“Make War a Crime”: Bring these war criminals to trial
The Kuala Lumpur initiative to crminalize war
Global Research, November 6, 2009
by Arman Ahmad
KUALA LUMPUR: The international community has failed to charge leaders who went to war to solve problems.
“The criminals have not been questioned or tried,” said former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad [...]
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Spying on Americans: Obama Endorses Bush Era Warrantless Wiretapping
Antifascist Calling… – 2009-11-05
by Tom Burghardt
President Barack Obama instructed Justice Department attorneys to argue last week in San Francisco before Federal District Judge Vaughn Walker, that he must toss out the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Shubert v. Bush lawsuit challenging the secret state’s driftnet surveillance of Americans’ [...]
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“We are in a process of developing a whole series of techniques which will enable the controlling oligarchy to get people actually to LOVE their servitude.” – Aldous Huxley
Related Posts:Largest Transfer of Wealth to Financial/Political Elite in Global HistoryChange We Can Believe In: Obama Honors George H.W. Bush for Public ServiceStudent Loans are the New [...]
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The Twentieth Century Fox Corporation is not unique in spreading propaganda, but they are rare in admitting it. Rupert Murdoch, himself in 2003, admitted that his Fox company helped to sell George W. Bush’s Iraqi-Afghani wars to the American public.
J. Speer-Williams
Infowars
October 30, 2009
30,000 scientists signed onto a lawsuit, charging Al Gore with [...]
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NSA Supercenters to Store Americans’ Private Data Permanently
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Written by Thomas R. Eddlem
Wednesday, 28 October 2009 08:30
The National Security Agency is building huge new storage facilities to store the unconstitutionally gained data on the American people’s telephone calls and Internet traffic permanently, including new buildings in suburban Salt Lake City, Utah, and San [...]
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Source: Therearenosunglasses’s Weblog – Mark Thomas
I was sent the now notorious “police spotter card” through the post. It’s an official laminated card for “police eyes only” and labelled as coming from “CO11 Public Order Intelligence Unit”. The card contained the photographs of 24 anti-arms trade protesters, unnamed but lettered A to X. My picture appeared [...]
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Some Palestinians only get 20 litres of water a day, Amnesty says
Israel is denying Palestinians access to even the basic minimum of clean, safe water, Amnesty International says.
In a report, the human rights group says Israeli water restrictions discriminate against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.
It says that in Gaza, Israel’s blockade has [...]
In order to convert the sleepy, Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia into a dominating military base, the U.S. forcibly transported its 2,000 Chagossian inhabitants into exile and gassed their dogs.
By banning journalists from the area, the U.S. Navy was able to perpetrate this with virtually no press coverage, says David Vine, an assistant [...]
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Miguel Martinez – Italy: an attempt to outlaw defending freedom of speech
(Pacifici and Alemanno – the Zionist atn the Neo-Fascist decide who must be silenced in Italy). Antonio Caracciolo is a scholar of philosophy of law who works at the Faculty of Political Sciences of Rome University.
Politically, he is a liberal in the Italian sense [...]
Source: Opposing Views – Nat Hentoff
While battling the FBI’s expanded surveillance guidelines, Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., also revealed (Daily Kos, Oct. that in the Senate Judiciary Committee review of the Patriot Act (also Oct. 8), Republicans protecting the Act were joined, in a closed-door classified session, by Obama officials with amendments further preserving it. [...]
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By Mark Ames, AlterNet. Posted October 24, 2009.
“We have to tolerate the inequality as a way to achieve greater prosperity and opportunity for all,” says one Goldman Sachs adviser. But tell that to the people of Samson, Ala.
Editor’s Note: The shocking transfer of public wealth to Wall Street’s pockets is illustrated [...]
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Truthout – 2009-10-23
by Dahr Jamail
If technology has transformed warfare into a spectacle of shock and awe, its contribution to the cause of dissent has been no less remarkable. It has enabled solidarities across borders and facilitated networks and forums dedicated to impartial communication of ground realities beyond the sanitized projection of mainstream [...]
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October 24th, 2009
Via: New York Times:
A technician in a black lab coat gazed at the short, middle-aged man seated inside the Walt Disney Company’s secretive new research facility here last week, his face shrouded with eye-tracking goggles. Read ESPN.com on that BlackBerry, she told him soothingly, like a nurse about to draw blood. “And [...]
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Alert! Still Time To Kill The Hate Bill
President May Not Sign ‘Until Next Week’
By Rev. Ted Pike
10-23-9
The defense authorization bill (with hate bill attached) was passed by the Senate late last night. The President has been speaking today at MIT, and a Senate spokesperson said he isn’t expected to consider these bills until “sometime [...]
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The US Massacre at Al-Sukkariya
Attack on Syria Cover Up
By Real News
Erlich: The US massacre at Al-Sukkariya, Syria in 2008 was a clear violation of international law.
Posted October 21, 2009
Reese Erlich is a best-selling book author and freelance journalist who writes regularly for the Dallas Morning News, Canadian Broadcasting Corp. Radio and National Public Radio. He [...]
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Communications chief offers shocking confession to foreign government
By Aaron Klein
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Anita Dunn
TEL AVIV – President Obama’s presidential campaign focused on “making” the news media cover certain issues while rarely communicating anything to the press unless it was “controlled,” White House Communications Director Anita Dunn disclosed to the Dominican government at a [...]
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Humanitarian Law Applies to All
By Tammy Obeidallah
October 12, 2009 “Information Clearing House” — Throughout the world, people have attempted to distinguish ordinary Americans from the United States government. Perhaps our complacency for aiding and abetting war crimes has been attributed to lack of education, apathy in the face of an omnipotent pro-Israeli lobby or that [...]
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Secret State Monitors Protest, Represses Dissent
By Tom Burghardt
October 12, 2009 “Dissident Voice” — As social networking becomes a dominant feature of daily life, the secret state is increasingly surveilling electronic media for what it euphemistically calls “actionable intelligence.”
Take the case of Elliot Madison. The 41-year-old anarchist was arrested in Pittsburgh September 24 at the height [...]
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In U.S., Record-Low Support for Stricter Gun Laws
Forty-four percent favor stricter laws on firearm sales
by Jeffrey M. Jones
PRINCETON, NJ — Gallup finds a new low of 44% of Americans saying the laws covering firearm sales should be made more strict. That is down 5 points in the last year and 34 points from the high [...]
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The Internet ate my nephew!
He’s a smart kid but he’s fallen for a crazy conspiracy site
By Cary Tennis
Source: Salon
Oct. 9, 2009 | Dear Reader,
I almost forgot: I’ll be away three days next week at our fall Creative Getaway up at Marconi Conference Center.
So the column will run today (Friday) and Monday, and [...]
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