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Send Your Smelly, Old Shoes to the Whitehouse
NOTE: Speaking of shoes and the White House, Skip Mendler of Honesdale, PA has a great idea. He suggests that everyone who is disgusted with the outgoing Bush/Cheney administration send a shoe to the White House. Just imagine a pile … Continue reading
MSM Silence About Torture, War Crimes Makes Them Complicit
What I am saying here is that we need to muster all the noise we are able to bring these bastards to justice. We cannot let these crimes go unpunished. Every day, we are uncovering new revelations of the depth … Continue reading
Robert King: An Inspiring Story of Human Survival
Robert H. King, who spent 29 years in solitary confinement at Louisiana’s notorious Angola State Prison, talks with supporters Sunday night, December 14, 2008, at a book signing party for his moving autobiography, “From the Bottom of the Heap” (PMPress, … Continue reading
The Vatican: Working Their Way Back in Time
Pope Benedict XVI. Photo: roblisameehan via Flickr.Will a New Vatican Document Affect Science and Reproductive Health?By Brendan Borrell / December 12, 2008 Mischaracterizations of science lurk in the Vatican’s latest instructions on bioethics, but Catholics probably won’t follow them anyway … Continue reading
Iraq: A War Crime of Immense Proportions: The (Non-)Reconstruction Saga
Unbelievable: trash the nation, murdering thousands and thousands of innocent civilians, allowing the looting of invaluable artifacts, allowing ethnic cleansing to occur unabated, allowing the country to sink to Third World status, allowing basic services to vanish, allowing corrupt officials … Continue reading
Potential Afghan War Crime Ignored by US
As possible Afghan war-crimes evidence removed, U.S. silentBy Tom Lasseter / December 11, 2008 DASHT-E LEILI, Afghanistan — Seven years ago, a convoy of container trucks rumbled across northern Afghanistan loaded with a human cargo of suspected Taliban and al … Continue reading
US, Russia, China Refuse to Sign Cluster Treaty
Just a reminder: this is what cluster bomblets do to people.Cluster Bomb Treaty and The World’s Unfinished BusinessBy Ramzy Baroud / December 13, 2008 The United States, Russia and China are sending a terrible message to the rest of the … Continue reading
Loving: What Are You Looking At ?
Cartoon by Charlie Loving / The Rag Blog
Rogers: "We’re Going to Have a Lost Decade"
Jim Rogers calls most big U.S. banks “bankrupt”By Jonathan Stempel / December 11, 2008 NEW YORK – Jim Rogers, one of the world’s most prominent international investors, on Thursday called most of the largest U.S. banks “totally bankrupt,” and said … Continue reading
P. Cockburn: Iraq SOFA* Hands US Total Defeat
It’s All Spelled Out in Unpublicized Agreement: Total Defeat for U.S. in IraqBy Patrick Cockburn / December 11, 2008 On November 27 the Iraqi parliament voted by a large majority in favor of a security agreement with the US under … Continue reading
On Revoking Israel’s UN Membership Pending Compliance with International Law
Of course, one key issue with this proposal is that UN membership of a whole bunch of nations would have to be revoked for consistency, starting with the US. Can’t see too many folks going along with that scenario. Richard … Continue reading
