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Obama Regime Pressing AGovernment-Wide Crackdown

On Security Threats Leaks To The Media Are

Equated With EspionageMillions Of Federal Employees Must

Watch For High-Risk Persons OrBehaviors Among Co-Workers And
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It has received scant pub lic attention even though i t extends beyond the U.S.national security bureaucracies to most federal departments and agenciesnationwide, including the Peace Corps, the Social Security Administration and theEducation and Agriculture departments.

It emphasizes leaks of classified material, but catchall definitions of insider threat give

agencies latitude to pursue and penalize a range of other conduct.

Government documents reviewed by McClatchy il lust rate how some agencies areusing that latitude to pursue unauthorized disclosures of any information, not justclassified material.

They also show how millions of federal employees and contractors must watch for high-risk persons or behaviors among co-workers and could face penalties, includingcriminal charges, for failing to report them. Leaks to the media are equated withespionage.

As par t of the ini tiative, Obama ordered greater protect ion for wh istleblowers who

use the proper internal channels to repor t official waste, fraud and abuse, butthats hardly comforting to some national security experts and current and formerU.S. officials.

They worry that the Insider Threat Program wont just discourage whistleblowingbut will have other grave consequences for the publics right to know and nationalsecurity.

The program could make it easier for the government to stifle the flow of unclassifiedand potentially vital information to the public, while creating toxic work environmentspoisoned by unfounded suspicions and spurious investigations of loyal Americans,according to these current and former officials and experts.

Some non-intelligence agencies already are urging employees to watch their co-workers for indicators that include stress, divorce and financial problems.

It was just a matter of time before the Department of Agriculture or the FDA (Food andDrug Administration) started implementing, Hey, lets get people to snitch on theirfriends. The only thing they havent done here is reward it, said Kel McClanahan, aWashington lawyer who specializes in national security law.

Im waiting for the time when you tu rn in a friend and you get a $50 reward.

Employees must turn themselves and others in for failing to report breaches.

Penalize clearly identifiable failures to report security in fractions and violations,including any lack of self-reporting, the strategic plan says.

The Obama administration already was pursuing an unprecedented number of leakprosecutions, and some in Congress long one of the most prolific spillers of secrets favor tightening restrictions on reporters access to federal agencies, making many U.S.officials reluctant to even disclose unclassified matters to the public.


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The Department of Education, meanwhile, informs employees that co-workers goingthrough certain life experiences . . . might turn a trusted user into an insider threat.

Those experiences, the department says in a computer training manual, include stress,divorce, financial problems or frustrations with co-workers or the organization.

A Defense Security Service online pamphlet lists a wide range of reportable suspicious

behaviors, including working outside of normal duty hours. While conceding that notevery behavior represents a spy in our midst, the pamphlet adds that every situationneeds to be examined to determine whether our nations secrets are at risk.

The Defense Department, traditionally a leading source of media leaks, is still setting upits program, but it has taken numerous steps.

They include creating a unit that reviews news reports every day for leaks of classifieddefense information and implementing new training courses to teach employees how torecognize security risks, including high-risk and disruptive behaviors among co-workers, according to Defense Department documents reviewed by McClatchy.

Its about peoples profi les, their approach to work, how they interact withmanagement. Are they cheery? Are they looking at Salon.com or The Onionduring their lunch break? This is about The Stepford Wives, said a secondsenior Pentagon offic ial, referring to online publications and a 1975 movie aboutrobotically docile housewives.

The official said he wanted to remain anonymous to avoid being punished forcriticizing the program.

The emphasis on certain behaviors reminded [Ilana] Greenstein of her employeeorientation with the CIA, when she was told to be suspicious of unhappy co-workers.

If someone was having a bad day, the message was watch out for them, she said.

There are numerous cases, however, of government workers who say theyvebeen forced to go publ ic because theyve suffered retaliation after trying tocomplain about waste, fraud and abuse through internal channels or to Congress.

Thomas Drake, a former senior NSA official, was indicted in 2010 under the EspionageAct after he disclosed millions of dollars in waste to a journalist. Hed tried for years toalert his superiors and Congress. The administration eventually dropped the chargesagainst him.

