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Is George W. Bush a war criminal? ?Yes
2008-12-31 18:59:00 Is George W. Bush a war criminal for deliberately violating the Geneva Conventions? Can he be prosecuted when he leaves office on January 20, 2009? The answers are found in Michael Haas?s George W. Bush, War Criminal? The Bush Administration?s Liability for 269 War Crimes, which documents 269 war crimes and assesses the culpability of ...
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Eartha Mae Kitt (January 17, 1927 ? December 25, 2008)
2008-12-29 18:12:00 R.I.P Eartha (1927-2008) The singer and actress Eartha Kitt has died at the age of eighty-one. She was blacklisted in 1968 after she spoke out against the Vietnam War at a White House luncheon hosted by Lady Bird Johnson. When Johnson asked her about the Vietnam War, Kitt replied, ?You send the best of this country ...
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Pike?s family sues LA city for wrongful taser death
2008-08-14 16:04:00 In Louisiana, the family of a police taser victim has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against city officials in the town of Winnfield. Baron Pikes died on January 17 from electrocution after a police officer shot him nine times with a taser. Pikes had been in handcuffs at the time. His death has been ruled ...
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RAND Report Criticizes Military Focus of War on Terror
2008-07-31 18:26:00 A major study prepared for the Pentagon has criticized how the Bush administration has focused on using military might to defeat al-Qaeda in the so-called war on terror. The RAND Corporation study concludes that the current strategy for defeating al-Qaeda has failed in diminishing the group?s capabilities. The study recommends a ?fundamental rethinking of US ...
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Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence
2008-04-08 03:13:00 Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence By Rev. Martin Luther King 4 April 1967 Speech delivered by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., on April 4, 1967, at a meeting of Clergy and Laity Concerned at Riverside Church in New York City I come to this magnificent house of worship tonight because my conscience leaves me no other choice. ...
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War Made Easy
2008-02-17 15:14:00 War Made Easy exposes a 50-year pattern of government deception and media spin that has dragged the United States into one war after another from Vietnam to Iraq. Narrated by actor and activist Sean Penn, the film exhumes remarkable archival footage of official distortion and exaggeration from LBJ to George W. Bush, revealing in stunning ...
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Liberian former President Charles Taylor faces an international war crimes
2008-01-07 15:50:00 I was just listening to a report of a man that had been victim of former President Charles Taylor’s policies. His right hand was chopped off and his story was just heartbreaking. More below… From BBC Mr Taylor - who is accused of trading weapons for diamonds - showed no emotion as the first witness, an expert on ...
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Massacre at church, Kenyans burned alive
2008-01-02 18:32:00 My heart goes out to the families and victims of this massacre. A mob torched a Kenyan church on Tuesday, killing villagers cowering inside, as the death toll from ethnic riots triggered by President Mwai Kibaki?s disputed re-election soared to nearly 200. The opposition said around 250 people had died. In the most grisly incident, about 30 people ...
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Paul Craig Roberts: The Iraqi Genocide
2007-10-17 18:31:00 Another good article by Paul Craig Roberts Excerpt (read the rest here) The US government has broken every agreement with Russia by withdrawing from the anti-ballistic missile treaty, pushing NATO to Russia?s borders, conniving to place missiles in Poland and the Czech Republic, and buying governments in former Soviet republics and installing US military bases therein. When Russian ...
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War made easy: Government deception and media spin
2007-10-04 08:00:00 War Made Easy reaches into the Orwellian memory hole to expose a 50-year pattern of government deception and media spin that has dragged the United States into one war after another from Vietnam to Iraq. Narrated by actor and activist Sean Penn, the film exhumes remarkable archival footage of official distortion and exaggeration from LBJ ...
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Jendayi Frazer, Assistant Secretary for African Affairs crisis in Sudan VID
2007-04-24 01:55:00 Jendayi Frazer, Assistant Secretary for African Affairs, FULL STREAMING VIDEO, participates in a special press briefing to discuss her recent trip to Africa and the crisis in Sudan.ASSISTANT SECRETARY FRAZER: I think it's a couple of questions, right? (Laughter.QUESTION: Well, I mean, the New York Times today talked about the diplomatic side of this really falling apart with Ethiopia -- with Eritrea pulling out of this Contact Group. How worried are you about where this is heading?ASSISTANT SECRETARY FRAZER: Well, I think it's important that we get back on to the political process. I think it's very clear that the key to solving the situation in Somalia and stabilizing it is to have this inclusive dialogue, and so trying to get the Transitional Federal Government to reach out to the various clans and sub-clans is a large part of our diplomacy.The issue of Eritrea is one that I would say that the region needs to take some responsibility for -- the African Union, IGAD and the neigh... |
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