May 19, 2013

US democracy is illusory. America never was beautiful. It's not the land of the free and home of the brave. It wasn't created that way. More than ever, it's not now. Freedom is a four-letter word. It's fast disappearing. It's an endangered species. Wealth, power and privilege alone matter. America's war on terror priorities
May 15, 2013

Previous articles discussed Washington-supported death squads in Syria. It's common practice in all US direct and proxy wars. Massacres and unspeakable atrocities are committed. Women are raped. Civilians are treated like combatants. Official coverup and denial follow. Vietnam's Operation Phoenix became a prototype for today's wars. Terrorizing people into submission is official US policy.
May 15, 2013

Bayer, Schering, Pfizer, Roche and Sandoz took advantage of the lack of legal guarantees and economic needs of East Germany to conduct scientific tests on ill people. The German Association of Pharmaceutical Companies is now trying to ‘clarify’ the scientific dimension of medical experiments conducted on unsuspecting citizens of the former German Democratic Republic (GDR).
May 15, 2013

[Graphic] The CIA supported Free Syrian Army has produced a video showing Abu Sakkar eating the heart of a dead Syrian soldier. Sakkar is the commander of the Farouq Brigades, one of the largest units of the Free Syrian Army. In 2012, the unit merged with the Syrian Islamic Liberation Front, a coalition of
May 11, 2013

Adrienne Pine is American University Professor or Anthropology. She's worked in Honduras. She's written about state-sponsored violence. Her book "Working Hard, Drinking Hard: On Violence and Survival in Honduras" discusses structural inequality, horrendous human rights abuses, and state-sponsored murder. She calls it "invisible genocide." Her recent article headlined "Militarization Ramped up in Honduras," saying: "On
May 9, 2013

Some aren’t old enough to drive a car, or vote, or have even reached the designation of teenager. One survivor told of how girls were shown a horrific act perpetuated on one victim who tried to escape. Yet it’s likely less than 1 percent of an estimated almost 21 million human trafficking victims worldwide are
May 9, 2013

A previous article said the following: On May 5, Reuters headlined "UN has testimony that Syrian rebels used sarin gas: investigator." Geneva-based "UN human rights investigators have gathered testimony from casualties of Syria's civil war and medical staff indicating that rebel forces have used the nerve agent sarin, one of the lead investigators said on Sunday."
May 7, 2013

Dear Readers: If there is hope, you are it. You are motivated to find truth. You can think outside the box. You can see through propaganda. You are the remnant with the common sense that once was a common American virtue. You come to this site, because you get explanations that are not agenda-driven, that
May 7, 2013

Officials of the Bush administration knew they were imprisoning innocent people, it has emerged. Col Lawrence Wilkerson, chief of staff of former Secretary of State Colin Powell, has revealed that George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld all knew that the majority of Guantanamo Bay prisoners were innocent. 166 detainees currently being held at
May 6, 2013

"A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that, if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him." - Mikhail Bakunin Any discussion on liberty presupposes an understanding of human nature. Today, the
May 1, 2013

As president and commander-in-chief, Obama has legal authority to do so. On May 3, New York City Bar president Carey R. Dunne wrote him. He did so on behalf of the organization he heads. He called indefinite detention "legally and morally indefensible." He said 25 retired military flag officers said it's "an effective recruiting
April 30, 2013

Israel's gulag is one of the world's worst. Palestinian political prisoners fill it. Their crime is wanting to live free from occupation. It's longstanding. It's ruthless. It's illegal. We Divest.org headlines "Israel/Palestine. The time is now. Divest from the Israeli occupation." It targets TIAA-CREF. It's one American's largest financial services firms. It claims it cares
April 30, 2013

International law is clear and unequivocal. Torture is illegal at all times, under all circumstances with no allowed exceptions. It violates constitutional protections. They include the 8th Amendment's guarantee against "cruel and unusual punishments." Treaties America signed prohibit torture and other forms of ill-treatment. They're binding under the Constitution's Supremacy Clause. It states: "….all
April 27, 2013

Lynne's wrongfully imprisoned. She's one of America's best. For 30 years, she defended its poor, underprivileged, unwanted, and forgotten. Without advocates like her, they're denied due process and judicial fairness. She was targeted for representing clients prosecutors want convicted. A previous article said Obama wants her dead. She's gravely ill. She's a breast cancer
April 26, 2013

“The church is the moral compass of society.” –John Adams This last week I have been focusing on the Gosnell crimes against the innocent in the womb. This monster, and a monster he is, has the severed feet of babies in jars at his clinic; his associates stab babies in the neck 20 minutes
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