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Brother: Shoe-Throwing Journalist Hospitalized After Beating
Muntazer al-Zaidi risks a miminum of two years in prison for insulting a visiting head of state. Photo by AFP. Brother says Bush shoe-thrower in hospital after beating: ‘He has been taken to Ibn Sina hospital because he has a … Continue reading
War Crimes Prosecutions: It’s About Us, Not Them
It’s not about them…it’s about us: Why We Must Prosecute Bush And His Administration For War CrimesBy Mike Ferner / December 16, 2008 During the rush to get the Nuremberg Tribunals underway, the Soviet delegation wanted the tribunal’s historic decisions … Continue reading
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
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
POETRY / Larry Piltz : People of a Jealous God
move Air Wing One to Sector Nineand Air Wing Two just across the linerefresh the map at Sector Rnow flood the field with hover carclick it once to enlarge the gridencrypt the code for Captain Kidddelete and clear each square … Continue reading
Perfect Fit : Iraqi Journalist Throws Shoes at Bush
‘Muntazer al-Zaidi jumped up as Bush held a press conference with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, shouted “It is the farewell kiss, you dog” and threw his footwear.’ December 14, 2008 BAGHDAD — A journalist hurled two shoes at President … 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
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
