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America and Occupied Palestine: Free-Fire Zones
Post Date: 2015-09-26 12:47:30 by Stephen Lendman
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America and Occupied Palestine: Free-Fire Zones by Stephen Lendman Cops in America are killing people at a record pace, according to a London Guardian investigation - revealing three fatalities from police violence on average daily, a rate if maintained to reach 1,100 by yearend. US city streets are battlegrounds. African Americans suffer most proportionately compared to whites and Latinos, despite comprising only 13% of the population, an indictment of a racist rogue state, murdering its most vulnerable, helpless against killer cops. Rarely ever is one held accountable for cold-blooded murder. A badge is a license to kill with impunity. The Guardian said of the 547 Americans killed by ...
Guantanamo: One of Many US Black Sites
Post Date: 2015-09-25 14:17:54 by Stephen Lendman
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Guantanamo: One of Many US Black Sites by Stephen Lendman Guantanamo is the tip of America’s global torture prison network, operating covertly in dozens of countries, subjecting victims to brutalized treatment. They include Shaker Aamer, one of 52 Guantanamo prisoners cleared for transfer to countries willing to accept them. Aamer is the last British detainee, approved for release by the Bush administration in 2007. Obama officials refused to send him home to his wife and four children, despite repeated UK requests - until today, September 25. Word came. He’s going home. More on his case below. Straightaway in office, Obama promised closure. An Executive Order authorized it. ...
Despotic Saudi Arabia Chosen to Head UN Human Rights Panel
Post Date: 2015-09-22 12:39:33 by Stephen Lendman
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Despotic Saudi Arabia Chosen to Head UN Human Rights Panel by Stephen Lendman Saudi Arabia is one of the world’s most ruthless regimes, a crime family dictatorship masquerading as legitimate governance. It’s notorious for public beheadings, whippings, torture, wars of aggression and other lawless actions. Ruling authorities viciously target human rights supporters, imprisoning them for political reasons, brutalizing them. Public executions often follow. State terror is official policy. Democracy is prohibited. Elections when held are farcical. Ruling family thugs run things. America’s closest Arab ally lops off more heads than ISIS, by a wide margin, on average one every ...
Threatening Jeremy Corbyn
Post Date: 2015-09-21 09:54:32 by Stephen Lendman
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Threatening Jeremy Corbyn by Stephen Lendman An unnamed senior UK general threatened Corbyn with mutiny if as future prime minister he tried downgrading Britain’s military. More on what he said below. Western societies are too decadent to fix, morally depraved, corrupt and debauched - waging endless wars or supporting them, betraying their own people to divert maximum resources for turning one country after another to rubble, to enrich powerful elites more than ever, popular interests be damned. Vicious Islamophobia persists. Donald Trump is comfortable with removing millions of Muslims from America. Ben Carson told NBC’s Meet the Press he “absolutely would not agree (to) ...
Free speech petitioners told they’ll be ‘locked up’ at DuPage
Post Date: 2015-09-20 17:59:19 by Horse
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Several students at the College of DuPage were told to cease or be “locked up” Friday as they attempted to collect signatures for a petition urging the school to improve its free speech policies. The two students, along with an advisor from Turning Point USA who was helping them organize a chapter at DuPage, were on campus inviting passersby to sign up for the club and/or sign the petition—and were also distributing pocket Constitutions and non-partisan flyers stating the “America is a free speech zone”—when they were approached by campus police. Joseph Enders, a student at the college, told Campus Reform that he has been attempting to start a TPUSA club for ...
If You Live In These States You'll Soon Need A Passport For Domestic Flights
Post Date: 2015-09-20 10:42:58 by Horse
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To comply with the 2005 Real ID Act, which the U.S. government has been slowly implementing for the past decade, citizens in a number of different U.S. states will now be forced to obtain a passport if they want to board an airplane - even for domestic flights. The Department of Homeland Security and representatives with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection have declined to comment on why certain states have been singled out, but starting in 2016, residents of New York, Wisconsin, Louisiana, Minnesota, New Hampshire, and American Samoa will need a passport to fly domestically. All other states will still be able to use their state-issued driver’s licenses and IDs — for now, at ...
