Amnesty International has today called on the Israeli authorities to stop the demolition of Palestinian homes and other buildings in the West Bank, after a further 74 were destroyed in the Jordan Valley earlier this week. The demolitions were carried out by the Israeli military in the villages of Hmayyir […]
Fascism
9/11 was like Pearl Harbor to America, uniting many, awakening bitter skepticism in a few. Where Pearl Harbor began America’s official role in crushing the Fascist juggernaut that threatened to dominate the world, 9/11 had quite the opposite effect. America’s response to 9/11 was oppression at home and a tirade […]
Police watchdog and pathologist favoured tougher line than CPS as Tomlinson’s family accuse authorities of cover-up Source: guardian.co.uk An official decision to bring no charges against the policeman who struck Ian Tomlinson minutes before he died at the G20 protests came under intense scrutiny last night as it emerged that […]
The Israeli government has refused to provide the United Nations assurance to discontinue its illegal usage of internationally banned white phosphorus bombs, which it used heavily in its latest war on the Gaza Strip, causing hundreds of Palestinian deaths, in addition to serious environmental damage. Israel submitted an official report […]
[ … and when we say ‘rock’ we don’t mean the good kind of rock ] The Conflict A cartoon published in an American newspaper in 2002 showed former president George Bush sitting behind his desk in the Oval Office, utterly confused by a news report he was reading about […]
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https://projects.washingtonpost.com/top-secret-america/ I realise that Democracy Now are, to some extent, gatekeepers, but both these interviews are worth a listen. “Top Secret America” Washington Post Investigation Reveals Massive, Unmanageable, Outsourced US Intelligence System” https://www.democracynow.org/2010/7/19/top_secret_america__washington_post “Tim Shorrock Asks Why It Took the Washington Post So Long to Investigate the US Intelligence System” […]
I couldn’t help the sarcastic title – I blame it on a bit of grim humor I sensed in the video – you’ll see – but the documents are, after all, an important part of the experiment. But if one is to accept the official explanations fed to the public […]
From 1991 to 2003, hundreds of thousands of our bravest men and women sought help from the Veterans Administration, from the Defense Department, from the White House, all to no avail. The official word was that Gulf War Syndrome did not exist. So they suffered in silence. Tens of thousands […]