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FDA and Missouri Milk Board out to destroy family farm

Morningland Dairy is being forced out of business by an out of control FDA and Missouri State Milk Board. Help stave off this illegal attack by these devils in government by helping support their business: Family Farm Ordered to Destroy 50,000 Pounds of Cheese Food Politics | October 11, 2010 Reality? Reason? Nah, We’ve got [...]

“Yes I am emotional about torture SIR!” – Shami Chakrabarti SAVAGES UK Minister Geoff “Buff” Hoon

“Buff” Hoon over the US attempts to BLACKMAIL Britain into silence over evidence of Torture.   Information Clearing House Posted February 07, 2009   Binyam Mohamed, a British resident held at the American base, has launched a legal challenge in the High Court in London for documents detailing his treatment to be made public.   [...]

Binding US Law Requires Prosecutions for Those Who Authorize Torture

      by Glenn Greenwald   It seems fairly easy — even for those overtly hostile to the basic rules of logic and law — to see what conclusions are compelled by these clear premises:   Associated Press, April 11, 2008:         Bush administration officials from Vice President Dick Cheney on [...]

Rep. Burgess: Congress “under Martial Law” to pass banker bailout bill

D. H. WilliamsDaily NewscasterSeptember 28, 2008Rep. Michael Burgess (R-TX) reports from the floor of the House that the Republicans have been cut out of the process and called unpatriotic for not blindly supporting the fraudulent bailout. He says the only debate has been about what talking points to use on the American people.The most ominous [...]

USA Has Bared Its Teeth

  By Asif Haroon Raja 21/09/08 “Asian Tribune” — The US and its allies succeeded in toppling Taliban regime in November 2001 and replacing it with a puppet regime, but the Taliban were neither militarily defeated nor eliminated from the system. But for effective encirclement of Afghanistan from all directions and massive air support provided [...]

Iran in the Crosshairs

by Jeremy R. Hammond / September 20th, 2008 The IAEA’s latest report on Iran’s nuclear program was circulated to the Board of Governors this week. It has not been released to the general public, but it is widely being hailed as a damning condemnation of Iran by the mainstream media. The Washington Post headline read, [...]

“We Blew Her to Pieces”

  Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan by Aaron Glantz Reviewed by Dahr Jamail MARFA, Texas, Sep 16 (IPS) – Aside from the Iraqi people, nobody knows what the U.S. military is doing in Iraq better than the soldiers themselves. A new book gives readers vivid and detailed accounts of the devastation the U.S. occupation has [...]

U.S. may lose AAA rating.

Reuters By Walden Siew Wed Sep 17, 2008 5:29pm EDT NEW YORK (Reuters) – Pressure is building on the pristine “AAA” rating of the United States after a federal bailout of American International Group Inc, the chairman of Standard & Poor’s sovereign ratings committee said on Wednesday. The $85 billion bailout of AIG on Tuesday [...]

UN General Assembly Opens With a Denunciation of US Policies

  By Walter Wisniewski New York 17 September 2008 Wisniewski report - Download (MP3) Wisniewski report - Listen (MP3) A new session of the United Nations General Assembly has opened in New York, with a sharp attack on the United States by the assembly’s president, former Nicaraguan foreign minister Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann. VOA’s Walter Wisniewski reports from our New [...]

Valuable, Voluntary and Educational National Youth Service

  William John Cox Infowars September 20, 2008 Irrespective of who’s anointed at the presidential coronation in January, many more Americans will soon be performing national service, including compulsory military tours of duty in the never-ending War Against Terror and the soon-to-be-announced Wars Against Sedition, Starvation, Unemployment, and Internal Insurrection, et cetera, et cetera, et [...]

George Bush Desperate for “Trophy Strike”

By StopTheWarCoalition 18/09/08 “StopTheWarCoalition” – – George Bush has signed a secret order allowing US troops to operate in Pakistan, without permission from the Pakistani government or agreement by the United Nations, contravening numerous international laws and conventions. Bush says the recent ground assault by US commandos and the big increase in the number of [...]

Washington Is Risking War with Pakistan

  By Robert Baer 17/09/08 “Time” – — – As Wall Street collapsed with a bang, almost no one noticed that we’re on the brink of war with Pakistan. And, unfortunately, that’s not too much of an exaggeration. On Tuesday, the Pakistan’s military ordered its forces along the Afghan border to repulse all future American [...]

US Economy: Rudderless and Reeling From Direct Hits

A raid on private pensions? By Paul Craig Roberts 16/09/08 “ICH” – – We were promised a “New Economy” of high-tech tradable services to take the place of the offshore manufacturing economy. Wondering what had become of the “New Economy,” Duke University’s Offshoring Research Network searched for it and located it offshore. Yes, the activities [...]

I Spent 16 Years in Jail for a Crime I Didn’t Commit. Here’s What Should Be Done.

  By Jeffrey Deskovic, AlterNet. Posted September 16, 2008. “I went to jail as a teenager for a rape and murder I didn’t commit. Here are the reforms necessary to make sure it does not happen again.” I was wrongfully convicted in 1990 of a murder and rape in Peekskill, New York. DNA taken from [...]

Unaccountable Secret Government: Most Serious Constitutional Crisis in American History

Global Research, September 15, 2008 by Sherwood Ross  ANDOVER , MASS. (Sept. 13)— President Bush’s conduct in office has precipitated a “most serious constitutional crisis,” “one that has already transformed the U.S. from a constitutional republic to an elected monarchy,” a noted political scientist told a conference on seeking prosecution of high Bush administration officials [...]

U.S. pushing through dozens of foreign weapons deals

  By Eric Lipton Published: September 14, 2008 WASHINGTON: The Bush administration is pushing through a broad array of foreign weapons deals as it seeks to re-arm Iraq and Afghanistan, contain North Korea and Iran, and solidify ties with onetime Russian allies. From tanks, helicopters and fighter jets to missiles, remotely piloted aircraft and even warships, [...]

Latin America uniting against neocons of Washington

Wayne Madsen Online Journal September 15, 2008 Antipathy and disgust for the Bush administration and its neocon ideological ilk, including the key players and advisers in the John McCain campaign, have long taken root in the Middle East and South Asia. Names like Cheney, Wolfowitz, Perle, Feith, and Ledeen are held in utmost contempt throughout [...]

The Return of U. S. Death Squads

CounterpunchSeptember 10, 2008  By CONN HALLINAN United Nations officials charge that secret “international intelligence services” are conducting raids to kill Afghan civilians, then hiding the perpetuators behind an “impenetrable” wall of bureaucracy. Philip Alston of the UN Human Rights Council said that “heavily armed internationals” leading local militias have killed scores of Afghan civilians. Coalition [...]

The Revolution of the Meek

Overcoming Human Nature By: Peter Chamberlin 03/09/08 “ICH” — – What words can I conjure to give meaning to the visions that dominate my brain, images of evil and bloodlust, consuming the flesh of an unwary people. I see the rapidly approaching epic, the cataclysmic convulsion of a violent racist culture, stabbing feverishly at its [...]