In the United States, DHS (the Department of Home and Security) has purchase of the 750,000,000 rounds of deadly bullets. The purchase that DHS has not given an explanation for, could have been nothing more than a routine purchase. In this edition of News Analysis we will question what reasons maybe behind this purchase? Given the Occupy Movement in the US the advent of the NDAA and trespass bill and the repeated cases of black killing such as Trayvon Martine case?

According to an interview with National Lawyers Guild (NLG) spokesman Kris Hermes, Chicago police officers raided a Bridgeport apartment complex on Wednesday evening without a valid warrant and detained up to nine people without cause. - The NLG is working in Chicago this week sending monitors to protests at the NATO Summit 2012 to insure activists rights are not violated. They are also functioning as lawyers for anyone detained during the week's activities. The NLG worked through the night to locate the arrested activists. They were unable to get any information from the Chicago Police Department (CPD) or even any acknowledgement that a raid had taken place. "We've called police officials at every level trying to find out where they were being held. We were denied any information at all about any people being arrested, let alone a raid happening last night. So essentially these people were disappeared for more than 12 hours until we could finally locate them," said NLG spokesman Kris Hermes. They were found at the CPD Organized Crime Division police station lock up at 3340 W. Fillmore St. on the West Side.

“I think they have made the decision to attack, it is going to happen.”

That was the word from an unnamed top Israeli official, familiar with the ongoing conversation, in comments to Reuters. The debate within Israel over the attack, which reached a fevered pace just weeks ago, has come to a virtual halt, and the new coalition government has stopped talking about the upcoming war in public, apparently satisfied that they have won the argument. “Nobody is saying anything publicly,” noted another official, who termed the situation a sort of “lockdown” for Israel’s cabinet leadership. Even the question of when the war will start seems to be answered, with officials pointing again to the weeks leading up to the US election. “The window of opportunity is before the U.S. presidential election in November. This way they will bounce the Americans into supporting them.” Obama aides have likewise referred to the weeks before the vote as the “sweet spot” for the war.

RIA Novosti: Russian Prime Minister: Syria intervention by West could lead to full-blown wars

Israeli troops attacked a group of Gaza farmers today along the heavily militarized border with the besieged strip, wounding eight, including two seriously. At least three of the wounded were said to be elderly farmers who own land along the border. - Israeli officials claimed that the farmers were “too close” to the border, and initially claimed that they were armed, though that portion of the claim did not appear in later statements. They said they assumed the farmers were laying explosives in a plot to “kidnap soldiers.” The troops repeatedly shouted warnings at the farmers to stay off the land near the border, and then attacked them, initially with machine guns and then fired artillery at them as they fled “into a civilian population concentration,” apparently Beit Lahia.

IOF use force to disperse peaceful protest organized by Palestinian civilians in the West Bank.
● 16 Palestinian civilians, including 3 journalists, were wounded in peaceful protests organized in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails.
● 30 Palestinian civilians, including 3 children, were wounded in peaceful demonstration organized on the 64th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba.
● Dozens of civilians suffered from tear gas inhalation.
● IOF arrested 5 demonstrators, including a Polish human rights defender.

IOF conducted 41 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank.
● IOF arrested 13 Palestinian civilians, including two children.

IOF continued to attack Palestinian fishermen in the Gaza Strip.
● IOF arrested two fishermen and confiscated their boat.

Israel has continued to impose a total closure on the OPT and has isolated the Gaza Strip from the outside world.
● IOF arrested two Palestinian civilians at various checkpoints in the West Bank.

IOF have continued settlement activities in the West Bank and Israeli settlers have continued to attack Palestinian civilians and property.
● Israeli settlers uprooted 15 grape saplings and seized 6 dunums of agricultural land in al-Khader village, south of Bethlehem.
● Israeli settlers uprooted 14 trees in Beit Ummar town, north of Hebron.

The latest incident happened on Monday but information has only just been released. The Turkish military said the Israeli plane violated its airspace five times for a total of eight minutes before it was chased away. The situation is further complicated by the Greek Cypriot government's discovery of huge offshore natural gas deposits. Turkey is questioning who has the right to develop these reserves, and has dismissed a Cypriot-Israeli deal demarcating their maritime borders.

Iran warns Internet giant Google of legal action, should the US-based corporation continue to use ‘alternative words’ for the Persian Gulf.

“Toying with modern technologies in political issues is among the new measures by the enemies against Iran, [and] in this regard, Google has been treated as a plaything,” Iran's Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast told reporters on Thursday. He cautioned the company against sustaining serious damage if it avoids ‘the proper’ use of the name ‘Persian Gulf.’ “Omitting the name Persian Gulf is [like] playing with the feelings and realities of the Iranian nation,” the spokesperson pointed out. The Google website has recently dropped the name of the Persian Gulf from the body of water separating Iran from the Arabian Peninsula, and left it nameless on its online map service. While historical documents show that the waterway has always been referred to as the “Persian Gulf”, certain Arab states have recently made additional attempts to remove the word 'Persian' from the waterway’s ancient appellation.

Kourosh Ziabari: Google following CIA's path in confronting Iran

The Pentagon has a ready plan for a military attack on Iran, the American ambassador to Israel warned days before a key meeting over the controversial nuclear program of the Islamic Republic. - Western countries and Israel are exerting pressure on Iran to stop uranium enrichment, saying that Tehran is secretly trying to build a nuclear bomb. Iran insists that its nuclear program is strictly civil.

"It would be preferable to resolve this diplomatically and through the use of pressure than to use military force," US Ambassador Dan Shapiro said in remarks about Iran aired by Israel's Army Radio on Thursday. "But that doesn't mean that option is not fully available – not just available, but it's ready. The necessary planning has been done to ensure that it's ready," said Shapiro.

Reuters: Plans to strike Iran "ready", says U.S. Israel envoy
PressTV: Russia warns West against ‘hasty wars’ and rising regional tension

A list of 28 soldiers selected for sniper training course has been found by the new owner of a used car in Britain. The surprised purchaser found it under a spare tire along with an army base pass. - The documents, dated July 2 and 19, 2010, remained unnoticed for nine months after the car was bought from a Leeds garage last August. The list details a sniper course, which 28 service personnel from 10 units were to take between August 29 and September 24, 2010. The roll gives enough information to identify the potential snipers. Some of the units mentioned in the list are currently serving in Afghanistan.

Daily Mail: 'Treasure trove for the Taliban': Secret information on Army snipers uncovered in car boot

Military intervention in the sovereign affairs of other states may lead to outright war, including nuclear war, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said on Thursday. - “The introduction of all sorts of collective sanctions bypassing international institutions does not improve the situation in the world while reckless military operations in foreign states usually end up with radicals coming to power,” he told an international legal forum in St. Petersburg. “At some point such actions, which undermine state sovereignty, may well end in a full-blown regional war and even - I’m not trying to spook anyone - the use of nuclear weapons,” he said. The right of nations to choose their own path of development is a universal value, he said referring to the situation in Syria and the Middle East as a whole ahead of a G8 summit.