Torture continues in Iraq, Afghanistan, elsewhere. We’ve got more illegal wars going at once than ever before. Habeas corpus has been formally ended. The Bagram-Gitmo archipelago is here to stay. Congress has practically dropped the pretense of a rule of law. Read the rest here
Geopolitics
Unmanned U.S. drones in Pakistan have killed at least 45 suspected insurgents in several separate attacks in the last 24 hours – the second-highest daily death toll since the drone warfare campaign began in 2004. The drone strikes came just a day after the U.S. suspended $800 million of military […]
European Union leaders are poised to hold an emergency summit after finance ministers acknowledged for the first time that some form of Greek default may be needed to cut Athens’ debts and stop contagion to Italy and Spain. “There will be an extra summit this Friday,” a senior euro […]
Hacking the mobile phones of British families who had lost loved ones to sexually depraved violent criminals, al-Qaeda inspired “terrorists” and Taliban insurgents proved the tipping point that led to the closure of Britain’s most popular Sunday newspaper The News of the World, first published in London in 1843 and […]
One of the motives for the war against Libya is to stop the development of the black continent, to enable the setting up of an AfriCom military base in Cyrenaica and to begin the colonial exploitation of Africa [youtube]n1fUKa1mjmA[/youtube] for the benefit of the United States …
While NATO reports on the success of its bombing missions over Libya, some countries taking part in the campaign, don’t share that enthusiasm. Many in Spain say they’ve simply been dragged into war, under pressure from Washington. [youtube]n9OcQtB-V-8[/youtube]
Michael Hudson is a highly-regarded economist. Hudson says: * The European debt crisis is really financial warfare by the banks * Indeed, the banks are in warfare against the rest of society Read the rest here
Bethlehem, July 10, 2011. Israeli authorities set stringent conditions for release of “Welcome to Palestine” prisoners The large majority of international visitors are still incarcerated under brutal conditions, begin a hunger strike in Israeli jail Over 120 internationals attempting to visit Palestine are still being illegally detained — kidnapped — […]
Americans have been watching protests against oppressive regimes that concentrate massive wealth in the hands of an elite few. Yet in our own democracy, 1 percent of the people take nearly a quarter of the nation’s income – an inequality even the wealthy will come to regret. Read […]