I've been following this case as closely as I can which isn't very closely since the mainstream media doesn't seem to know it exists and the little they've printed in the past hasn't been believable. The testimony below gives great insight into what happened. It seems very likely that US soldiers shot an innocent women, kidnapped her three children and tortured her. It also seems very likely that because of this and because there's little media attention she'll be spending a great many years in… Continue

I'm not a teacher nor am I a physicist but I do understand the high school physics teacher's investigation outlined in the video below. Do you?





This video means, unquestionably, that the US government perpetrated a lie to deceive the American people. Why?…



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Our world has been turned upside down and inside out.



The terrorists have taken charge and legitimized themselves and they now call those fighting for their freedom 'terrorists' and they call themselves legitimate politicians. It's uncanny. It's surreal.



History is obfuscated. The facts are obscured and confused. The truth is confounded and bemused. We are taught lies. The truth is buried.



Let's examine the first 20th century terrorists, one of whom, Yitzhak… Continue

By David Swanson



Last June we were handed an opportunity to block the funding of our illegal, murderous, counterproductive, catastrophic, and hated wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The president insisted on an off-the-books "emergency supplemental" bill, and the Senate added an IMF bailout to the bill, leading all the Republicans in the House to commit what for years they'd called treason: they all voted No on war money.



So, we only needed 39 Democrats to vote No, and we… Continue

Time to Set Okinawa Free



by Sherwood Ross



It’s way past time for the U.S. to get out of Okinawa—and, for that matter, to take its Tokyo good buddies with it. Before Japanese warlords annexed the Ryuku islands in 1879, Okinawans enjoyed more freedom than they do today. Every liberty-loving American ought to be shouting: “Okinawa for the Okinawans!”



Right now, this Los Angeles-sized Pacific gem of 454-sq.-miles is Pentagon Tropical Paradise No. 1. It’s a land of… Continue

My argument has been consistent, Capitalism destroys everything in its path leaving only detritus behind. The same forces that have kept Haiti an impoverished country are at work right here in America, and they're winning their battle.



They are, in quietly held meetings, closing our schools and reopening them as for profit charter schools (while Charter Schools may have non-profit status they still must make a profit to exist), essentially privatizing the school system and… Continue

This post was originally published on www.commondreams.org



What’s it like to be a woman serving in the Israeli occupation force in the West Bank? Is a woman’s experience as an occupier any different than a man’s? Yes indeed, say some women who have just broken their silence and offered a glimpse into the grim reality of the occupation.



“A female combat soldier needs to prove more,” one explains. “A female soldier who beats up… Continue

The details surrounding the recent Honduras coup are filled with lies and disinformation perpetrated mostly by the Regan era Chief Liar, Otto Reich and his Otto Reich Associates, LLC, of Washington, DC, a consulting firm which provides the material for the media to form the perceptions of the American people.



Those same perceptions regarding Venezuela and their democratically elected president Hugo Chavez are manipulated to fit US government and Capitalist desires to allow for… Continue

Yes, slavery still exists. And it isn't some rare occurrence, it's standard procedure.



As soon as dawn breaks in Port-au-Prince the first children appear, staggering under the weight of five-gallon buckets of water. The water carriers, many as young as 6-years-old, are some of the thousands of children living as virtual child slaves in the country.



Given away to other families by parents too poor to feed and clothe them, they cook, clean and fetch water without any… Continue

KABUL (AFP) – Afghanistan, one of the world's poorest countries, is sitting on mineral and petroleum reserves worth an estimated one trillion dollars, President Hamid Karzai said Sunday.



The war-ravaged nation could become one of the richest in the world if helped to tap its geological deposits, Karzai told reporters.



"I have very good news for Afghans," Karzai said.



"The initial figures we have obtained show that our mineral deposits are worth a thousand… Continue

One of the great Jewish traditions I experienced as a child growing up was the tradition of the value of family. Family comes first and that was apparent. We came together, about 100 of us, every Sunday. My grandmother cooked from sun-up until sundown and between about 7 in the morning and about 7 in the evening every one of my family members would pass through her house, stay for a meal and wonderfully interesting conversation and then go on about their day. Most of my relatives spoke Yiddish… Continue