UN Criminal Court: "Regardless of any military targets, Israel's means are criminal!" (tags)
Now, more than ever, we must prove together that international humanitarian law, the fundamental basis for human behavior in conflict, applies to all people and in all situations that my office and the Court deal with. In this way, we will concretely prove that the lives of all people are of equal value.
What does the recognition of the state of Palestine by Norway, Ireland and Spain mean? (tags)
Israel risks a diplomatic tsunami because of its government policy. In recent weeks, this tsunami has begun to descend on Netanyahu... Israel is also being investigated by the International Criminal Court for alleged genocide at the instigation of South Africa.
Covert wars in the shadow of international law (tags)
In the years between the end of the Cold War in 1991 and 2022, the United States has carried out at least 251 military interventions in almost every country on earth. Going back to 1789, there were a total of 469. In all of these interventions, the United States formally declared war 11 times.
China's rise as a superpower and the crumbling US empire (tags)
Chinese diplomacy seems to me to be more imaginative and potentially more effective. That means that the world is changing in important and dramatic ways in terms of the distribution of power and influence around the world.
Inflation, Ukraine & China (tags)
What impresses me is China's diplomatic engagement. And I say that also in terms of their role in restoring diplomatic relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia. Our diplomacy, American diplomacy, seems to me reactive, unimaginative, and ineffective. Chinese diplomacy, on the other hand, seems to me to be more imaginative.
UN Charter: Negotiations! and Good wars, bad wars? (tags)
The seriousness of the escalating conflict over NATO's expansion to Russia's borders, which has now led to war, has been clear to all involved since at least 1994. Russia has repeatedly warned that admitting Ukraine and Georgia to NATO would violate its elementary security.
Hiroshima is everywhere. The never-ending struggle (tags)
Times have changed considerably. In the past two decades, almost all disarmament and arms control treaties have been scrapped - exclusively on the initiative of the USA - including the most important INF Treaty signed by Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan at the end of 1987.
We need a real debate on the Ukraine war (tags)
The longer the war in Ukraine continues, the greater the risk of a nuclear accident or incident. And given the strategy of U.S. President Joe Biden's administration to "weaken" Russia through large-scale arms shipments. The United States and NATO are in a proxy war with Russia.
Ukraine and Afghanistan (tags)
Never before has it been so obvious to share all knowledge, because this allows all communities and societies in the world to develop ever better and more intensively inwards. In this sense: Make Villages, Not War! We will rebuild a peaceful world from the grassroots!
More weapons is not the solution and Julian Assange (tags)
What is insane, however, is the belief that peace can be secured for the future with even more weapons. SPD Chancellor Olaf Scholz has announced that he wants to invest an additional hundred billion euros in Germany's army.
At first, I was going to vote no, but after doing lots of research, changed my mind.
S.F. STILL PROMOTING GENOCIDE (tags)
San Francisco still refusing to tell the truth about any of this. Still promoting genocide and crimes against humanity.
America's Post-Trump Reckoning (tags)
His startling disregard for expertise and science has resulted in the erosion and degradation of independent national institutions such as the US Postal Service, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Food and Drug Administration, the FBI, & US intelligence community.
On the prohibition of the war of aggression (tags)
Happy Anti-War Day Sept 1, 2020! Peace is not everything but without peace, everything is nothing (Willy Brandt). The German Basic Law mentioned in this article is equivalent to our constitution.
Capitalist conditions are characterized by the fact that there is no rationality in society as a whole that coordinates the interests of the many and the overall direction of social development.
The US Tramples on International Law (tags)
The US surprise attack on Iraq in March 2003 was a primal catastrophe. International law was eliminated and replaced by the imperial dictatorship of the US. Those who destroyed a whole people and have a million casualties on their conscience are not punished in any way.
The US under President Trump: Gravedigger of International Law (tags)
The US collaboratively built international law and its institutions and had an authoritative influence for more than 100 years.The US shows an unparalleled contempt for international law by recognizing Israeli sovereignty over the Syrian Golan Heights.
The rulers want to divert from the real causes of the refugee wave and from their own misdeeds because the cause of the misery is an exploitation crisis of capital and the greed of mammoth world corporations. Only the prospect for a future in their country can stop refugees.
Philippines – Duterte 2 Years on: Destructive, Divisive, and Despotic (tags)
When Rodrigo Duterte won the presidency in 2016, some even among the left toyed early on with the idea that a “maverick” president could just be what the country needed to stir things up, and jolt us from almost 30 years of elite-dominated rule.
The Shortwave Report 5/25/18 Listen Globally! (tags)
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They Knew What They Did: Texaco in Ecuador (tags)
The world has created a system where businesses only have rights but no obligations. There is no internation al tribunal that can make businesses liable for human rights violations abroad. What is perverse is that Terxaco knew it polluted the land.
For diversion, an attack was ordered on alleged chemical weapon facilities in Syria with 100 "beautiful missiles" (Trump's words). A power demonstration was on the agenda in the interest of the powerful arms industry.
A reign of terror: Extra-judicial killings in Duterte’s Philippines (tags)
Since Rodrigo Duterte began his term as the 16th president of the Philippines in 30 June 2016, Filipinos and the international community have watched in horror at accounts of dead bodies found nightly in the country’s streets, linked to extra-judicial killings (EJKs).
The Shortwave Report 04/06/18 Listen Globally! (tags)
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The challenges of building a united resistance in Duterte’s Philippines (tags)
Three decades after the People Power revolution ended the bloody regime of Ferdinand Marcos in 1986, Asia’s oldest republic is at a crossroads. Since Rodrigo Duterte became president of the Philippines in June 2016, he has led an extrajudicial killing campaign that has taken over 12,000 lives. Officially cloaked as an anti-crime policy, his “war against drugs” has nevertheless failed to address the genuine roots of the country’s narcotics crisis. It has instead only worsened the situation by victimizing the urban poor at a staggering rate.
Zionist Zealotry: The Root Cause of Israeli State Terror (tags)
Israel
Israel: A Rogue Regime Fostering Violence, Racist Hate and Brutality (tags)
Israel
Holding Netanyahu Accountable: A Good Start, Not Enough (tags)
Netanyahu
Over 100,000 Brits Want Netanyahu Arrested (tags)
Israel
Atomic Bombs or Democracy (tags)
The atomic bomb reveals the totalitarian element latent to human existence. Our species is marked by the ability to impose the universal death penalty on itself.. War thinking devours most resources of the world and is resistant against experiential knowledge.
Israel Murders Palestinians with Impunity (tags)
Israel
Khader Adnan Rearrested, Then Released (tags)
Israel
UN Human Rights Council Denounces Israeli War Crimes (tags)
Israel
Israel Hijacks Humanitarian Ship to Gaza in International Waters (tags)
Israel
UN Report on Israel's 2014 Gaza War Postmortems (tags)
Gaza
ICC Investigating Israeli War Crimes (tags)
Israel
Reinvented War Criminal Tony Blair Resigns As Middle East Envoy (tags)
anti-war
The Shortwave Report 04/03/15 Listen Globally! (tags)
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Obama Declares Venezuelan Democracy a Threat to US National Security (tags)
Venezuela
Netanyahu's Ugly Israel (tags)
Israel
The Shortwave Report 02/06/15 Listen Globally! (tags)
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Israeli Gaza War Crimes Investigation (tags)
Israel
Israeli State Terror the Root Cause of Palestinian Blowback (tags)
Israel
The Shortwave Report 01/09/15 Listen Globally! (tags)
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Palestinians: On Their Own for Justice (tags)
Palestine
Fascism's reemergence in Europe (tags)
Ukraine
The Struggle for Palestine's Soul (tags)
Palestine
Palestine
The Shortwave Report 01/02/15 Listen Globally! (tags)
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Abbas Signs Rome Statute: Hold the Cheers (tags)
Palestine
Comments on Palestine's UN Failure (tags)
Palestine
US Vetoes Palestinian Statehood Resolution (tags)
Palestine
America's War on Palestine (tags)
Palestine
Israel
Haaretz Editors Urge Removing Netanyahu with All Urgency (tags)
Israel
Hard Truths in Occupied Palestine Media Scoundrels Ignore (tags)
Palestine
The Shortwave Report 11/21/14 Listen Globally! (tags)
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Israel
ICC Whitewashes Israeli Mass Murder (tags)
Israel
Lawless Israeli House Demolitions (tags)
Israel
Ukraine
Momentum for Palestinian Statehood (tags)
Palestine
Biased Human Rights Report on Ukraine (tags)
Ukraine
Gaza
Judaism
Israel: Guilty of Genocidal High Crimes (tags)
Gaza
Obama Launches Naked Aggression on Syria (tags)
anti-war
Russell Tribunal on Ukraine (tags)
Ukraine
Abbas Blocks Israeli War Crimes Investigation (tags)
Gaza
Mustafa Barghouti on Operation Protective Edge (tags)
anti-war
Gaza
Turkey is training ISIS / Islamic State (tags)
US ally Turkey hosts an ISIS training base, human rights groups demand its closure.