Greenstein said she become the target of scrutiny from security officials after she

began raising allegations of mismanagement in the CIAs operations in Baghdad.

But she never leaked her complaints , which included an allegation that hersecurity chief deleted details about safety risks from cables.

Instead, she relied on the agencys internal process to make the allegations.


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The CIA, however, tried to get the Justice Department to open a criminal case afterGreenstein mentioned during a polygraph test that she was writing a book, whichis permitted inside the agency as long as it goes through pre-publication review.

The CIA then demanded to see her personal computers.

When she got them back months later, all that shed written had been deleted,Greenstein said.

They clearly perceived me as an insider threat, said Greenstein, who has sincerewritten the book and has received CIA permission to publish portions of it.

By saying I have a problem with this place and I want to make it better, I wasinstantly turned into a security threat, she said. The CIA declined to comment.

MORE:

The Same People Who AreBuilding A Ubiquitous

Surveillance System To Spy OnTheir Own Citizens, Are NowAccusing The Person Who

Exposed It Of Espionage The Enemy Theyre Seeking ToKeep Ignorant With Selective AndExcessive Leak Prosecutions AreNot The Terrorists Or The Chinese

Communists Its The American People


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If Anything Is A Crime, Its That Secret,Unaccountable And Deceitful Behavior:

Not The Shining Of Light On It

The Obama administ ration does not hate unauthorized leaks of classifiedinformation.

They are more responsible for such leaks than anyone.

What they hate are leaks that embarrass them or expose their wrongdoing.

Those are the only kinds of leaks that are prosecuted.

22 J une 2013 by Glenn Greenwald, Guardian News and Media Limited

The US government has charged Edward Snowden with three felonies, including twounder the Espionage Act, the 1917 statute enacted to criminalize dissent against WorldWar I.

My priority at the moment is working on our next set of stories, so I just want to brieflynote a few points about this.

Prior to Barack Obamas inauguration, there were a grand total of threeprosecutions of leakers under the Espionage Act (including the prosecution ofDan Ellsberg by the Nixon DOJ).

Thats because the statute is so broad that even the US government has largely

refrained from using it.

But dur ing the Obama presidency, there are now seven such prosecutions: morethan double the number under all prior US presidents combined.

How can anyone justify that?

For a politician who tried to convince Americans to elect him based on repeated pledgesof unprecedented transparency and specific vows to protect noble and patrioticwhistleblowers, is this unparalleled assault on those who enable investigative journalismremotely defensible?

Recall that the New Yorkers J ane Mayer said recently that this oppressive climatecreated by the Obama presidency has brought investigative journalism to a standstill,while J ames Goodale, the General Counsel for the New York Times during its battleswith the Nixon administration, wrote last month in that paper that President Obama willsurely pass President Richard Nixon as the worst president ever on issues of nationalsecurity and press freedom.


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Read what Mayer and Goodale wrote and ask yourself: is the Obama administrationsthreat to the news-gathering process not a serious crisis at this point?

Few people - likely including Snowden himself - would contest that his actions constitutesome sort of breach of the law.

He made his choice based on basic theories of civ il disobedience: that those whocontrol the law have become corrupt, that the law in this case (by concealing theactions of government officials in building this massive spying apparatus insecret) is a tool of injustice, and that he felt compelled to act in violation of i t inorder to expose these official bad acts and enable debate and reform.

But thats a far cry from charging Snowden, who just turned 30 yesterday, with multiplefelonies under the Espionage Act that will send him to prison for decades if not life uponconviction.

In what conceivable sense are Snowdens actions espionage?

He could have - but chose not - sold the information he had to a foreignintelligence service for vast sums of money, or covertly passed it to one of

Americas enemies, or worked at the d irect ion of a foreign government.

That is espionage. He did none of those things.

What he did instead was give up his life of career stability and economicprosperity, living with his long-time girlfriend in Hawaii, in order to info rm hisfellow cit izens (both in America and around the world) of what the US governmentand its allies are doing to them and their privacy.

