With the Australian PM you learn to crawl and stay in that position. You start as she did with the mining community in West Australia after a quick trip to let the Zionists know in Israel you are with them all the way. Then comes another break for crawlers and sycophants you get to meet [...]
Police using batons in a clash at a rally in Solo on Tuesday. Participants were protesting against the use of police force at an incident last week in Bima in which at least two people were killed. (JG Photo/Ali Lutfi) President Warns Against Police’s Excessive Force Anita Rachman, Dessy Sagita, Ismira [...]
These quotes are supplied by Information Clearing House you can reach then at http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/ “History is an account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.”–Ambrose Bierce, American writer, 1842-1914 “War is the spectacular and bloody projection of our everyday living. We [...]
PHOTO Man lies on ground after shooting during Sumbawa protest. [ABC] Matt Brown, Jakarta, staff Last Updated: 10 hours 15 minutes ago Investigators from Indonesia‘s Human Rights Commission say some of the anti-mining protesters attacked by police over the weekend were lying down when they were shot. Human Rights Commissioners have been sent to [...]
Netanyahu Rejects Peace By Stephen Lendman - Posted on 27 December 2011 Netanyahu Rejects Peace - by Stephen Lendman Sham Israeli peace negotiations were stillborn from inception. Writer Henry Siegman once called them “the most spectacular deception in modern diplomatic history.” Netanyahu once said they’re “a waste of time.” Previous Israeli officials called occupation and status [...]
Gaza: One of History’s Great Crimes By Stephen Lendman - Posted on 28 December 2011 Gaza: Remembering Cast Lead - by Stephen Lendman December 27 marks the third anniversary of Israel’s lawless war on Gaza. Without provocation, three weeks of terror bombing and invasion devastated the Strip. Missiles, bombs, shells, and illegal weapons [...]
AP Christmas lights shine in front of the Parthenon on top of the ancient Acropolis Hill in Athens: “If this government doesn’t get it right, Greece will go hungry.” Six weeks after forming a transitional government to overcome its crisis, Greece is still failing to deliver its promised reforms. The cabinet of Prime [...]
Gilad Atzmon: Just came across this article here. Pretty funny, it seems as if our Hasbara‘s agent BOD & AZZ are hitting the wall. London – The Board of Deputies of British Jews claims to have had a complaint against Gilad Atzmon upheld by the Advertising Standards Authority. Naturally, the renegade saxophonist [...]
DPA In an interview conducted as he heads into retirement, German Constitutional Court Judge Udo Di Fabio explains why he believes the high court’s recent decisions on the European Union will not necessarily hinder further European integration and how he believes debates over possible changes to Germany‘s constitution to strip power from [...]
dapd A police photo of Beate Zschäpe, who is suspected of being a member of a neo-Nazi terrorist organization. Beate Zschäpe is allegedly the only surviving member of the Zwickau neo-Nazi terror cell, which is suspected of murdering at least 10 people, but she refuses to talk. In an exclusive interview, SPIEGEL [...]
It is less than contemptible that the killing of people where there is never any certainty of guilt and where everyone sinks to the same level as the alleged killer that cost is even a consideration. The best response is to stop the killing and use alternates if they are possible. But the killing must [...]
One of the difficulties exposed in this article is the use of money and expense as a standard in a discussion that should be about attitudes to energy, waste and reducing emissions. The whole basis of the capitalist fight against the unwanted, by them, environmental objectives is to pounce on cost as a way to [...]
Dimitris Gasparinatos had asked Greek authorites to take four of his 10 children into care because he could not afford to feed them. Even before Greece‘s economic crisis engulfed his own home, Dimitris Gasparinatos found it hard to provide for his six sons and four daughters. His wife, Christina, who was struggling to make ends meet [...]
Palestinians who live in Israel, not in the West Bank or Gaza Strip, face daily discrimination [GALLO/GETTY] Israel’s crimes in the occupied Palestinian territories – like the settlements, the killing of civilians and the demolition of homes – are openly condemned in the West by human rights groups and others like never before. But as [...]
Earlier this month, six Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac executives were charged with securities fraud [GALLO/GETTY] New York, NY - As every media critic learns, the worst sin of our press is not its blatant biases, or crimes of commission, but rather the pervasive patterns of omission; what’s left out! Already, with two weeks to go, [...]
Arab League mission said the situation in Homs is “not frightening” but activists said 17 people died there [AFP] Arab League observers are to visit three key protests hubs in Syria as world powers have urged Damascus to give full access to monitor if the country is implementing a plan to end a crackdown on protests. [...]
From the outset even the title of this article makes little sense. Just what is an unsustainable political deficiency? You could perhaps see a deficiency but what makes it unsustainable apart from the conjoining of the words in this nonsense phrase. However, it gets worse not better. It seems that obstacles and hurdles [...]
Book Examines America’s Turn from Science, Warns of Danger for Democracy by Renee Schoof WASHINGTON — Americans have trouble dealing with science, and one place that’s especially obvious is in presidential campaigns, says Shawn Lawrence Otto, who tried, with limited success, to get the candidates to debate scientific questions in the 2008 [...]
