Dick Cheney’s “Executive Assassination Ring”

Was Dr. David Kelly a target of Dick Cheney’s “Executive Assassination Ring”?
By Tom Burghardt
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Revelations that the Central Intelligence Agency launched a world-wide assassination program, and then concealed its existence from the U.S. Congress and the American people for eight years, carries an implication that death squads may have been employed against political [...]

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The impact of war: Military study ties war trauma, violence at home

Soldiers in a single Army unit killed as many as 11 people after returning home from Iraq and Afghanistan, the military said last week. One contributing factor? The psychological trauma of war.
NPR’s Daniel Zwerdling talks to Guy Raz about the military’s efforts to deal with soldier trauma and ease their re-entry into civilian life. Go [...]

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Israeli soldiers’ revelations from Gaza

Israeli soldiers involved in the attacks on Gaza at the start of this year claim that they were ordered to fire, regardless of the risk to civilians. Israel banned journalists from its invasion of Gaza in December and January, making it hard to verify allegations of indiscriminate firing, the use of phosphorous bombs, and forcing [...]

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Grand Ayatollah Montazeri suggests Iran’s politcal system is illegitimate (part 1)

Iranian Grand Ayatollah Montazeri suggests that Iran’s Supreme Leader and the country’s government and institutions are illegitimate, and he urges Iranians to fight oppression.

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Ship Carrying Humanitarian Aid for Gaza Seized by Israel

Interview with Caoimhe Butterly, an Irish solidarity activist, conducted by Melinda Tuhus

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On June 30, an unarmed boat, named “Spirit of Humanity,” carrying 21 international peace activists was seized in international waters by the Israeli Navy, as it attempted to sail from Cypress to Gaza with relief supplies and messages of solidarity for Palestinians living [...]

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Questions & answers on the Iran crisis

July 08, 2009
By Stephen Shalom, Thomas Harrison, Joanne Landy, and Jesse Lemisch
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(July 7, 2009) — Right after the June 12 elections in Iran, the Campaign for Peace and Democracy issued a statement expressing our strong support for the masses of Iranians protesting electoral fraud and our horror at [...]

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Ban bullfighting

Every year 250,000 bulls die slow and torturous deaths as a result of the bullfighting industry.
Spain’s annual bullfighting season got underway just this week. Help end the inhumane treatment of bulls by banning bullfighting today. »
While many of us imagine the matador piercing the heart of the bull with one quick movement, in reality, the [...]

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Uighurs’ struggle to retain cultural identity

The Chinese government has accused Uighur exiles of inciting violent protests in Urumqi in the western province of Xinjiang. But many ethnic Uighurs blame Beijing for systematically destroying their culture and identity. Al Jazeera’s Nazanine Moshiri explores the tense relationship between Uighurs and China’s leaders.
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Honduran coup resistance growing

An interview with Sandra Cuffe, independent journalist reporting from the streets of Tegucigalpa, Honduras on the day the military opened fire on protesters. Tension peaked as unprecedented thousands marched to the airport to welcome the return of ousted President Manuel Zelaya, a return that was thwarted by the military.

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The sad lives of dancing bears

Under the law, the Indian sloth bear is entitled to the same protection as the tiger. Yet crimes against it are committed openly across India as bears are made to dance. By venturing on an undercover operation and witnessing the surrender of a dancing bear, the film seeks to show how [...]

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Honduras coup photos

A supporter of ousted Honduran president Manuel Zelaya writes graffiti which reads “Pro-Coup People Out” at Morazan Park during a protest against the military coup in Tegucigalpa on July 1, 2009. (AFP / Jose Cabezas)

Soldiers patrol a street nearby the presidential building in Tegucigalpa on June 30, 2009. (AFP / Yuri Cortez)

Protesters in favour of [...]

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Honduras under siege

Bertha Oliva: Coup leaders reviving despotism of the 80s in bid to crush participatory democracy
The following video is a couple of days old; for example, the OAS deadline has passed and the junta has decisively rejected all international demands to reinstall Manuel Zelaya. Nevertheless, the clip provides a window into how the military backed coup [...]

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Analysis of the Iran uprising and its aftermath

The Iranian uprising crosses all classes, and it’s neither the result of internet access (especially Twitter) nor CIA involvement, argues Reese Erlich, journalist and author of The Iran Agenda.

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Can the Taliban be defated in Pakistan?

Preventing A Taliban Victory
By Pervez Hoodbhoy
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(Dawn, 20 June, 2009) — Now that the army has turned serious, Baitullah Mehsud cannot expect to stroll down Constitution Avenue any time soon, nor hope to sit in the presidency. A few thousand mountain barbarians, even if trained by Al Qaeda’s best, cannot possibly seize power [...]

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Israel, selling lies and barbarism to a world that doesn’t ask question anymore

“Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it and eventually you will believe it” …
The Israeli Regime has been selling nothing but lies and delusions, and after decades of repeating them, the world has stopped questioning. Intelligence, wisdom, justice and compassion have been almost [...]

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A history of CIA coups and atrocities

CIA operations follow the same recurring script. First, American business interests abroad are threatened by a popular or democratically elected leader. The people support their leader because he intends to conduct land reform, strengthen unions, redistribute wealth, nationalize foreign-owned industry, and regulate business to protect workers, consumers and the environment. So, on behalf of American [...]

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The Secret Government – Bill Moyers on the CIA

Where the trouble in Iran started: the overthrow by the CIA of the democratically elected, popular Iranian prime minister Mossadeq in 1953. It’s an old video, but nothing much has changed in the last twenty or so years since Bill Moyers recorded this episode.

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Be a man, be a white person, be an American – or be a human being

Valerie Patterson – Abortion Men
A great way of saying that we need a new project called ‘radical structural analysis’. In the process, argues Robert Jensen, we will find an unsustainable system profoundly characterised by domination and subordination, which are reflected in how we live our lives in areas like race, gender and sexuality, the capitalist economy, [...]

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Save Elephants from Circus Abuse

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It’s heart-wrenching.
Baby elephants are ripped away from their mothers and forced into a life of abuse and humiliation that is reinforced with bull hooks, whips and electric prods.
Don’t allow animal abuse to continue at the circus! [...]

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Israeli Military Testing ‘robotic’ Snake

It is befitting that an aggressive, militaristic state like Israel would develop this combat mission weapon: a “robotic” camouflaged snake that can transmit video and audio as it crawls through difficult terrain and into enemy territory. The robot will gather intelligence behind enemy lines with a camera and microphone installed in [...]

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