He did that by very carefully selecting which documents he thought should be disclosed

and concealed, then gave them to a newspaper with a team of editors and journalistsand repeatedly insisted that journalistic judgments be exercised about which of thosedocuments should be published in the public interest and which should be withheld.

Thats what every single whistleblower and source for investigative journalism, in everycase, does - by definition.

In what conceivable sense does that merit felony charges under the Espionage Act?

The essence of that extremely broad, century-old law is that one is guilty if one disclosesclassified information with intent or reason to believe that the information is to be usedto the injury of the United States, or to the advantage of any foreign nation.

Please read this rather good summary in this mornings New York Times of theworldwide debate Snowden has enabled - how these disclosures have set off a nationaldebate over the proper limits of government surveillance and opened anunprecedented window on the details of surveillance by the NSA, including itscompilation of logs of virtually all telephone calls in the United States and its collection ofe-mails of foreigners from the major American Internet companies, including Google,

Yahoo, Microsoft, Apple and Skype - and ask yourself: has Snowden actually does


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anything to bring injury to the United States, or has he performed an immense publicservice?

The irony is obvious: the same people who are building a ubiquitous surveillance systemto spy on everyone in the world, including their own citizens, are now accusing theperson who exposed it of espionage.

It seems clear that the people who are actually bringing injury to the UnitedStates are those who are waging war on basic tenets of transparency andsecretly constructing a mass and o ften illegal and unconstitutional surveillanceapparatus aimed at American cit izens - and those who are lying to the Americanpeople and its Congress about what theyre doing - rather than those who aredevoted to informing the American people that this is being done.

The Obama administration leaks classified information continuously.

They do it to glorify the President, or manipulate publi c opinion, or even to helpproduce a pre-election propaganda film about the Osama bin Laden raid.

The Obama administration does not hate unauthorized leaks of classified information.

They are more responsible for such leaks than anyone.

What they hate are leaks that embarrass them or expose their wrongdoing.

Those are the only kinds of leaks that are prosecuted.

Its a completely one-sided and manipulative abuse of secrecy laws.

Its all designed to ensure that the only info rmation we as citizens can learn is

what they want us to learn because it makes them look good.

The only leaks theyre interested in severely punishing are those that underminethem politically.

The enemy theyre seeking to keep ignorant with selective and excessive leakprosecut ions are not The Terror ists or The Chinese Communists. Its the

American people.

The Terroris ts already knew, and have long known, that the US government isdoing everything possible to surveil their telephonic and in ternetcommunications.

The Chinese have long known, and have repeatedly said, that the US is hacking intoboth their governmental and civilian systems (just as the Chinese are doing to the US).

The Russians have long known that the US and UK try to intercept the conversations oftheir leaders just as the Russians do to the US and the UK.

They havent learned anything from these disclosures that they didnt already wellknow.


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The people who have learned things they didn t already know are Americancitizens who have no connection to terrorism or foreign intelligence, as well ashundreds of millions of citizens around the world about whom the same is true.

What they have learned is that the vast bulk of this surveillance apparatus isdirected not at the Chinese or Russian governments or the Terrorists , but at them.

And that is precisely why the US government is so furious and wil l bring its ful lweight to bear against these disclosures.

What has been harmed is not the national security of the US but the ability of itspolitical leaders to work against their own citizens and citizens around the world in thedark, with zero transparency or real accountability.

If anything is a crime, its that secret, unaccountable and deceitful behavior: not theshining of light on it.

AFGHANISTAN WAR REPORTS

[Thanks to Mark Shapiro, Military Resistance Organization, who sent this in.]


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Two Foreign Occupation ServicememberKilled Somewhere Or Other In

Afghanistan: Nationality Not Announced

J une 23, 2013 By Associated Press,

Two foreign troops were killed in roadside bomb attacks Sunday in eastern Afghanistan.

A second foreign servicemember died following a subsequent improvised explosivedevice attack in eastern Afghanistan today.

Burleson Soldier On His ThirdDeployment Killed In Afghanistan

Spc. William R. Moody, 30, of Burleson, was one of four soldiers killed in the attack. Hewas a motor transport operator. Credit: Department of Defense

J une 20, 2013 WFAA

BURLESON -- The lawnmower cranked on and the sweat began to pour, but it was justa small gesture to honor a great sacrifice. Its horrible. I mean, hes over there fightingfor us to be safe and stuff, Brett Bolejack said.

