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Supreme Court condemns Guantanamo! Finally!!! In a severe blow to the Bush administration the US Supreme Court ruled that suspects being held at Guantanamo Bay have rights under the US Constitution to challenge their detention in civilian courts. Ruling 5 to 4 the court concluded that the US government was violating the rights of prisoners being held indefinitely at the US naval base in Cuba. The ruling could resurrect detainee lawsuits that federal judges in Washington postponed, pending the outcome of the high court case. It remains unclear if this ruling, unlike the first two, would lead to prompt hearings for the detainees, some of whom have been held for more than 6 years. Tags:[][war][lies][and][you][know][the][rest] |
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US Rep. distorts facts about Iran! KIRK: We have various leaders, but from what we can see right now, the president appears to be in control of the military and foreign policy of Iran. So when he says something hostile, we should listen. Congressman Mark Kirk (R-IL) is a member of the House Appropriations Committee and a Commander in the US Naval Reserves who serves one weekend a month as the Deputy Director of Intelligence in the Pentagon's National Military Command Center (NMCC). Tags:[][war][lies][and][you][know][the][rest] |
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Iraqi MPs against US bases US Seeking 58 Bases in Iraq, Shiite Lawmakers Say by Leila Fadel BAGHDAD - Iraqi lawmakers say the United States is demanding 58 bases as part of a proposed "status of forces" agreement that will allow U.S. troops to remain in the country indefinitely. Leading members of the two ruling Shiite parties said in a series of interviews the Iraqi government rejected this proposal along with another U.S. demand that would have effectively handed over to the United States the power to determine if a hostile act from another country is aggression against Iraq. Lawmakers said they fear this power would drag Iraq into a war between the United States and Iran. "The points that were put forth by the Americans were more abominable than the occupation," said Jalal al Din al Saghir, a leading lawmaker from the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq. "We were occupied by order of the Security Council," he said, referring to the 2004 Resolution mandating a U.S. military occupation in Iraq at the head of an international coalition. "But now we are being asked to sign for our own occupation. That is why we have absolutely refused all that we have seen so far." Other conditions sought by the United States include control over Iraqi air space up to 30,000 feet and immunity from prosecution for U.S. troops and private military contractors. The agreement would run indefinitely but be subject to cancellation with two years notice from either side, lawmakers said. "It would impair Iraqi sovereignty," said Ali al Adeeb a leading member of Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki's Dawa party of the proposed accord. "The Americans insist so far that is they who define what is an aggression on Iraq and what is democracy inside Iraq... if we come under aggression we should define it and ask for help." Both Saghir and Adeeb said that the Iraqi government rejected the terms as unacceptable. They said the government wants a U.S. presence and a U.S. security guarantee but also wants to control security within the country, stop indefinite detentions of Iraqis by U.S. forces and have a say in U.S. forces' conduct in Iraq. The 58 bases would represent an expansion of the U.S. presence here. Currently, the United States operates out of about 30 major bases, not including smaller facilities such as combat outposts, according to a U.S. military map. " Is there sovereignty for Iraq - or isn't there? If it is left to them, they would ask for immunity even for the American dogs," Saghir said. "We have given Bush our views - some new ideas and I find that there is a certain harmony between his thoughts and ours. And he promised to tell the negotiators to change their methods." http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/06/10/9520/ ------------- ---------------- -------------------- Leaked document says US plans for permanent bases in Iraq being discussed with Iraqi gov Nadim al-Jaberi is a senior member and former secretary-general of Fadhila, a Shiite party that controls the Basra provincial government. The group, which holds 15 seats in parliament, withdrew last year from talks to join al-Maliki's cabinet after complaining of US interference. ---- Khalaf al-Ilyan is one of the three leaders of the Iraq Accordance Front, parliament's largest Sunni Arab bloc with 44 of the House's 275 seats. Last year, he played a prominent role in the Sunni decision to walk out of the Cabinet in protest of al-Maliki's policies ---- Tags:[][war][lies][and][you][know][the][rest] |
