Steven Aftergood: Is Unauthorized Receipt of Classified Information a Felony?

August 4th, 2011 by Steven Aftergood

Could the unauthorized receipt of classified information be a felony?  Judge Leonie M. Brinkema made that startling claim in passing in a July 29 memorandum opinion (pdf) in the case of suspected leaker Jeffrey Sterling that was unsealed yesterday.  But her statement is almost certainly a misunderstanding and a misrepresentation of the law.

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Lupe Fiasco – Words I Never Said ft. Skylar Grey [Music Video]

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Hip Hop star Lupe Fiasco tells of his early education on Palestine

via Ali Abunimah – click here to read more

Gaza Strip was getting bombed, Obama didn’t say shit

Click here to view “Lupe Fiasco Interview 6/28/11” on YouTube

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James Petras: Organized Political Terrorism: The Norwegian Massacre, the State, the Media and Israel

07.30.2011 :: James Petras

The Lone Assassin: A Fascist Superman Travels Faster than a Speeding Bullet Versus the Police Moving Slower than an Arthritic Turtle

“So let us fight together with Israel, with our Zionist brothers against all anti-Zionist,s against all cultural Marxists/Multiculturalists”.
Anders Behring Breivik’s Manifesto

“. . . two more cells exist in my organization”. . .
Ander Behring Breivik in police custody (Reuters 7/25/11)

Introduction:

The July 22, 2011, bombing of the office of the Norwegian Prime Minister, Labor Party Jen Stoltenberg, which killed 8 civilians, and the subsequent political assassination of 68 unarmed activists of the Labor Party Youth on Utoeya Island, just 20 minutes from Oslo, by militant neo-fascist Christian-Zionists, raises fundamental questions about the growing links between the legal Far-Right, the ‘mainstream media’, the Norwegian police, Israel and rightwing terrorism.

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Food, Farming, and Freedom: Sowing the Arab Spring by Rami Zurayk

Food, Farming, and Freedom: Sowing the Arab Spring
by Rami Zurayk

The wave of anti-government protests that swept through the Arab world from December 2010 on is transforming politics and society in the Middle East.  The protests came as a surprise to many observers– but not to Rami Zurayk, an experienced Lebanese agronomist and social activist who had been charting the collapse of traditional agricultural livelihoods in the Middle East since the late 1980s.

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