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On Visit to France, Donald Rumsfeld Hit with Lawsuit for Ordering, Authoriz
2007-10-26 17:32:00 DN! The complaint was filed with the Paris prosecutor?s office as Rumsfeld arrived in France for a visit. This is the fifth time Rumsfeld has been charged with direct involvement in torture since 9/11. We speak with two attorneys with the plaintiffs — Center for Constitutional Rights president Michael Ratner and Jeanne Sulzer of the International ... More About: Lawsuit , Donald , Donald Rumsfeld , Visit
DONALD RUMSFELD CHARGED WITH TORTURE DURING TRIP TO FRANCE
2007-10-26 16:12:00 CenterForConstitutionalRights October 26, 2007, Paris, France ? Today, the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) along with the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR), and the French League for Human Rights filed a complaint with the Paris Prosecutor before the ?Court of First Instance? (Tribunal de Grande Instance) ... More About: Donald , Trip , Torture , Donald Rumsfeld
Thank You Patriots, This is for You
2007-10-25 19:30:00 I wanted to put up some videos showing the true patriotism that still abounds in the United States and around the world shown in the actions of protesters and others. As the US moves more into fascism, it take more and more courage to simply exercise their rights of free speech and the right to ... More About: Multimedia , Patriots , Riots , Hank
Talk by Naomi Wolf - The End of America
2007-10-25 16:35:00 47min 46sec 10 Steps to Fascism 1. Invoke a terrifying internal and external enemy 2. Create a gulag 3. Develop a thug caste 4. Set up an internal surveillance system 5. Harass citizens’ groups 6. Engage in arbitrary detention and release 7. Target key individuals 8. Control the press 9. Dissent equals treason 10. Suspend the rule of law This article explains these steps in greater detail… More About: America , Multimedia , Talk , Naomi Wolf , Naomi
Some Jim Hightower Videos
2007-10-24 17:00:00 Why We’re in Iraq 2min BUSH’S BACKFIRE 1min 51sec WHAT COLOR IS YOUR MEAT? 1min 51sec Hightower in “The Big Buy:” The 5 Vote Margin 1min 40sec More About: Videos , Multimedia , Some
KID?S HEALTH CARE: Rep. Pete Stark Blasts GOP on SCHIP, Iraq
2007-10-24 16:34:00 4min 08sec Stark after the removal of his balls…. 1min 31sec More About: Health , Multimedia , Iraq , Health Care , Care
Bush offers to bomb Kurds
2007-10-24 16:31:00 Herald Sun THE Bush Administration is considering air strikes, including cruise missiles, against the Kurdish rebel group PKK in northern Iraq. The move would be an attempt to stave off a Turkish invasion of that country to fight the rebels. President George Bush spoke with Turkish President Abdullah Gul by phone yesterday in an effort to ease the ... More About: Offers , Kurds , Bomb , Offer
Poison or Cure? Religious Belief in the Modern World
2007-10-24 05:02:00 1 hr 40 min 35 sec The Ethics and Public Policy Center and the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs at Georgetown University hosted a debate between writer Christopher Hitchens and Oxford University professor Alister McGrath on the role of religious belief in the modern world. The debate was held on October 11, ... More About: Multimedia , Modern , Religious , Belief
Bush?s Request for Wars Increases to $196 Billion
2007-10-23 16:01:00 By STEVEN LEE MYERS NYTimes President Bush asked Congress on Monday to approve $196 billion to pay for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and other national security programs, setting the stage for a new confrontation with Democrats over the administration?s handling of Iraq. Mr. Bush?s request increased the amount of the proposed spending by $46 billion over ... More About: Wars , Request , Billion
Blackwater: Shadow Army
2007-10-22 23:08:00 4min 24sec Calling Blackwater to Account 11min 37sec More About: Multimedia , Shadow , Army
Iran bomb would take ?3-8 years? to build
2007-10-22 22:41:00 Ireland.com Iran would need three to eight years to produce a nuclear bomb, the head of the UN’s nuclear watchdog said in an interview published today. “I cannot judge their intentions, but supposing that Iran does intend to acquire a nuclear bomb, it would need between another three and eight years to succeed,” Mohamed ElBaradei, head of ... More About: Years , Bomb , Build
Employees Expose FOX NEWS Distortions
2007-10-22 16:53:00 9min 57sec More About: News , Multimedia , Employees , Fox News , Expose
Watch Bill Maher Throw 9/11 Truth Protesters Out Of His Audience
2007-10-21 17:43:00 4min 10sec Bill Maher ’s show is on a downward spiral due somewhat to him losing his edge. Maher often brings people to his show to debate issues that he does not hold, but he is showing signs of fanaticism that shows itself in his anger towards people that hold a different view on this subject. This ... More About: Truth , Watch , Multimedia , Protesters
Three Shorts from Updoc Films
2007-10-21 17:15:00 How Television Works 3min 43sec How The News Works 3min 06sec A Students’ Guide To University 3min More About: Multimedia , Films , Shorts
?When The President Talks to God? by Bright Eyes
2007-10-20 20:03:00 2min 34sec More About: Multimedia , Eyes , President , Bright , Bright Eyes
Jeremy Scahill on Bill Moyers Journal