He is part of the lawn crew that cares for a home in Burleson; a home with a yellowribbon wrapped around a tree and four small American flags beneath it. A lawn wherethree kids have no doubt played with their daddy; a daddy who gave all.


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Army Specialist William Moody graduated from Burleson High School in 2002 and joinedthe Army in 2004. He was a married father of three. Photos he and his wife posted onFacebook show a couple deeply in love, raising a family that loved to laugh.

Two days after Fathers Day, at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, a rocket the Talibanlaunched killed William Moody and three other American soldiers. Moody was on his

third tour of duty.

His 13 awards included the Army Commendation Medal, the Army Achievement Medal,Combat Action Ribbon, Army Good Conduct Medal, Marine Corps Good Conduct Medal,the National Defense Service Medal, the Afghanistan Campaign Medal with CampaignStar, the Iraq Campaign Medal with Campaign Star, the Global War on Terror ServiceMedal, the Army Service Ribbon, Overseas Service Ribbon, NATO Medal, and theDrivers Badge for Wheeled Vehicles, according to a release from the Department ofDefense.

Two others in his unit, the 68th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion, 43rdSustainment Brigade, 4th Infantry Division were also killed. Those soldiers were Spc.

Ember M. Alt, 21, of Beech Island, S.C., and Spc. Robert W. Ellis, 21, of Kennewick,Wash. They served as a wheeled vehicle mechanic and as a motor transport operator,respectively.

The additional soldier killed was Sgt. J ustin R. J ohnson, 25, of Hobe Sound, Fla,assigned to the 10th Transportation Battalion, 7th Sustainment Brigade.

At Moodys home in Burleson, Bolejack shared a brief memory.

He seemed like a very nice guy, he said, very caring, spending time with his kids,enjoying time home when he had a chance to be here.

The two met for the first time two months ago, when the soldier was home on leave.

When Bolejack heard about Moodys death, he had to do something. So he came to thehome to mow for free. And hell keep coming back, just to give a little back to a man anda family who gave all.

Were gonna do it the rest of the year, and not charge them anything, he said. I thinkits worth it.

POLITICIANS REFUSE TO HALT THE

BLOODSHED

THE TROOPS HAVE THE POWER TO STOP THEWAR


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Afghan Insurgents AttackPresidential Palace And CIA

Headquarters: Taliban Gunmen And Bombers UsingFake NATO Identif ication Attacked

25 Jun 2013 MediaCorp Pte Ltd

KABUL: Taliban gunmen and bombers using fake NATO identification attacked anentrance to the Afghan presidential palace in the heart of Kabul on Tuesday, just a weekafter insurgent leaders opened an office in Qatar for peace talks.

A nearby building known to house a CIA base also came under attack as explosions andgunfire erupted for more than an hour in an area close to heavily secured Westernembassies and ministry buildings.

Three Afghan security guards and all five assailants were killed, the interior ministrysaid.

Karzai, who l ives in the palace, was due to hold a press event in Kabul on Tuesdaymorning.

Officials confirmed that he was in the building at the time of the attack but not in danger.

The strike also came during a visit to Kabul by US envoy J ames Dobbins after a disputeover the Taliban opening an office in Qatar as a first step towards peace talks ending 12years of war.

The three guards were killed close to the Ariana hotel building, used as a CIA base sinceabout 2002, but officials said neither the palace nor the CIA property were breached.

Two four-wheel-drive cars using fake badges from NATOs International SecurityAssistance Force (ISAF) tried to pass through a checkpoint to access the sprawlingpalace grounds at about 6:30am (0200 GMT).

The first vehicle was checked and let in, and as the second car tried to get in the guardsbecame suspicious and tried to prevent it, Mohammad Daud Amin, the Kabul deputypolice chief, told AFP.

The clash started and the cars were detonated. All the attackers were killed.

Police said the cars had been fitted with radio antennae to make them look likeISAF vehicles and that the attackers were also wearing mili tary unifo rms.