Gaza
Investigating Gaza War Crimes (tags)
Gaza
Review of Hamas violations of international law (updated) (tags)
The world is silent on Hamas war crimes in Gaza
Disgraceful Security Council Resolution on Syria (tags)
Syria
Irresponsible Syria Bashing (tags)
Syria
WRITE! for Justice, Human Rights, and International Law in Palestine (tags)
Letters needed
Impeach Obama! Do It Now! (tags)
police state
Holocaust Day Remembrance Day Duplicity (tags)
Israel
Marwan Barghouti on Sham Peace Talks (tags)
Israel
Navi Pillay: US Imperial Tool (tags)
imperialism
Palestinian Children's Day 2014 (tags)
Israel
Sham Peace Talks Continue (tags)
Israel
Duplicitous Mideast Peace Talks (tags)
Israel
Palestine to Join 15 UN Bodies and Treaties (tags)
Palestine
Jonathan Pollard's Imminent Release? (tags)
Pollard
Israel's Racist War on Palestine (tags)
Israel
Ukraine: Coup Plotters Consolidate Power (tags)
Ukraine
Ukraine: Shaky Truce with Consequences (tags)
Ukraine
anti-war
Ariel Sharon's Criminal Legacy (tags)
Sharon
Israeli Judaization Master Plans (tags)
Israel
Global Protests Against Bedouin Ethnic Cleansing (tags)
Israel
Palestine's Land Defense Coalition (tags)
Israel
Israeli Apartheid Ruthlessness (tags)
Israel
Israel's Deplorable Human Rights Record (tags)
Israel
Israeli Persecution of Human Rights Lawyer Anas Barghouti (tags)
Israel
Anti-Assad Committed Atrocities (tags)
Syria
The Shortwave Report 10/11/13 Listen Globally! (tags)
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Philippines: Public urged not to be distracted from punishing pork plunderers (tags)
Amid the raging debate on the Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP), Akbayan partylist today warned the public not to be swayed by efforts from some quarters to use the issue to deflect attention on the plunder charges filed against several lawmakers involved in the multi-billion Janet Lim-Napoles pork barrel scam.
Decriminalizing Bashar al Assad: Towards a more effective anti-war movement (tags)
Building a phoney case for imperialist regime change is, of course, not unusual. What is really curious is that the leadership of the anti-war movement in the west – the people whose clear responsibility is to build the widest possible opposition to war on Syria – has been actively participating in the propaganda and demonisation campaign. Whilst opposing direct military strikes, they have nonetheless given consistent support to the regime change operation that such strikes are meant to consummate.
police state
Assad Pledges Full Cooperation for Peace (tags)
Syria
Undermining Russian/Syrian Peace Deal (tags)
Syria
World Leaders Declare America and Israel Pariah States: A Fable (tags)
police states
UN Human Rights Council Duplicity (tags)
Syria
Google Recognizes Palestinian Statehood (tags)
Palestine
Institutionalized Barbarism (tags)
Israel
Israeli Murder by Neglect (tags)
Israel
Israeli State Terror Crowd Control Weapons (tags)
Israel
Navi Pillay Targets Syria (tags)
Syria
Western Sponsored Aleppo Mass Murder (tags)
Syria
PA Recognizes Palestinian Statehood (tags)
Palestine
Holding Israel Accountable (tags)
Israel
Israel Gives Chutzpah New Meaning (tags)
Israel
Israel
Palestine
Israel
U.N. Vote on Palestinian Recognition Blocked by U.S., Israel and Germany (tags)
The right wing government of Germany under Chancellor Angela Merkel has made the unfortunate choice to side with the U.S. and Israel in blocking Palestinian recognition in the upcoming United Nations vote. However France, Spain, U.K. and many other nations are going to act with ethics to support Palestinian statehood instead of caving in to the imperialist whims of U.S. and Israeli pressures to maintain their state sanctioned apartheid and discrimination against the Palestinian people.
Abbas Submits Weak UN Status Bid (tags)
Palestine
Israel's Operation Pillar of Cloud (tags)
Israel
Israeli Threat to Annul Oslo (tags)
Israel
Obama Rejects Palestinian Statehood (tags)
Obama
Ship to Gaza Activists Brutalized (tags)
Israel
Occupation Hell in Palestine (tags)
Israel
Syria's Divided Opposition (tags)
Syria
State Terror: Official Israeli Policy (tags)
Israel
Libya and Syria: When Anti-Imperialism Goes Wrong (tags)
Reflexive opposition to Uncle Sam’s machinations abroad is generally a good thing. It is a progressive instinct that progressively declined in the 1990s, as presidents Bush Sr. and Clinton deftly deployed the U.S. military to execute “humanitarian” missions in Somalia, Haiti, and the Balkans and progressively increased in the 2000s, as Bush Jr. lurched from quagmire to disaster in transparent empire-building exercises in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Illegitimate Sanctions on Iran (tags)
anti-war
Nothing Civil About Washington's War on Syria (tags)
Syria
Duplicitous Human Rights Council Report on Syria (tags)
Syria
Manifesto for Global Democracy (tags)
The Manifesto is a pluralist statement on the need of giving global answers to on-going global crises such as nuclear proliferation, climate change and financial instability. In order to do so, it proclaims the need of extending democracy and citizenship beyond national borders, democratizing international organizations and moving towards democratic global institutions.
Israeli Declared an Apartheid State (tags)
Israel
Reason for Hope and Despair in Palestine (tags)
Israel
Russian Journalist Exposes Propaganda Lies about Houla Massacre (tags)
Syria
NGOs Promote Wars for Profit (tags)
anti-war
George Soros Targets Syria (tags)
Syria
ICC Absolves Israeli Lawlessness (tags)
Israel
Independent Libyan Fact-Finding Mission (tags)
Libya
Libyan Violence and Instability (tags)
Libya
Shooting the Messenger in Syria (tags)
Syria
Oppose The Privatization of Law Enforcement Services in Oakland (tags)
I am deeply concerned that private patrol operators in California may be effectively able to evade the obligations of public sector law enforcement outfits in the service of a government by the people for the people under the Constitution of the State of California and the Constitution of the United States of America. If a private law enforcement company commits a material breach of our state or federal constitutions, their insurance carrier will invariably pay a cash settlement to the victims and the private law enforcement company will be disbanded.
Oppose The Privatization of Law Enforcement Services in Oakland (tags)
I am deeply concerned that private patrol operators in California may be effectively able to evade the obligations of public sector law enforcement outfits in the service of a government by the people for the people under the Constitution of the State of California and the Constitution of the United States of America. If a private law enforcement company commits a material breach of our state or federal constitutions, their insurance carrier will invariably pay a cash settlement to the victims and the private law enforcement company will be disbanded.
Death of Gaddafi/The National Transitional Council's bloody path (tags)
The resistance against the former president Gaddafi was legitimate However, the rebels not only allied with the NATO, sacrifying real Libyan independence, they also commit warcrimes with little distinction between them and Gaddafi With Gaddafi gone
America's Media War on Syria (tags)
Syria
The Russell Tribunal on Palestine: South Africa Session (tags)
Palestine
For a Human Revolution - MDS Statement on the Occupy Movement (tags)
Movement for a Democratic Society (MDS) issues statement of solidarity. Suggests demands that draw on the past, while looking to the future.
Washington Wants Its Imperial Model Replicated in Israel (tags)
Libya
Libya
Israeli Occupation, Colonialism and Apartheid: Crimes Against Humanity (tags)
Palestine
Israeli Lobby
Abbas Speech Signals Capitulation (tags)
Palestine
Implications of Palestinian Statehood (tags)
Palestine
Israeli/Turkish/Palestinian Tensions (tags)
Israel
NATO's Genocidal Rape of Libya (tags)
anti-war
US Election 2012- Stewart Alexander Wants US Out of NATO (tags)
U.S. Presidential Candidate Stewart Alexander has charged that NATO?s involvement in the over-throw of the Gaddafi Regime violated the March U.N. Security Council resolution that called for a no-fly zone over Libya and was a criminal action against a sovereign government. ?I stand with U.S. Congressman Kucinich calling for the criminal prosecution of the NATO commanders; I am also calling on the U.S. Congress to end the U.S. membership in NATO.?
