August 22nd, 2007 by CD
The American public has chosen all of what the below is illustrating. If we do not act then let us not complain about what will happen in the future. Please share this video to all.
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August 21st, 2007 by CD
Out of the countless number of stories that come out of Iraq, we often do not hear how much of a humanitarian disaster the war in Iraq is causing. Leave it up to Amy Goodman to show the other side of the war that we are not seeing or hearing about.
In an interview with Nir Rosen, Amy Goodman discusses the humanitarian crisis in Iraq. Nir Rosen is an independent journalist and the author of “In the Belly of the Green Bird: The Triumph of the Martyrs in Iraq.” He is a fellow at the New America Foundation and has reported extensively from Iraq since the US-led invasion in 2003.
Earlier this year Rosen wrote a cover story for the New York Time Sunday Magazine called “The Flight from Iraq.” He estimated that up to 50,000 Iraqis were leaving their homes each month.
Listen to the interview right now from DemocracyNow.org
August 20th, 2007 by CD
What do you think about this topic? A country which was created under the basis of people fleeing persecution is now turning away “its own.” Israeli spokesman David Baker said on Sunday (8/19/2007) that “The policy of returning back anyone who enters Israel illegally will pertain to everyone, including those from Darfur.”
As many as 50 asylum seekers arrive in Israel each day, lured by the prospect of employment, according to UN High Commissioner for Refugees estimates.
Israel estimates that 2,800 people have entered the country illegally in recent years - nearly all were from Africa, including 1,160 from Sudan.
August 19th, 2007 by CD
I am wondering what will happen to Iran before Bushs’ presidency ends? Well, the Time’s had a good article on this.
By Robert Baer “Prelude to an Attack on Iran”
Reports that the Bush Administration will put Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on the terrorism list can be read in one of two ways: it’s either more bluster or, ominously, a wind-up for a strike on Iran. Officials I talk to in Washington vote for a hit on the IRGC, maybe within the next six months. And they think that as long as we have bombers and missiles in the air, we will hit Iran’s nuclear facilities. An awe and shock campaign, lite, if you will. But frankly they’re guessing; after Iraq the White House trusts no one, especially the bureaucracy.
As with Saddam and his imagined WMD, the Administration’s case against the IRGC is circumstantial. The U.S. military suspects but cannot prove that the IRGC is the main supplier of sophisticated improvised explosive devices to insurgents killing our forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. The most sophisticated version, explosive formed projectiles or shape charges, are capable of penetrating the armor of an Abrams tank, disabling the tank and killing the crew.
August 17th, 2007 by CD
Simply astonishing. Is Bush trying to make an example out of Jose Padilla? This man was tortured in a number of ways and he has been recently convicted under “highly questionable” evidence.
In a Democracy Now! national broadcast exclusive, forensic psychiatrist Dr. Angela Hegarty speaks for the first time about her experience interviewing Jose Padilla for 22 hours to determine the state of his mental health.
AMY GOODMAN: Did you conclude he had been tortured?
DR. ANGELA HEGARTY: Well, “torture,” of course, is a legal term. However, as a clinician, I have worked with torture victims and, of course, abuse victims for a few decades now, actually. I think, from a clinical point of view, he was tortured
August 16th, 2007 by CD
I introduced in an early post John Pilger and how he describe how the U.S. was in part (if not all) responsible for the rise of Pol Pot. Here is another one of his documentaries about how the rest of the world lives. Most Americans, and I hate to say this but its true, but Chavez said something along the lines at a U.N. conference that most Americans are more concerned with the latest superman and batman movies than with how their own country treats them. I won’t argue with him on that one.
In any case, this documentary is entitled New Rulers of the World.
‘Global economy’ is a modern Orwellian term. On the surface, it is instant financial trading, mobile phones, McDonald’s, Starbucks, holidays booked on the net. Beneath this gloss, it is the globalization of poverty, a world where most human beings never make a phone call and live on less than two dollars a day, where 6,000 children die every day from diarrhea because most have no access to clean water.
Runtime 60 Minutes (Watch it NOW)
August 16th, 2007 by CD
I have made up my mind, forget Hillary and forget Obama. There hasn’t been enough attention on this man, a man called Dennis Kucinich. From the 35 Percenters youtube website “Only 35% of registered voters who plan to vote for a Democrat in 2008 have ever heard of Dennis Kucinich.” Well here is one more blogger to rise the percent.
Peaceman vs. Chenguin
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQnKeRsdMns[/youtube]
August 14th, 2007 by CD
Simply a wonderful piece done by Keith Olbermann. I will let the video speak for itself.
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