In the real world, the most important task facing each of us right now is that of grasping that the absurd abundance of energy and resources that Americans enjoyed in the second half of the 20th century was anything but normal.
Month: August 2013
Cameron should probe Miranda detention, return data
It is clear that the police officers who questioned Miranda did not suspect him of terrorism, as they focused their interrogation on Greenwald’s, Poitras’s, and the Guardian’s reporting on state surveillance programs. Rather, it appears they abused the law to circumvent routine safeguards of the confidentiality of sources and to obtain access to journalistic material. The U.S. has confirmed that it was notified of Miranda’s detention, which suggests a coordinated effort.
UK reaction to NSA leaks had ‘chilling effect’ on media freedoms – Council of Europe
“These measures, if confirmed, may have a potentially chilling effect on journalists’ freedom of expression as guaranteed by … the European Convention on Human Rights,” Council of Europe Secretary-General Thorbjoern Jagland said in an open letter to British Home Secretary Theresa May.
Bradley Manning’s sentence: 35 years for exposing us to the truth
I want to thank Bradley Manning for the service he has done for humanity with his courage and compassionate action to inform us, so that we have the means to transform and change our societies for the better. I want to thank him for shining light into the shadows. It is up to each and everyone of us to use the information he provided for the greater good. I want to thank him for making our world a little better. This is why I nominated him for the Nobel Peace Prize, for there are very few individuals who have ever brought about the kind of social change Manning has put in motion.
General Command of Army and Armed Forces refutes allegations on use of chemical weapons in Damascus Countryside
The statement said that the allegations of terrorist gangs and the channels that support them about the Syrian Army’s use of chemical weapons constitute a desperate attempt to cover up the defeats they are suffering on the ground, and that these allegations reflect their hysteria, disorder and breakdown.
And now, a message from our (Saudi) sponsors
The Obama administration has subcontracted its Middle East policy to the House of Saud at its own peril. Whatever King “Return of the Living Dead” Abdullah says, goes. Actually, not; whatever Return of the Invisible Spy, the spectacular resurfaced Bandar bin Sultan, aka Bandar Bush, does, holds. The beauty of the coup that is not a coup, and Sisi’s acceptance speech, is that Bandar, eminent practitioner of dark arts, is not even mentioned.
Government Threats to Journalist’s ‘Signaling Rise of Fascism’ – WikiLeaks
The Guardian’s editor Alan Rusbridger said that UK authorities raided the paper’s London office to destroy hard drives in a bid to stop further damaging publications. RT talks to WikiLeaks spokesperson, Kristinn Hrafnsson.
Photojournalist Kate Brooks Reveals the Human Cost of War
Immediately after the September 11 attacks, the then 24-year-old photographer Kate Brooks set out to document the impact of war on civilians. Since then, she has covered major conflicts throughout the Middle East and Afghanistan, including the American invasion of Iraq, the 2006 Lebanon War, and more recently the Libyan revolution. “When it comes to military force and going into conflicts, people are very short sighted about what it’s actually going to mean,” says Brooks. “Civilians are always the ones who pay the biggest price in any conflict.”
Not Too Big to Jail: Why Eliot Spitzer is Wall Street’s Worst Nightmare
In a December 2011 article in Slate titled “We Own Wall Street,” Spitzer argued that bad corporate behavior could be stopped by a political movement uniting shareholders, pension funds and mutual funds – the actual owners of the corporations – who could then take coordinated action to demand transparency and accountability.
Manning, Apology and an Onerous Fidelity
It is left to those outside the formal legal process to continue the campaign. Any project against the abuse of state power that does not make the protection and release of such figures as Manning is a hollow one. The sparks and sparkles are already to be found in movements across the globe. Let them continue till they burn with a savage yet constructive fury.
Why won’t BBC let Nigel Kennedy denounce Israeli apartheid?
While we’re used to the realities of the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land being airbrushed from BBC output, a new, alarming and very real trend has emerged — that of pro-Palestinian sentiment actively being censored by the broadcaster.
A note from Roger Waters: To My Colleagues in Rock and Roll
Nigel Kennedy the virtuoso British violinist and violist, at The Recent Promenade Concerts at The Albert Hall in London, mentioned that Israel is apartheid. Nothing unusual there you might think, then one Baroness Deech, (Nee Fraenkel) disputed the fact that Israel is an apartheid state and prevailed upon the BBC to censor Kennedy’s performance by removing his statement. Baroness Deech produced not one shred of evidence to support her claim and yet the BBC, non political, supposedly, acting solely on Baroness Deech’s say so, suddenly went all 1984 on us.
Recent
The Killing Fields of Lebanon as ‘Israel’ Lashes out Against Civilians
The Real Story Tying Starmer and Mandelson is Being Buried By A Conspiracy of Silence
Revealed: The internal police guidance on chanting ‘death to the IDF’
Media Exposed: Abby Martin Interview
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Iran: War Updates and False Flags
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