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Pervez Musharraf -- The fall of a dictator! Pakistan's president refuses to resign, while opponents discuss impeachment. Real News Network's Senior News Analyst, Aijaz Ahmad explores Pervez Musharraf's rise to power after he ousted Nawaz Sharif through a military coup d'etat in 1999. Musharraf nominally continues to be the President of Pakistan; however, pressure is mounting for him to resign with some beginning to discuss impeachment. His listed crimes include taking power unconstitutionally, imposition of martial law, detention of a judge of the Supreme Court, and his participation in the US-sponsored "war on terror." http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=1655 Tags:[][war][lies] |
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Cluster Bombs -- Hell from above! Cluster Bombs Are Not Good 4 Children, Hillary (Ditto for Landmines and Sanctions) By Paul Rockwell 13/03/08 "Commondreams" -- - The human soul is difficult to fathom. One person alone is capable of both compassion and cruelty. In her autobiography, Living History, Senator Hillary Clinton portrays herself as an advocate for children, a defender of women and human rights. In fact, the Clintons have a long history of sacrificing the rights, even the lives of children, for political expediency. It is time to set the record straight. On September 6, 2006, a Senate bill--a simple amendment to ban the use of cluster bombs in civilian areas--presented Senator Clinton with a timely opportunity to protect the lives of children throughout the world. The cluster bomb is one of the most hated and heinous weapons in modern war, and its primary victims are children. Senator Obama voted for the amendment to ban cluster bombs. Senator Clinton, however, voted with the Republicans to kill the humanitarian bill, an amendment in accord with the Geneva Conventions, which already prohibit the use of indiscriminate weapons in populated areas. All senators are expected to inform themselves on the issues before they cast a vote. The evidence is overwhelming. It is hard to believe that Senator Clinton was unaware of the humanitarian crisis when she voted to continue the use of cluster bombs in cities and populated areas. A U.N. weapons commission called cluster bombs "weapons of indiscriminate effect." For years the international press reported the horrific consequences of cluster bombs on civilians. On April 10, 2003, for example, Asia Times described the carnage in Baghdad hospitals: "The absolute majority of patients are women and children, victims of shrapnel, and most of all, fragments of cluster bombs." Reporting from a hospital in Hillah, The Mirror, a British newspaper, became graphic: "Shrapnel peppered their bodies. Blackened the skin. Smashed heads. Tore limbs. A doctor reports that 'all the injuries you see were caused by cluster bombs. The majority of the victims were children who died because they were outside.'" Even after wars subside, after treaties are signed, after belligerents return home, cluster bombs wreak havoc on civilian life. Up to 20 percent of the bomblets fail to detonate on the first round, only to become landmines that later explode on playgrounds and farmlands. Children are drawn to cluster bomb canisters, the deadly duds that look like beer cans or toys before they explode. Clinton on Landmines??? http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19535.htm ------Warning Pictures------ http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3462.htm Tags:[][war][lies][and][you][know][the][rest] |
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Michael Parenti -- On The Media! Part 2/2 Senate Finds Pre-War Bush Claims Exaggerated, False by Jim Lobe WASHINGTON - Claims by U.S. President George W. Bush and other top administration officials before the 2003 invasion of Iraq regarding Baghdad's ties to al Qaeda and its weapons of mass destruction (WMD) programmes were generally not supported by the evidence that the U.S. intelligence community had at the time, according to a major new report by the Senate Intelligence Committee released Thursday. The long-awaited report, the last in a series published over the past several years by the committee, found that Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, in particular, frequently made assertions in the run-up to the war that key intelligence agencies could not substantiate or about which there was substantial disagreement within the intelligence community. "In making the case for war, the administration repeatedly presented intelligence as fact when in reality it was unsubstantiated, contradicted, or even non-existent," the Committee chairman, Sen. Jay Rockefeller, said on releasing the 172-page report. "As a result, the American people were led to believe that the threat from Iraq was much greater than actually existed." ------------- http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/06/06/9448/ Tags:[][War][Iraq][Vietnam][9/11][Empire][Terrorism][imperialisms][Bush][Lies][Schools][of][the][Americas][Nicaragua][El][Salvador] |