2007-10-20 17:58:00 If you have time, watch the entire interview on PBS here….. 4min 21sec If you have time, watch the entire interview on PBS here….. More About: Multimedia , Journal , Bill Moyers , Jeremy , Bill
Mass Murder in the Horn of Africa
2007-10-19 18:09:00 by Justin Raimondo AntiWar Why is the U.S. subsidizing and supporting murder, rape, and systematic ethnic cleansing in the Horn of Africa ? The reason: it’s all part of our strategy for “victory” in the “war on terrorism.” The village of Kamuda ? a remote outpost in the Ogaden region of eastern Ethiopia, where the majority are Muslims and ... More About: Murder , Mass , Mass Murder
We?re In A Lot Of Trouble
2007-10-19 17:32:00 2min 52sec From the movie Network More About: Multimedia
US intelligence does not show Syrian nuclear weapons program, officials say
2007-10-19 16:38:00 by Larisa Alexandrovna RawStory Allegations that a Syrian envoy admitted during a United Nations meeting Oct. 17 that an Israeli air strike hit a nuclear facility in September are inaccurate and have raised the ire of some in the US intelligence community, who see the Vice President?s hand as allegedly being behind the disinformation. A United Nations press ... More About: Nuclear , Intelligence , Show , Weapons , Program
Beyond the Green Zone - Dahr Jamail - Unembedded Journalist
2007-10-19 16:29:00 Part 1 18min 48sec Part 2 24min 43sec DAHR JAMAIL is an independent journalist who has covered the Middle East for more than four years. He has reported extensively from inside Iraq for eight months, and has also has reported from Syria, Turkey, Lebanon, and Jordan. Jamail writes for the Inter Press Service, Asia Times, and many other outlets. ... More About: Multimedia , Green , Zone , Journalist , Embedded
An Assault on Media Diversity and Democracy
2007-10-19 16:24:00 by John Nichols The Nation President Bush is the lamest of lame-duck chief executives, with no moral authority, no legislative majority and no popular domestic or foreign-policy agendas. So what can he do with the remaining months of a failed presidency? Make his corporate allies rich and destroy the essential underpinnings of American democracy. To that end, Bush’s ... More About: Media , Assault , Diversity , Democracy , Saul
Why They?re Afraid Of Michael Moore
2007-10-19 16:21:00 By John Pilger InformationClearingHouse In Sicko, Michael Moore ’s new film, a young Ronald Reagan is shown appealing to working-class Americans to reject “socialised medicine” as commie subversion. In the 1940s and 1950s, Reagan was employed by the American Medical Association and big business as the amiable mouthpiece of a neo-fascism bent on persuading ordinary Americans that their ... More About: Raid
Is the United States Killing 10,000 Iraqis Every Month? Or Is It More?
2007-10-19 16:07:00 by Michael Schwartz VoltaireNet While the atlantist media is reporting more than 3 000 GI?s killed in Iraq and many civilian victims of inter-confessional violences, it looks away from the daily slaughter of civilians by US patrols conducting their search operations for suspects. Professor Michael Schwartz estimates that their number reached 10 000 a month in the ... More About: United States , United , States , The United States , Month
Bill Maher - Anti-Pharma Rant
2007-10-19 16:01:00 4min 10sec More About: Multimedia , Bill Maher , Rant , Pharma , Anti
Ron Paul has broken through to the top tier of Republican candidates
2007-10-19 15:55:00 by Marty Eels USA Daily Republican Presidential candidate Ron Paul has broken through to the top tier of Republican candidates running for president. He knows it, GOP voters know it, and as previously reported; media outlets are grudgingly admitting it. Fox News, to their credit, has already started giving Paul more air coverage than before. Paul was a ... More About: Republican Candidates , Candidates
The Corporation
2007-10-16 18:59:00 3hours includes all three parts THE CORPORATION explores the nature and spectacular rise of the dominant institution of our time. Footage from pop culture, advertising, TV news, and corporate propaganda, illuminates the corporation’s grip on our lives. Taking its legal status as a “person” to its logical conclusion, the film puts the corporation on the ... More About: Multimedia , Corporation , The Corporation
The man who knew too much
2007-10-16 17:31:00 Guardian He was the CIA’s expert on Pakistan’s nuclear secrets, but Rich Barlow was thrown out and disgraced when he blew the whistle on a US cover-up. Now he’s to have his day in court. Adrian Levy and Cathy Scott-Clark report Rich Barlow idles outside his silver trailer on a remote campsite in Montana - itinerant and ... More About: The Man , Who Knew
Blackwater Training US Police
2007-10-16 17:26:00 by Wayne Madsen The mercenary firm Blackwater USA is well known for the controversy involving its “shoot first, ask no questions” policy in Iraq. It is also known that Louisiana’s Department of Homeland Security contracted with Blackwater to provide public law enforcement services in New Orleans following hurricane Katrina. Blackwater is also planning to establish regional ... More About: Training , Police , TRAI , Raining
PRANKTIVISM vs. Sweatshop Labor
More articles from this author:2007-10-16 17:08:00 3min 49sec Part Two 4min 08sec More About: Multimedia , Labor 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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