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Urgent appeal to Coe by the Vietnam Women’s Union that he and the International Olympic Committee reconsider their decision to accept sponsorship from Dow Chemical, one of the companies that manufactured dioxin, a poison used against the population of Vietnam:Code-named Agent Orange, this weapon of mass destruction was “dumped” on Vietnam, according to a US Senate report of 1970, in what was called Operation Hades. The letter to Coe estimates that today 4.8 million of the victims of Agent Orange are children, all of them shockingly deformed.
NEWS & COMMENT GET INVOLVED RESOURCES MEDIA SHOP ABOUT Blair, Olympic deals and why another world is possible by John Pilger 19 July 2012 John Pilger Tony Blair Watch This letter epitomises a dece… more →
Occupy Savvy
Farmopoly
wrote 3 months ago: Amalgamated Farms of America Inc. JT Hilltop Somewhere in Kansas there was five farms of equal size, … more →
2013 - The worst of times leads to the best of times
wrote 4 months ago: December 31st is always a time for reflection and after a bruising presidential election, this year … more →
Why ??!?!
wrote 6 months ago: Tonight I deleted two posts because well, I don’t want to be the blog where everyone steals a … more →
GERENAL WESLEY CLARK EXPLAINS HOW THE USA PLANS TO ATTACK SOME COUNTRIES. U.S.A LIKES TO GO WAR IN NAME OF THE PEACE AND CREATE MANY EXCUSES TO MAKE PEOPLE BELEAVE IN THEIR POLITICS..USA PLANNED TO ATTAK 7 COUNTRIES IN 5 YEARS.wmv
wrote 8 months ago: GERENAL WESLEY CLARK EXPLAINS HOW THE USA PLANS TO ATTACK SOME COUNTRIES. U.S.A LIKES TO GO W … more →
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US-American Professor, Peace- and Democracy-activist, Noam Chomsky: Why America and Israel are the greatest threats to peace and not Iran
wrote 8 months ago: 05 September 2012 Noam Chomsky USA and the War on Terror As the war drums are beating even louder, i … more →
An unarmed man shot by police at a Woodbury motel was trying to flee his captor,
wrote 8 months ago: ‘Mark Eric Henderson Jr. saw his opportunity to escape from the Woodbury motel room where he a … more →
Suppressing Protest in America: Human Rights Violations in Response to OCCUPY: In September 2011, waves of protests against mounting socioeconomic injustice broke out across the United States, capturing the attention of the country. The Occupy Wall Street movement, inspired by similar protests around the globe, used the occupation of public space and mass demonstrations to call attention to a wide array of shared concerns. But across the United States, abusive and unlawful protest regulation and policing practices have been and continue to be alarmingly evident. This report follows a review of thousands of news reports and hundreds of hours of video, extensive firsthand observation, and detailed witness interviews. In New York City, some of the worst practices documented include: read the report, its to download. These practices violate assembly and expression rights and breach the U.S. government’s international legal obligations to respect those rights. In New York City, protest policing concerns are extensive and exist against a backdrop of disproportionate and well-documented abusive policing practices in poor and minority communities outside of the protest context.
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John R. Stockwell is a former CIA officer who became a critic of United States government policies after serving in the Agency for thirteen years serving seven tours of duty. After managing U.S. involvement in the Angolan Civil War as Chief of the Angola Task Force during its 1975 covert operations, he resigned and wrote In Search of Enemies, a book which remains the only detailed, insider's account of a major CIA "covert action."
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Taliban beheadings that weren't: Behind the Afghanistan headlines - Honest reporting from Afghanistan would tell us there is no prospect of victory for the West, and less and less prospect of an orderly withdrawal leaving a stable state behind.
wrote 8 months ago: Taliban beheadings that weren’t: Behind the Afghanistan headlines 28 August 2012 Lindsey Germa … more →
Why Obama needs to give Israel a pre-emptive warning now: don't attack Iran! THERE ARE 10 weeks left before the US presidential election. During that time the Western world may face its most perilous moment for decades. Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu thinks he has found an ingenious way of dealing with Iran’s programme for nuclear weapons: if Israel launches an air attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities before the election, President Obama will have no choice but to support him for fear of losing the Jewish vote in various key areas. In September and October 2012 Stop the War is organising public meetings around the country titled No intervention in Syria: No attack on Iran.
