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Answering helen thomas on why they want to harm us

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By Ray McGovern

(source:  www.truthout.org) 

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 Thank God for Helen Thomas, the only person to show any courage at the White House press briefing after President Barack Obama gave a flaccid account of the intelligence screw-up that almost downed an airliner on Christmas Day.

After Obama briefly addressed L’Affaire Abdulmutallab and wrote “must do better” on the report cards of the national security schoolboys responsible for the near catastrophe, the President turned the stage over to counter-terrorism guru John Brennan and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano.

It took 89-year old veteran correspondent Helen Thomas to break through the vapid remarks about channeling “intelligence streams,” fixing “no-fly” lists, deploying “behavior detection officers,” and buying more body-imaging scanners.

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Nuclear summit aims to protect west

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By Dr Firoz Osman

(source: Star + Daily News)

The gathering of 47 nations at the Nuclear Security Summit in the US has one unstated purpose: to limit the development of nuclear energy to countries serving the Western alliance.

Most experts agree that the "threat of nuclear terrorism" is virtually non-existent at present. The objective is to make Iran, perhaps the only nation-state obstructing total domination by the Western powers, buckle under to sanctions, or even a military nuclear attack on its territory.

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Boycott begins to bite at companies supporting Isaraels military occupation of Palestine

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Boycott Begins to Bite at Companies Supporting Israel’s Military Occupation of Palestine

By Nadia Hijab, CounterPunch.

"When companies begin to lose money, they start to listen."

On May 4, protesters will greet Motorola shareholders, already disgruntled by the company’s losses, as they arrive for their annual meeting at the Rosemont Theater in Chicago, Illinois.

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Israels secret police vet candidates for imam

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By Jonathan Cook

(source: The National)

Sheikh Ahmed Abu Ajwa has been preaching at Jabalya mosque since he was 19. Warrick Page for The National

JAFFA // Job interviews for the position of imam at mosques in Israel are conducted not by senior clerics but by the Shin Bet, Israel’s secret police, a labour tribunal has revealed.

Sheikh Ahmed Abu Ajwa, 36, is fighting the Shin Bet’s refusal to approve his appointment as an imam in a case that has lifted the lid on Israel’s secret surveillance of the country’s Islamic leaders.

At a hearing last month, a senior government official admitted that 60 undercover inspectors were employed effectively as spies to collect information on Muslim clerics, reporting on political opinions they expressed in sermons and relaying gossip about their private lives.

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