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The car bombs detonated near the CIA base, inside the first of several layers of outercheckpoints for the palace.

A big group of attackers have struck against the CIA office as the main target and alsothe palace and the defence ministry nearby, Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid toldAFP.

All roads to the presidential palace are permanently closed off, with multiple rings ofheavy security around the complex keeping people far away.

More Resistance Action: Residents Said The Security PersonnelResponded To The Attacks With Firing

Into The Air And Left Their Posts WithoutPutting Up Any Resistance

J un 23, 2013 By Farid Tanha & J aved Hamim Kakar, PAN & 24 J une 2013 TOLOnews& 25 J une 2013 TOLOnews & Jun 26, 2013 By Qutbuddin Kohi, PAN & TOLOnews &

J une 27, 2013 The Hindu

MAIMANA: Taliban insurgents kil led five Afghan Local Police (ALP) membersduring attacks on three security posts in the Qaisar district o f northwesternFaryab province, an official said on Wednesday.

The security posts were attacked in Nawabad and Khwaja Kinti areas on Tuesdayevening, the district chief, Abdul J amil Siddiqui, told Pajhwok Afghan News.

Another two members of the force were wounded and six machine guns were seized bythe assailants, he added.

The attacks were sparked by ALPs arbitrary actions, Siddiqui said.

The slain ALP personnel had recently been deployed to the newly built posts in the area,said the provincial council secretary, Syed Abdul Baqi.

However, residents said the security personnel responded to the attacks with

firing into the air and left their posts without putting up any resistance.

The Taliban torched the three posts and the ensuing fire burnt nearby wheat cropsspread over tens of acres of land, they claimed.

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Seven Afghan National Police (ANP) officers were killed Sunday in a roadsidebomb in southern Uruzgan province, reported provincial officials.

The incident took place in the Chenarto district of the province, when a police vehiclewas struck by a roadside bomb.

All the policemen were killed in the blast which were on the vehicle, said FaizeMohammad, the districts governor.

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In Kabul, the Ministry of Defence announced six troops had been killed and five othersinjured in different parts of the country.

The fatalities resulted from guerrilla attacks and bombings in Nangarhar, Parwan,Kandahar, Maidan Wardak, Paktia and Helmand provinces.

Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said nine ANA troops had been killed and many

others wounded.

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Afghan security officials have confirmed that two police officers were killed and twoothers injured in a Taliban attack in eastern Nangarhar province Monday night.

The attack took place in the Bati Kot district of Nangarhar province, when the Talibaninsurgents attacked several police checkpoints and started a gun-battle with thepolicemen, said Gen. Mohammad Amin Sharif, Nangarhar police chief.

The clash continued for about two hours in the area. Two police officers were killed and

two others injured in the gun-battle, said Gen. Mohammad Amin Sharif, NangarharPolice Chief.

Some Taliban insurgents were also among the casualties but there is no exactinformation available about their numbers.

Bati Kot district is considered as one of the most insecure districts in the province whereinsurgents are activities and targeting the local security forces.

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Security officials have confirmed that four police officers were injured in a roadside bomb

blast in eastern Paktia province early Wednesday.

The incident took place in Gardez, capital of the province, when the police vehicle fellprey to a roadside bomb, said Rohullah Samoon, provincial governor spokesman.

Rohullah Samoon, Provincial Governors Spokesman said, The victims condition wasnot serious and they have been rushed to a nearest hospital.

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ANNIVERSARIES

June 26, 1918:Anniversary Of A Political Atrocity

Carl Bunin Peace History J une 25 - J uly 1

[S]ocialist organizer Eugene Debs was arrested June 26, 1918, for g iving an anti-war speech in Canton, Ohio, 10 days earlier.

He was charged with uttering words intended to cause insubordination and disloyaltywithin the American forces of the United States, to incite resistance to the war, and topromote the cause of Germany, despite his repeated and vehement criticism in thespeech of Germany and its landed aristocracy, known as the J unkers.

And that is war in a nutshell. The master class has always declared the wars; thesubject class has always fought the battles.

