Tel Aviv Bus Driver: No Blacks Allowed Egged bus driver to Ethiopian: No blacks allowed By Daniel Edelson Woman recounts humiliating experience in which bus driver told her, ‘Kushit, in Ethiopia you didn’t even have shoes and here you do, so why don’t you walk?’; Egged to investigate incident http://atheonews.blogspot.com/2009/08/peaceniks-for-imperialism.html "Peaceniks for imperialism Canada’s Peace Magazine and the promotion of non-military warfare in the service of US foreign policy goals www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=33704 "HRW: Israelis shot Gaza civilians waving white flags One scene: Israeli soldiers opened fire on Gaza females holding white flags, killing two girls aged two, seven www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=33693 "US outlines new direction for diplomacy In clear break with Bush era, US pledges to coordinate with UN, work with 'respect' with other countries. www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=33698 Israeli bomblet wounds two Lebanon children Two Lebanese brothers - 10 and 13 - wounded by Israeli cluster bomb on 60th anniversary of Geneva Conventions Ex-ISI Chief Says Purpose of New Afghan Intelligence Agency RAMA Is ‘to destabilize Pakistan’ http://www.daily.pk/ex-isi-chief-says-purpose-of-new-afghan-intelligence-agency-8610/www.daily.pk/ex-isi-chief-says-purpose-of-new-afghan-intelligence-agency-8610/ VIDEO: Swine Flu Pandemic, 2009: Anglo-American Genocide Part I www.youtube.com/watch?v=egbVv2x6FqA&feature=related" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"VIDEO: Swine Flu Pandemic, 2009: Anglo-American Genocide Part I http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egbVv2x6FqA&feature=related Obama Proposes Web-Tracking Plan, Privacy Advocates Alarmed" www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/10/AR2009081002743.html Saudi Arabia arrested thousands without trial - HRW" www.dictatorshipwatch.com/2009/08/12/saudi-arabia-arrested-thousands-without-trial-hrw.html rel= Afghan War: NATO Builds History's First Global Army" www.dictatorshipwatch.com/2009/08/11/afghan-war-nato-builds-historys-first-global-army.html Eva Golinger: USA privatizes Colombian war with transnational mercenaries www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=82886 What jumps out here is their areas of responsibility and the amount of money they receive for a period of 12 months! Even though these are US companies contracted by the State Department, they are not subject to any US legal code ... as part of a bi-national accord, they have total immunity in Colombia, i.e. they respond to nobody for their crimes, actions and operations. Of the 31 companies on this list, I have limited myself on this occasion to mentioning the most important and those with a long history of belligerence in various parts of the world... The transnationals of warThe first on the list is Lockheed-Martin, one of the largest companies of the military-industrial complex in the United States. It is dedicated to producing weapons and technology, including war planes. Its contract includes $53 million in financing for the period of one year to provide logistical support and technical assistance to the national police of Colombia, in addition to training personnel for special operations. Another is Dyn Corp International which also forms part of the US military-industrial complex ... the US State Department provides it with $164 million in financing to provide pilots, technicians and logistical support to the Colombian army. Similarly, the Arinc company (a private contractor to the military-industrial complex) received $8 million to maintain, manage and train the Colombian national police in the task of intercepting signals and obtaining equipment associated with espionage. Oackley Network received $5 million for the provision of software for monitoring the internet and to assist in espionage programs conducted by the crime division of the Colombian national police. ITT -- a transnational telecom that participated in the coup d'etat against [Chilean President] Salvador Allende -- is also to be found on the list In 2007 it received some $7 million to operate a hemispheric radar system, offer logistical support and provide radar equipment in Colombian territory that operate via satellite. Echelon EspionageAnother company with global reach is the Pentagon's Rendon Group, which acquired a contract for $3.4 million to give communications support to Plan Colombia and to counter narcotics operations. The Rendon Group is one of the most well-known groups of experts in psychological operations dedicated to designing this type of campaign ... it is this company that manages a great part of the media campaign against Venezuela and Ecuador ... the contract stipulates the use of the Echelon system (the largest known espionage system) invented in the 1970s by the US National Security Agency (NSA). It is a satellite system that has the capacity to monitor all worldwide communications. They enter a specific word in the system, and this is linked to the rest of the communications systems. If they find that someone used that word on the telephone, cell phone or computer, attention is directed to give the exact location and permits the conversation to be monitored. The US State Department financing implies a continuation of the escalated offensive and imperialist aggression against the region. www.imemc.org/article/61364 Peace Now: Construction ongoing in North Jerusalem settlementThe Israeli Peace Now movement published a report stating that construction is ongoing with the expansion of Kochav Yaakov settlement, north of Jerusalem.The Real News Network asks "Who profits from Israeli occupation?"Here's an in-depth report on the global BDS movement from Lia Tarachansky of South Africa Government Complicit in Israeli ApartheidA few weeks ago I departed from South Africa for the Gaza Strip in order to take up a short-term voluntary post with a humanitarian organization there. As the Rafah border crossing with Egypt is effectively the only passage in and out of the besieged territory, flying to Cairo was my only option in gaining access to Gaza.http://palestinechronicle.com/view_article_details.php?id=15349 interesting because the un media reported this