“You can only have power over people so long as you don’t take everything away from them. But when you’ve robbed a man of everything he’s no longer in your power – he’s free again.â€
– Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
By William Buppert~Lew Rockwell
Collaboration in a negative connotation is an active or passive surrender to an [...]
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Barack Obama has kept tradition by naming top donors to plum ambassador posts, drawing fire from some career diplomats.
By Shaun Tandon~AFP
Despite his promises of change, President Barack Obama has kept tradition by naming top donors to plum ambassador posts, drawing fire from career US diplomats and causing dismay among some US allies.
Obama has been [...]
By Richard Norton-Taylor~London Guardian
British pilots in Afghanistan are firing an increasing number of “enhanced blast” thermobaric weapons, designed to kill everyone in buildings they strike, the Ministry of Defence has revealed.
Since the start of this year more than 20 of the US-designed missiles, which have what is officially described as a “blast fragmentation warhead”, have [...]
~sn9696
New York City is getting tough on so called Eco crime. Every day officers dressed in green uniforms patrol the city to make sure no one is breaking environmental laws. Historically focused on hunting and fishing violations in Upstate New York, the force has been around since 1880. Now they moved to the city, where [...]
May 31, 2009 | Posted in
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llinois Senate income tax vote
By DAVE MCKINNEY AND JORDAN WILSON~Chicago Sun-Times
The Illinois Senate late Saturday narrowly approved a 67-percent hike in the state income tax and imposed $1 billion in new sales taxes, dramatically reshaping the Statehouse’s budgetary stalemate.
Minutes later, the Senate voted 30-28 to authorize a massive gambling expansion that would place a [...]
By Ray McGovern~Global Research
Watching retired Gen. Colin Powell cite Jesus’s parable of the Good Samaritan during Sunday’s Memorial Day ceremonies on the Mall in Washington, it struck me that Powell was giving hypocrisy a bad name.
Those familiar with the parable of the Good Samaritan and the under-reported behavior of Gen. Powell, resurgent star of the [...]
~www.armenian-genocide.org
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Leap in U.S. debt hits taxpayers with 12% more red ink
By Dennis Cauchon~USA Today
Taxpayers are on the hook for an extra $55,000 a household to cover rising federal commitments made just in the past year for retirement benefits, the national debt and other government promises, a USA TODAY analysis shows.
The 12% rise in red [...]
“How could ordinary American soldiers come to engage in such monstrous acts?” Kennedy asks. “What policies were put into place that allowed this behavior to flourish while protections granted to prisoners under the Geneva Conventions were ignored?”
“These photographs from Abu Ghraib have come to define the United States,” says Scott Horton, chairman, Committee [...]
By Naomi Wolf~Huffington Post
The Telegraph of London broke the news – because the US press is in a drugged stupor — that the photos Obama is refusing to release of detainee abuse depict, among other sexual tortures, an American soldier raping a female detainee and a male translator raping a male prisoner. The paper claims [...]
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By Muriel Kane~Raw Story
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has decided to enforce a June 1 date — originally established by the Bush administration — for the eviction of several thousand victims of Hurricane Katrina who are still living in temporary trailers [...]
~Truthdig
A woman scans the near-empty shelves of a Brooklyn food bank.
Sasha Abramsky discusses his new solution-oriented book about the millions of Americans who work 40 hours a week and still go hungry, “these forgotten communities and these forgotten families who are doing everything they’ve been told they need to do to survive and … they’re [...]
By John Byrne~Raw Story
The head of the US Central Command, General David Petraeus, said Friday that the US had violated the Geneva Conventions in a stunning admission from President Bush’s onetime top general in Iraq that the US may have violated international law.
“When we have taken steps that have violated the Geneva Conventions we rightly [...]
May 30, 2009 | Posted in
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The Texas state Senate voted Monday to give federal, state and local authorities the ability to track and identify every passing vehicle on state highways. The provision calling for “automatic license plate identification cameras†was slipped into the Senate version of the must-pass Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) reauthorization bill. The provision was not part [...]
UPDATE: Note from the KMPH FOX 26 executive producer: “We want to thank everyone who has viewed the YouTube clip of Richard Gage’s interview on KMPH FOX 26. We are overwhelmed by the number of e-mails we have received over the past two days from people expressing gratitute. However, due to the wonderful amount of [...]
Editor’s note: When we produced the video “The Militarization of Our Police” in 2007, we received quite a few emails and comments about how the video was really talking about arming the SWAT tactical teams and how they needed these weapons to “fight crime.” A common thread in the comments cited the Los Angeles PD [...]
