humanitarian crisis in the Donbass region of Ukraine. The Ukraine's Kiev government created the crisis by attacking its own citizens, a process that began on July 1 at the order of the United States agent and puppet, Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) declared the situation a humanitarian emergency and outlined the aid required. Russia put together a 280-truck convoy of needed aid and headed for the border with Ukraine. Ukraine border guards halted the convoy. They accused Russia of planting weapons in the trucks. When Russia offered inspections and ride along privileges to Ukraine officials, along with ICRC and EU representatives, nothing changed. It was clear to Russia that the delays by the Kiev government were a ploy to allow further attacks on the millions living in and around Donetsk and Lugansk, millions in desperate need of water, food, medical supplies and power. (Image: Donetsk citizens hide from Kiev government bombardment. Colonel Cassad English)
Russia finally had enough and told the convoy to proceed across the border. The statement below makes clear the rationale. (Full statement below) The other point that is perfectly clear is this: if the convey is attacked, the attackers will be held responsible. That should be taken as a threat to decimate any Ukraine forces that are held responsible.
Family Should Seek Justice, Not Risk More Injustice From the System
By Kevin Zeese
The family cannot rely on the grand jury system or Attorney General Holder
The grand jury process in the United States is rigged for the prosecutor. There is an old saying among lawyers “A prosecutor can indict a ham sandwich.” Of course, the reverse is also true; the prosecutor can also prevent an indictment. The prosecutor controls the grand jury process which is conducted in secret without even a judge present. The prosecutor decides what witnesses to call and there is no opportunity for a defense lawyer or attorney for the family to participate.
Further, the make-up of the grand jury which comes from St. Louis County (not the city of St. Louis) where Ferguson is located is heavily dominated by whites as it represents the make-up of the county which is 70% white and 23% African American. In the specific grand jury investigating the killing of Michael Brown the jurors were selected by Missouri Circuit Judge Carolyn Whittington (the prosecutor does not select the jurors), there are 9 whites on the jury and 3 blacks; 7 are men 5 are women. It takes 9 jurors to agree to indict the police officer. A majority decision is not required. The racial make-up is particularly important since the views of white and blacks on this incident are radically different.
The Psychological Trauma of Catastrophe: Gaza’s Children
Louisa A. Lamb
Despite the on-again, off-again ceasefires between the Palestinian Resistance and Israel, attacks in Gaza have continued. According to 8/10/14 announcement from Tel Aviv, they will continue, doubtlessly as ruthless as ever. After Israel launched the first attack on July 7th, tension continues as an omnipresent essence whirling about the winds of the greatly sought-after Holy land. Bombarded by airstrikes, shelling and bombs, civilians of the Gaza strip are incarcerated in what seems to be a never-ending battle with no escape. Recent reports from numerous sources and journalists describe the weight of the devastation Palestinians have endured in Gaza.
Pro-Israeli Security Council Gaza Resolution
by Stephen Lendman
On August 21, Washington joined Germany, Britain and France. They presented a largely one-sided Security Council resolution to end over six weeks of conflict.
It's pro-Israeli. It's pro-Western. It's anti-Palestinian. It's more Gazan Versailles than legitimate peace plan. It demands rejection.
It's in lieu of what's fundamentally needed:
Russian Humanitarian Aid Reaches Lugansk
by Stephen Lendman
Kiev putschists blocked vitally needed humanitarian aid for days. They did so for spurious reasons.
They did it to impose greater hardships on desperate Southeastern Ukrainians. They did it to deprive them of essentials to life.
They did it to facilitate their genocidal aggression. They did it with full support and encouragement from Washington.
Enough is enough. On August 22, Itar Tass headlined "Russia's 70 trucks with humanitarian cargo proceed toward toward Ukraine's Luhansk," saying:
They cleared customs. They entered Ukrainian territory. They headed for Lugansk. They did so on a mission of mercy.
They carried food, water, medical supplies and other vitally needed aid. Kiev claims about a Trojan Horse convoy of weapons were spurious on their face.
