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The NSA’s New Partner in Spying: Saudi Arabia’s Brutal State Police

The NSA’s New Partner in Spying: Saudi Arabia’s Brutal State Police The NSA’s New Partner in Spying: Saudi Arabia’s Brutal State Police By Glenn Greenwald and Murtaza Hussain July 27, 2014 " ICH " - " The Intercept " -  The National Security Agency last year significantly expanded its cooperative relationship with the Saudi Ministry of Interior, one of the world’s most repressive and abusive government agencies. An April 2013 top secret memo provided by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden details the agency’s plans “to provide direct analytic and technical support” to the Saudis on “internal security” matters. The Saudi Ministry of Interior—referred to in the document as MOI— has been condemned for years as one of the most brutal human rights violators in the wor...
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Netanyahu’s ‘Telegenically Dead’ Comment Is Grotesque but Not Original

Netanyahu’s ‘Telegenically Dead’ Comment Is Grotesque but Not Original GAZA, PALESTINE - 2014/07/20: Palestinian medics carry the body of a child killed in Shijaiyah east of Gaza City, after Israel expanded its ground offensive on the Gaza Strip (Photo by Ibrahim Khader/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images) July 22, 2014 " ICH " - " The Intercept " - -   Benjamin Netanyahu, yesterday, on CNN, addressing worldwide sympathy for the civilian victims of Israeli violence in Gaza : They want to pile up as many civilian dead as they can. They use telegenically dead Palestinians for their cause. They want the more dead, the better. Joseph Goebbels, November 16, ...
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Reaping What We Have Sown In Gaza

Reaping What We Have Sown In Gaza Reaping What We Have Sown In Gaza Those who turned Gaza into an internment camp for 1.8 million people should not be surprised when they tunnel underneath the earth. By Amira Hass July 22, 2014 " ICH " - " Haaretz " -- -   I’ve already raised the white flag. I’ve stopped searching the dictionary for the word to describe half of a boy’s missing head while his father screams “Wake up, wake up, I bought you a toy!” How did Angela Merkel, the chancellor of Greater Germany, put it? Israel’s right to defend itself. I’m still struggling with the need to share details of the endless number of talks I’ve had with friends in Gaza, in order to document what it’s like to wait for your turn in the slaughterhouse. For example, the talk I had on Sat...
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Gaza's children, most likely to be killed, live in state of 'shock and horror'

Gaza's children, most likely to be killed, live in state of 'shock and horror' Gaza’s children, most likely to be killed, live in state of "shock and horror" Submitted by Nora Barrows-Fr... on Tue, 07/22/2014 - 20:47 140722-palestinian-boy-gaza.jpg Israel’s indiscriminate attacks on Gaza have killed, injured and deeply traumatized Palestinian children. ( Eyad Al Baba / APA images ) Many children were killed or seriously injured in Israel’s massacre in Shujaiya on Sunday. ( Ashraf Amra / APA images ) “We have never seen it this bad for children,” says Ivan Karakashian of Defence for Children International-Palestine. ( Mohammed Asad / APA images ) Israel killed 19 children from one family DCI-Palestine lists the names of the children from the Abu Jami’ family in Khan Younis. “All were sheltering in their four-storey house when the strike occurred without warning ,” the organization says. Njoud Tayseer Ahmad Abu Jami’, 4 months Bisan Bassam Ahm...
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