Mumia Denied Life-Saving Treatment
Post Date: 2015-09-19 13:50:08 by Stephen Lendman
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Mumia Denied Life-Saving Treatment By Stephen Lendman The state of Pennsylvania is slowly murdering longstanding political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal by willful neglect. He’s seriously ill with hepatitus C. Untreated, it can cause chronic potentially fatal liver disease. Attorneys Bret Grote and Robert J. Boyle representing Mumia say it’s “the underlying cause of his health crisis,” including skin lesions, painful rashes, open wounds and severe swelling. On August 2, they filed a lawsuit “seek(ing) injunctive relief for prison medical staff’s failure to treat” his active disease. Despite clear evidence he needs proper treatment as soon as possible, ...
Interactive Constitution illuminates bedrock of American liberty
Post Date: 2015-09-19 11:10:10 by BTP Holdings
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Interactive Constitution illuminates bedrock of American liberty Michael Walsh Reporter Yahoo Politics September 18, 2015 “Scene at the Signing of the Constitution of the United States” is an oil-on-canvas painting by Howard Chandler Christy. (Photo: WikiCommons) We the people inherited a monumental document from the Founding Fathers — pity we don’t always agree on its contents. The United States Constitution, ratified in 1788, lays out the frame of the nation’s government and affirms the rights of its citizens. However impressive as a repository of wisdom and foresight, the constitution’s broad language makes it subject to ...
US Presidential Candidates Demean Muslims and Hugo Chavez
Post Date: 2015-09-19 06:02:23 by Stephen Lendman
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US Presidential Candidates Demean Muslims and Hugo Chavez by Stephen Lendman Candidates on the stump show why America’s political system is too corrupted to fix - a money controlled duopoly masquerading as democratic. Democrats and Republicans represent one party with two wings. They’re interchangeable on issues mattering most, representing wealth and power exclusively at the expense of beneficial social change, lying when claiming otherwise, other times making disgraceful comments, revealing their dark side. Muslims are America’s geopolitical enemy of choice - vilified for their faith and ethnicity, a convenient pretext for Washington’s phony war on terror. ...
Republicans Again Fail to Block Iran Nuclear Deal
Post Date: 2015-09-18 11:39:54 by Stephen Lendman
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Republicans Again Fail to Block Iran Nuclear Deal by Stephen Lendman Congress had until September 17 to accept or reject the Iran Nuclear deal (the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action - JCPOA). Three Republican efforts to block it fell short. On September 10, Senate Republicans failed to get the 60-vote supermajority needed to invoke cloture - the process to end debate and bring a measure to a vote. House Republicans declined to consider a disapproval motion, seeking other ways to undermine a done deal. On September 15, a second Republican Senate attempt to pass a disapproval resolution failed to get enough votes to invoke cloture. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R. KY) said another ...
Irresponsible US China Bashing
Post Date: 2015-09-17 13:30:24 by Stephen Lendman
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Irresponsible US China Bashing by Stephen Lendman Washington targets all nations not in lockstep with its agenda politically, economically, and/or militarily - plotting coups, waging endless wars of aggression, imposing illegal sanctions, and bullying allies to go along with its reckless policies. Chinese President Xi Jinping scheduled his first US state visit, beginning in Seattle on September 22, then to Washington, and concluding with his September 28 UN General Assembly address - if he comes as planned. Unprecedented economic sanctions are being prepared against Chinese companies and individuals - for alleged, unproved government hacking. Accusing Beijing of cyber-economic ...
Seattle sued over recycling inspectors keeping tabs on residents' trash
Post Date: 2015-09-15 16:51:58 by BTP Holdings
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Seattle sued over recycling inspectors keeping tabs on residents' trash Dan Springer By Dan Springer ·Published September 14, 2015 Seattle residents sue the city over 'trash police' When it comes to garbage, the city of Seattle has launched a waste war. Nine full-time solid waste inspectors have been hired as part of a controversial program to check city trash to make sure people are recycling. Additionally, contracted waste haulers have been effectively deputized as trash police, given the authority to tag bins when people fail to recycle and compost enough. The program is now the subject of a lawsuit, as residents fume over what some call an intrusive ...
US War Theories Target Dissenters
Post Date: 2015-09-14 08:43:08 by Ada
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When the U.S. Department of Defense published a new Law of War Manual (LOW) this past summer, editorialists at the New York Times sat up and took notice. Their concern was that the manual stated that journalists could be deemed “unprivileged belligerents.” The editorial explained that as a legal term “that applies to fighters that are afforded fewer protections than the declared combatants in a war.” In fact, it is far more insidious than that innocuous description. Here is the manual’s definition: “‘Unlawful combatants’ or ‘unprivileged belligerents’ are persons who, by engaging in hostilities, have incurred one or more of the ...