Washington Threatens Palestinian Statehood Bid (tags)
Palestine
NATO's Libya War: A Nuremberg Level Crime (tags)
anti-war
NATO's Planned Bloodbath in Tripoli (tags)
anti-war
New York Times Disinformation, Denial and Suppressing Vital Truths (tags)
media lies
New York Times Support for Imperial Wars (tags)
corrupt media
America's Dirty War on Islam (tags)
persecution
Colonizing Libya by Military, Financial, Political and Propaganda Terrorism (tags)
anti-war
Pack Journalism Anti-Gaddafi Propaganda (tags)
media lies
The Shortwave Report 07/01 Listen Globally! (tags)
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Turkey's top officials: A new regime should be established in Libya (tags)
Turkey pioneers the process aiming at normalization of politics and history in the [Middle East] region? [Turkey's Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, interview on ?TRT Haber? TV channel, 25 May 2011]
The International Criminal Court: An Imperial Tool (tags)
Libya
Bin Laden: Justice or Revenge? (tags)
The recent killing of Osama bin Laden by a U.S. Navy SEAL team spells an end to a remarkably successful terror operation that, by mounting one effective attack on September 11, 2001, ratcheted up the level of terror and fear in the U.S.; provided public support for a long-standing radical-Right agenda to effectively eliminate the due-process rights of the U.S. Constitution and put Americans under continuous surveillance; gave the Bush administration the pretext to invade Afghanistan and Iraq (the Obama administration has upped the number of wars the U.S. is fighting against Muslim nations from two to three by participating in the so-called ?no-fly zone? in Libya); and in general undermined American security while also encouraging millions of people in the Muslim world to take up terrorism out of hatred against America. The climate of fear carefully created by the U.S. government and corporate media around bin Laden is too useful to the Right-wing corporate agenda for them to allow it to be dispelled simply because bin Laden is no more.
Racketeering complaint against David Pasternak and the Los Angeles Superior Court posted b (tags)
?Rampart?, the movie, starring Steve Buscemi, Robin Wright, Sigourney Weaver, and Ice Cube, is expected to be release soon. ?Under conditions of the justice system of the United States today, a Hollywood movie is the best chance to finally get the Rampart-FIPs released. It is a Human Rights disaster of historic proportions. International scrutiny of the US justice system is urgently needed.?
Remember Libya: One of History's Terror Bombing Victims (tags)
aggression
Richard Goldstone's Fall from Grace (tags)
betrayal
Extrajudicial Assassinations: Official Israeli Policy (tags)
lawlessness
imperialism
Major Media Promote War on Libya (tags)
Libya
Seventh Annual Israel Anti-Apartheid Week (tags)
apartheid
George Bush: Preliminary Indictment for Torture (tags)
torture
Gaza Flotilla Massacre: Whitewash Absolves Israel (tags)
crimes whitewashed
Bizarre Developments in Haiti (tags)
more despotism planned
Israel's Barbaric Solitary Confinement (tags)
same as torture
promoting war
America's Dirty Secret: AfPak War Not Winnable (tags)
an unwinnable war
trying to buy the findings
UN Human Rights Council to US: Ratify Human Rights Treaties, Abolish Death Penalty... (tags)
Human Rights Council to the US: Abolish Death Penalty, Criminalize Torture, Guarantee Habeas Corpus, Close Guantanamo Bay...
Palestinian Authority Recommends Whitewashing Gaza War Crimes (tags)
PA complicit with Israel
Independent Committee of Experts on Gaza War (tags)
another UN committee accuses Israel of war crimes
Political Killings in Colombia (tags)
shocking crimes committed with impunity
From Goldstone to Uribe (tags)
The fix is in.
Palestinian Detainee Abuse During Operation Cast Lead (tags)
clear evidence of Israeli war crimes
Investigating the Freedom Flotilla Attack (tags)
honest investigation will report the truth
WikiLeaks "Afghan War Diaries" (tags)
a powerful indictment of all wars
Gazans Denied Medical Care Under Siege (tags)
more evidence of Israeli oppression
Stop the Wall: People v. Oppression (tags)
Part II of earlier article.
Gaza Flotilla Massacre: Goldstone Commission II Essential (tags)
independent investigation essential
Torture Research and Experimentation: Official Policy under Bush and Obama (tags)
Torture is official US policy
They're Coming: Freedom Flotilla Two and Others Planned (tags)
They're coming until the Gaza siege ends
Actually, the Ship Was Not Turkish-Flagged (tags)
Possible Prosecution at ICC
Complete Interview Transcript with Richard Falk from May 31st 2010 (tags)
DB "The Israelis say that these commandos who they say were armed with hand guns and paint guns were only defending themselves from armed and dangerous attacks by people on the boat. Your response to that? RF: There are two lines of response, and this is an area where the facts are contested and difficult to disentangle at this stage. The witnesses on the boats themselves, particularly the Turkish boats where most of the violence took place, claim that the commandos landed shooting, and that it was only after the initiation of that violence that there was some attempt at defense on the basis of very contrived and primitive weapons, as opposed to the kind of weaponry that the Israeli commandos were carrying. Beyond that, it’s fairly clear if unlawful attack of a vessel on the high seas is occurring, the passengers on that ship have some sort of right to self defense. So that’s one aspect of it. The second aspect is that even if there was some kind of defensive violence on the ship, that’s no excuse for an unprovoked attack carried out in this manner. If Israel didn’t want the ships to go to Gaza, they could have diverted them, and if they did what the other boats did in the Freedom Flotilla, except for the larger Turkish one, it seems pretty clear that this was a deliberate attack designed, I suppose, to punish the effort to carry out this humanitarian mission, which would obviously have disclosed the brutality of the blockade of the Gaza Strip, which has gone on now for almost three years. The Israeli arguments are not really seriously plausible. Given the overall circumstances it’s very difficult to give them any kind of serious credibility, and this seems to me to be as clear a violation of international humanitarian law, international law of the seas, and international criminal law, as we’re likely to see in the early part of the twenty-first century." RF
Vilifying Justice Goldstone (tags)
Israel attacks truth
Wilson Center Desecrates Namesake’s Legacy, Violates Congressional Mandate (tags)
Woodrow Wilson, the 28th American president, is looking down in horror at what the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars is doing in his name.
Global Peace and Justice Groups Threatening Israel's Legitimacy (tags)
Israel losing its legitimacy
Next Supreme Court Justice to Solidify Right Wing, Neoliberal Control (tags)
Obama likely to shift the court more to the right
Imprisoning Palestinian Children (tags)
Children treated as abusively as adults
Indoctrinating Israeli Youths to be Warriors (tags)
Israel is a modern day Sparta
Latest Pedophelia Scandal Rocks the Vatican (tags)
The latest scandal has longstanding roots
Palestinian Political Prisoners (tags)
bogusly accused Palestinians
The Lawfare Project's Anti-Democratic Agenda (tags)
LP is a guardian of Washingto-Israeli power
Targeting Israeli Apartheid (tags)
Apartheid is the worst form of racism
Israeli Unaccountability and Denial: Suppressing the Practice of Torture (tags)
Torture is official Israeli policy
FASCIST MILITARY VIOLENCE IN THE PHILIPPINES (tags)
The arrest and torture of 43 medical and health professionals in the Philippines by the Arroyo military and police seeks to obscure the ongoing Ampatuwan-Arroyo trial and rehearse emergency martial-law schemes to prolong the Arroyo regime's corrupt and brutal domination. US citizens: will you allow millions of your tax-dollars to support Arroyo's military-police in fascist abuses?
Guantanamo Detainee Deaths: Responding to the Defense Department's Whitewash (tags)
detainees were murdered
The Occupied West Bank Latroun Villages (tags)
occupied and persecuted
Filipino journalists remember 'Maguindanao massacre' (tags)
Wednesday, December 23, 2009 ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines – Dozens of journalists held a prayer rally Wednesday in Zamboanga City to remember and seek justice for the brutal slayings of 57 people, among them at least 30 journalists massacred last month in Maguindanao province in the southern Philippines.
Israeli Occupation, Colonialism and Apartheid (tags)
Israeli oppression continues
Targeting Civilians in Gaza (tags)
Illegally targeting civilians
Obamathink on Afghanistan: Escalate to Exit (tags)
Obama's plan for permanent war
Czech president signs Lisbon Treaty/EU Dirty Deal regarding human rights (tags)
With the EU guarantee to the Czech president, that the Czech State should not be exposed to property claims of expelled Germans after World War II, the EU not only implicitly consents with ethnical cleansings, it is also highly hypocritical, since the EU regularly points a finger to human rights violating countries like Sudan, Myanmar and Iran It is high time the EU should look in its own mirror, among else with regard to police abuse, racism and violation of the rights of migrants and real or alleged terrorsuspects
The Shortwave Report 11/20 Listen Globally! (tags)
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Israel accused of war crimes by UN body (tags)
Netanyahu decides to cut his losses and hang Barak and Livni after a quick investigation and fair trial.
