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Andrew Napolitano, ?Civil Liberties in Wartime? at The Future Freedom Found
2007-11-20 16:04:00 Part 1 9min 16sec Part 2 9min 56sec Part 3 9min 38sec Part 4 9min 56sec More About: Freedom , Multimedia , Future , The Future , Andrew
Noam Chomsky on U.S. policy towards Iran
2007-11-20 15:54:00 8min 12sec More About: Multimedia , Iran , Policy , Noam Chomsky
Lord of War - The life of a bullet
2007-11-18 21:00:00 2min 55sec More About: Multimedia , Life , Lord , Bullet
?Paying the Price: Killing the Children of Iraq? by John Pilger
2007-11-18 17:22:00 1 hr 15 min 4 sec After Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990, the United Nations (backed strongly by the US and UK) imposed harsh sanctions on Iraq that lasted for 10 years (1991-2001); the harsh restrictions on imports of everything, including access to key medicines, resulted in over a million deaths, more than half a ... More About: Multimedia , Children , John , Price
?The Assassination of Hugo Chavez?
2007-11-16 15:53:00 by Greg Palast Part 1 5min 13sec Part 2 4min 17sec Part 3 4min 28sec More About: Multimedia , Chavez , Hugo Chavez , Assassination , Hugo
Bush?s Lap Dogs: What Happened to DC?s Watchdogs?
2007-11-07 00:23:00 by Tim Dickinson Rolling Stone ….Rather than root out wrongdoing, Bush ’s appointees ? men with nicknames like Moose and Cookie ? have actually helped the White House cover up corrupt defense contracts, conceal the theft of sensitive rocket technology and whitewash a host of scandals from Abu Ghraib to Medicare prescription drugs. “Not only has this administration ... More About: Dogs
Tonight is Guy Fawkes Night (more commonly known as Bonfire Night)
2007-11-05 21:20:00 Remember, remember the Fifth of November, The Gunpowder Treason and Plot, I know of no reason Why Gunpowder Treason ... More About: Night , Tonight , Fawkes
Iraqi weapons ?expert? unmasked as a fraud
2007-11-03 16:25:00 By Sadie Gray The Independent The Iraqi defector whose claims regarding Saddam Hussein’s biological warfare capabilities were central to the US government’s case for the 2003 invasion, despite repeated warnings that they were dubious, has been unmasked by a television documentary. The informer, codenamed Curveball was Rafid Ahmed Alwan who, in 1999, turned up at a refugee centre ... More About: Fraud , Weapons , Expert , Pert
Chris Dodd Speaks for All Of Us
2007-11-03 16:21:00 Democrats.com Finally! After six years of shock and silence, one Senator is finally standing up for the Constitution - and America’s real national security. Watch Chris Dodd ’s historic speech here. Mr. President, for six years, this President has demonstrated time and time again that he doesn?t respect the role of Congress nor does he respect the rule ...
Rice, Others Told to Testify in AIPAC Espionage Case
2007-11-03 16:06:00 By Jerry Markon Washington Post A federal judge yesterday issued a rare ruling that ordered Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and more than 10 other prominent current and former government officials to testify on behalf of two pro-Israel lobbyists accused of violating the Espionage Act at their upcoming criminal trial. The opinion by U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis ... More About: Case , Testify , Told
FBI Whistleblower Sibel Edmonds Will Now Tell All!
2007-11-02 17:07:00 We the People Radio Network & BradBlog Attention CBS 60 Minutes: we’ve got a huge scoop for you. If you want it. Remember the exclusive story you aired on Sibel Edmonds , originally on October 27th, 2002, when she was not allowed to tell you everything that she heard while serving as an FBI translator after 9/11 because ... More About: Sibel Edmonds
Happy Birthday to ME!
