Barack Obama was given the Peace Prize by the Nobel Committee in the hope that he would pursue an end to wars around the world. In fact, he is more of a warmonger than George Bush. So, we urge the Nobel Committee to ask for a return of the prize or for Barack Obama to [...]
Reminder: Support this cause ->Obama, give back the Nobel Peace Prize
by RAINman on 25. Oct, 2011 in Opinion
Robert Fisk: Democratic governments don’t deal with terrorists – until they do
by RAINman on 17. Oct, 2011 in Newsletter Links
In three decades, the Israelis have freed 7,000 prisoners in return for 19 Israeli prisoners The Independent Thursday, 13 October 2011 Once upon a time, we lived in a world where democratic governments did no deals with “terrorists”. No country promoted this nonsense more thanIsrael. And no Israeli leader repeated the mantra so often [...]
Video: The People (Of Egypt) Are Calling for Change
by RAINman on 17. Oct, 2011 in Newsletter Links
10.13.11 – 6:31 PM The powerful short film, “I Am Not Moving,” juxtaposes Occupy scenes with footage of the Arab Spring alongside a righteous-sounding Hillary Clinton and Obama on the people’s rights of expression and assembly. Watch it, post it. see here: http://www.commondreams.org/further/2011/10/13-3
Why Drone Warfare Threatens Us All — Blowback of the Predators
by RAINman on 11. Oct, 2011 in Newsletter Links
by CONN HALLINAN Conn Hallinan can be read at dispatchesfromtheedgeblog.wordpress.com and middleempireseries.wordpress.com CounterPunch October 05, 2011 Lost in debate over whether the Obama administration had the right to carry out the extra-legal execution of Anwar al-Awlaki, the American-born Yemini cleric and al-Qaeda member, is who pulled the trigger? It is not a minor [...]
Video: Obama Admin Has No Proof Anwar Al Awlaki Was Involved In Terrorist Activity
by RAINman on 11. Oct, 2011 in Newsletter Links
This is disgraceful, horrendous and embarrassing. Posted October 03, 2011 see here: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29283.htm
Rick Perry Travel Bankrolled by Activist Rabbi Irwin Katsof
by RAINman on 23. Sep, 2011 in Newsletter Links
By KENNETH P. VOGEL Politico September 21, 2011 Rick Perry is talking up his travels to Israel on the stump — a line that’s likely music to the ears of an activist rabbi who made the governor’s last two trips happen. The rabbi, Irwin Katsof, has spent years recruiting American officials to participate in lavish [...]
TUC Votes For Palestine And Review Links With Organisations Complicit With Israel’s Occupation
by RAINman on 16. Sep, 2011 in Newsletter Links
by Press Release – Palestine Solidarity Campaign Thursday September 15, 2011 00:58 The Trades Union Congress, representing 6.5 million workers in theUK, voted overwhelmingly today (14 September 2011) to deplore the ‘anti-democratic law’ passed by the Israeli Knesset banning individuals and organisations inIsraelfrom calling for the boycott ofIsrael. The Union reaffirmed existing policy to [...]
TARIQ ALI: “Grand Strategy after 9/11 — Perpetual War
by RAINman on 12. Sep, 2011 in Newsletter Links
Counterpunch September 7, 2011 Sovereign is he who decides on the exception, Carl Schmitt wrote in different times almost a century ago, when European empires and armies dominated most continents and the United States was basking underneath an isolationist sun. What the conservative theorist meant by exception was a state of emergency, necessitated by [...]
Taking the Justice Out of the Justice System
by RAINman on 23. Aug, 2011 in Newsletter Links
Karen Greenberg The Nation August 22, 2011 As the tenth anniversary of 9/11 approaches, the unexpected extent of the damage Americans have done to themselves and their institutions is coming into better focus. The event that “changed everything” did turn out to changeWashingtonin ways more startling than most people realize. On terrorism and national [...]
Judge Carney’s Ruling — The US Government Won’t be Charged With Perjury Even When It’s Caught in a Lie
by RAINman on 22. Aug, 2011 in Newsletter Links
By SALLY EBERHARDT Sally Eberhardt works with Educators for Civil Liberties, researching civil rights issues post 9/11. She is founding member of Theaters Against War and has worked for human rights organizations in Britainand the U.S.A.She can be reached at sallyeb@earthlink.net. CounterPunch August 19 – 21, 2011 A chilling court decision unsealed at [...]
Afghan Judges accuse U.S. of War Crimes
by RAINman on 25. Jul, 2011 in Newsletter Links
by David Swanson David Swanson is co-founder of AfterDowningStreet, a writer and activist, and the Washington Director of Democrats.com. He contributed this article to Media Monitors Network (MMN). Media Monitors Network Saturday, July 23, 2011 I recently sat down for 90 minutes to speak with six Afghan judges, all of them women, and an English-Dari interpreter, [...]
Killing of Karzai’s brother deepens US crisis in Afghanistan
by RAINman on 15. Jul, 2011 in Newsletter Links
By Bill Van Auken WSWS, July 13, 2011 Tuesday’s killing of Ahmed Wali Karzai, the Afghan president’s half brother, represents a serious blow to US strategy in the key southern province of Kandahar. The powerful Kandahar warlord and longtime asset of the US Central Intelligence Agency was shot in the chest and the head by [...]
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