The master class has had all to gain and nothing to lose, while the subject classhas had nothing to gain and all to lose especially their lives.


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OCCUPATION PALESTINE

Interview With Two PalestinianParamedics:

They Dont Care If We Are MedicsOr Not. They Target Everything They Think We Are Palestinian So

We Have To Die They Tried To Kill Me!

Palestinian medics evacuate a Palestinian youth after he was shot by Israeli soldiers

during clashes at Ofer prison. (Photo by Activestills)

16th J une 2013 International Solidarity Movement, Ramallah Team

Nabi Saleh, Occupied Palestine

M. and A. are two independent paramedics who regularly attend different protestsagainst Israeli occupation of the West Bank.


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Israeli forces usually respond to Palestinian popular resistance with extreme violence,including the shooting of tear gas canisters, rubber coated steel bullets and liveammunition.

Considering that injuries are very common and that the nearest hospital is usually farfrom the village where the protests are taking place, the presence of medical personnel

in these demonstrations is essential and highly appreciated by protesters.

Last Friday, we had the opportunity to talk to M. and A. during the weekly demonstrationin Nabi Saleh, which they regularly attend.

International Solidarity Movement: How long have you been volunteering asparamedics? Why did you choose to volunteer?

M: Since 2009. In the beginning I was working in a project with the Danish Red CrossYouth and then I joined the Red Crescent.

A: I have been volunteering since 2004. I do it because I like to help people and this is

the way I want to do that.

ISM: You go to a lot of demonstrations as paramedics why do you think that theseprotests are important to the community and to Palestine?

M: Well it is better to do something than to do nothing. Also, when there are medics atdemonstrations people have more courage to go to the front because they know that weare there to assist them in case something happens.

A: As you know, we live under occupation so people have to move and do something toend it. We have to protest and attend demonstrations anytime and anywhere.

ISM: Nabi Saleh demonstration, for example, receives a lot of press coverage. Whatlesser known demonstrations do you cover and how are these different?

M: Sometimes there are protests at Ofer during the night and no one knows anythingabout this. This is one of the unknown protests. Also at Qalandiya, there is no press,there are often no medics, only a few people there. I go sometimes to these clashes. A.is always there.

A: Yes, Im always there, at Ofer, Qalandiya. But no one knows about it. All the media isin Nilin, Bilin, Nabi Saleh the villages outside Ramallah. Those other places, nobodyknow about them, especially the media. However, I think the places where there is nomedia can be good for shabab (Palestinian youths) as they can do whatever they want

for the resistance.

M: But it is also good for the soldiers, they can also do whatever they want and no onewill film them.

A: This is the difference. But even if there is media, the Israeli soldiers can do whateverthey want, no one can stop them, we know that.


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A medic treating an injured protester from rubber coated steel bullet in Nabi Saleh. (Photo by

Tamimi Press)

ISM: Do you think that the presence of internationals, such as ISMers, makes anydifference at demonstrations in Palestine?

M: Actually, there is difference between internationals and ISMers. Some internationalslike to be here because they think they are going to liberate this country but they areactually doing nothing, they are just messing up the situation more and more.

But some people, like ISMers, do something at least. They try to help in an organisedway. But it depends, there are different internationals, some just come to see what ishappening, some come to take photos, there are differences. It depends on whichinternational we are talking about.

A: I will say like him, in short way, there are people who come here just to take a photo,like if this was an adventure. They think there is adventure in the West Bank so theycome. And there are people who come to support Palestinian cause and popularresistance.

M: Some people think it is a game.

A: Yes, they think there is adventure they think lets go to see it, to try it.

ISM: There have been some deaths of paramedics. Do you think medics aredeliberately targeted at demonstrations?

M: There is a difference between us, medics who work in the field, and people who workin the ambulances.


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The Israeli forces target a lot of ambulances in Gaza and also the hospital there. But,yes, sometimes they do target us as well. Sometimes they just shoot directly. If there isno media, then theyre just going to do it. They did it at Ofer and also here at Nabi Salehseveral times. One time he (pointing at A) got shot they shot him directly with a teargas canister. Directly at him. He ducked just in time, so he didnt get shot in the head.

