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This well-researched documentary by Deborah
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the disturbing truth behind the unlabeled, patented,
genetically engineered foods that have quietly filled
U.S. grocery store shelves for the past decades.
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political forces that are changing what we eat as
huge, multinational corporations seek to control the
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Swartz's Suicide
The suicide Friday of Aaron Swartz, who was a
leading and controversial figure in the hacking and
open access movements, reverberated through
academe over the weekend.
Many academic advocates for making journal articles
and scholarly research findings freely available
online considered him a hero. Praise for him came
even from many who disagreed with the extent of his
use of hacking to make his point. And the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced
Sunday that it would review its role in Swartz's legal
struggles. Read more:
The suicide Friday of Aaron Swartz, who was a
leading and controversial figure in the hacking and
open access movements, reverberated through
academe over the weekend.
Many academic advocates for making journal articles
and scholarly research findings freely available
online considered him a hero. Praise for him came
even from many who disagreed with the extent of his
use of hacking to make his point. And the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced
Sunday that it would review its role in Swartz's legal
struggles. Read more:
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Aaron Swartz?
On January 11, 2013, according to indoctrination
organs of the criminal Syndicate calling itself the US
government (a Syndicate comprised, for the most part,
of big bankers, generals, spooks and, below them,
their puppets in the White House and gubernatorial
mansions, Congress and state legislatures, and almost
the entire judiciary), Aaron Swartz, aged 26, killed
himself Or did he?
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Aaron Swartz?
On January 11, 2013, according to indoctrination
organs of the criminal Syndicate calling itself the US
government (a Syndicate comprised, for the most part,
of big bankers, generals, spooks and, below them,
their puppets in the White House and gubernatorial
mansions, Congress and state legislatures, and almost
the entire judiciary), Aaron Swartz, aged 26, killed
himself Or did he?
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| Gitmo hunger strikers to die in near future: Lawyers say. |
| A prisoner is carried by military police after being interrogated by officials at Camp X-Ray at the US Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. (File photo) |
| Lawyers representing hunger-striking prisoners at the United States’ infamous Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba say some of the hunger strikers will lose their lives in the ongoing protest. |
| The lawyers said they were concerned about the critical health condition of the prisoners, who began the hunger strike on February 6. They also said the majority of the 166 detainees held at the military base stopped eating and many lost dangerous amounts of weight and were now being forced-fed through the nose. According to a lawyer, who visited the prison last week, “Death can occur. That is an objective medical fact…There are people in critical condition. Death is a distinct possibility.” Rights activists say several prisoners have lost between nine to 22 kilograms. On Thursday, rights activists staged wide-scale protests in more than 26 cities and 19 states across the United States to mark the “Day of Action to Close Guantanamo and End Indefinite Detention.” On the same day, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Peter Maurer urged US President Barack Obama to resolve the ongoing legal limbo of prisoners held at the US prison. Maurer has held talks with Obama and other top US officials in Washington this week, while Red Cross representatives monitored and reported the crisis involving dozens of detainees in the notorious prison. “There is a discrepancy between the position of the United States and the ICRC,” said Maurer, adding that Red Cross doctors agreed with international medical groups who have denounced the act of force-feeding prisoners. The hunger strike began after the Gitmo staff reportedly seized personal belongings of the prisoners, including letters, photographs and copies of the Holy Qur’an in a sacrilegious manner during searches of their cells. The hunger strikers also stopped eating to protest their indefinite detention without charges. |
| World powers not negotiating with Iran in good faith by Kourosh Ziabari kouroshziabari.com |
| Canadian radio host and journalist James Corbett believes that the group of six world powers have not ever been sincere and honest in their negotiations with Iran and constantly used the opportunity of talks to put more pressure on Iran over its nuclear program. “At this point, the players in this drama have all but given up the pretense that this is a negotiation at all. It has become more of a venue for the west to deliver threats and ultimatums to Iran. The goalposts are constantly shifting and have become so hopelessly nebulous that they are about as realistic as it was for Bush and Blair to demand that Saddam Hussein “disarm” the WMDs he never had or face military invasion,” said Corbett in an interview with Fars News Agency. Read complete article Here |
IDF teargas Palestinian youth
protesting ruthless beating
protesting ruthless beating
Palestinians throw stones towards Israeli security forces
during clashes following a protest against the expropriation
of Palestinian land by Israel in the West Bank village of
Silwad, east of Ramallah, on April 12, 2013. (AFP Photo /
Abbas Momani)
during clashes following a protest against the expropriation
of Palestinian land by Israel in the West Bank village of
Silwad, east of Ramallah, on April 12, 2013. (AFP Photo /
Abbas Momani)
Israeli soldiers took to tear gas in order to disperse a
protest in the occupied West Bank. Scores of
Palestinian youths clashed with soldiers, protesting
the brutal beating of a 60-year-old former judge.