2007-11-02 16:12:00 I resemble these remarks: (some of them, some are just worth posting) The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune. English Proverb Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter. - Jack Benny The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything. - Oscar ... More About: Happy , Birthday , Happy Birthday
Theocracy Now! At the Value Voters Summit 2007
2007-11-01 20:49:00 7min 58sec Max Blumenthal takes us on another shocking trip to the far shores of the Christian right, this time to the 2007 Value Voters Summit . Starring Mike Huckabee, Rudy Giuliani (momentarily in drag), James Dobson, “Lucky Lou” Sheldon, Star Parker, Phyllis Schlafly, Frank Gaffney, and many more of the wingers we know and don’t necessarily ... More About: Multimedia , Theo
Banned From Canada for a Year for War Protest
2007-11-01 14:50:00 By Ann Wright t r u t h o u t The invitation said six members of the Canadian Parliament were to speak October 25 on Canada ’s Parliament Hill as members of a panel called “Peacebuilders Without Borders: Challenging the Post-9/11 Canada-US Security Agenda.” I arrived at the Ottawa airport on the morning of October 25 expecting ... More About: Protest , Banned , Year
It?s Not Only the Israel Lobby, Other Interests Benefit from the Chaos
2007-11-01 14:18:00 by Jon Basil Utley The new, public debate about the Israel lobby is missing a major point ? the lobby’s allies, the many other interests in America that want chaos in the Middle East. For example, in the Walt-Mearsheimer book there is no listing in the index for “military-industrial complex.” For all its vaunted power, the ... More About: Interests , Chaos , Benefit , Eres
US quietly backing Egyptian nuclear program as White House slams Iran
2007-10-30 16:41:00 YahooNews The White House on Monday said it had little information about Egypt’s plans to relaunch its nuclear power program but declared itself “generally supportive” of civilian atomic power. “I don’t know a lot about it. In general, we are supportive of countries pursuing civil nuclear energy. It’s clean burning. It provides electricity in a clean-burning and ... More About: Iran , Nuclear , White House
Secret move to upgrade Diego Garcia air base for Iran attack plans
2007-10-30 15:57:00 The Herald The US is secretly upgrading special stealth bomber hangars on the British island protectorate of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean in preparation for strikes on Iran ’s nuclear facilities, according to military sources. The improvement of the B1 Spirit jet infrastructure coincides with an “urgent operational need” request for £44m to fit racks to the ... More About: Secret , Plans , Move
State Department sheltering Blackwater guards from Prosecution
2007-10-30 15:46:00 Jurist The US Department of State [official website] has sheltered bodyguards working for private security firm Blackwater USA [corporate website; JURIST news archive] from prosecution related to a September shooting incident [JURIST report] in Baghdad, according to AP on Monday. The guards, who allegedly fired on civilians, killing 17 and prompting the Iraqi government to withdraw ... More About: State Department , Guards
Terrorists have Attacked Our Imagination
2007-10-30 15:40:00 53sec More About: Multimedia , Terrorists , Imagination , Attacked , Attack
Shouting at the Devil: ?Fuck You, Capitalism!?
2007-10-30 15:15:00 By Jason Miller ?America touts itself as the land of the free, but the number one freedom that you and I have is the freedom to enter into a subservient role in the workplace. Once you exercise this freedom you?ve lost all control over what you do, what is produced, and how it is produced. And ... More About: Capitalism , Devil , Fuck , Shout , The Devil
Thousands in US anti-war protests
2007-10-29 14:42:00 BBC Tens of thousands of people have taken part in demonstrations against the war in Iraq in cities across the US. Rallies took place in a dozen cities, with the biggest crowds gathering in New York, Chicago and San Francisco. They were timed to coincide with the fifth anniversary of a vote by the US Senate to authorise ... More About: Anti-War , Anti , Protests
ENDGAME-Blueprint for Global Enslavement
2007-10-28 16:40:00 2 hr 19 min 29 sec More About: Multimedia , Global , Blueprint , Endgame
Why Democracy - Taxi to the Dark Side
2007-10-28 16:39:00 1 hr 19 min 2 sec Over one hundred prisoners have died in suspicious circumstances in U.S. custody during the “war on terror”. Taxi to the Dark Side takes an in-depth look at one case: an Afghan taxi driver called Dilawar who was considered an honest and kind man by the people of his rustic ... More About: Multimedia , Democracy , The Dark
Bill Moyers: Power and the Presidency
2007-10-27 05:50:00 PBS October 26, 2007 Executive privilege, alleged torture, warrentless wiretapping ? the Bush Administration has come under fire as the powers the President and Vice President have assumed in the name of national security have come to public attention. But charges of executive overreach are nothing new, nor are they exclusive to one political party, as this ... More About: Power , Bill Moyers , Presidency , Bill
CHENEY?S LAW - PBS FRONTLINE
2007-10-27 05:45:00 56 min 20 sec For three decades Vice President Dick Cheney conducted a secretive, behind-closed-doors campaign to give the president virtually unlimited wartime power. Finally, in the aftermath of 9/11, the Justice Department and the White House made a number of controversial legal decisions. Orchestrated by Cheney and his lawyer David Addington, the department interpreted ... More About: Multimedia
Keith Olbermann: Fear Tactics are Becoming Funny and Ineffectual
2007-10-26 23:05:00 8min 10sec More About: Funny , Multimedia , Tactics , Keith Olbermann , Fear
FEMA Meets the Press, Which Happens to Be . . . FEMA
2007-10-26 23:02:00 By Al Kamen Washington Post FEMA has truly learned the lessons of Katrina. Even its handling of the media has improved dramatically. For example, as the California wildfires raged Tuesday, Vice Adm. Harvey E. Johnson, the deputy administrator, had a 1 p.m. news briefing. Reporters were given only 15 minutes’ notice of the briefing, making it unlikely many ... More About: Press , The Press
CNN: Jack Cafferty - It?s Getting Ugly Out There
2007-10-26 18:49:00 3 min 9 sec More About: Multimedia , Jack , Ugly , Caff , Jack Cafferty
Demand that Rumsfeld be charged with War Crimes
More articles from this author:2007-10-26 18:37:00 CenterForConstitutionalRights Synopsis Fax or Call the French Prosecutor Jean Claude Marin and demand that he open a investigation, into Rumsfeld ’s involvement in torture. Description There are charges for torture against Rumsfeld, France has ratified the UN Convention against torture. This morning was confirmed that Rumsfeld was presentin France and they have an obligation to prosecute or extradite alleged perpetrators of ... More About: War Crimes , Crimes , Char , Demand 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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