The Gaza War's Effect on Women (tags)
they suffered terribly
Rwandan President Paul Kagame questions Euro justice (tags)
Rwandan President Paul Kagame now questions the fairness of the International Criminal Court, and, says, without naming names and countries, that most people who organized the "Rwandan Genocide" are outside Rwanda's borders.
Netanyahu says Israel must not be held to account. (tags)
For its war crimes in Gaza.
Goldstone Commission Gaza Conflict Findings and Reactions (tags)
Goldstone accuses Israel of war crimes
Israel wants US cover-up (tags)
of Israeli war crimes in Gaza.
America's "Bases of Empire" (tags)
imperial America's global face
Israeli Use of Palestinians As Human Shields (tags)
another egregious international law violation
Investigating Israeli War Crimes in Gaza (tags)
evidence of Israeli war crimes
Incriminating Evidence of Israeli War Crimes in Gaza (tags)
Israeli war crimes
Targeting Israel with Boycotts, Divestment, Sanctions and Prosecutions (tags)
It's time to hold Israel accountable.
BTL:Replace Wall Street's Phantom Wealth with Main Street's Real Wealth (tags)
BETWEEN THE LINES Syndicated Radio Newsmagazine --Weekly Summary
A Short History of the Israeli - Palestinian Conflict: Past Is Prologue (tags)
Israel chooses violence
Israel Killed Everything but the Will to Resist (tags)
Palestinians are unbowed.
Today in Solidarity We're All Palestinians (tags)
World outrage condemns Israeli war crimes
Olmert to be brought before International Criminal Court. (tags)
In Den Hague.
Remember Gaza - One of History's Terror Bombing Victims (tags)
a historical account
Israel’s claims of self-defense are clearly refuted by the disproportionate consequences of its aggression. With the death toll rising to 599, including 133 children, 33 women, and 6 medics, Israel can no longer hide the fact that its actions are tantamount to genocide, as Richard Falk, the United Nations special rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian Territories, has pointed out.
The Shortwave Report 12/12 Listen Globally! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio. With times and freqs for listening at home. 2 files- broadcast and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. China, Netherlands, Cuba, and Russia.
Washington threatens a naval blockade against iran.
Baluchistan worse than Darfur, I.C.C. told (tags)
Pakistan army generals have been accused of ethnic cleansing in the country's largest state. Hapless Baluch say they can prove their homeland, the size of Texas, was illegally annexed in March 1948.
Jeff Halper's "An Israeli in Palestine" - Part II (tags)
Part II of Halper's important book.
Int'l Criminal Court Jurisdiction over Bush: Where are the experts when we need them? (tags)
If the court can prosecute the President of Sudan, a nonsignatory to the statute of the ICC, why couldn't it prosecute Bush? When you need them, the experts are not to be found.
Casilino 900: urgent appeal against the persecution of the Roma in Italy (tags)
The persecution of the Rroms (Roma) in Italy: EveryOne Group and the Committee for the Rights of the Roma of Casilino 900 have launched an appeal to the European Court of Human Rights following a serious humanitarian emergency at the Casilino 900 camp, in Rome.
Boycott War Criminals USA & Israel (tags)
The Geneva Conventions: the core of international humanitarian law The Geneva Conventions and their Protocols are international treaties that contain the most important rules limiting the barbarity of war. They protect people who do not take part in the fighting (civilians, medics, aid workers) and those who can no longer fight (wounded, sick and shipwrecked troops, prisoners of war). Links to selected resources.
BTL:Bear Stearns Bailed Out While Millions Face Home Foreclosures (tags)
BETWEEN THE LINES Syndicated Radio Newsmagazine --Weekly Summary
Bush and Uribe v. Chavez and Correa (tags)
The latest made in USA regional mischief.
Blockade on Gaza: Crime against humanity (tags)
With the whole or partly blockade on Gaza, the Israeli authorities are guilty of crimes against humanity
Rroms in Turkey: Int'l voice raised for SULUKULE (EveryOne Group) (tags)
Since November 2007, when Istanbul began its large-scale project of urban transformation, Sulukule, old and legendary neighborhood of Istanbul famous for its Roma population, has received its share of attention. Moving the Roma community to a new district is being advocated by an Italy-based social activist association
Jennifer Van Bergen's "The Twilight of Democracy" (tags)
How democracy is being undermined in America.
Racism: Italy reported to the United Nations... (tags)
CERD will have to ascertain the violations of articles 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 of the “International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.” Italy, in fact, is accused of carrying out a series of measures, both on a national level and on a local level, aimed at hitting the Rrom and Sinti communities on Italian territory - from the 14 security packages to the emergency expulsion decree for EU citizens put forward by Giuliano Amato. The International Criminal Court of the Hague will evaluate the actions carried out by the Italian institutions against the Rroma to determine whether – and to what extent – any crimes against humanity were committed.
The Myth of American Patriotism - The Truth Revealed! (tags)
What evidence does a bushite need, when it thoughtlessly murders America for demon bush as it's "G-D"?, the thing that does all it's opinioning for it?, on who is guilty of evil doing in complete blind faith puppeting LIES?
Early CIA Involvement in Darfur Has Gone Unreported (tags)
There has been a glaring omission in the U.S. media presentation of the Darfur tragedy. The compassion demonstrated, mostly in words, until recently, has not been accompanied by a recognition of U.S. complicity, or at least involvement, in the war which has led to the enormous suffering and loss of life that has been taking place in Darfur for many years. In 1978 oil was discovered in Southern Sudan. Rebellious war began five years later and was led by John Garang, who had taken military training at infamous Fort Benning, Georgia.
George Bush Immunized Himself from Nuremberg Prior to Iraq Iran (tags)
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
Reviewing Marjorie Cohn's "Cowboy Republic" (tags)
An incisive review of Bush administration crimes.
The King of America - Live broadcasts out in the fields, trumping evil demons by the power (tags)
They'll tell you, blame the shadows in the New World Order, but don't rely on evidence to form your conclusions on who PERSONALLY is responsible for criminal actions against YOUR rights to be free as ALIVE - Fight Back for Christ Sake God Damn You - "Al-Qaida" = "General Mahmoud Ahmad"
The Art of Misinformation and Crowd Management (tags)
In answer to growing animosity and the widely held view that the USA is a pariah among nations, compensatory responses from U.S. propagandists are becoming more frequent. The following media ‘staff report’ has been released to a number of international media outlets; India, Pakistan, Australia and Thailand to name the few. However, the ‘news’ release has received little coverage elsewhere, especially in locations familiar with U.S. double standards and hypocrisy. We refer to two Australian releases for our brief analysis.
Bush, Blair could face War-crimes Charges (tags)
George W. Bush and Tony Blair may face war crimes charges at the International Criminal Court over their military intervention and occupation of Iraq. The Internationally insignificant John Howard would face Australian courts prior to being handed over to the ICC.
Fake Congressional Opposition to War (tags)
Congress again betrays the electorate
The International Criminal Court Is a Racist! (tags)
Holy pigmentation, the president of Sudan is black guy! I thought the western media said he was an Arab. Oh, he's a Muslim with a Muslim name like millions of black people in Africa. Lt. Gen. Omar Ahmad al-Bashir, President of Sudan
Buffalo River Dene Nation Seeks International Justice (tags)
Buffola River Dene Nation's Press Release announcing its attempt to seek justice at the International Court of Justice and the European Court of Justice.
Under the Spell of the Hegemon: Book Review (tags)
Empire-building is a blindness, delusion and false security. Since all people yearn for free-dom and self-determiantion, imperial hubris is based on rewriting human nature & history stylizing arrogance as a natural law and trashing international law and democracy.
McKinney's Arguments for Impeachment (tags)
Former rep McKinney's statements to impeach W.
A Look Back and Ahead in an Age of Neocon Rule (tags)
A review of the past year and review of year ahead.
NOAM CHOMSKY AND GILBERT ACHCAR'S NEW BOOK - PERILOUS POWER (tags)
AN ACCOUNT OF THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION'S DISASTROUS POLICIES IN THE MIDDLE EAST
BTL:Human Rights Groups File War Crimes Charges in Germany Against... (tags)
...Rumsfeld, Gonzalez and Others~Interview with Michael Ratner, president of the Center for Constitutional Rights, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris
U.S. seeks better ties by aiding militaries (tags)
Who is the world worste terrorist??? From articles like this it is clear that the American government is!