The youths set tires on fire and threw rocks at Israeli
soldiers, which used teargas to disperse the
protesters.
Violence erupted after Friday prayers in Silwa as
hundreds of village men streamed past Israeli troops
who tried to block their path. The Palestinians
gathered in al-Zir's apricot grove in protest.
“Our land, its stones and its soil, is our right.
Sleeping on it by night and tending to it by day,
without fear of attacks by hateful settlers, is a matter
of our very existence,” the local imam told the
worshipers at Friday prayers.
protest in the occupied West Bank. Scores of
Palestinian youths clashed with soldiers, protesting
the brutal beating of a 60-year-old former judge.
The youths set tires on fire and threw rocks at Israeli
soldiers, which used teargas to disperse the
protesters.
Violence erupted after Friday prayers in Silwa as
hundreds of village men streamed past Israeli troops
who tried to block their path. The Palestinians
gathered in al-Zir's apricot grove in protest.
“Our land, its stones and its soil, is our right.
Sleeping on it by night and tending to it by day,
without fear of attacks by hateful settlers, is a matter
of our very existence,” the local imam told the
worshipers at Friday prayers.
Palestinians proteface during clashes with Israeli security
forces following a protest against the expropriation of
Palestinian land by Israel in the West Bank village of Silwad,
east of Ramallah, on April 12, 2013. (AFP Photo / Abbas
Momani)
forces following a protest against the expropriation of
Palestinian land by Israel in the West Bank village of Silwad,
east of Ramallah, on April 12, 2013. (AFP Photo / Abbas
Momani)
The outrage was sparked by the brutal beating of a 60-
year-old former judge Ahmad al-Zir. Israelis allegedly
attacked him with steel pipes as the man was tending
his land between the Ofra settlement and the
Palestinian village of Silwad on Thursday.
“They were hitting him again and again on the head,
cursing him and telling him to shut up,” said Mahmoud
Hussein, a relative and an eyewitness of the alleged
attack Reuters reports.
Village youths tracked down the Israelis to their
encampment and burned down one of their
improvised homes. Israeli forces were sent to the
scene late Thursday to disperse the angered
Palestinians. They fired at the protesters, wounding
two with live bullets, including one in the chest,
medics said.
IDF officials have described the incident as a “clash
between Israeli and Palestinian civilians.” The alleged
beating is under investigation, said an Israeli army
spokesperson.
Meanwhile, dozens of Palestinians suffered tear-gas
inhalation during clashes near Mount Hebron in the
West Bank after the Israeli troops attacked a weekly
march against the closure of the road link between
Hebron and its southern villages, the march
coordinator told Ma’an. At least one person was
reportedly struck by a tear-gas canister.
The escalation comes amid disputes over the Israeli
settlements in the occupied West Bank where
Palestinian youths frequently hurl stones at settlers'
cars and Israeli soldiers. There are some 120 official
settlements, such as Ofra, and also more than 100
built without official authorization in the West Bank.
year-old former judge Ahmad al-Zir. Israelis allegedly
attacked him with steel pipes as the man was tending
his land between the Ofra settlement and the
Palestinian village of Silwad on Thursday.
“They were hitting him again and again on the head,
cursing him and telling him to shut up,” said Mahmoud
Hussein, a relative and an eyewitness of the alleged
attack Reuters reports.
Village youths tracked down the Israelis to their
encampment and burned down one of their
improvised homes. Israeli forces were sent to the
scene late Thursday to disperse the angered
Palestinians. They fired at the protesters, wounding
two with live bullets, including one in the chest,
medics said.
IDF officials have described the incident as a “clash
between Israeli and Palestinian civilians.” The alleged
beating is under investigation, said an Israeli army
spokesperson.
Meanwhile, dozens of Palestinians suffered tear-gas
inhalation during clashes near Mount Hebron in the
West Bank after the Israeli troops attacked a weekly
march against the closure of the road link between
Hebron and its southern villages, the march
coordinator told Ma’an. At least one person was
reportedly struck by a tear-gas canister.
