Posts Tagged ‘Racism’
From Malcolm X to Barack Obama
The Progressive | By Salim Muwakkil | 24 Februsry 2010 45 years after assassination, Malcolm X still a relevant figure Forty-five years after his murder in February 1965, Malcolm X’s legacy remains surprisingly vibrant. But that legacy also complicates the relationship blacks have with America’s first black president. There’s no doubt [...]
Planning for the Next War
TomDispatch | By Tom Engelhardt | 2 March 2010 Iraq remains a mess from which the U.S. military seems increasingly uninterested in withdrawing fully and Afghanistan a disaster area, but it’s never too soon to think about the next war. The subject is already on the minds of Pentagon planners. The question is: Are they focusing on how to [...]
Le Parisien Exposes French Nuclear Tests in Algeria in the 1960s
Pravda.ru | 25 February 2010 French Army Performed Nuclear Explosions in Africa to Test Radiation Effects on Humans Read the original in Russian France is in the midst of the discussion of a publication in Le Parisien newspaper. The newspaper published a secret document that throws light on the French nuclear tests in the Sahara Desert [...]
Mossad Agent Used Nazi Guilt to get Genuine german Passport
Spiegel Online | 20 February 2010 | Quick Translation from German Assassination of Hamas official: Prosecutor initiates an investigation New evidence concerning the assassination of Hamas leader Mabhuh in Dubai: SPIEGEL has learned that the German passport of one of the alleged Mossad agents involved was genuine. The Cologne-based [...]
Bush Lawyer Said President Can “Massacre” Civilians
Newsweek | By Michael Isikoff | 19 February 2010 Report: Bush Lawyer Said President Could Order Civilians to Be 'Massacred' The chief author of the Bush administration's "torture memo" told Justice Department investigators that the president's war-making authority was so broad that he had the constitutional power to order a village to be [...]
Ethnic cleansing in Afghanistan
Press TV | By Yvonne Ridley | 15 February 2010 As I write this, two NATO rockets have just slaughtered around a dozen innocent Afghan civilians during the latest military assault in the war torn country. Ordinary Afghan men, women and children are paying the blood price for a war launched by politicians from the West. Soldiers, including [...]
Cheney Admits to War Crimes
Truthout | By Jason Leopold | 15 February 2010 Cheney Admits to War Crimes, Media Yawns, Obama Turns the Other Cheek On Sunday, in an exclusive interview with Jonathan Karl of ABC News' "This Week," Cheney proclaimed his love of torture, derided the Obama administration for outlawing the practice, and admitted that the Bush administration [...]
For Americans: Liberty and Justice under Presidential “Findings”
Antiwar | By Philip Giraldi | 13 February 2010 Civis Romanus Sum “I am a Roman citizen” was a proud boast in the first century A.D. It implied the obligations of citizenship but also guaranteed privileges and rights that would be observed and protected by the Roman government. Among those rights was the ability to demand one’s day in [...]
Could Pakistan 2010 Go the Way of Cambodia 1969?
Common Dreams | By Pratap Chatterjee | 8 February 2010 Operation Breakfast Redux Could Pakistan 2010 Go the Way of Cambodia 1969? Sitting in air-conditioned comfort, cans of Coke and 7-Up within reach as they watched their screens, the ground controllers gave the order to strike under the cover of darkness. There had been no declaration [...]
Chris Hedges on Aafia Siddiqui
Truth Dig | By Chris Hedges | 8 February 2010 The Terror-Industrial Complex The conviction of the Pakistani neuroscientist Aafia Siddiqui in New York last week of trying to kill American military officers and FBI agents illustrates that the greatest danger to our security comes not from al-Qaida but the thousands of shadowy mercenaries, [...]