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Michael Parenti -- On The Media! Part 1/2 A Free And Self-Governing People Bill Moyers Video "It is up to you to fight for the freedoms that makes all other freedoms possible" Journalist Bill Moyers address the National Conference for Media Reform in Minneapolis, June 7, 2008. Presented by FreePress.net. For more speakers, press coverage, and info, visit: http://www.freepress.net/conference --------- http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20059.htm Tags:[][War][Iraq][Vietnam][9/11][Empire][Terrorism][imperialisms][Bush][Lies][Schools][of][the][Americas][Nicaragua][El][Salvador] |
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Obama faces racism in West Virginia -- Finally the truth!!! MATTHEW PALEVSKY, JOURNALIST, TRNN: I'm in Martinsburg here in West Virginia, one of the poorest and whitest states in the union. Senator Clinton is expected to win today's primary in a landslide, and the white, blue collar workers who make up her base have said they might be unwilling to vote for Senator Obama come general election. ----------- PALEVSKY: And you voted for— ASHLEY: Hillary. And if she loses the nomination I'll vote for the other guy. PALEVSKY: You'll vote for McCain? ASHLEY: Yes. I don't feel like—put the black man there—no prejudice or nothing but I just don't have—I just think he should not be there. Tags:[][War][Iraq][Vietnam][9/11][Empire][Terrorism][Imperialist][Bush][Agfan][Trap][Soviets][Racism] |
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Michael Parenti -- The Functions of Fascim 3/3 THE FUNCTIONS OF FASCISM! Parenti says that fascism is a pseudo-revolutionary movement that serves the same old power structure and promises to solve the ills of the many while really protecting the interests of the few. He answers in detail who financed the Fascist parties and what services the fascists rendered in return. Many of the measures enacted by fascists were frighteningly similar to those enacted today: They include the privatization of state owned enterprises, reduction of corporate taxes and inheritance taxes, defeat of unions, and the suspension of civil liberties. Tags:[][War][Iraq][Vietnam][9/11][Empire][Terrorism][imperialisms][Bush][Greg][Palast] |
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Michael Parenti -- The Functions of Fascism 2/3 THE FUNCTIONS OF FASCISM! Parenti says that fascism is a pseudo-revolutionary movement that serves the same old power structure and promises to solve the ills of the many while really protecting the interests of the few. He answers in detail who financed the Fascist parties and what services the fascists rendered in return. Many of the measures enacted by fascists were frighteningly similar to those enacted today: They include the privatization of state owned enterprises, reduction of corporate taxes and inheritance taxes, defeat of unions, and the suspension of civil liberties. Tags:[][War][Iraq][Vietnam][9/11][Empire][Terrorism][imperialisms][Bush][Lies][Schools][of][the][Americas][Nicaragua][El][Salvador] |
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Michael Parenti -- The Functions of Fascism 1/3 THE FUNCTIONS OF FASCISM! Parenti says that fascism is a pseudo-revolutionary movement that serves the same old power structure and promises to solve the ills of the many while really protecting the interests of the few. He answers in detail who financed the Fascist parties and what services the fascists rendered in return. Many of the measures enacted by fascists were frighteningly similar to those enacted today: They include the privatization of state owned enterprises, reduction of corporate taxes and inheritance taxes, defeat of unions, and the suspension of civil liberties. Tags:[][War][Iraq][Vietnam][9/11][Empire][Terrorism][imperialisms][Bush][Lies][Schools][of][the][Americas][Nicaragua][El][Salvador] |
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Michael Parenti -- Spanish American War 3/3 THE SPANISH AMERICAN WAR AND THE RISE OF US IMPERIALISM! Michael Parenti uses the history of the Spanish American War to answer several very intriguing questions. Who first expressed the desire to annex the island of Cuba - and when? Why was the US government concerned about Spanish repression of the rights of Cubans while the repression of African Americans within the US was ignored? Why did the US attack the Philippines when it was Cuba they supposedly wanted to rescue? Why did the US give verbal support to the Cuban liberation movements against Spain while selling weapons to Spain to fight the popular movement? The Spanish American War was an important turning point in the transition of the US to an imperial power and many of the forces at work are eerily contemporary. Tags:[][War][Iraq][Vietnam][9/11][Empire][Terrorism][imperialisms][Bush][Crimes] |
