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The Bush Administration Is an Ongoing Criminal Conspiracy Under International Law and U.S. Domestic Law

September 4, 2008 · No Comments

by Prof. Francis A. Boyle

Global Research, September 2, 2008

Justice Robert H. Jackson Conference:

Planning for the Prosecution of High Level American War Criminals
Massachusetts Law School
September 13-14, 2008

Andover, Massachusetts

Since the impeachable installation of George W. Bush as President in January of 2001 by the U.S. Supreme Court’s Gang of Five, the peoples of the world have witnessed a government in the United States that has demonstrated little if any respect for fundamental considerations of international law, human rights, and the United States Constitution.

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Categories: Bush · Conspiracies · Corporations · Dollar · Environmental Destruction · Freedom of Speech · Human Rights · Iran · Iraq War · Israel · Militarism · Neocons · Nuclear · Terror · US Constitution · US Military · US Policy · War Crimes

Police State Methods: Preemptive Strikes Against Protest at the Republican National Convention

September 2, 2008 · No Comments

Amy Goodman Arrested at RNC

by Prof. Marjorie Cohn

Global Research, September 2, 2008

In the months leading up to the Republican National Convention, the FBI-led Minneapolis Joint Terrorist Task Force actively recruited people to infiltrate vegan groups and other leftist organizations and report back about their activities. On May 21, the Minneapolis City Pages ran a recruiting story called “Moles Wanted.” Law enforcement sought to preempt lawful protest against the policies of the Bush administration during the convention.

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Categories: Bush · Conspiracies · Democracy · Freedom of Speech · Human Rights · Militarism · US Constitution · US Elections · US Policy · Video

There Is an Alternative to Corporate Rule

September 2, 2008 · No Comments

By Mark Engler, Nation Books. Posted September 1, 2008.

All over the world, alternative approaches to capitalist greed are bubbling up from the grassroots.

Editor’s Note: This article is adapted from Mark Engler’s new book How to Rule the World: The Coming Battle Over the Global Economy (Nation Books, 2008).

One of the remarkable features of modern political life is how consistently global elites deny that viable alternatives to the current global order exist, even as the terrain of international politics rapidly shifts. The “imperial globalists” that rose to power in the Bush years contend that without U.S. military strength decisively projected abroad, the forces of evil will sweep the globe. Meanwhile, “corporate globalists” of Wall Street persist in their belief that, in the post-Cold War world, we have no choice but to embrace the continual advance of the “free” market.

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Categories: Climate Change · Corporations · Democracy · Dollar · Economy · Environmental Destruction · Human Rights · Militarism · Peak Oil · Poverty · US Constitution · US Policy

New World Order: Conspiracy or Real World Order?

August 31, 2008 · No Comments

www.threeworldwars.com/

Introduction

The term New World Order (NWO) has been used by numerous politicians through the ages, and is a generic term used to refer to a worldwide conspiracy being orchestrated by an extremely powerful and influential group of genetically-related individuals (at least at the highest echelons) which include many of the world’s wealthiest people, top political leaders, and corporate elite, as well as members of the so-called Black Nobility of Europe (dominated by the British Crown) whose goal is to create a One World (fascist) Government, stripped of nationalistic and regional boundaries, that is obedient to their agenda.

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Categories: 9-11 · Bush · Conspiracies · Corporations · Democracy · Economy · Israel · MidEast · Militarism · Terror · US Constitution · US Military · US Policy

War With Russia Is On The Agenda

August 27, 2008 · No Comments

By Paul Craig Roberts

26/08/08 “ICH” — – Thinking about the massive failure of the US media to report truthfully is sobering. The United States, bristling with nuclear weapons and pursuing a policy of world hegemony, has a population that is kept in the dark–indeed brainwashed–about the most important and most dangerous events of our time.

Note video - “McCAIN/RUSSIA-GEORGIA/REV. RICK WARREN/AUG. 16, 2008″ and “McCain on Russia and Georgia war” below the article

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Categories: Bush · Conspiracies · Corporations · Dollar · Economy · Human Rights · Iraq War · Israel · Militarism · Nato · Neocons · Nuclear · Peak Oil · Poverty · Russia · US Constitution · US Elections · US Military · US Policy · Video · War Crimes

The Financial Times and the “Self-Confessed Mastermind of 9/11”

August 27, 2008 · No Comments

by James Petras / August 27th, 200

In recent days there is mounting evidence of the advance of totalitarianism in the political and media mainstream. The entire Western world, led by the United States, has embraced a Georgian regime, which invaded South Ossetia totally demolishing its capital city of 50,000 residents, assassinated 1500 men, women and children and dozens of Russian peace keepers. The US has mobilized a naval and air armada off the Iranian coast, prepared to annihilate a country of 70 million people. The New York Times published an essay by a prominent Israeli historian, which advocates the nuclear incineration of Iran. All the major mass media have mounted a systematic propaganda campaign against China, supporting each and every terrorist and separatist group, and whipping up public opinion in favor of launching a New Cold War. There is little doubt that this new wave of imperial aggression and bellicose rhetoric is meant to deflect domestic discontent and distract public opinion from the deepening economic crises.

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Categories: Bush · CIA · Freedom of Speech · Human Rights · Militarism · Neocons · Terror · US Constitution · US Military · US Policy · War Crimes

Looking Back at Five Years of Bush’s Wreckage in Iraq

August 27, 2008 · No Comments

By Chalmers Johnson, Tomdispatch.com. Posted August 26, 2008.

Bush’s supporters see the global war on terrorism as a “clash of civilizations” — yet the civilization we are destroying in Iraq is part of our own.

On April 11, 12, 13, and 14, 2003, the United States Army and United States Marine Corps disgraced themselves and the country they represent in Baghdad, Iraq’s capital city. Having invaded Iraq and accepted the status of a military occupying power, they sat in their tanks and Humvees, watching as unarmed civilians looted the Iraqi National Museum and burned down the Iraqi National Library and Archives as well as the Library of Korans of the Ministry of Religious Endowments. Their behavior was in violation of their orders, international law, and the civilized values of the United States. Far from apologizing for these atrocities or attempting to make amends, the United States government has in the past five years added insult to injury.

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Categories: Bush · Conspiracies · Corporations · Dollar · Economy · Environmental Destruction · Human Rights · MidEast · Militarism · Neocons · Peak Oil · Terror · US Constitution · US Military · US Policy · War Crimes

Death Match (II): The Hideous Horror of the Biden Selection

August 27, 2008 · No Comments

August 26, 2008

Part I: If the Words Don’t Kill You, the Bombs Will

Here are some highlights from Stephen Zunes’ article, “The Biden Betrayal“:

Bidenhas been one of the leading congressional supporters of U.S. militarization of the Middle East and Eastern Europe, of strict economic sanctions against Cuba, and of Israeli occupation policies.

Most significantly, however, Biden, who chaired the Senate Foreign Relations Committee during the lead-up to the Iraq War during the latter half of 2002, was perhaps the single most important congressional backer of the Bush administration’s decision to invade that oil-rich country.

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Categories: 9-11 · Bush · Corporations · Dollar · Human Rights · Iraq War · Israel · Militarism · Neocons · Terror · US Constitution · US Elections · US Military · US Policy · War Crimes