The escalation comes amid disputes over the Israeli
settlements in the occupied West Bank where
Palestinian youths frequently hurl stones at settlers'
cars and Israeli soldiers. There are some 120 official
settlements, such as Ofra, and also more than 100
built without official authorization in the West Bank.
Palestinians throw stones towards Israeli security forces
during clashes following a protest against the expropriation
of Palestinian land by Israel in the West Bank village of
Silwad, east of Ramallah, on April 12, 2013. (AFP Photo /
Abbas Momani)
during clashes following a protest against the expropriation
of Palestinian land by Israel in the West Bank village of
Silwad, east of Ramallah, on April 12, 2013. (AFP Photo /
Abbas Momani)
A Palestinian pulls a tyre in fire during clashes with Israeli
forces following a protest against the expropriation of
Palestinian land by Israel in the West Bank village of Silwad,
east of Ramallah, on April 12, 2013. (AFP Photo / Abbas
Momani)
forces following a protest against the expropriation of
Palestinian land by Israel in the West Bank village of Silwad,
east of Ramallah, on April 12, 2013. (AFP Photo / Abbas
Momani)
A Palestinian wearing a mask looks on during clashes with
Israeli security forces following a protest against the
expropriation of Palestinian land by Israel in the West Bank
village of Silwad, east of Ramallah, on April 12, 2013. (AFP
Photo / Abbas Momani
Israeli security forces following a protest against the
expropriation of Palestinian land by Israel in the West Bank
village of Silwad, east of Ramallah, on April 12, 2013. (AFP
Photo / Abbas Momani
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"Our intelligence community does assess with varying
degrees of confidence that the Syrian regime has used
chemical weapons on a small scale in Syria, specifically
the chemical agent sarin."
I do assess with varying degrees of horror (some of
the varying degrees rather high even) that a lot of
people are going to die. And how dare they die from
chemical weapons when they should be dying from
hellfire missiles and cluster bombs and napalm and
depleted uranium and white phosphorous. We have a
responsibility to protect these people from dying of the
wrong type of weapon and in too small numbers.
I'm in Dallas protesting the rehabilitation of our last
criminal president because of the precedents he set
for our current criminal president. So, precedents are
on my mind. One precedent for an illegal humanitarian
NATO war on Syria is, of course, the illegal
humanitarian war on Libya two years ago. And the pair
of precedents (Libya and Syria) will put the target of the
neocon/neoliberal cooperative war project squarely on
Iran.
Syria will suffer, of course. There will be no more an
example of a humanitarian war that actually benefitted
humanity after Syria than before. The precedent will not
be one of having accomplished something, but of
having gotten away with something.
For some truly illuminating background on what was
done to Libya, and some relevant discussion of what
awaits Syria (if we don't prevent it), I recommend
Francis Boyle's new book, Destroying Libya and World
Order.
Boyle served as a lawyer for the government of Libya
repeatedly, over a period of decades, more than once
successfully preventing a military assault by the United
States and the United Kingdom. Boyle details the
aggression toward Libya of the Reagan administration:
the lies and false accusations, the sanctions, the
provocations, the assassination attempts, the
infiltration, the blatant disregard for international law.
Boyle's history brings us up to and through the 2011
assault, and traces its precedents to a very similar war
over a decade earlier in Bosnia. Boyle finds the
unconstitutional and illegal assault on Libya a clear
impeachable offense for President Obama. And why
would we think otherwise? Only because we let Clinton
and Bush get away with everything they got away with.
It would seem unfair now to impeach Obama for a crime
his predecessors committed as well.
But past, as well as current, presidents can be
impeached, censured, prosecuted, and/or publicly
shamed. Five of them came to Dallas today; there
shouldn't be any trouble finding them. And the criminal
attack on Libya can be treated as the crime it was. The
excuse of protection was used to quite openly pursue
the overthrow of a nation's government, bombing large
numbers of civilians in the process, while arming brutal
thugs and creating predictable blowback in
neighboring nations as well.
In contrast, in Bahrain, nonviolent pro-democracy
activists are left to their own devices as a U.S.-backed
dictatorship jails, tortures, and murders them.
In Syria, the United States has worked against peace
and for violence. That violence is not a justification for
further and heightened violence. And every member of
an intelligence "community" that announces that Syria
might possibly have used a chemical weapon should
be doing community service for the people of Fallujah
and Basra and Baghdad, not prodding the world's only
stupor power into another genocide.
