Human Rights Watch Human Rights Watch 2012
Human Rights Watch Human Rights Watch 2012 This 22nd annual Human Rights Watch summarizes human rights conditions in more than 90 countries and territories worldwide in 2011. It reflects extensive investigative work that Human Rights Watch staff has undertaken during the year, often in close partnership with domestic human rights activists. The introductory essay examines the... Read More
Israel Teams With Terror Group to Kill Iran’s Nuclear Scientists, U.S. officials tell NBC News
Israel Teams With Terror Group to Kill Iran’s Nuclear Scientists, U.S. officials tell NBC News Richard Engel and Robert Windrem NBC News February 09, 2012 “NBC” — Deadly attacks on Iranian nuclear scientists are being carried out by an Iranian dissident group that is financed, trained and armed by Israel’s secret service, U.S. officials tell... Read More
Karzai condemns NATO airstrike that killed eight Afghan children
Karzai condemns NATO airstrike that killed eight Afghan children Afghan President Hamid Karzai “strongly condemned” a NATO airstrike that killed at least eight children in eastern Afghanistan, a palace statement said Thursday, DPA reported. An investigation was also launched into the incident, which took place in Geyawa village in the Nejrab district of Kapisa province... Read More
ATTAC/CADTM Morocco against capitalism globalization
ATTAC/CADTM Morocco against capitalism globalization Attac/Cadtm Maroc Final Declaration of the 4th national Congress of ATTAC/CADTM Morocco Attac/cadtm Morocco association held its 4th national Conference on 27, 28 and 29 January 2012 with the slogan “for the strengthening of the popular dimension of the fight against capitalism globalization in Morocco”. Despite harassment by the authorities,... Read More
A 75th Anniversary for the American Dream , a 25-Year Anniversary for Me … a letter from Michael Moore
A 75th Anniversary for the American Dream Friends, On this day 25 years ago, in 1987, I became a filmmaker. It was around ten in the morning and the first-ever roll of Kodak 16mm film for my first-ever movie was loaded into my friend’s camera to shoot the very first scene of ‘Roger & Me.’... Read More
Profiting From The Pentagon – OpEd
Profiting From The Pentagon – OpEd Donald Kaul Washington’s talking about cutting the military budget. Whoopee. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta recently revealed plans to cut hundreds of billions of dollars from the Pentagon’s budget in the next decade, with possibly more reductions on the way. We’re going to have fewer soldiers, fewer warplanes and ships,... Read More
Washington Reaps the Rewards of Its “Arab Spring” Destabilization Campaign
Washington Reaps the Rewards of Its “Arab Spring” Destabilization Campaign US-Funded Tunisian President Prepares to Withdraw Recognition of Syrian Government Tony Cartalucci On February 5, 2012 – Reuters reported, “Tunisia “to withdraw recognition” of Syria government,” and specifically that newly appointed Tunisian president Moncef Marzouki made the announcement on his Facebook page. Reuters also notes... Read More
The FG Newsletter
“Julian Assange” said Noam Chomsky “should be congratulated for carrying out the responsibilities of a citizen in democratic societies, where the population should be aware of what their selected..
An attack on Tehran would be madness. So don’t rule it out
An attack on Tehran would be madness. So don’t rule it out Robert Fisk After invading Iraq over weapons of mass destruction, we plan to clap as Israel bombs Iran If Israel really attacks Iran this year, it – and the Americans – will be more dotty than their enemies think. True, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is... Read More
US Outrage Over Syria Veto at UN Rife With Hypocrisy
US Outrage Over Syria Veto at UN Rife With Hypocrisy Stephen Zunes Official Washington has been rife with condemnation at the decision by the governments of Russia and China to veto an otherwise unanimous UN Security Council resolution condemning the ongoing repression in Syria and calling for a halt to violence on all sides; unfettered... Read More
Profit Driven Prison Industrial Complex – The Economics of Incarceration in the USA
Profit Driven Prison Industrial Complex – The Economics of Incarceration in the USA Nile Bowie Profit Driven Prison Industrial Complex: The Economics of Incarceration in the USA. For every 100,000 Americans, 743 citizens sit behind bars For anyone paying attention, there is no shortage of issues that fundamentally challenge the underpinning moral infrastructure of American... Read More
Officials: CIA to Stay in Iraq, Afghanistan for Years After Wars
Officials: CIA to Stay in Iraq, Afghanistan for Years After Wars Jason Ditz Baghdad-Based CIA Spying on Maliki Government US officials said today the CIA is planning to maintain a large and secretive presence inside both Iraq and Afghanistan long after the US occupations of those nations end. In Iraq, which US troops have already left,... Read More
From Washington this looks like Syria’s ‘Benghazi moment’. But not from here
From Washington this looks like Syria‘s ‘Benghazi moment’. But not from here Robert Fisk Look east and what does Bashar see? Iran standing with him and Iraq refusing to impose sanctions February 07, 2012 “The Independent‘ — President Bashar al-Assad is not about to go. Not yet. Not, maybe, for quite a long time. Newspapers... Read More
Occupy vs. Monsanto: Activists, Farmers Fight the Corporation They Fear Will Take Over All America’s Crops
Occupy vs. Monsanto: Activists, Farmers Fight the Corporation They Fear Will Take Over All America’s Crops Anna Lekas Miller Occupy comes out to support a lawsuit that hopes to turn the tables on corporate farming behemoth Monsanto. Monsanto, if you will, is the 1 percent of Big Agriculture–the scourge of small farmers everywhere. But now... Read More
Israelis Should be Afraid of Their Leaders, not Iran
Israelis Should be Afraid of Their Leaders, not Iran Gideon Levy For far too long now Israel has been headed by heroes, the kind who don’t hesitate to take the country on yet another dangerous, purposeless adventure. We must tell them now, loudly: We are a-f-r-ai-d. February 07, 2012 “Haaretz” – – Some of the... Read More