Black Woman Held in Psych Ward Because Cops DidnÂ’t Believe She Owns BMW
Post Date: 2015-09-14 02:28:17 by Tatarewicz
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Sputnik... The story allegedly taking place in New York City sounds horrific. A black woman was held in a mental house, made to take powerful drugs and convinced by doctors she doesn’t own her BMW after the NYPD pulled her over at a red light. Kamilah Brock, 32, said in her first TV-interview to PIX11 she’s filed a lawsuit against New York city police for forcing her into a psychiatric hospital, where she was held for more than a week for therapy for claiming she was a banker, owned a BMW and that President Barack Obama follows her on Twitter – all of which is actually true. Mirror mirror on the wall!!! #attitudegal #tbt Фото ...
Kiev's Yalta European Strategy Forum
Post Date: 2015-09-12 14:39:41 by Stephen Lendman
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Kiev’s Yalta European Strategy Forum by Stephen Lendman The September 10 - 12 event featured a rogue’s gallery of speakers - including sacked former US General Stanley McChrystal, former European Commission head Jose Manuel Barroso, former Swedish foreign minister Carl Bildt, coup d’etat Ukrainian oligarch president Petro Poroshenko, illegitimate prime minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, US presidential aspirant Donald Trump, and US Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland. Poroshenko opened the forum, suggesting escalated war on Donbass, saying: “(N)ow it is high time to discuss the possibility to deploy an operation in the Donbass to support due implementation of the ...
AmericaÂ’s Cash Flow Crash
Post Date: 2015-09-12 11:27:11 by BTP Holdings
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America’s Cash Flow Crash What if you knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that a terrorist attack on your city was imminent? What if you knew that thousands of people would face untold devastation, even death, if they weren’t warned in advance of this devastating event? What would you do? Would you sound the alarm? What if you knew, in advance, a catastrophic event like an earthquake or tornado was about to engulf your area, destroying the lives of tens of thousands of people or more? But the mainstream media ignored the dangers and clear signs of a catastrophe. No coverage on CNN, the Weather Channel, or the local news. Would you still sound the warning bell? Would you do ...
AmericaÂ’s Cash Flow Crash
Post Date: 2015-09-12 11:27:05 by BTP Holdings
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America’s Cash Flow Crash What if you knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that a terrorist attack on your city was imminent? What if you knew that thousands of people would face untold devastation, even death, if they weren’t warned in advance of this devastating event? What would you do? Would you sound the alarm? What if you knew, in advance, a catastrophic event like an earthquake or tornado was about to engulf your area, destroying the lives of tens of thousands of people or more? But the mainstream media ignored the dangers and clear signs of a catastrophe. No coverage on CNN, the Weather Channel, or the local news. Would you still sound the warning bell? Would you do ...
10 People Who Exposed US Government Secrets And Lies
Post Date: 2015-09-12 06:46:49 by Tatarewicz
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Lies are no problem for government trolls. They eat lies for breakfast and vomit lies at us all day. The vast investigations into 9/11 produced only one conclusion - the US government lied. The Benghazi investigation produced only one conclusion - the US government lied. The aftermath of the Iraq war produced only one conclusion - the US government lied. At least ordinary people are beginning to keep score and tally up the lies: 10 People Who Exposed US Government Secrets And Lies S. Grant June 27, 2013 It seems like another skeleton falls out of the United States’ closet every day. Whistleblowers are coming out of the woodwork, and the government is struggling to keep ...
‘Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death’: The Loss of Our Freedoms in the Wake of 9/11
Post Date: 2015-09-09 08:22:54 by Ada
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“Since mankind’s dawn, a handful of oppressors have accepted the responsibility over our lives that we should have accepted for ourselves. By doing so, they took our power. By doing nothing, we gave it away. We’ve seen where their way leads, through camps and wars, towards the slaughterhouse.” ― Alan Moore,V for Vendetta What began with the passage of the USA Patriot Act in October 2001 has snowballed into the eradication of every vital safeguard against government overreach, corruption and abuse. Since then, we have been terrorized, traumatized, and acclimated to life in the American Surveillance State. The bogeyman’s names and faces change over time, ...