More Articles by David Swanson
David Swanson is an American activist, blogger and
author. He served for a year as media coordinator for
the International Labor Communications Association. In
May 2005, Swanson helped make the Downing Street
memo known in the United States and discussed in
Congress. He co-founded After Downing Street and led
an ongoing campaign to impeach President George W.
Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. Swanson
continues to work closely with the peace movement
and often leads campaigns to end the Iraq War and
punish those involved in launching that war. His
Swanson's books include War Is A Lie. He blogs at
http://davidswanson.org and http://warisacrime.org and
works as Campaign Coordinator for the online activist
organization http://rootsaction.org. He hosts Talk
Nation Radio.
degrees of confidence that the Syrian regime has used
chemical weapons on a small scale in Syria, specifically
the chemical agent sarin."
I do assess with varying degrees of horror (some of
the varying degrees rather high even) that a lot of
people are going to die. And how dare they die from
chemical weapons when they should be dying from
hellfire missiles and cluster bombs and napalm and
depleted uranium and white phosphorous. We have a
responsibility to protect these people from dying of the
wrong type of weapon and in too small numbers.
I'm in Dallas protesting the rehabilitation of our last
criminal president because of the precedents he set
for our current criminal president. So, precedents are
on my mind. One precedent for an illegal humanitarian
NATO war on Syria is, of course, the illegal
humanitarian war on Libya two years ago. And the pair
of precedents (Libya and Syria) will put the target of the
neocon/neoliberal cooperative war project squarely on
Iran.
Syria will suffer, of course. There will be no more an
example of a humanitarian war that actually benefitted
humanity after Syria than before. The precedent will not
be one of having accomplished something, but of
having gotten away with something.
For some truly illuminating background on what was
done to Libya, and some relevant discussion of what
awaits Syria (if we don't prevent it), I recommend
Francis Boyle's new book, Destroying Libya and World
Order.
Boyle served as a lawyer for the government of Libya
repeatedly, over a period of decades, more than once
successfully preventing a military assault by the United
States and the United Kingdom. Boyle details the
aggression toward Libya of the Reagan administration:
the lies and false accusations, the sanctions, the
provocations, the assassination attempts, the
infiltration, the blatant disregard for international law.
Boyle's history brings us up to and through the 2011
assault, and traces its precedents to a very similar war
over a decade earlier in Bosnia. Boyle finds the
unconstitutional and illegal assault on Libya a clear
impeachable offense for President Obama. And why
would we think otherwise? Only because we let Clinton
and Bush get away with everything they got away with.
It would seem unfair now to impeach Obama for a crime
his predecessors committed as well.
But past, as well as current, presidents can be
impeached, censured, prosecuted, and/or publicly
shamed. Five of them came to Dallas today; there
shouldn't be any trouble finding them. And the criminal
attack on Libya can be treated as the crime it was. The
excuse of protection was used to quite openly pursue
the overthrow of a nation's government, bombing large
numbers of civilians in the process, while arming brutal
thugs and creating predictable blowback in
neighboring nations as well.
In contrast, in Bahrain, nonviolent pro-democracy
activists are left to their own devices as a U.S.-backed
dictatorship jails, tortures, and murders them.
In Syria, the United States has worked against peace
and for violence. That violence is not a justification for
further and heightened violence. And every member of
an intelligence "community" that announces that Syria
might possibly have used a chemical weapon should
be doing community service for the people of Fallujah
and Basra and Baghdad, not prodding the world's only
stupor power into another genocide.
More Articles by David Swanson
David Swanson is an American activist, blogger and
author. He served for a year as media coordinator for
the International Labor Communications Association. In
May 2005, Swanson helped make the Downing Street
memo known in the United States and discussed in
Congress. He co-founded After Downing Street and led
an ongoing campaign to impeach President George W.
Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. Swanson
continues to work closely with the peace movement
and often leads campaigns to end the Iraq War and
punish those involved in launching that war. His
Swanson's books include War Is A Lie. He blogs at
http://davidswanson.org and http://warisacrime.org and
works as Campaign Coordinator for the online activist
organization http://rootsaction.org. He hosts Talk
Nation Radio.
US presidents must
be prosecuted for
military aggressions,
war crimes
be prosecuted for
military aggressions,
war crimes
