Military spending gobbles up 19% of federal spending and at least 44% of tax revenues. During the Bush administration, the Iraq and Afghanistan wars — funded by borrowing — cost each American family more than $25,000.
In November 2009, PADF published a report titled, ‘Lost Childhoods in Haiti: Quantifying Child Trafficking, Restaveks & Victims of Violence.’ It’s a disturbing picture of ‘extremely poor children who are sent to other homes to work as unpaid domestic servants,’ and end up being beaten, sexually assaulted, and exploited by host families. Later, in their teens, ‘they are commonly tossed to the streets to fend for themselves and become victims of other types of abuses’ because Haitian labor laws require employers to pay domestic workers over aged 15.
IN THE past, a vote for Labour would at least have been a protest against such greed, even if the party didn’t do much about it. But 15 years of grovelling to Hindujas and Murdochs and assorted bankers and being ‘intensely relaxed about people becoming filthy rich’ have punctured that slightly, and now if you mentioned to someone under the age of 30 that Labour’s origins were in fighting for the poor against the wealthy, they’d look at you as if you’d said something truly surreal, such as ‘Did you know the Church of England started out as an aquarium?’
The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) condemns the continued persecution of international human rights defenders in the West Bank by Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) and the deportation of international activists from the country. PCHR is concerned about such measures, as they aim to expel international witnesses of human rights violations perpetrated by IOF against Palestinian civilians during peaceful protests against the construction of the Annexation Wall and settlement activities in the West Bank.
Given all the wars the United States has waged, ‘It is preposterous but true that we do not see ourselves as a nation that seeks war,’ writes Lawrence Velvel, dean of the Massachusetts School of Law at Andover. ‘We see ourselves as a peace loving nation’ and that message is constantly drummed into the public by government and media.
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The establishment of a US military base in Socotra is part of the broader process of militarization of the Indian Ocean. The latter consists in integrating and linking Socotra into an existing structure as well as reinforcing the key role played by the Diego Garcia military base in the Chagos archipelago.
The US Navy’s geostrategist Rear Admiral Alfred T. Mahan had intimated, prior to World War, that “whoever attains maritime supremacy in the Indian Ocean would be a prominent player on the international scene.” (Indian Ocean and our Security).
A compilation of links, with descriptions to news and analysis on the crisis in Haiti.
Ethan Bronner is the New York Times Jerusalem bureau chief. As such, he is the editor responsible for all the news coming out of Israel-Palestine. It is his job to decide what gets reported and what doesn’t; what goes in a story and what gets cut. His son just joined the Israeli army.
It really is time that the story of what is being done to the oppressed people of Gaza gets as wide a coverage as possible, in these days of overt and blatant mainstream-media bias for Zionist Israel.
If it arouses your anger and compassion as much as it did mine, when reading Joe Mowrey’s fine essay and editing this video, please share it with as many people as you can.
The Christmas Day “terrorist” is the latest in a series of staged incidents meant to make The Clash of Civilizations appear plausible and “the war on terrorism” rational. The storyline does not hold together. Not even a little bit. As usual, the source of this media-fueled fear campaign traces directly to Tel Aviv-with a supporting role by the FBI.
On June 11, 2009 Margaret Chan, the Director-General of the WHO, declared the Swine Flu a pandemic. That’s the highest phase – phase 6. It’s the first worldwide flu pandemic in 41 years. ‘Swine flu will be biggest pandemic ever, warns world health chief’. She also said: ‘Based on past experience, this pandemic will be with us for some months, if not years, to come’. Chan’s June 11th declaration is one that comes with great consequences.
We, the undersigned, endorse the idea of a new International and urge that its creation include assessing, refining, augmenting, and then implementing as many of the following points as the International’s participants themselves, after due deliberation, decide mutually agreeable
Before earthquake the killing was by UN bullets, exclusion, NGO false benevolence, US false charity and cruel immigration laws. After Jan 12 it’s all those PLUS our people are allowed to die of critical earthquake injuries, starvation, suffering, trauma and thirst
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