Source: The Guardian In 2003, at a meeting with a group of senior staff from the US judge advocate general’s office (which deals with criminal trials of military personnel), I was told that as a result of decisions taken in the Bush White House, a long American tradition of compliance […]
Month: April 2023
By HANAN AWAREKEH Israel seems to be determined to continue its psychological and media warfare against Lebanon, three years on its defeat in the Second Lebanon War. Israeli bullying also seems to be a part of turning the International concern away from building its illegal settlements in occupied Jerusalem and […]
[ Like a clueless bloated tick that’s rammed itself into the neck of a shriveled cow standing in a desiccated field somewhere, the first world creates and perpetuates the third world. End of story. ‘National Interests’ are not ‘National’ Interests. They are ‘International’ Interests. ( And people wonder why there’s […]
“We hear war called murder. It is not: it is suicide.” – Ramsay MacDonald, British prime minister 1931-1935 By Dahr Jamail Wednesday 05 August 2009 www.truthout.org Sergio Kochergin, back home from his second deployment in Iraq, held a gun in his mouth, trying to muster the courage to pull the […]
https://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/11/science/11tier.html?_r=2&hpw President Obama and the rest of the Group of 8 leaders decreed last month that the planet’s average temperature shall not rise more than 2 degrees Fahrenheit above today’s level. But what if Mother Earthdidn’t get the memo? How do we stay cool in the future? Two options: Plan A. Keep […]
by Jason Ditz, August 06, 2009 A US military helicopter launched an overnight attack on a group of what it believed were “militants loading munitions into a van,” killing five of them. According to police in the rural district of the Kandahar Province, they weren’t militants, and those weren’t […]
A Flyby Perspective By Jonathan Mark One of the stranger events that happened near the end of the 20th Century was when NASA conducted two “flybys” around Venus on a journey towards Saturn. A flyby is a maneuver in frictionless space using gravity from a planet for a slingshot-acceleration effect. The […]
You can’t hear it, but the Earth is constantly humming. And some parts of the world sing louder than others. [according to this …] After discovering the mysterious low-frequency buzz in 1998, scientists figured out that the Earth’s hum is caused not by earthquakes or atmospheric turbulence, but by […]
WRITTEN BY CHRIS FLOYD 07 AUGUST 2009 21:55 There is apparently no path blazed by George W. Bush that Barack Obama will not eagerly follow. Surges, assassinations, indefinite detention, defense of torture, senseless wars and rampant militarism — in just a few short months, we’ve seen it all. To this […]
EVICTED PALESTINIANS BEATEN BY TERRORIST SETTLERS Kawther Salam The settlers used stones, sticks, and chairs in their criminal attack again al-Gawi and Hannoun families. [ it’s always uninspiring when racist, supremacist, thugs continously manage to utterly fail at learning anything at all of value from history ] Photos Yesterday August […]