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Close Gitmo and End Unconstitutional Military Commissions Now
By Robert Greenwald | We have the chance to help President-elect Obama reclaim democracy and restore the rule of law in our country, which he can do on his first day in office. By shutting
Read More »Amnesty calls on Afghan government to halt executions
London – Amnesty International has called on the government of Afghanistan to repeal the death sentences against 111 people who are on death row. In a statement released in London Thursday, to coincide with
Read More »‘War in Iraq is over’ – US ‘media’
The wars in Iraq and Afganistan are now over and President George W. Bush has been indicted on treason charges, according to the New York Times. Sort of. RT | Citizens of the Big
Read More »Most Britons want troops out of Afghanistan: poll
AFP | More than two-thirds of Britons believe British troops should be pulled out of Afghanistan next year, according to an opinion poll released on Wednesday. Sixty-eight percent said Britain should withdraw while 24
Read More »Blackwater likely to be fined millions in Iraq weapons case
By Warren Strobel | The State Department is preparing to slap a multi-million dollar fine on private military contractor Blackwater USA for shipping hundreds of automatic weapons to Iraq without the necessary permits. Some
Read More »Obama Pressured to Back Off Iraq Withdrawal
IPS | The promotion of Robert M. Gates as President-elect Barack Obama’s secretary of defence appears to be the key element in a broad campaign by military officials and their supporters in the political elite
Read More »Constitutional Dead Letters
by Roger Roots | Historians of Soviet Russia occasionally note that the communist workers’ paradise was originally intended to adhere to a written constitution that expressly guaranteed freedoms such as speech, press and assembly. In
Read More »John Pilger: What “Change” In America Really Means
By John Pilger | My first visit to Texas was in 1968, on the fifth anniversary of the assassination of president John F Kennedy in Dallas. I drove south, following the line of telegraph
Read More »Illegal tax scheme gives $140 billion to biggest US banks
By Bill Van Auken | An extra-legal measure quietly enacted by the Treasury Department in the shadow of the $700 billion Wall Street bailout package will hand the country’s biggest banks another $140
Read More »Lest We Forget: Could the First World War Have Been Stopped?
By George Monbiot | Like most people of my generation, I grew up with a mystery. I felt I understood the Second World War. The attempt to dominate and destroy, to eliminate the people
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