World Humanitarian Day Hypocrisy
by Stephen Lendman
The day honors humanitarian workers killed in the line of duty.
The General Assembly designated August 19 as part of a Swedish-sponsored resolution on the Strengthening of the Coordination of Emergency Assistance of the UN.
It commemorates the day in 2003 when US terror-bombing killed then Special Representative of the Secretary-General to Iraq, Sergio Vieira, and 21 of his colleagues.
They perished in Baghdad's UN headquarters. More on World Humanitarian Day (WHD) below.
On August 19, the White House issued a hypocritical “Statement by the Principal Deputy Press Secretary on World Humanitarian Day," saying:
"Eleven years ago today, 22 humanitarian aid workers were killed in a horrific attack on the UN Headquarters in Baghdad. Their lives were cut short as they worked selflessly to save others."
Fact: Washington's 2003 Operation Iraqi Freedom Iraq War bore full responsibility for killing them.
Fact: Doing so reflected US imperial ruthlessness.
Fact: From then until now, millions more Iraqis died.
Child Protective Services Violate Public Trust; Judges Rule Against Children’s Welfare
by Citizens For Child Welfare And Protection
Posted on August 21, 2014 by State of the Nation 2014
Saving Jonah
Is Your Child at Risk for Court Licensed Torture and Sex Trafficking?
From Lexi Dillon to Jonah Rief, American kids are being sex trafficked out of the United States to rich buyers in foreign lands. This is a multi-billion dollar business and those leaders charged with protecting our children have failed to do their jobs. Shockingly, American judges routinely open the doors to trafficking of the youngest most innocent American children.
In the case of Lexi Dillon, the Tustin Police could not stop a corrupt Orange County Judge James L. Waltz and his successor from handing her over to a man experts insisted had repeatedly sodomized and raped the girl. The evidence of sodomy and rape was clear and supported by medical evidence, by doctors records, by psychological reports and by the police investigation. Judge Glenn Salter announced that lifting the travel ban would be tantamount to putting Lexi into sex slavery in Thailand prior to Salter, himself, lifting the travel ban and ordering the girl sent out of the country to her foreign abuser who is not allowed back into the country.
To prevent the mother from locating the girl and stopping her removal from the U.S, it appears that the sex- trafficking operation is being diverted through Napa County, CA. Lexi’s Tustin apartment was secretly vacated some time back in violation of court orders and it is now believed that Judge Salter, in supporting the man the police say raped and sodomized Lexi, now nine years old, he was following the orders of Judge Waltz.
Western Leaders Support Israeli Genocide
By Stephen Lendman
Longstanding US-led Western support lets Israel get away with genocidal mass murder and destruction. More on this below.
Israel's Operation Protective Edge is the latest example of well planned, premeditated Israeli aggression on Palestine.
It has nothing to do with Hamas rocket attacks, self-defense or security.
It has everything to do with maintaining occupation harshness, assuring unchallenged control of all valued parts of Judea and Samaria, denying Palestinians self-determination, stealing their land and resources, as well as pursuing a longstanding Greater Israel objective. Israel believes its "promised land" extends from the Nile Valley to the Euphrates. It includes parts of Syria, Jordan and Lebanon at least to the Litani River.
It lawlessly occupies Syria's Golan Heights, as well as Lebanon's Ghajar village and 14-square mile water-rich Sheba Farms.
Israel's Genocidal War Continues
by Stephen Lendman
On Tuesday, peace talks collapsed. Israel sabotaged them. It refused to negotiate in good faith. It's longstanding Israeli practice.
Straightaway fighting resumed. Hamas rockets are pinpricks compared to merciless Israeli air, ground and sea attacks.
Sophisticated weapons cause mass slaughter and destruction. Through early evening Wednesday Gaza time, at least 24 more Palestinians were reported killed.
They're mostly civilians. They include women and children. The Palestinian death toll exceeds 2,040. Over 10,200 were injured. Many seriously. Some will die. Casualties keep mounting.
Life for many thousands of Gazans won't ever be the same. Many lost homes and all their possessions. Losing loved ones matters most.
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