Thursday, November 26:

Eric Walberg: Canada 's Guantanamo It seems the world's favourite peaceniks are complicit in torture

Monday, November 23:

P. Orin Zack: Short Story: "Striking the Set Piece" (12th in a series) If corporations could be convicted of their crimes, which ones would you want to bring to justice? Some, such as Blackwater, are obvious choices, because they boldly flaunt the law, or sidestep it by operating in the grey zones between government and private industry. Others are more subtle. They bankroll campaigns and pad pockets, and in return, get legislation either passed or blocked. Don't be hoodwinked by the puppeteers.

Sunday, November 22:

Kiilu Nyasha: America's Supermax Prisons Do Torture These conditions are a flagrant violation of article 6 of the U.S. Constitution which affirms that treaty law (i.e. international law) is the “supreme law of the land.” Thus, article 10 (3) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights stipulates that “The penitentiary system shall comprise treatment of prisoners the essential aim of which shall be their reformation and social rehabilitation.

winston: Any involvement in Afghanistan is futile. Keeping military in Afghanistan is pointless as “you could have 200,000 troops there and Afghanistan will swallow them up as it has done in the past.” Funds spent on reconstruction don't make it out of the corrupt leaders' hands. NATO is planning on a phased withdrawal. We shouldn't be left holding the bag as we were in Iraq again.

Nancy Tobi: Organized Crime Fighting (1 comments) America's elections are no longer run by public officials. Everyone's heard of Diebold, but who are the people hired by Diebold to really run our elections? In New England, we know at least one of them is a convicted felon - a drug trafficker. We don't know too much about the rest of them, because their identities are kept secret. Is this any way to run a democracy?

Jason Paz: The Anti-Death Squad; the Right to Live (1 comments) Throughout the ages the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse have reigned supreme. The chances are the curses of war, pestilence, famine and disease have visited your doorstep. If you were lucky enough to be at work at the time, perhaps they claimed your spouse. In the final analysis they kill all of us, but this is not an excuse to make their mission easier for them.

Saturday, November 21:

Douglas A. Wallace: A RACKETEERNG INFLUENCED CORRUPT ORGANIZATION FRONTED BY A CHURCH IS SUBJECT TO PROSECUTION UNDER (RICO) (1 comments) Over time so called religious orders have committed crimes against humanity for which no recourse is available. However under the RICO statute a church can be defined as a Racketeering Corrupt Organization which allows private prosecution. Under this statute the writer is seeking justice against his former church Mormon (LDS) Church.

Susan Galleymore: Melissa - Raped! -- For Band of Buddies War Series (3 comments) MELISSA stopped drinking water in the early afternoon so she didn't have to walk to the latrines after dark. Women were being raped by members of their own battalion and she didn't want to risk that. She knew the risk of dehydration in 120 degree heat but " raped by fellow troops? Wasn't going to happen to her.

Friday, November 20:

Jim Willie: Zinc Dimes, Tungsten Gold & Lost Respect (4 comments) An historically unprecedented mess has been created by compromised central bankers and inept economic advisors, whose interference has irreversibly altered and damaged the world financial system, urgently pushed after the removed anchor of money to gold. Analysis features Gold, Crude Oil, USDollar, Treasury bonds, and inter-market dynamics with the US Economy and US Federal Reserve monetary policy.

Wednesday, November 25:

Geithner's Disgrace. - By Eliot Spitzer (Slate) Barofsky's report reads like a case study in failed negotiation. The New York Fed didn't have the backbone to stand up to Wall Street, didn't understand its capacity to protect taxpayers, and didn't appreciate that its responsibility was to taxpayers.

Tuesday, November 24:

The myth of the superhuman terrorist Hysteria hits high water when talk turns to the detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Elected officials seem to have taken lessons from P.T. Barnum: "The most deadly killers in the world"; "The worst of the worst." But when proof substitutes for prattle, federal judges see it �differently: Thirty-eight prisoners have had their fate decided by the courts, and 30 have been cleared.

What Does "Pro-Palestinian" Really Mean?, Khaled Abu Toameh A Palestinian, who happens to also be a journalist, explains what being pro-Palestinian means to him. "It is time for the “pro-Palestinian” camp in the West to reconsider its policies and tactics. It is time for this camp to listen to the authentic voices of the Palestinians – those that are shouting day and night that the Palestinians want good leaders and an end to lawlessness, anarchy and financial corruption."

