President Obama Receives “Ambassador for Humanity” Award
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
— Voltaire, 1694-1778
Kofi Annan
Revelations on Rafik Hariri’s Assassination
All the conflicts rocking the Middle East today crystallize around the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL). Peace hinges on it, and so does war. For some, the STL should bring about the dissolution of the Hezbollah, quell the Resistance and establish a Pax Americana. Others consider that the STL is flouting the law and subverting the truth to ensure the takeover of a new colonial order in the region.
Crush Your Citizens By Spying on Them
Democracy : Citizens Watch Government. Tyranny : Government Watches Citizens.
By BRIAN CLOUGHLEY | CounterPunch | June 24, 2013
In some of Shakespeare’s plays there was ambivalence about spying on people, but in one instance there has been an obvious follow-on to modern times, when in Hamlet he has Polonius demand of his servant Reynaldo that he should act as a spy and