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Michael Parenti -- Spanish American War 2/3 THE SPANISH AMERICAN WAR AND THE RISE OF US IMPERIALISM! Michael Parenti uses the history of the Spanish American War to answer several very intriguing questions. Who first expressed the desire to annex the island of Cuba - and when? Why was the US government concerned about Spanish repression of the rights of Cubans while the repression of African Americans within the US was ignored? Why did the US attack the Philippines when it was Cuba they supposedly wanted to rescue? Why did the US give verbal support to the Cuban liberation movements against Spain while selling weapons to Spain to fight the popular movement? The Spanish American War was an important turning point in the transition of the US to an imperial power and many of the forces at work are eerily contemporary. Tags:[][War][Iraq][Vietnam][9/11][Empire][Terrorism][imperialisms][Bush] |
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Michael Parenti -- Spanish American War 1/3 THE SPANISH AMERICAN WAR AND THE RISE OF US IMPERIALISM! Michael Parenti uses the history of the Spanish American War to answer several very intriguing questions. Who first expressed the desire to annex the island of Cuba - and when? Why was the US government concerned about Spanish repression of the rights of Cubans while the repression of African Americans within the US was ignored? Why did the US attack the Philippines when it was Cuba they supposedly wanted to rescue? Why did the US give verbal support to the Cuban liberation movements against Spain while selling weapons to Spain to fight the popular movement? The Spanish American War was an important turning point in the transition of the US to an imperial power and many of the forces at work are eerily contemporary. Tags:[][War][Iraq][Vietnam][9/11][Empire][Terrorism][imperialisms][Bush][Hussain][Osama] |
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Michael Parenti -- The Myth of the Founding Fatheres 3/3 As the United States government claims to spread democracy around the world and is deeply involved in ghost writing constitutions for other countries, the spotlight falls back on this country. Is the current US system a democracy, - has it ever been one? In The Myth of the Founding Fathers Michael Parenti takes us back to the early days of the republic. Who were the founding fathers, what were their goals in writing the US constitution? Whom did they exclude and whom did they favor? What was their attitude towards slavery? How many of them actually wanted to create a monarchy? And who - in the end - ratified the constitution after it was written? Tags:[][war][lies][democracy] |
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Michael Parenti -- The Myth of the Founding Fathers 2/3 As the United States government claims to spread democracy around the world and is deeply involved in ghost writing constitutions for other countries, the spotlight falls back on this country. Is the current US system a democracy, - has it ever been one? In The Myth of the Founding Fathers Michael Parenti takes us back to the early days of the republic. Who were the founding fathers, what were their goals in writing the US constitution? Whom did they exclude and whom did they favor? What was their attitude towards slavery? How many of them actually wanted to create a monarchy? And who - in the end - ratified the constitution after it was written? Tags:[][war][lies][democracy] |
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Michael Parenti -- The Myth of the Founding Fathers 1/3 As the United States government claims to spread democracy around the world and is deeply involved in ghost writing constitutions for other countries, the spotlight falls back on this country. Is the current US system a democracy, - has it ever been one? In The Myth of the Founding Fathers Michael Parenti takes us back to the early days of the republic. Who were the founding fathers, what were their goals in writing the US constitution? Whom did they exclude and whom did they favor? What was their attitude towards slavery? How many of them actually wanted to create a monarchy? And who - in the end - ratified the constitution after it was written? Tags:[][war][lies][democracy] |
