Two U.S. aircraft carrier battle groups cruise the Persian Gulf, just off the shores of Iran. As the situation in Iraq deteriorates, an embattled Bush administration increasingly scapegoats Iran for its failed occupation. The U.S. arrests Iranian nationals in Iraq and admits it has special forces in Iran, apparently hoping to provoke a confrontation.
Indymedia On Air - Dec 12, 2006 (tags)
Defending Civil Liberties and Resisting the Empire Clamor magazine to stop publishing
The War Against the People: US Scholars Denounce Killings and Calls for a World-Wide Actio (tags)
Northampton, MA - The Critical Filipina and Filipino Studies Collective (CFFSC) condemns the growing spate of killings and human rights violations of political activists, peasant rights advocates and sympathizers, lawyers and priests in the Philippines. The Philippine military is targeting and murdering leftist activists and civilians under the pretense of Gloria Macapagal Arroyo regime’s “War on Terror.” The U.S.-backed Arroyo regime’s campaign of surveillance, abduction, torture, and execution is a campaign of terror against the Filipino people.
*PRICELESS*!: Israeli history professor rhetorically gives the ADL 'the *finger*'! (tags)
Hebrew University Israeli history professor Moshe Zimmerman compares Israel's IDF (military) to the Nazis! Conservative kneejerk gadfly Jewish ADL -- Zionist domestic spy & harassment organization -- head Abe Foxman butts in, as usual, to demand apology. (Many prominent Jews, both contemporary and historical figures, have compared Israel/Zionism/IDF to *NAZIS*!) Israeli history professor Moshe Zimmerman retorts: "Regarding the involvement of ... [Abe] Foxman in the affair, he says, "I don't have to respond to every barking dog in the street"! A comment that's long overdue!
Bush Administration guilty of wide range of war crimes in Iraq (tags)
NEW YORK: An international jury of conscience, including Eve Ensler, Obie-award winning author of “The Vagina Monologues,” issued a statement today finding U.S. civilian leaders to be “responsible and accountable for grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions” in Iraq since the March 2003 invasion.
Extremists on Campus