A TRIAL GIVING KANGAROOS A BAD NAME (tags)
THE CORRUPTED TRIAL OF SADDAM HUSSEIN
THE SHAME OF THE NATION: A COLLECTIVE PERVERSION (tags)
THE COLLECTIVE PERVERSION OF THOSE IN HIGH PLACES IN THE US
Israel Accused of Blocking Lebanon’s Access to Food & Water (tags)
Israel Accused of Blocking Lebanon’s Access to Food & Water Israel’s actions during its attack on Lebanon continue to come under scrutiny. A top United Nations human rights expert says the International Criminal Court should investigate whether Israel is guilty of war crimes for a bombing campaign in Lebanon that blocked access to food and water. Jean Ziegler, the UN Human Rights Council's special envoy on the "right to food," said the presence of unexploded cluster bombs could affect the ability of the Lebanese people to access food and water for years. The United Nations is reporting that around 124 people in southern Lebanon have been killed or wounded by cluster bombs since the Israeli attack ended. The Israeli army fired at least 1.2 million cluster bomblets into Lebanon.
IMperialism 101 - The US Addiction to War, Mayhem and Madness - Part II (tags)
HOW THE US PURSUES ITS IMPERIAL AGENDA
"We are United with the Other America" (tags)
The US demands the right to a preventive war. The right to defense is perverted into the right to self-defense through preventive action (In 1941 Hitler appealed to the right to preventive war against the Soviet Union). The international order is buried.
Lebanon Considers Suing Israel for War Crimes (tags)
The Lebanese government is considering possible legal procedures to sue Israel for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
International Church leaders Condemns Political Killings in the Philippines (tags)
Condemnations as well as outrage over the unabated and rampant political killings in the Philippines is swelling in the international Christian community. More and more Protestant denominations have expressed alarm over the killings, with the Methodists issuing a statement calling on the US government to pressure Philippine President Arroyo's administration into decisive action. This came on the heels of the latest Amnesty International statement condemning the Arroyo government’s inaction and apparent crackdown of political dissent.
International Church leaders Condemns Political Killings (tags)
Condemnations as well as outrage over the unabated and rampant political killings in the Philippines is swelling in the international Christian community. More and more Protestant denominations have expressed alarm over the killings, with the Methodists issuing a statement calling on the US government to pressure Philippine President Arroyo's administration into decisive action. This came on the heels of the latest Amnesty International statement condemning the Arroyo government’s inaction and apparent crackdown of political dissent.
Neocon Chickenhawks: A Small Tightly-Knit Clan Part 1 (tags)
This list of intricate, overlapping connections is hardly exhaustive or perhaps even surprising. But it helps reveal an important fact. Contrary to appearances, the neocons do not constitute a powerful mass political movement. They are instead a small, tightly-knit clan whose incestuous familial and personal connections, both within and outside the Bush administration, have allowed them grab control of the future of American foreign policy.
ISRAEL MUST BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR ITS INTERNATION LAW VIOLATIONS (tags)
ISRAEL'S WAR OF ILLEGAL AGGRESSION AGAINST PALESTINE AND LEBANON
Professor of Propaganda The Lies of Alan Dershowitz (tags)
In a characteristic op-ed, titled "Arithmetic of Pain", that would surprise neither his supporters nor his critics, published by the Wall Street Journal on 19 July 2006, Alan Dershowitz sinks to new lows of depravity and inhumanity in his long-standing hate-mongering and truth-twisting anti-Arab, pro-Israel crusade.
The Hidden War on Women in Iraq (tags)
by Ruth Rosen
Cuba in the Human Rights Council (tags)
Cuba in the Human Rights Council, UN...
COMMENTS ON JOHN PILGER'S NEW BOOK FREEDOM NEXT TIME (tags)
PILGER'S ACCOUNT OF COURAGEOUS PEOPLE FIGHTING FOR THEIR FREEDOM
Crushed by Gate of Occupation (tags)
Rafeda Thaer, a three-year-old Palestinian girl killed at an Israeli checkpoint. “During 2005 some of the world’s most powerful governments were successfully challenged, their hypocrisy exposed by the media, their arguments rejected by courts of law, their repressive tactics resisted by human rights activists.” Sam Bahour writing from El-Bireh, Occupied Palestine, Live from Palestine http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article4738.shtml
My opinion on creating as Lincoln said, "a "government of the people, by the people, for the people," beginning with impeachment of Bush and Cheney to major changes throughout all levels of our political system and thereby society to significantly improve our daily lives. From legalization of drugs and prostitution, a constitutional convention, prisoner advocates, and much more...
COMMENTS ON NOAM CHOMSKY'S NEW BOOK - FAILED STATES (tags)
CHOMSKY SHOWS HOW THE US HAS THE CHARACTERISTICS OF A FAILED STATE
Declaration of Jury of Conscience (tags)
The jury in the World Tribunal in Istanbul concluded that the invasion of Iraq together with the continuing occupation of iraq constitutes a violation of the core obligation of the UN Charter.
Imperial Conquest, Torture, and a Little Matter of Genocide (tags)
Abandon all hope, ye who enter here....
Winograd Runs Against Harman (tags)
An announcement of a signature gathering party for 36th District Congressional Candidate Marcy Winograd, a peace activist challenging pro-war Congresswoman Jane Harman in the Democratic Party primary on June 6th, 2006. Marcy's candidate statement follows the invitation announcement. After the party tonight, the candidate statement could still be posted. Please! James did an audio interview with me last night.
Indigenous women and military injustice (tags)
The six cases of rape allegedly committed by military officials that are documented in this report amount to torture and should be investigated as serious human rights violations.
Indigenous women and military injustice (tags)
Unable to obtain justice in Mexico, and failed by other institutions – the civilian public prosecution services and civilian courts - this case, and that of Valentina Rosendo Cantú, another indigenous woman from Guerrero who was reportedly raped by soldiers a few days earlier on 16 February 2002, have been submitted to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR, Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos).
DEPLETED URANIUM - A HIDDEN LOOMING WORLDWIDE CALAMITY (tags)
The hidden threat to all planetary life from US use of depleted uranium weapons in 4 wars
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL Report 2005
BUSH WORLD - TOO MANY STATES (tags)
A scathing indictment of Bush-Cheney policy broadly with a special focus on the Iraq war and in a little historical context.
"The Days of the US Empire are Numbered" (tags)
"I love the US but I hate the American empire.. The US cou9ld escape a sudden downfall if it recognizes economic equality, appears as one country among others and abandons its military presence in the 140 countries where it presently stations troops.:"
"The US elephant has grown into a monster of grotesque and obscene proportions. The special relations between the US and the United Kingdom have led to the deaths of thousands upon thousands..under the sign of a moral crusade to bring peace & stability"
3 Symptoms if directed energy attax (tags)
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10/19 Americas Watch Haiti: Continue Oppression and Killings in Haiti+Video! (tags)
On Friday, September 23, 2005, the Director General of the Haiti National Police Leon Charles, UN Force Commander Lieutanant General Augusto Heleno Ribiero Pereira of Brazil, and the Special Representative of the United Nations Juan Valdes of Chile were convicted of violations of Haitian law and international law including crimes against humanity. This verdict was delivered by the jury of the First Session of the International Tribunal on Haiti. The Tribunal was held in Washington, DC at George Washington University at the Elliott School of International Affairs.
ALL HAIL SATAN AND HIS DEMON bUSH (tags)
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Mexico won't grant immunity to Bush war criminals (tags)
Mexican officials said on Wednesday they have already made it clear to Washington that they will not sign a pact to grant U.S. military personnel special immunity from the International Criminal Court.
Pew Poll - The radioactive image of the US (tags)
Anybody you know? The US and it's global War of Terror: In a group of 251 soldiers from a study in Mississippi who had all had normal babies before the 1991 Gulf War, 67 percent of their post-war babies were born with severe birth defects.*
Enron, ENMOD, and the so-called Global Warming (tags)
GLOBAL WARMING IS JUST ONE PART OF A FARCE WHOSE TRUE PURPOSE IS TO SECRETLY DEPLOY ENVIRONMENTAL MODIFICATION SCIENCE TO MELT THE ICE CAPS SO THAT ISRAELI AMERICAN INTERESTS COULD BEGIN TO EXPLOIT THEM...WE SHOULD PRAY THIS IS NOT THE END OF THE WORLD FOR IT VERY WELL COULD BE, AND IT IS MOST CERTAINLY THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNEW IT....
Grow Jojoba and Decommision Klamath Dams in 2006 (tags)
If Klamath Valley farming collectives would grow jojoba, tepary bean and other CA drought tolerant natives, then there would be no need for maintaining the expensive dams on the Klamath River. The Klamth dams' FERC license expires in 2006, decommision dams and restore Klamath for salmon!!
America's Preventive War as Ultimate Risk (tags)
Never before has a democratic state threatened so openly to repudiate the basic norm of all law, the prohibition of violence.. Apart from self-defense, no war is legal.. The American government does not feel bound to the fundamental norms of law and ethics.
"Non-Humanitarian Catastrophes" (tags)
The problem is that money is spent wrongly, not that money is spent. I wish a peace research group would offer newspapers a daily column titled `What We Can Afford Today'. Two and a half civilian jobs could be financed for every employee in the armament industry.