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80,000 Angry Men. Is the US Surge collapsing? 80,000 Angry Men. Is the US Surge collapsing? Iraqis employed by the US to take on al-Qaida are threatening to strike Friday March 21st, 2008 An investigation carried out by GuardianFilms for Channel 4 uncovers how thousands of Iraqis employed at $10 a day by the US to take on al-Qaida are threatening to go on strike because they say they have been used by the 'Americans to do their dirty work' and haven't been paid. http://therealnews.com/web/index.php?thisdataswitch=0&thisid=1199&thisview=item Tags:[][War][Iraq][Vietnam][9/11][Empire][Terrorism][Imperialist][Agfanistan] |
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Clinton vs Obama on Blackwater Clinton vs Obama on Blackwater Winter Solider: Jeremy Scahill discusses why no presidential candidate plans on fully leaving Iraq http://therealnews.com/web/index.php?thisdataswitch=0&thisid=1144&thisview=item Monday March 17th, 2008 Jeremy Scahill is the author of the bestselling Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army. He is an award-winning investigative journalist and correspondent for the national radio and TV program Democracy Now!. Tags:[][War][Iraq][Vietnam][9/11][Empire][Terrorism][imperialisms][Bush][Lies][Schools][of][the][Americas][Nicaragua][El][Salvador] |
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Obama vs Clinton foreign policy advisers Pepe Escobar: Comparing foreign policy advisers of two candidates shows some differences On the Democratic side, things are much more complicated and diverse and nuanced. Starting with the Clinton side, one of her main advisers for foreign policy is in fact Madeleine Albright. Madeleine Albright adds a little bit of more of the same on the Clinton side. Madeleine Albright, former secretary of state, is infamous for saying on the record during the '90s that more than 500,000 Iraqi children who were victims of the UN sanctions imposed by the West--their sacrifice was worth it, in terms of undermining the regime of Saddam Hussein. We have Sandy Berger, former national security adviser, as well. And especially Richard Holbrooke, who is going to be probably the next secretary of state under a Clinton government. It's very important to remember that Richard Holbrooke, when he was assistant secretary of state for East Asia, he was propping up Ferdinand Marcos, the dictator of the Philippines when he was alive, and also dictator Suharto in Indonesia in terms of repression of East Timor. Richard Holbrooke is kind of a hawk, actually. He says that Iran is a threat, and Ahmadinejad is Hitler, which would easily put him in the neocon column for that matter. Basically, most of the Clinton advisers were pro-war on Iraq, while Obama's advisers, most of them were against. Clinton also has ties with very well-known centrists like General Wesley Clark, who was against the war in Iraq from the beginning, and former US Ambassador, Joseph Wilson, whose wife Valerie was outed as a CIA agent by the Bush administration. Of course, her [inaudible] story is becoming a Hollywood movie. On the Obama side, his main adviser for foreign policy is Zbigniew Brzezinski, former national security adviser under Jimmy Carter. You may all remember that Brzezinski wrote The Grand Chess Board, his book where he outlines the fact in his mind that the US has to control Eurasia, and if US doesn't control Eurasia, it won't control the rest of the world. So this is not exactly neocon. It was recuperated later by the neocons. But this is basically US world domination, and it has to be armed if, obviously, the countries of Eurasia do not abide. We also have Anthony Lake, a former national security adviser. Former Assistant Secretary of State Susan Rice. Former counter-terrorist czar Richard Clarke, who wrote a very, very good book on his efforts to fight al-Qaeda, all of them undermined by the Bush administration in 2001. We have human rights scholar Samantha Power. That's very good, because basically she's been talking a lot and writing a lot about US manipulation of the United Nations. But we also have some very, very disturbing characters as well. We have a retired General Merill McPeak who supported; he always backed the occupation and repression of East Timor. And Dennis Ross, who was a Clinton special envoy to the Middle East-- he supports the illegal, bloody, and in fact absolutely horrendous Israeli occupation of the West Bank. So even if Obama's people are, you know, more inclined to finish off the war in Iraq and, okay, try to find a graceful exit from Afghanistan, there's one fact of the matter: no matter what any one of these advisers think or no matter what we have with a Clinton presidency or an Obama presidency, the ultimate deciders for what's going to happen in Iraq are going to be the US national security establishment. And for them, obviously, they will be much more comfortable with a guy like John "a century of war" McCain. Tags:[][War][Iraq][Vietnam][9/11][Empire][Terrorism][Imperialist][America][Latina] |