By Sheldon Richman | FFF | May 3, 2013
“A nonpartisan, independent review of interrogation and detention programs in the years after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks concludes that ‘it is indisputable that the United States engaged in the practice of torture’ and that the nation’s highest officials bore ultimate responsibility for it.”
RT | May 01, 2013
The Syrian opposition is made up of young men with little education, brainwashed into fighting President Assad, journalist Anhar Kocheva told RT. Kocheva spoke about her time as a hostage, describing a ragtag group of men devoid of tangible ideals.
President Obama this week defended the US’s policy of force feeding detainees in Guantanamo Bay who are protesting their due process-free indefinite detention by going on a hunger strike.
On Wednesday, UN human rights officials declared that force feeding amounts to torture, saying “it is unjustifiable to engage in forced feeding of individuals contrary to their informed and voluntary refusal of such a measure.”
As a student of true history, I have long said that the so called "History" that has been shoved down into our brains in the false and fraudulent so called "education system" is nothing more than a pack of lies... These lies have been done on purpose by criminals who want to keep us unaware of our real history, and as a method of giving us a false history to believe in. The purpose of the false history is only to help these same criminals as they now push for their ultimate aim of world domination...
By Flynt & Hillary Mann Leverett | The BRICS Post | April 29, 2013
The controversy over Iran’s nuclear activities has at least as much to do with the future of international order as it does with nonproliferation. For this reason, all of the BRICS have much at stake in how the Iranian nuclear issue is handled.
By Cynthia McKinney | April 29, 2013
It is fitting that on the same day as this headline appeared, “Pro-Israeli US lawmakers urge bombing Syria air bases, arming militants, invasion” I delivered the following remarks to the United Nations International Meeting on the Question of Palestine:
From Cynthia McKinney: Remarks at the UN International Meeting on Palestine in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
By Ryan Mallett-Outtrim | Venezuelanalysis | April 29, 2013
Mérida – Venezuela and Cuba signed 51 bilateral agreements related to energy management and social programmes in areas including healthcare, education and recreation this past weekend and pledged to spend $2 billion on bilateral social development projects this year.
The agreements were signed during Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro’s visit to Cuba over the weekend.
Allegations of Syrian chemical weapons.... Following up on the rather sudden and surprising chemical weapons in Syria meme bomb being dropped and the subsequent fall out. I see mention of Israel as the ‘joker’ in all of this... Took some time to read up on the Joker. Jokers are wild. The Joker can be extremely beneficial or extremely detrimental, depending on the game being played.