A: They tried to kill me!

M: Once they targeted me when I was with just a couple of other protesters before thedemonstration because there was no media, and it was before the protest had startedthey just shot directly at us. So yes, sometimes they do this, yeah. They dont care.

A: They think we are Palestinian so we have to die. They dont care if we are medics ornot. They target everything.

M: Also at Qalandiya on Nakba Day, they (Israeli forces) started restricting theambulances from the PMRC and the Red Crescent they dont want them to help theshabab (Palestinian youths) because if there are more ambulances, the shabab will just

keep going, because they know someone will carry them and help them if they get shot.

ISM: You told us about the Israeli army aiming at your head could you tell us aboutyour injuries?

M: Yes, that day I was walking towards him (A) and then they started shooting directlytear gas at his back so I shouted (A) at him, so he turned and ducked and just got twoshots in his legs. T

hey (Israeli soldiers) called the ambulance and told them Yeah, one of your medics gotshot.

A: Yes, they called the driver and asked him how is the medic? If you want to take himto hospital, you can go through the checkpoint you can cross it. But actually theywanted to arrest me. I didnt go in the ambulance.

M: A bit later, the ambulance took someone else and the soldiers stopped theambulance for fifteen minutes checking the ambulance.

A: They were asking the driver where is the medic? the ambulance driver called meand said theyre looking for you.

They had been targeting me he shot me from close distance, maybe 40 metres. Hesaw it and then they wanted to arrest me. About my injuries? I dont know about him

(M), but me, I have been injured many times. At Nabi Saleh, Ofer, Qalandiya, Biliin,

M: They also once shot directly at us just over there (pointing) but I went like this(dodging) so it hit him!

A: I am like a magnet.

ISM: So this is despite the fact that you are wearing medics clothes and backpacks you are easily identified as medics?


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M: Yes, its obvious that we are medics, so they shouldnt be shooting us or targeting us,according to international humanitarian law. But they dont care about this.

A: Actually, with this uniform they are targeting us, we are clear there is a medic, wecan shoot him directly now, he is clear for us.

ISM: So you spoke about the ambulance being stopped at the checkpoint and searched,obstructing medical care. In what ways has the Israeli army obstructed your work?

M: Actually the thing with the ambulance has an explanation they (the Israeli army) areallowed to check ambulances for fifteen minutes no longer than that. Because in thesecond intifada there was a suicide bomber inside an ambulance and they stopped it at

J aba and the Israelis brought all the media and filmed it. So since that they are allowedto stop the ambulances and check them for fifteen minutes. That was part of theagreement.

Once in Nabi Saleh they didnt allow the ambulance to get in after a girl who got shot

down the hill with a tear gas canister.

For three hours we kept calling the Red Cross, the Red Crescent but nothing happened.

In the end they brought another ambulance from Nablus so they came from the otherdirection.

And there was a guy who got shot with a rubber coated steel bullet from a shortdistance, grazing the top of his head and leaving him with a three centimetre cut but hewas fine. They (the ambulance crew) told him, if we pick you up and take you to thehospital then theyre going to arrest you. So he decided to stay in Nabi Saleh.

After that, when a guy got shot with a dum dum bullet thats the only time that they letthe ambulance get out. We had to take the other two guys with a service (shared taxi) toRamallah hospital.

ISM: How many injuries do you usually treat at a demonstration, and what kind ofinjuries are they typically?

A: That depends! If the soldiers are having a nice day, maybe they wil l shootfifteen, sixteen. But if theyre angry , more than this number. Twenty, twenty-five.

M: They use tear gas and rubber coated steel bullets the worst is the rubber coatedsteel bullets, because they go randomly and hit many people. When they aim with live

bullets they just shoot one guy, but when its rubber coated bullets, its spread overmany. It also depends if you want to count the tear gas inhalation as an injury.

A: You can see, in Nabi Saleh there are maybe five or six injuries in the protest. Maybemore sometimes. But if you look at Ofer, eighteen, nineteen even one hundred,sometimes even more.

M: Usually they just use tear gas and rubber coated steel bullets. I think in Nabi Salehthere was just one guy who was shot with live ammunition.


