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 Investigation sought of alleged Kosovo war crimes
Tracy Wilkinson via rialator, Wednesday, May 7 2008, 8:15pm
ROME — A leading human rights group on Monday urged the governments of Albania and the self-declared state of Kosovo to investigate horrific allegations about the kidnapping and abuse of Serb civilians after the NATO-led war that drove Serbian forces from Kosovo.
international /
injustice/law /
other press
 It’s bad news week, very Bad!
harley, Wednesday, May 7 2008, 8:02am
It hasn’t been good for planet earth this week; a killer cyclone hit Burma and is predicted to take 100,000 lives, but no one has mentioned the liability issue of climate change/killer storms and the affluent nations that are clearly responsible! (story and 1 comment and 1 image)
Last Commented Wednesday, May 7 2008, 7:09pm
international /
environment /
commentary
Trilateral Commission: global elite gather in D.C.
James P. Tucker Jr. via reed, Tuesday, May 6 2008, 9:46pm
The Trilateral Commission—one of the three most powerful globalist groups in the world—held closed-door meetings right here in Washington, D.C. from April 25 to 28. True to form, those members of the media who knew about the meeting—or were themselves participants in the proceedings—refused to discuss what went on inside or report on the attendees. Luckily, AFP’s own editor, Jim Tucker, was on the scene to bust this clandestine confabulation wide open.
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social/political /
other press
Pentagon Targeted Iran for Regime Change after 9/11
Gareth Porter via rialator, Tuesday, May 6 2008, 9:28pm
WASHINGTON, May 5 (IPS) - Three weeks after the 9/11 terror attacks, former U.S. Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld established an official military objective of not only removing the Saddam Hussein regime by force but overturning the regime in Iran, as well as in Syria and four other countries in the Middle East, according to a document quoted extensively in then Undersecretary of Defence for Policy Douglas Feith's recently published account of the Iraq war decisions. (story and 1 image)
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imperialism /
other press
In Memory of Albert Hofmann and his discovery – LSD-25
quin, Monday, May 5 2008, 10:48am
Albert Hofmann died last week aged 102; his longevity may be attributed to the ‘acid’ he first synthesised in ’43 -- then again it may not, but it doesn't really matter! Reams could be written on the effects of LSD but in memory and homage to a great man and pioneer we leave the description to him. Following is an excerpt from his book, “LSD - My Problem Child:” (story and 2 images)
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personal development /
other press
An Atheist Goes Undercover to Join the Flock of Mad Pastor John Hagee
Matt Taibbi via quill, Monday, May 5 2008, 9:36am
The following is an excerpt from Matt Taibbi's new book, "The Great Derangement" (Spiegel and Grau, 2008).
international /
theology /
other press
America: ignorance greater problem than disinformation
yarra, Sunday, May 4 2008, 11:56pm
Earlier this year I reported on a retired American high school teacher who hadn’t heard of Richard Perle, a highly influential neo-conservative responsible for much of the trouble in which America now finds itself. Imagine that level of ignorance and you will have little difficulty understanding how demented 'senior' Republicans like John McCain are able to garner support for their race for the Presidency. Social and political ignorance is endemic in the USA. The schoolteacher was not the exception but the rule!
international /
peace/war /
opinion/analysis
Rich-poor divide no longer a ‘gap’ now a yawning, unbridgeable chasm
gan, Sunday, May 4 2008, 7:52am
For a very brief period in the second half of the twentieth century, ‘first world’ nations experienced relative equality. The poor could, with immense difficulty, bridge the affluence gap and become wealthy. Today everyone but the cliques and privileged insiders are shut out permanently! The world has returned to the enduring paradigm of privileged elites and everyone else; the access corridors to equity/equality have been shut tight – why share the remaining spoils and perhaps increase competition for the rapidly decreasing commodities and resources of the world? (story and 2 comments and 1 image)
Last Commented Monday, May 5 2008, 9:08am
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social/political /
commentary
Church, State and Campaign ‘08
Bill Boyarsky via fish, Friday, May 2 2008, 9:00am
When Adolf Hitler came to power, he said, “I am not going to do anything in my lifetime that hasn’t been done by the Roman Church for the past 800 years. I am only going to do it on a greater scale and more efficiently.” (story and 1 image)
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Rice's bastard child, Albanian Kosovo
peptide, Friday, May 2 2008, 1:47am
The one thing a bastard can never achieve is legitimacy! Regardless of all the efforts of monarchs, peasants, Albanian criminals and U.S. war whores – a bastard is forever ILLEGITIMATE! (story and 1 image)
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commentary
Robert Gates threatens Iran, ho hum!
finch, Thursday, May 1 2008, 8:22pm
In full view of the Iraqi holocaust and cognisant of the fact that America and Israel are the only expansionist, invasive, plundering, murdering, nations in the world today, let’s call a spade a spade. The criminal USA has deployed another aircraft carrier to the 'Persian' Gulf in a show of force and possibly to prepare for an attack on Iran – China and Russia have no illusions regarding the U.S. military build-up in the region. Uncle Sam may get a bigger shock than anticipated – aggressive warfare comes at great cost though the time of payment may not be immediate! (story and 1 image)
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peace/war /
commentary
Spineless Australia hosts largest U.S. spy base outside continental U.S.A
Richard Neville via rialator, Wednesday, Apr 30 2008, 10:34pm
[Pine Gap, American spy base located in central Australia stands as a monument to Australian servility and cowardice. Only one Australian leader took the Americans to task over this secretive installation; he was immediately removed from power by the machinations of the CIA and their conservative Australian allies -- refer to a good Australian history book for the entire account.