The Extreme Secrecy of the Federal Courts To see how false this claim is, all anyone ever had to do was look at the Classified Information Procedures Act, a short and crystal clear 1980 law that not only permits, but requires, federal courts to undertake extreme measures to ensure the concealment of classified information, even including concealment from the defendant himself.

Monday, November 23:

Eric Margolis: Critics of Afghanistan need to look in mirror (1 comments) Ironically, across the Muslim world, the same western powers scourging Karzai are seen as major sources of corruption, keeping a repressive regime in power by buying dictators, generals and politicians. Many Afghans support the Taliban because it is seen as an enemy of corruption and an enforcer of justice, however harsh.

Saturday, November 21:

Climategate: the final nail in the coffin of ‘Anthropogenic Global Warming'? The conspiracy behind the Anthropogenic Global Warming myth (aka AGW; aka ManBearPig) has been suddenly, brutally and quite deliciously exposed after a hacker broke into the computers at the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit (aka Hadley CRU) and released 61 megabites of confidential files onto the internet.

Holder's decision on Mohammed trial defended In either trial forum, defendants will make an issue of how they were treated and attempt to undermine the trial politically. Some say it is wrong to give Mohammed trial rights ordinarily conferred on Americans, but a benefit of civilian trials over commissions is that they make it harder for defendants to complain about kangaroo courts or victor's justice.

Wednesday, November 25:

Study shows government contract fraud is hitting disabled veterans In a case-study of 10 firms, including one Florida company, the Government Accountability Office found ineligible companies had won about $100 million worth of contracts earmarked for service-disabled veteran-owned companies.

Patrick J. O'Donoghue: Venezuela's Hugo Chavez convokes Fifth International; vindicates 'Carlos the Jackal' During a meeting with delegates attending an 'International Meeting of Parties of the Left' in Caracas, President Chavez took a bold but measured step in convoking The Fifth International on grounds that it is not enough to mouth the current left-wing dominant slogan: a "better world is possible ... it is possible and necessary."

Tuesday, November 24:

Andy Worthington: Judge Orders Release of Algerian from Guantánamo (But He's Not Going Anywhere) The judge's ruling is still classified, but it seems probable that the ruling will refute the government's claims that its rag-bag of hearsay, innuendo, and snippets of intelligence is coherent enough to constitute real evidence. Why does Obama's Justice Dept continue to defend the fiction that the prisoners at Guantanamo represent a terrorist threat to Americans?

Iraq inquiry: British officials heard 'drum beats' of war from US before 9/11 British officials heard the "drum beats" of war with Iraq emanating from the US government more than two years before the 2003 invasion and several months before the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Sir John Chilcot's Iraq inquiry has heard.

Sunday, November 22:

Forced labour and rape, the new face of slavery in America Figures from the State Department reveal that 17,500 people are trafficked into the US every year against their will or under false pretences, mainly to be used for sex or forced labour.Human trafficking–forcing someone against their will to work for no reward–has been dubbed modern slavery. At the Dayton conference, it was discussed as a growing social problem, not in some far-off land, but among the cornfields of Ohio.

The Cornucopia Institute: Food Manufacturers and Organic Industry Lobbyists Circle the Wagons Two powerful lobby groups in the food industry, The Grocery Manufacturers of America and the Organic Trade Association, recently intervened as friends of the court in a federal consumer class-action lawsuit accusing the nation's largest supplier of private-label organic milk of consumer fraud.

Patrick J. O'Donoghue: Venezuela's Chavez wants to see a united PSUV coming out of weekend congress Addressing delegates to the extraordinary congress of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), President Chavez lambasted the cynical remarks of Colombian Foreign Minister, Jaime Bermudez who said he was disappointed in the silence shown by the South American Union of Nations (Unasur) to President Chavez' war-mongering discourse.

Saturday, November 21:

Prison holds promise for job-strapped town The Obama administration, anxious to deliver on a campaign promise to close the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has told Illinois officials that a firm decision about acquiring the state facility at Thomson will be made in four to six weeks.

Friday, November 20:

BBC News - 'Fat for cosmetics' murder suspects arrested in Peru What do they do with all that fat that gets liposuctioned out of your body? Did you know there was a use for that? If crooks are willing to kill you for your fat, is it possible your doctor could be selling your fat to cosmetic companies. Yuk! Hey, where's my discount?

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