The change for building a common security lies in recognizing oneself in the other.. Security based on trust is a hundred times more valuable than the most expensive defensive system.
BTL:Nonviolent Solutions Explored in Resolving Darfur-Sudan Conflict (tags)
Interview with Chris Doucot, Catholic Worker Peace Team member, conducted by Melinda Tuhus
The Torture Administration (tags)
The Geneva Convention is not being followed by the Bush Administration.
Killers without Borders (tags)
This probably disqualifies most of america, but this article is for smoeone with the intelligence to grasp its meaning...
RUMSFELD CHARGED WITH WAR CRIMES IN GERMANY (tags)
look at what I found :>) author: Justus Leicht for the World Socialist Web Site US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld may be forced to skip a major international security conference in Munich next month for fear that he could be hauled before a German court on war crimes charges, according to published reports in both the US and Germany.
Some view the election of George W. Bush as providing him with a mandate to pursue his reactionary policies at home and abroad.
To initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.
U.S. War Crime in Fallujah (tags)
Human rights experts said Friday that American soldiers might have committed a war crime on Thursday when they sent fleeing Iraqi civilians back into Falluja.
LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT by Adolfo Perez Esquivel (tags)
"Your heart is so hardened by hatred and fear that you have neither the capacity nor the courage to open your heart and mind to sympathy..You have made the United States into a terrorist state. Was it necessary to massacre the people of Iraq?.."
Bush Supporters and their Denial of Reality (tags)
"The refusal to allow criticism and anything different from their view of the world is alarming. As the survey shows, people can stand behind Bush without having to deny that arguments justifying the war have proven false.." f
Command from Above: Book Review (tags)
"Are there justified reasons for US bashing? Never has a US administration taken as little pains to veil its true interests as the administration of George W. Bush.. A messianic-aggressive rhetoric spread which is the real reason for the estrangement between Europe and the US.."
American Politics 2004 the Kusumi version (tags)
Weighing the politics, the landscape and choices of 2004
The SHORTWAVE REPORT 10/1/04 ¡LISTEN GLOBALLY! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion recorded from a shortwave radio. 2 files- broadcast quality (13.3MB) and quick download (3.2MB). With times and freqs for listening at home. Free to rebroadcast. Netherlands, China, and Cuba.
British journalist John Pilger is one of the precious few willing to seek out the truth and follow it wherever it leads him. Sadly the cowards that spew NEWSPEAK in the United States of America must pull the company line and stand down like NORAD. Keep fighting Mr. Pilger! The truth must be heard! John Pilger Speech in Sydney Hyde Park 20 March 2004
U.S. should face court, Annan says (tags)
"UN Secretary General Kofi Annan is leading the charge agaisnt Washington's call for the UN Security Council to renew its special exemption for U.S. forces from prosecution by the UN war crimes court."
Israel's wild destruction in Rafah, Palestine (tags)
The Israeli occupation army has destroyed dozens of civilian homes in Rafah, at the southern tip of the Gaza Strip.
The Real Butchers of Baghdad: G. W. Bush and His Army of Corporate Mercenaries (tags)
Now the real reason that Bush refused to sign onto the International Court and worked so diligently to evade the Geneva Convention comes to light.
Sent the American Army in Fron of the International Criminal Court as War Criminals! (tags)
Posted by the Iraqi Resistance Solidarity Network
NESARA: peace information February 20th – April 9th, 2004 (tags)
“This morning from 7:30 am to 8 am, I shared the good news of NESARA on the ?Healthy Choices? show on KEST Radio 1450 AM in San Francisco”
An anti-state communist perspective on the war (tags)
This is 2003 article about the Iraq War 2, just before it started. It's from Anarchy: a journal of desire armed. It's unusually prescient in its predictions of how the entire war will go. I post this because the journal has been criticized by some anarchistists as "primitivist", and Anarchism has been derided by the Left as everything from chaos to disruptive and unthinking. Liberals stereotype anarchists as young fashion victims, implying they are shallow. These are simplistic stereotypes at best, and fear mongering at the worst. Articles like this one below, I hope, give people pause to consider the relevance and usefulness of anti-state, anti-capitalist critique. Remember, this article was written before we invaded Iraq. So here goes. -- Just Another Anarchist
Call for International Aid: Bring the Rule of Law to the US (tags)
Call for International Aid; Bring the Rule of Law to the US
".... this rising "third" population lives ferociously in Hebron, along with the Palestinians and the settlers and soldiers. They have come about as a direct result of the illegal occupation, but are in some ways symbolic of the different kind of existence that Old Hebron has become as it is called, Area H-2."
M20 : Time to prepare for the next massive demonstration (tags)
Time to prepare for the next international demo: March 20, 2004 - The World STILL Says No to War !
George W Bush and the real state of the Union (tags)
Today the President gives his annual address. As the election battle begins, how does his first term add up?
Iraqi Resistance Solidarity Network January 5th 2004 Updates! (tags)
1. Iraqi Resistance Report Jan. 1-4, 2004 2. Newsletter From the International League of People's Struggle, formed by Comrade Jose Maria Sison, former head of the New People's Army of the Philippines (PDF) 3.***A Call to Support the March 20th Demonstrations!!!*** 4. Join the Anti-Imperialist Camp Delegation to Iraq! 5. ANSWER stands against Colonialism in Palestine, Iraq, the world! 6.International Progress Organization: PROSECUTION OF INTERNATIONAL CRIMES IN IRAQ – LACK OF CONSTITUTIONAL BASIS FOR WAR CRIMES TRIALS 7. The True Figures of Imperialist Casualities in Iraq! 8. Examples of online zionist hatred and racism against Palestinians
milosevic trial sets precedent: US granted right to censor evidence (tags)
givne the us has spurned the ICC, its support of the ICTY is highly suspicious
"An empire that threw overboard its basic democratic values and convictions came out of a land regarded in the last centuries as the cradle of democracy..Unlike the Romans, the Americans concealed their goal of omnipo-tence behind phrases of democracy.."
If You Don't Want War: Why Don't You? (tags)
Scrawled on cardboard stuck to the telephone pole it said: "Fuck Bush!" ... that day in April when the US announced there would be no 2nd UN resolution on Iraq. The First Picture is Bush hiding you from me with his crimesof war. Or who is hiding who?
Current U.S. Intervention in the Philippines* (tags)
Over the past century, the U.S. has been the leading interventionist power in the world often victimizing small independent countries and national liberation movements and using the military as its chief instrument. In many cases, U.S. interventionism leads to wars of aggression. Other methods used are: political and diplomatic pressures; economic pressures and trade sanctions; covert operations; media manipulation; and others.
You might not be able to stop wars, but you can surely do something.
SERIOUS REQUEST FOR HELPING TO SAVE THE WORLD (tags)
WE ALL HAVE TO MAKE JUST ONE THING CLEAR TO THE NEOCON'S.
US Will Deny Aid To Countries re: ICC (tags)
US Will Deny (Bribes) To Countries That Refuse Court Immunity Deals
The SHORTWAVE REPORT 10/10/03 ¡Listen Globally! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion recorded from a shortwave radio. 2 files- broadcast quality (13.3MB) and quick download (3.3MB). With times and freqs for listening at home. Free to rebroadcast. Netherlands, Russia, China, Spain, and Cuba.
Make War, Not Love by Eduardo Galeano (tags)
"President Bush cannot patent preemptive war. It was invented well before him..`War is being imposed upon us," Hitler used to say as he pushed ahead with his vast criminal project. A majority of Germans believed him and went right along.." from The Progressive
Impunity for US forces in Colombia (tags)
The Bush Administration has forced Colombia to sign an accord granting immunity to US citizens that commit war crimes in Colombia. Bogotá will now need approval from Washington if they wish to hand US soldiers or other officials over to the International Criminal Court for trial.
Gulliver Calls and the Dwarfs Follow (tags)
"Imperial overreach threatens Europe's economic resources and military arsenals already strained to the limit.. The emperor and his people should quickly understand that the Imperium Americanum cannot subjugate the globe." Translated fr German
9/11 Book Author Doug Kellner: An Interview (tags)
Text of recent e-mail interview with From 9/11 to Terror War Author Doug Kellner
Liberia in the Bush administration’s crosshairs (tags)
This week, U.S. President George Bush embarked on his first trip to sub-Saharan Africa. His five-day itinerary included Senegal, South Africa, Botswana, Uganda and Nigeria. Ironically, media attention has largely focused on another African country this week: Liberia.
The SHORTWAVE REPORT 7/4/03 ¡Listen Globally! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion recorded from a shortwave radio. 2 files- broadcast quality (13.3MB) and quick download (3.3MB). With times and freqs for listening at home. Free to rebroadcast. Netherlands, China, Russia, and Cuba.