(Another) Unholy Alliance by Abby Zimet Metaphor Alert: A report out of Chicago explores the intimate connections - trading money and favors for mutal gain – of violent street gangs and supposedly non-violent politicians. The (dismaying) trick: substitute corporate lobbyists for gangs, and you have American politics in action. “In the end, as with most [...]
Indigenous Peoples in India Fight Back Against Corporate Encroachment by Sujoy Dhar LALGARH, India – This small town, barely 150 km away from the bustling eastern metropolis of Kolkata, hit news headlines in December 2008 when adivasis (indigenous people) led by Maoist rebels briefly captured it. Face to face with “India’s greatest [...]
This page has consistently warned about the expected effect of the drone wars. These monstrous murder machines take the US abilities at 30,000 feet and continue that advantage to ground level. It is at ground level that the US has been extremely poor at instilling its brand of justice and capitalist [...]
Israeli forces demolish two houses in Jerusalem‘s Beit Hanina neighborhood on Nov. 24, 2011. UNRWA research shows that 990 Palestinians have lost their homes already this year, more than double the number in 2010. (REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman) JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — Israeli forces and municipality officials raided a number of Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem to deliver [...]
A Syrian armored vehicle is pictured outside the sandbagged police headquarters in Homs. (AFP/Joseph Eid, File) BEIRUT (Reuters) — Arab League monitors aiming to verify whether Syria is ending a military crackdown on protesters said they saw “nothing frightening” in an initial visit to the protest hotbed of Homs although a long investigation would be [...]
A woman and child pictured in front of buildings damaged by Israel in the Gaza war.(MaanImages/file) TEL AVIV, Israel (Ma’an) — Israel’s army chief on Tuesday marked the third anniversary of the Gaza war by hailing Operation Cast Lead as an ‘excellent’ operation. Lieutenant Benny Gantz made the remarks during an interview with Army Radio. [...]
People stand next to the body of a man killed in an Israeli air strike at a hospital in the northern Gaza Strip.(Reuters/Mohammed Salem) GAZA CITY (Reuters) — An Israeli airstrike killed one person in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday as the coastal enclave marked the third anniversary of the Gaza war. Abdallah Telbani died [...]
My colleague James Fallows, as indispensable on the air-travel beat as he is on all the others he covers, has a good post up recounting his interactions with the Transportation Security Administration during his holiday travels. On this subject he and I are of the same mind: that most of the demeaning [...]
Vice President Dick Cheney, poster by Robbie Conal (robbieconal.com) The Bush/Obama War Against Truth December 21, 2011 The harsh treatment of alleged leaker Bradley Manning is part of a broader campaign to silence government whistleblowers, a pattern that began with Vice President Dick Cheney’s outing of CIA officer Valerie Plame but has expanded [...]
New Guantanamo Commander Seeking to Diminish Detainee Rights Further Lawyers for the defense of detainees charged with involvement in 9/11 have sternly objected to the new rules by John Glaser, December 27, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum The new commander of the Guantanamo Bay prison is seeking to impose new rules on communication [...]
In Telethon, Israeli Military Chief Pushes New Gaza Invasion by Jason Ditz, December 27, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Speaking today during the Israeli Army’s “annual telethon” on Army Radio, military Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz pushed for a new invasion of the Gaza Strip [...]
Iraq Courting Iran to Mediate Political Dispute Kurds Won’t Attend Talks in Baghdad, Maliki Won’t Come to Arbil by Jason Ditz, December 27, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum A close aide of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has confirmed today that the government has begun holding talks [...]
Rudd, Bonhoeffer and the War on Gaza By Vacy Vlazna For Christians, Christmas and New Year revivify reflection on core values – good will to all and peace for humankind. Between these two dates, on the 27th December, falls the third anniversary of Israel’s infamous war crime – Operation Cast Lead [...]
We will never forget the hurt of 3 years ago. (Zoriah.net) Besieged Gaza, Occupied PalestineWe, Palestinians of Gaza, 3 years on from the 22-day long massacre in Israel’s operation ‘Cast Lead’, are calling on international civil society to make 2012 the year when solidarity with us in Palestine captures the spark of the revolutions [...]
A poster of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad hanging from a building as pro-government protesters gather for a demonstration (AFP Photo / Sana) TRENDS:Syria unrest TAGS: Conflict, Protest, Politics, Human rights,Mass media, Syria Syrian NGOs: A dual-use technology? Get short URL email story to a friend print version Published: 27 December, 2011, 21:10 Syrian NGOs have often been the sole [...]
A Run On The Global Banking System—How Close Are We? Nine weeks after its bankruptcy, the general public still hasn’t quite realized the implications of the MF Global scandal. By Gonzalo Lira December 27, 2011 “Gonzalo Lira” – My own sense is, this is the first tremor of the earthquake that’s [...]
“All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.” – Noam Chomsky The [...]