Gough Whitlam wished to make Australia a nation in its own right but the Americans would have no one -- including the democratically elected Prime Minister – disturbing their plans and causing trouble in their new post WWII colony.
America replaced the British as the new colonial overlords for CRINGING, infantile Australian governments. To witness TODAY our leaders cowering like the servile dogs they are before the corrupt, inept and mass murdering Americans is truly sickening!
The following story, by Australian journalist, author and activist, Richard Neville, makes for a riveting and sobering read -- FUCK AMERICA, the scourge of the world! Ed.] (story and 2 images)
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other press
Protesters deflate NZ spy base dome
Reuters via rialator, Wednesday, Apr 30 2008, 7:54pm
WELLINGTON, NZ: Peace activists yesterday attacked and deflated a large inflatable globe housing a satellite dish at a top secret New Zealand spy base in protest at US military actions. (story and 2 images)
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Will Serbia sell its soul for EU membership?
dragan, Tuesday, Apr 29 2008, 8:09pm
What is the EU really offering Serbia after the ICC acquitted KLA war criminal, Ramush Haradinaj, of heinous war crimes charges? It is now clear western interests seek the dissolution of the Serbian State. The West’s support of known criminals in secessionist Kosovo is additional proof of the lengths to which the West will go to (illegally) secure sovereign Serbian territories. (story and 1 image)
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social/political /
commentary
Nature signals calamity!
Mollie Matteson via rialator, Monday, Apr 28 2008, 8:57pm
[First the honey bees now the bats -- is anyone listening to the most important alarms? Ed.]
BATS have been dying by the thousands recently in the Northeastern United States. No one knows why, and it may be months, perhaps years, before the cause is determined. Meanwhile, scientists predict that this summer there will be a population explosion of insects, which bats normally eat in large quantities. Greater numbers of beetles and moths could mean severe and costly losses for farmers and timber producers. There could also be bigger swarms of mosquitoes and other biting bugs, which will mean more discomfort for all of us.
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other press
Cheney/Bush/Israel determined to ignite WWIII
Peter Chamberlin via reed, Monday, Apr 28 2008, 8:42pm
Judging from the campaign rhetoric coming out of both camps, whoever wins the Oval Office will be inclined to continue the failed military policies in Iraq and to pursue a confrontation with Iran. Apparently it does not matter to either party what will follow those actions, or what these disastrous policies have produced as they played-out in Iraq and Afghanistan. It does not matter who gets elected, whether it is "bomb, bomb Iran" McCain, or "obliterate/massive retaliation" Clinton, nothing will change. (story and 1 image)
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Oz PM sacrifices Aussie lives for U.S. criminal enterprise
barra, Sunday, Apr 27 2008, 8:37pm
The justification the Australian Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, offers families and the Australian public for the needless deaths of our servicemen in Afghanistan is that al-Qaeda attacked ‘his’ ally the USA! Al-Qaeda is Bin Laden’s organisation; they are clearly not Afghanis! The people responsible for actions against western occupation forces in Afghanistan are Afghanis; the same tribal groups that fought Alexander the Great and Imperial Britain. The propaganda offered by western occupation forces to justify wars of plunder, land acquisition and occupation convinces only the feeble minded. None of it justifies the cost – in human lives – of the current occupation. This particularly applies to Australia, which is so far removed from Afghanistan that all attempts at justification meet with sneers and incredulity. (story and 1 image)
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peace/war /
commentary
Latin America: the attack on democracy
John Pilger via rialator, Friday, Apr 25 2008, 9:20am
Beyond the sound and fury of its conquest of Iraq and campaign against Iran, the world's dominant power is waging a largely unreported war on another continent - Latin America. Using proxies, Washington aims to restore and reinforce the political control of a privileged group calling itself middle-class, to shift the responsibility for massacres and drug trafficking away from the psychotic regime in Colombia and its mafiosi, and to extinguish hopes raised among Latin America's impoverished majority by the reform governments of Venezuela, Ecuador and Bolivia. (story and 1 image)
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other press
It’s a matter of credibility, literacy and competence
krill, Thursday, Apr 24 2008, 11:37pm
Prior to responding to the latest gibberish from the White House -- you know, the domicile on the misspelt ‘Capitol’ Hill that houses the leaders of the ONCE most powerful nation on the planet, America! [Now famed for its nose-diving economy, stunningly inaccurate intelligence agencies, illegal activities, expansionist wars of plunder and aggression, torture, illegal detention etc, etc; all brought to you by men and women of unusual intelligence and skill!] (story and 1 comment)
Last Commented Friday, Apr 25 2008, 7:00pm
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social/political /
commentary
Nazi Pope Ignores War/Holocaust
Ray McGovern via rialator, Wednesday, Apr 23 2008, 8:58am
Pope Benedict XVI arrived in the U.S. last week against a macabre backdrop featuring reports of torture, execution and war. He chose not to notice. (story and 1 image)
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