US hypocrisy astounding (tags)
Yet it is instructive the US is not opposed to establishing the court. It only wants its own military granted permanent immunity from genocide and war crimes trials.
Presidency held hostile: (tags)
A nincompoop writes a letter to the local Rag. Fearless Web Logger refutes nincompoops letter - utterly.
AMERICAN LIBERATION
Soldiers fear they're acting illegally (tags)
BRITISH soldiers fear they could be acting illegally while serving in Iraq and could face war crimes charges at the International Criminal Court.
Belgian 'Boycott Bush' actions close Esso and Texaco petrol stations (tags)
Brussels, June 14th 2003 – At noon simultaneous boycott actions closed Esso and Texaco petrol stations in most Belgian provinces. At an Esso petrol station in Gent a carpet of dead bodies, armed US marines, and George W. Bush, illustrated the link between thousands of innocent victims, the important Iraqi oilfields and the gasoline sold by US oil-multinationals Esso and Texaco.
U.S. Gets War Crimes Tribunal Exemption (tags)
The final deal dented the court's underlying principle that no one should be exempt from punishment for war crimes, and it angered court supporters and human rights groups.
US Faces Growing Charges of War Crimes (tags)
Several human rights groups are calling for the creation of either a war crimes tribunal or an international commission of justice. Additionally, several non-governmental organizations (NGOs) say they will pressure Washington to pay compensation for the killings of innocent civilians -- a common practice in U.S. law courts.
Impeached Crook needs Job (tags)
Spread this around.
Questions of Life and Death (tags)
"Many politicians lack a moral imperative today. They act as though they have no options because the economy dictates conditions. This is not true. Politicians can still make decisions in the interests of many, not in the interests of a few.." From German
Put Bush, Rumsfeld, et al. in the Dock (tags)
Argentine lawyer Luis Moreno Ocampo has been appointed as the first prosecutor of the new International Criminal Court (ICC).
The Most Dangerous President Ever (tags)
I miss Ronald Reagan.
Nine Theses on Moving the Peace Movement Forward (tags)
[Editor: John Gershman, Interhemispheric Resource Center (IRC) Editor's Note: This piece was commissioned under the auspices of the Project Against the Present Danger. Foreign Policy In Focus www.fpif.org]
Letter to Bush by Adolfo Esquivel (tags)
"You speak of God and blaspheme him. You speak of liberty and you destroy it. You speak of democracy and dignity and don't hesitate in sacrificing at the latar of the god Moloch, your god of destruction and death. You speak of human rights, violating them systematically
Noam Chomsky Appearance 4/6/03: "Freedom is not a right, it's a legacy" (tags)
Ask a group of politicos on any side of the spectrum, and love or hate him, one would be hard pressed to find someone who doesn't know the name Noam Chomsky. Some call him an "America-hater." Some call him "Saint Noam." At Agape last Sunday, he was welcomed like a movie star. And in his unassuming yet unequivocably rich oral tradition, Noam Chomsky spoke of the American legacy
Letter to Bush by Adolfo Esquivel (tags)
"You speak of God and blaspheme him. You speak of liberty and you destroy it. You speak of democracy and dignity and don't hesitate in sacrificing at the altar of the god Moloch, your god of destruction and death. You speak of human rights violating them systematically
Tribulations: Terrror Targets Everwhere--Everyone (tags)
Danger from terrorism increase everywhere everyday. Be aware, be prepared and be brown skinned if you can (safer in most of the world from now on !). Al Qaeda and other terror cells laugh at US and its people who think their government spends good money to protect them
Yugoslavia and Iraq: A War Comparison (tags)
A comparison of the so-called humanitarian interventions in Yugoslavia and Iraq
Western Civilization at a Crossroads (tags)
"Peace is not everything but without peace everything is nothing" (Willy Brandt 1982).. "The civilization project aims at abolishing war as an institution..Justice and the strength of the law should replace power interests and the right of the stronger."
You! Write to the UN! Ask for War Crimes Charges! (tags)
Write to the UN! Ask for charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity!
Western Civilization at a Crossroads (tags)
"Peace is not everything but without peace everything is nothing" (Willy Brandt 1982).. "The civilization project aims at abolishing war as an institution.. Justice and the strength of the law should replace power interests and the right of the stronger."
U.S. Begins Rounding Up Iraqi Civilians (tags)
The War Of Terror enters a new stage as the Invading Occupation forces of the Bush Junta begin preparations to round up "suspicious" civilians in their new Oil Patch (Formerly Iraq).
Western Civilization at a Crossroads (tags)
"Peace is not everything but without peace everything is nothing" (Willy Brandt 1982).. "The civilization project aims at abolishing war as an institution.. Justice and the strength of the law should replace..right of the stronger." Translated from German
Iraqi Dead Civilians Murdered By George W. Bush (tags)
Iraqi Dead Civilians Murdered By George W. Bush
What Script is the Pentagon Really Reading From? (tags)
Ok, what the hell is really going on?
Western Civilization at a Crossroads (tags)
"Peace is not evertything but without peace everything is nothing" (Willy Brandt 1982).. "The civilization project aims at abolishing war as an institution..Justice and the strength of the law should replace power interests and the right of the stronger."
Western Civilization at a Crossroads (tags)
"Peace is not everything but without peace everything is nothing" (Willy Brandt 1982).. "The civilization project aims at abolishing war as an institution and eliminating force..Justice and the strength of the law should replace..right of the stronger."
106 Reasons why BUSH MUST GO!!! (tags)
Posted by "Dave" on the Radio Left site
Western Civilization at a Crossroads (tags)
"Peace is not everything but without peace everything is nothing" (Willy Brandt 1982).."The civilization project aims at abolishing war as an institution and at the elimination of force..Justice and the strength of the law should replace right of thestronger."
URGENT: UN Debating Stopping War TODAY! Please CALL and/or FAX them NOW! (tags)
An Emergency Session of the Security Council has been called today Wed, March 26th, 3 p.m. They will invite testimony from all UN 191 members, and could vote on a resolution demanding immediate withdrawal of foreign forces from Iraq. If they Invoke Res. 377, "Uniting For Peace" they may be able to stop war--which was done in Suez Crises in the 50's. Please Email and/or Fax NOW UN countries now!
Western Civilization at a Crossroads (tags)
"Peace is not everything but without peace everything is nothing" (Willy Brandt 1982).."The civilization project aims at abolishing war as an institution and at the elimination of force.. Justice and the strength of the law should replace right of stronger."
HelpUSA in Suicide: Bush Sr. and Sons-48 Hours to Leave Planet (tags)
THE GREAT INTENTIONAL WATERS FULL OF REVENGE AND THE WORLD WILL ONLY BE HEAL WHEN CLEANSED OF DISEASE KNOWN AS THE USA. Make the fire burn beneath their feet. Allah be Praised.Bless Palestinians- A. Roy, 'GW Bush is insane!"
BUSH IS WARNED ABOUT ILLEGALITY OF UNILATERAL WAR. (tags)
Articles have appeared during the past week -- including one on German television -- warning that an attack on Iraq carried out without UN Security Council authorization would be in violation of the UN Charter and international law, and that President Bush and Defense Secretary Rumsfeld could eventually find themselves charged with war crimes before the newly-inaugurated International Criminal Court (ICC).
War is not the Path to Peace (tags)
American jurists see a breach of international law in a preventive war.. Aggressive war is one of the most serious transgressions of international law..There is no exception..Global Action Prevent WarLCNP http://www.lcnp.org/global/IRAQLetter.pdf
Debate on How Nice USA IS: Arundati Roy Article (tags)
Nagging guy tries to defend USA with insincere attacks on trivia and history. We need to set record straight and make the US War Crimes the main issue around the world. Please join in and earn/learn... How about A. Roy and Shakespear?
30 Years Of U.S. UN Vetoes. (tags)
Look how we have Voted // Vetoed- see any bias? 1972-2002 Vetoes from the USA
Nationalists hijack Washington (tags)
Nationalists based in Washington have hijacked U.S. policy. These nationalists mostly worked together in the American Enterprise Institute, Project for the New American Century, etc. Find out more.
USA Bad Boys: Blackmail and US Intervention in latin America (tags)
US addictions haunt and terrorize world: OIL, WEAPONS, DRUGS. US BAD BOYS and friends in Latin America held power for decades. Now they are run out of town by Hugo Chavez, people of Bolivia and New Ideas. Guns and Money aren’t enough anymore–Hope lives –Struggle Consumes…
Let's Call Bush on his Bogus Terror Threats (tags)
The resistance is growing to the mind numbing propaganda from sources like CNN...
Let's Call Bush On His Bogus Terror Threats (tags)
Bush elevated the color-coded terrorism threat level to orange last week in response to the possibility of a chemical or biological attack. Ridge told reporters the other day the terrorism alert issued last week is "the most significant" since 911. "The threat is real," he warned. Yeah, right.
