Whenever there is injustice, there are people fighting it with every possible means. We have seen it so many times before: the oppressed rise up, the oppressor dehumanizes them calling them such names as "terrorists", "saboteurs", "death loving" extremists... It is only normal that the oppressor will always lie to justify his actions and its crimes.
What is different in the case of Palestine, is that the Israeli… Continue
TRNN interviews relatives of recently assassinated men in Nablus, Occupied Palestinian Territories
In recent weeks Israel has escalated its practice of assassinations in the West Bank and Gaza. At the end of December, Israeli special forces broke into the Nablus homes of Anan Subih, Raed Surkaji, and Ghassan Abu Sharekh and killed them. Official Israeli sources linked the three to the killing of… Continue
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A Salt Lake City family caught up in the search for an accused cop killer says they lost nearly everything when police pumped their house full of tear gas, causing about $25,000 in damage.
"They destroyed my life in a few hours," said Salvia Miramontes, who had to throw away… Continue
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Published on Tuesday, January 19, 2010 by CommonDreams.org by Andy Worthington
It's hard to know where to begin with this profoundly important story by Scott Horton, for next month's Harper's Magazine (available on the web here), but let's try this: The three "suicides" at Guantánamo in June 2006 were not suicides at all. The men in question were killed during interrogations in a… Continue
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Scientologists have mobilized to seize on the promotional and recruitment opportunities presented by the horror going on in Haiti, and John Travolta has personally arranged to fly "volunteer ministers" to Haiti to inflict his junk science on victims there.
Anywhere people are suffering, Scientology's yellow-shirted "volunteer ministers" can be… Continue
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Published 03 December, 2009 US Army Reserve Staff Sgt. Sandra Lee, who was raped twice while serving in Iraq, shared her story in an interview with RT.
According to a new study by the US Department of Defense, one in three women in the military is raped. Veterans for Peace add to those statistics, claiming 75% of raped women… Continue
Democracy Now
January 07, 2010
Ubs-birkenfeld
A former banker for the Swiss giant UBS who blew the whistle on the biggest tax-evasion scheme in US history is preparing to head to prison tomorrow to begin serving a forty-month federal sentence. Bradley Birkenfeld first came forward to US authorities in 2007 and began providing inside… Continue
Last night, in near freezing Louisiana temperatures, I was grilling some burgers on my Christmas present from my lovely fiance. As I saw the grill's thermometer read between 350 and 400'F it reminded me of this photo (courtesy of Anthony Watts, Dr. Roger Pielke Sr., and SurfaceStations.org.)…
12-29-2009 Kevin Fenton
OpEdNews.com
A recently released 9/11 Commission memo highlights the role of government “minders” who accompanied witnesses interviewed by the commission. It was added to the National Archives’ files at the start of the year and discovered there by History Commons contributor… Continue
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Video capturing the how the dumb down American people have no idea as to what is truly going on and could careless as they sit and sip suds, watching dancing with washed up…Continue
This week we discuss Geos enemies list, more about the Ed and Elaine Brown Case and Tweek the red nosed conspiracy theorist leads us through the… Continue
Arguably, the most bizarre, fascinating and perhaps groundbreaking of all observations we've heard from Inuit is that they believe our world has tilted on its axis and this contributes to climate change. When Zacharias and I first heard this, we thought it was very strange, yet elders in all… Continue
DW Description: Chris Langan is known to have the highest IQ in the world, somewhere between 195 and 210. To give you an idea of what this means, the average...