Daily Archives: June 14, 2009 »
Soldier Refuses Deployment to Afghanistan
Agosto, a soldier based at Fort Hood in Texas, is publicly refusing orders to deploy to Afghanistan. He recently wrote on military forms: “There is no way I will deploy to Afghanistan. The occupation
Read More »US military spending hit $607 billion in 2008
The global arms madness continues. A new report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (one of my favorite think tanks) confirms that worldwide military expenditure is again on the up and up, with
Read More »The Rise of Private Armies
Journalist Jeremy Scahill warns against the growing power of corporate private armies and the “disintegration of the nation state apparatus.” The following is a transcript from the Bill Moyers Journal on PBS, broadcast on
Read More »MEP Nick Griffin – An audience with a racist
Nick Griffin: MEP elect, BNP mouthpiece, convicted Holocaust-denier and would-be deporter of black people invites me into the back seat of his car. He jokes that there is no egg on his jacket as
Read More »Racist rants of elected BNP man, Andrew Brons, revealed
One of the British National party’s first MEPs’ attempts to play down his past links to the extreme right as “silly” teenage posturing are today exposed as a sham after it emerged that for
Read More »John Yoo, Donald Rumsfeld and the Systematic Torture of Prisoners
On Jan. 17, 2003, Mary Walker, the Air Force general counsel, received an urgent memo from the Pentagon’s top attorney. Attached to the classified document was a set of directives drafted two days earlier
Read More »FDA Approves Antidepressants for Children, Even After Revelations of Bribery
The FDA has approved Forest Laboratories’ antidepressant Lexapro (escitalopram) for use in children and adolescents, even as the federal government and 11 states have filed a lawsuit against the company for illegally pushing the
Read More »Man arrested and convicted for complaining about government
Marshall Pappert waged a passionate, perhaps slightly obsessive, campaign of protest letter writing to Bridgeville, Pa. politicians and city officials to express his opposition to concrete plant. The city has responded, by arresting him,
Read More »The Federal Reserve Would Be Shut Down If It Was Audited
The Federal Reserve’s balance sheet is so out of whack that the central bank would be shut down if subjected to a conventional audit, Jim Grant, editor of Grant’s Interest Rate Observer, told CNBC.
Read More »The Long Ordeal of Guantánamo’s Youngest Prisoner
The long ordeal of Mohammed El-Gharani, Guantánamo’s youngest prisoner, has finally come to an end. Reprieve, the legal action charity that represents him, reported yesterday that he has been sent back to Chad. A
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