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Glenn Greenwald Speaks Out

Ex-official: CIA Helped Jail Mandela June 29, 2013 " Information Clearing House  -  " Chicago Tribune"  --- -- June 10, 1990  - WASHINGTON — For nearly 28 years the U.S. government has harbored an increasingly embarrassing secret: A CIA tip to South African intelligence agents led to the arrest that put black nationalist leader Nelson Mandela in prison for most of his adult life.

Foreign media portrayals of the conflict in Syria are dangerously inaccurate But at the very time I was in the town, Al Jazeera Arabic was reporting fighting there between the Syrian army and the opposition. Smoke was supposedly rising from Tal Kalakh as the rebels fought to defend their stronghold. Fortunately, this appears to have been fantasy and, during the several hours I was in the town, there was no shooting, no sign that fighting had taken place and no smoke. Of course, all sides in a war pretend that no position is lost without a heroic defence against overwhelming numbers of the enemy. But obscured in the media's accounts of what happened in Tal Kalakh was an important point: the opposition in Syria is fluid in its allegiances. The US, Britain and the so-called 11-member "Friends of Syria", who met in Doha last weekend, are to arm non-Islamic fundamentalist rebels, but there is no great chasm between them and those not linked to al-Qa'ida. One fighter with...

US Ospreys and air tankers put Iran in Israel's reach - Middle East - Stripes The United States plans to give Israel weapons that would enable it to send ground forces against Iranian nuclear facilities that it can't penetrate from the air. The deal includes air-refueling aircraft, advanced radars for F-15 fighter jets, and up to eight V-22 Ospreys, an aircraft that can land like a helicopter and carry two dozen special operations forces with their gear over long distances at aircraft speeds.

Syrians behead Christians for helping military, as CIA ships in arms - Washington Times A priest and another Christian were beheaded before a cheering crowd by Syrian insurgents who say they aided and abetted the enemy, President  Bashar Assad ’s military, foreign media reported. An undated video that made the Internet rounds on Wednesday showed two unnamed men with tied hands surrounded by a cheering crowd of dozens, just moments before their heads were cut off with a small knife, Syria Report said. The attackers in the video then lifted the head for show, and placed it back on the body. The incident took place in the countryside of Idlib, the media report said. Read more:  http://p.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jun/27/syrians-behead-christians-helping-military-cia-shi/#comment-946621703#ixzz2XihPlc9i   Follow us:  @washtimes on Twitter

Yahoo Fought PRISM and Lost, FISA Court Confirms -- News from Antiwar.com The FISA courts have finally declassified some minor details  of an early 2008 lawsuit brought by Yahoo, which was resisting the demand to join PRISM. A heavily redacted version of the ruling was leaked in 2009, dismissing the complaints as “ overblown ” and claiming the NSA’s promises not to abuse the system made their opposition moot.

Africans denied right to work in Israel “Rather than saying, ‘This is what you need to do,’ they destroyed all food in the restaurant, including what was on people’s plates,” said Ilana Pinshaw, project manager at Tel Aviv-based microfinance group Microfy, which monitored the case and provides training, and small loans to asylum-seekers in Israel looking to start businesses.