The SHORTWAVE REPORT 2/7/03 ¡Listen Globally! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion recorded from a shortwave radio. 2 files- broadcast quality (13.2MB) and quick download (3.3MB). With times and freqs for listening at home. Free to rebroadcast. Germany, Netherlands, China, and Russia.
Washington escalates military buildup in Latin America (tags)
The resurgence of American militarism in what US imperialism has historically regarded as its "own backyard" was evident at the fifth Conference of Defence Ministers of the Americas held in Santiago, Chile in late November.
Stop funding Israeli war crimes: Divest NOW! (by Latuff) (tags)
Support Virginia Commonwealth University Divestment Campaign.
IMPORTANT NEWSFLASH FROM WHITEHOUSE (tags)
NEWSFLASH Mr. Bush's new criminal edict now states Americans can rise up for America to kill him as a terrorist and be thought Just and God Worthy. I Agree with bush finally.
Holy Jesus Man! Johnny Wizard is staying for snacks! Holy Jesus Man! (tags)
Holy Jesus Man! Have you heard the Revelations from India's government to the FBI now made public?, regarding the principle terrorist funder of Mohammad Atta being, the ISI's, General Ahmad? The bush administration's personal confidant, and top secret military strategist? See, it was Jim at MSNBC that informed US of bush's terrorist plan existing as once top secret presidential documents, and, that this same general, was also responsible for, according to several members of the Senate Intelligence Committee, ...
Perry Anderson: Pre-emptive Surrender (tags)
A critique of Perry Anderson's "Force and Consent"
Christ I'm Actually Rising! (tags)
Chirst has like, actually come to take out the evil bushmob single handedly! He walks and talks like he's just human... Wow! Don't miss this incredible revelation!!
Message to the Troops: Resist! (tags)
A former conscientious objector tells soldiers that the best way to defend their families is to stay alive and healthy and resist the war. Cut, paste, and send it to any service-people you know.
A Million New Terrorists (tags)
"With its retreat from international obligations and agreements, the struggle against international terrorism and its posture in the Middle East conflict, the US government is now entangled in politics with double standards." Translated from the German
The SHORTWAVE REPORT 10/4/02 ¡Listen Globally! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion recorded from a shortwave radio. 2 files- broadcast quality (13.2MB) and quick download (3.3MB). With times and freqs for listening at home. Free to rebroadcast. China, Russia, Germany, Netherlands, Cuba.
What Bush has undone in just 21 short months
Sit-in for peace in WA Senators' offices (tags)
Sit in was on Wed, and the activists were all arrested. See the latest update on this action at http://www.seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=18109&group=webcast
The SHORTWAVE REPORT 9/27/02 ¡Listen Globally! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion recorded from a shortwave radio. 2 files- broadcast quality (13.3MB) and quick download (3.3MB). With times and freqs for listening at home. Free to rebroadcast upon notification. Netherlands, Cuba, Germany, China, and Russia
Strong anti-war actions in Washington state (tags)
Peace activists from Washington state are sitting in their senator's offices until they get a definite answer on how the senators will vote on Bush's war resolution. Anybody from California doing similar actions?
The SHORTWAVE REPORT 9/13/02 ¡Listen Globally! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion recorded from a shortwave radio. 2 files- broadcast quality (13.5MB) and quick download (3.3MB). With times and freqs for listening at home. Free to rebroadcast upon notification. China, Spain, Netherlands, Russia, and Cuba.
Is September 11 driving you nuts? (tags)
The people of the United States should rightly remember, and so should the people of the entire world. But the events of the 11th of September 2001 were so powerful, so disturbing, that it would be catastrophic if they were remembered for the wrong reasons.
TODAY Peace at the SM Beach March, Rallly & Concert (tags)
In memory of the tragic events of September 11, 2001, there will be a Peace march, rally, and concert on Saturday, September 7, in downtown Santa Monica. Peace at the Beach will commence with a gathering at 3:00pm at 3rd Street and Wilshire Boulevard in Santa Monica. The gathering will begin a march to the Santa Monica Pier at 4:00pm. At 5:00pm, there will be a rally featuring speakers and live music at the end of the Pier.
The SHORTWAVE REPORT 8/23/02 ¡Listen Globally! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion recorded from a shortwave radio. 2 files- broadcast quality (13.4MB) and quick download (3.3MB). With times and freqs for listening at home. Free to rebroadcast upon notification. China, Germany, Cuba, and Netherlands
Capitalist politicians divided whether US imperialism is good idea (tags)
BOGOTA -- Opposition to a U.S. order for Colombia to back immunity for U.S. troops before the International Criminal Court could spell difficulty for newly inaugurated White House representative Alvaro Uribe.
The SHORTWAVE REPORT 8/16/02 ¡Listen Globally! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion recorded from a shortwave radio. 2 files- broadcast quality (13.3MB) and quick download (3.3MB). With times and freqs for listening at home. Free to rebroadcast upon notification. Germany, Netherlands, China, Spain, and Cuba.
Israel and the U.S. sign mutual pact to avoid criminal court proceedings. (tags)
Is U.S/Israel guilty of war crimes? Hitler and Mussolini had something like that, didn't they? An agreement to restrict the extradition of their citizens to the International Criminal Court in the Hague is to be signed Sunday by Israel and the United States.
Pressed as to why the U.S. has not done so after twenty two months in which barely a day has passed without U.S. weapons being used to add to the mounting list of Palestinian victims in the Occupied Territories, Boucher said: "All we've ever really answered in response to these questions is to note that we have not made such a report, and should we do so we'll tell you. At this point we haven't."
The SHORTWAVE REPORT 7/12/02 ¡Listen Globally! (tags)
A 30 minute review of news and opinion recorded from a shortwave radio (all in English) Two files- Broadcast quality (13.3MB) & Quick download/streaming (3.3MB) With times and freqs for listening at home. Germany, China, Netherlands, Spain, Russia, Cuba. Free to rebroadcast upon notification.
Today in Global Observer http://globalobserver.blogspot.com you can find articles about Israel, the International Criminal Court, Iraq and american foreign policy after september 11.
The SHORTWAVE REPORT 7/5/02 ¡Listen Globally! (tags)
A 30 minute review of international news and opinions recorded from a shortwave radio. 2 files- broadcast-13.3MB & quick/streaming-3.3MB. With times and freqs for listening at home. Free to rebroadcast upon notification. Netherlands, Germany, Spain, and Cuba
The SHORTWAVE REPORT 6/28/02 ¡Listen Globally! (tags)
A 30 minute review of international news and opinions recorded from a shortwave radio. 2 files- broadcast-13.5MB & quick/streaming-3.4MB. With times and freqs for listening at home. Free to rebroadcast upon notification. China, Spain. Germany, Russia, and Cuba
The Shortwave Report 5/10/02 ¡LISTEN GLOBALLY! (tags)
A 30 minute review of international news and opinions recorded from a shortwave radio. 2 files- broadcast-13.7MB & quick/streaming-3.4MB. With times and freqs for listening at home. Free to rebroadcast upon notification. Netherlands, Germany, Spain, and Cuba
Bush Admin to Nix Int'l Court (tags)
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So-Called "American Servicemembers' Protection Act" Receives Senate Approval (tags)
Support for Anti-ICC Legislation Flies in Face of International Cooperation Against Terrorism. The U.S. Senate overwhelmingly supported Senator Jesse Helms' proposed American Servicemembers' Protection Act (ASPA) as an amendment to the Defense Appropriations Act, providing the legal framework for U.S. opposition to the future International Criminal Court (ICC).
Hundreds Protest At Westwood Federal Building Despite Gov't Order (tags)
"The President says this is not a war against the people of Afghanistan, but it is unimaginable that the attacks we've launched won't result in possibly thousands of innocent deaths among the Afghan people. Our protest today is a fervent plea and demand that not a single innocent life be lost in this widening violence that will probably result in a war of escalating violence around the world." -- Don White, of CISPES.
Justice Not War - the Hague Appeal for Peace Statement on S11 (tags)
The Hague Agenda for Peace and Justice for the 21st Century has emerged from an intensive democratic process of consultation among the members of the Hague Appeal for Peace Organizing and Coordinating Committees, and the hundreds of organizations and individuals that have actively participated in the Hague Appeal process. The Agenda represents what these civil society organizations and citizens consider to be some of the most important challenges facing humankind as it embarks upon a new millenium. Below is the official stamement of the Hague Appeal for Peace following the S11 tragedy.
US propaganda newspaper the "NY Times" big mouth no more as thousands resist (tags)
October 1, 2001 THE PROTEST Marchers Oppose Waging War Against Terrorists By ELIZABETH BECKER