Democrats, Republicans, and the Bill of Rights
Post Date: 2015-09-08 17:07:01 by Ada
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Conservatives are once again having a field day over a video produced by conservative media analyst Mark Dice. Back in 2013, Dice released a video of him asking Obama supporters to sign a petition to repeal the Bill of Rights. Almost everyone he asked signed the petition. Now Dice has released a new video of him asking supporters of Hillary Clinton if they agree with her plan to repeal the Bill of Rights. There is no such plan, of course, but the video shows person after person agreeing that it would be a good idea to repeal the Bill of Rights. The videos demonstrate the blind support that many Democrats have for Obama and Clinton and the ignorance that the typical American has ...
Why The Supreme Court Is Not Supreme
Post Date: 2015-09-07 04:48:54 by GreyLmist
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[Article excerpts] “Judicial activism occurs when judges write subjective policy preferences into the law rather than apply the law impartially according to its original meaning.” The Heritage Foundation To vocal opponents of judicial activism, this comes as little surprise. The U.S. Supreme Court has suffered a major credibility blow in the wake of its politically motivated 5-4 Obergefell v. Hodges “gay marriage” opinion. In it, they presumed to do the impossible both redefine the age-old institution of natural marriage and to give this fictional definition precedence over freedoms actually enumerated in the Bill of Rights. According to Rasmussen, only “36 ...
Ukraine Declares Russia a Military Adversary
Post Date: 2015-09-06 05:20:39 by Stephen Lendman
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Ukraine Declares Russia a Military Adversary by Stephen Lendman Ukraine is a US-installed fascist dictatorship waging war on its own people. Russia is a democratic country promoting world peace and stability. In May 2014, former US Assistant Defense Secretary/Deputy NATO Secretary-General (its de facto boss) Alexander Vershbow declared Russia a Western enemy, saying: US-dominated NATO “view(s) Russia…as more of an adversary than a partner.” The Alliance will “defend the sovereignty and freedom of choice of Russia’s neighbors.” Vershbow lied claiming Moscow “tri(es) to reimpose hegemony and limit (the) sovereignty (of neighboring states) under the ...
Unconstitutional Solitary Confinement in America
Post Date: 2015-09-05 14:29:18 by Stephen Lendman
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Unconstitutional Solitary Confinement in America by Stephen Lendman The Eighth Amendment prohibits cruel and unusual punishments. Locking people in cages longterm with little or no human contact flagrantly violates the letter and spirit of the law. Yet it’s standard US prison practice nationwide. America runs the world’s largest gulag system - around 2.4 million people domestically along with a covert global network of black sites, Guantanamo the tip of the iceberg. The entire system is viciously punitive, mostly affecting people of color, half or more imprisoned for nonviolent crimes, over 500,000 for illicit drug related offenses. Inhumane treatment is standard practice - ...
Low-Wage America
Post Date: 2015-09-05 05:57:44 by Stephen Lendman
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Low-Wage America by Stephen Lendman US workers have little to celebrate this Labor Day weekend or any other one. America is being systematically thirdworldized - represented by weak unions complicit with management or none at all, unable to bargain effectively for higher wages. Economic recovery is an illusion. A protracted Main Street Depression persists. Poverty is a growth industry. Around 23% of Americans wanting work can’t find it. Most available jobs are rotten ones - temp or part-time low pay/poor or no benefit service ones with no futures. Conditions are getting worse, not better. Millions of good jobs were offshored to low-wage countries. Millions more may follow. Many ...
Guatemalan President Resigns: Faces Corruption Charges
Post Date: 2015-09-03 08:01:00 by Stephen Lendman
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Guatemalan President Resigns: Faces Corruption Charges by Stephen Lendman Following an attorney general arrest warrant against him, Otto Perez Molina resigned. His spokesman Jorge Ortega said he submitted his resignation at midnight Wednesday local time - “to maintain the institution of the presidency and resolve on his own the legal proceedings leveled against him.” They’re unrelated to his sordid past - when known as “Major Tito” for involvement in genocidal slaughter of indigenous Ixil Indians in 1982. Journalist Allan Nairn explained he was one of the US-backed generals responsible for “massacres that devastated the Mayan population ...
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