wrote 8 months ago: Why Obama needs to give Israel a pre-emptive warning now: don’t attack Iran 29 August 2012 And … more →
The Chicagoplan: At the height of the Great Depression a number of leading U.S. economists advanced a proposal for monetary reform that became known as the Chicago Plan. It envisaged the separation of the monetary and credit functions of the banking system, by requiring 100% reserve backing for deposits. Irving Fisher (1936) claimed the following advantages for this plan: (1) Much better control of a major source of business cycle fluctuations, sudden increases and contractions of bank credit and of the supply of bank-created money. (2) Complete elimination of bank runs. (3) Dramatic reduction of the (net) public debt. (4) Dramatic reduction of private debt, as money creation no longer requires simultaneous debt creation. We study these claims by embedding a comprehensive and carefully calibrated model of the banking system in a DSGE model of the U.S. economy. We find support for all four of Fisher's claims. Furthermore, output gains approach 10 percent, and steady state inflation can drop to zero without posing problems for the conduct of monetary policy.
wrote 8 months ago: At the height of the Great Depression a number of leading U.S. economists advanced a proposal for mo … more →
"The CIA owns everyone of any significance in the major media" former CIA Director William Colby
wrote 8 months ago: According to former CIA Director William Colby, “The CIA owns everyone of any significance in … more →
From Bush to Obama to next in line: US is a bully whoever is president - USA and the War on Terror When George W Bush seemed to be the problem, an understanding of US power – the nature of which remains remarkably consistent from president to president – was lost.As protesters marched in European cities with placards of Bush underneath "World's No 1 Terrorist", the anti-war crusade became personalised. Bush seemed to be the problem, and an understanding of US power – the nature of which remains remarkably consistent from president to president – was lost. This week, the UN's Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Counter-Terrorism, Ben Emmerson QC, demanded that the US allow independent investigation over its use of unmanned drones, or the UN would be forced to step in. These drones target militants, it is claimed, but according to a study by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, between 282 and 585 civilians have died in Pakistan as a result. After the latest strike this week, Pakistan's foreign ministry said the attacks were "a violation of its sovereignty and territorial integrity and are in contravention of international law".But while there were 52 such strikes in Pakistan in eight years of Bush, there have been over 280 in three and a half years of Obama. Numbers have soared in Yemen and Somalia, too. Two months ago, former US President Jimmy Carter described drone attacks as a "widespread abuse of human rights" which "abets our enemies and alienates our friends".The US share of global economic output was nearly a quarter in 1991; today, it represents less than a fifth. The financial crash has accelerated the ongoing drain in US economic power to the East. With the last remaining superpower at its weakest since World War II, there is an unmissable opening to argue for a more equal and just world order, restricting the ability of Great Powers to throw their weight around. And a word of warning: if we don't seize this opportunity now, one superpower will simply be replaced by another – and our world will be as unequal and unjust as ever.
wrote 8 months ago: From Bush to Obama to next in line: US is a bully whoever is president 23 August 2012 Owen Jones USA … more →
US-Americans are wasting up to 40 percent of the nation’s food supply to the tune of $165 billion per year. Wasted food is said to account for up to a quarter of all freshwater consumed and 23 percent of emissions of methane gas.
wrote 8 months ago: Study: U.S. Wasting Up to 40% of Its Food A new study claims U.S. residents are wasting nearly every … more →
"The United States must pledge before the world that it will not pursue journalists for shining a light on the secret crimes of the powerful!
wrote 9 months ago: Video: assange-tells-us-to-drop-its-wikileaks-witch-hunt Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has spoken … more →
US drone strikes in Pakistan kill 13 in flurry of weekend attacks: Several deadly strikes executed as Pakistanis celebrate the end of the holy month of Ramadan with the festival of Eid al-Fitr
wrote 9 months ago: US drone strikes in Pakistan kill 13 in flurry of weekend attacks Several deadly strikes executed as … more →
Statement from Julian Assange from the balcony of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London: WikiLeaks founder thanks Latin American nations and condemns 'US war on whistleblowers': Assange calls for the release of Bradley Manning, the alleged WikiLeaks source, describing him as one of the world's foremost political prisoners. He goes on to refer to the jailing in Russia of members the feminist punk band, Pussy Riot. "There is unity in the oppression. There must be absolute unity and determination in the response!" Former britisch diplomat: "It also makes us look very very stupid, because not one country has come out in support of Wiliam Hague's interpretation of international law"
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wrote 9 months ago: Julian Assange urges US to end ‘war on whistleblowers’ Video from Guardian: julian-assan … more →
Interview Daniel on Democracy now (USA): Ellsberg, the most famous whistleblower in the United States, praises Ecuador for granting political asylum to Julian Assange to avoid extradition to Sweden for questioning over sex crime accusations. "I congratulate Ecuador, of course, for standing up to the British Empire here, for insisting that they are not a British colony, and acting as a sovereign state ought to act," says Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers in 1971, the secret history of the U.S. involvement in Vietnam.
wrote 9 months ago: Daniel Ellsberg, the most famous whistleblower in the United States Daniel Ellsberg, the most famous … more →
