Daily Archives: June 28, 2008 »
Guantanamo detainees made to feel like ‘nomads’
Detainees at Guantanamo Bay are turned into “nomads” to keep them agitated and to punish those who break rules, a Sudanese journalist recently released from the U.S. military prison said Friday. Sami al-Haj said
Read More »30,000 troops heading to Iraq in 2009
AP News | The Pentagon is preparing to order roughly 30,000 troops to Iraq early next year in a move that would allow the U.S. to maintain 15 combat brigades in the country through
Read More »Neil Young on Impeaching Bush
Billboard | QUESTION: A liberal friend of mine in New York saw the Twin Towers fall while stuck in traffic on the Verrazano Bridge. She was so shook up, and remained so scared that in
Read More »Along For Fluoride
SchNews | If you knew that someone was putting poison into your water supply, what would you do? Call the authorities? Well don’t bother cos it’s the government wot’s doing it! If you live
Read More »The Nuclear Expert Who Never Was
By Scott Ritter | I am a former U.N. weapons inspector. I started my work with the United Nations in September 1991, and between that date and my resignation in August 1998, I participated in
Read More »The Big Outcome of the ’60s: The Triumph of Capitalism
By Slavoj Zizek | In 1968 Paris, one of the best-known graffiti messages on the city’s walls was “Structures do not walk on the streets!” In other words, the massive student and workers demonstrations of
Read More »New Global Energy Order Emerging
IPS | By bringing together the world’s major oil producers and consumers in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia marked a turning point in the negotiations for a new global energy order that is emerging under the
Read More »Creating the Next Society: Your Revolutionary Ideas Needed Now
By Mike Adams | It’s fairly obvious to anyone paying attention that the American Empire, as currently configured and operated, is simply not sustainable. Financial collapse is inevitable (and accelerating, it seems), and even
Read More »Welcome Home, Soldier: Now Shut Up
By Paul Rockwell | There are two kinds of courage in war – physical courage and moral courage. Physical courage is very common on the battlefield. Men and women on both sides risk their
Read More »Senate Passes Broad War Funding Measure
By Paul Kane | In a 92 to 6 vote, the Senate yesterday approved unrestricted funding for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that allows continuation of the current military course of action through
Read More »Society is Indeed Broken
Independent Working Class Association | …and we all know who broke it When submerged under a veritable deluge of ideologically-driven ‘reforms’, it takes something especially imbecilic to provoke a double-take. Louise Casey, the mouthy
Read More »MI5: revealing areas at mercy of collapsing dams is a terror threat
By Michael McCarthy | MI5 and flood risk experts are at odds over whether to publish inundation maps highlighting areas under threat if any of the country’s dams were to collapse. The Security Service
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