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A: In Nabi Saleh, no, not just one. Three. One of them was shot on this mountain in hisleg with a live bullet. Another in his hand. And Rushdi, who died last year, was shot inhis leg on that mountain.

[To check out what life is like under a murderous mil itary occupation commanded

by foreign terrorists, go to: www.rafahtoday.org The occupied nation is Palestine.The foreign terrorists call themselves Israeli. ]

CLASS WAR REPORTS

Massive Protests AreSweeping Chile

100,000 Students And WorkersMarch Demanding End To Rich-Poor Divide:
http://www.rafahtoday.org/http://www.rafahtoday.org/


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Chileans Of All Ages Joined TheProtests

The Country Is Known For LowestPublic Spending For Education, Which

Deepens Wealth Inequalities AndIncreases Disadvantages The Poor

Demonstration against the government to demand changes in the public state educationsystem in Valparaiso city, about 75 mi northwest of Santiago, Chile, on J une 13, 2013.Chileans have been protesting against what they say is profiteering in the stateeducation system. (Reuters/Eliseo Fernandez)

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Chile police have arrested 224 students, including some 100 minors in protests andsweeps to clear schools of occupiers demanding education reform, said media reports.

According to the countrys Interior Minister Andres Chadwick, protesting studentsoccupied 28 schools including 21 in Santiagos metropolitan area and seven in four otherregions of Chile.

These schools are to serve as polling stations in upcoming presidential primary electionson J une 30, 2013. But a J une 27-morning operation by police evicted the dissident


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students occupying the schools. Weve restored order, Chadwick said in a televisedspeech on June 27-morning.

However, the students said they are finished talking with the government of presidentSebastian Pinera and have stepped up protests in demand of free, quality education withan eye to upcoming parliamentary and presidential elections in November.

The student movement, which began in 2011, held massive protests June 26, 2013that included the participation o f teachers and healthcare, copper and por tworkers.

At Sant iagos main Alameda Avenue, some 100,000 protesters gathered peacefu ll yat the Los Heroes central square, but more radical groups, faces covered withhoods or masks, clashed with riot pol ice for several hours, throwing awayroadblocks. Police used tear gas and water cannons to disperse the crowds.

In the hours before the national march, students attacked and briefly occupied theministry of education.

Another group protested outside Codelco, the state-run copper mining company, withsigns reading Copper for Education in reference to Chiles massive revenue fromcopper exports and student demands for free university education for all.

Thousands also marched on J une 26, 2013 in the southern city of Concepcin.

The dissident students described the protests as a success and condemned theviolence, and indicated they will be taking part in a nationwide strike on J uly 11organized by the trade unions.

The countrys powerful student movement has staged massive protests to demand free

and improved education in the stratified country over the past two years, during whichthousands of students have taken over schools and universities intermittently.

The students have demanded a wider redistribution of the countrys copper wealth, areform of the educational system putting the state back in control of mostly privatizedpublic universities, and tax increases for the rich.

Chile television channels showed police bursting into schools barricaded with chairs andisolated clashes between youth and police early on J une 27, a day after a march foreducation reform.

Student leaders have countered that the pol itical establishment in Chile, ranked

the most unequal country of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation andDevelopment, does not represent them.

This is continuing to seek out confrontation and not profound solutions to the problem ofeducation, said former student leader Camila Vallejo, who is now running for a seat inCongress.


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Massive protests are sweeping Chile as students and workers demand a reversal ofschool privatization drives and wealth inequalities gripping the country. Chileans of allages joined the protests, which are driven by a range of issues.

Much of the energy comes from the ranks of public schoolchildren. Instead of football orskateboarding, teenagers often gather after school in public parks to draft declarations

and manifestos.

The only way in which education reforms respond to what the country in demanding is ifthere is direct participation from all social actors, declared Andrs Fielbaum, leader ofthe Student Federation of Universidad de Chile.

More than half of all schools and universities in the country are in private sector, whichruns for profit.

The country is known for lowest public spending for education, which deepenswealth inequalities and increases disadvantages the poor .

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