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  • Immigration, A Perennial Issue Of Concern In The U.S.
    25 September 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    The issue of immigration was brought to the forefront recently by Arizona’s discriminatory immigration law SB 1070, which would require police and other public officials to ask all or any Latino looking people to show their ID’s. This demonstrates an attitude oriented towards criminalizing immigrants in general and a hostile outlook towards Hispanics in particular. The anti-immigrant attitude was also evident in Utah a few months ago when a list was published and widely distributed with (…)

  • Va. woman executed for slayings in 2002
    24 September 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
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    JARRATT, VA. - Teresa Lewis, who plotted with her young lover to kill her husband and stepson for insurance money, became the first woman executed in Virginia in nearly 100 years Thursday night when she was killed by lethal injection.
    Lewis, 41, was a mother who became a grandmother behind bars. Wearing a light blue prison-issued shirt and dark blue pants, Lewis looked anxious as she was led by officers into the death chamber at 8:55 p.m. She was placed on a white gurney, with leather (…)

  • U.S. troops accused of killing Afghans for sport
    20 September 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    JOINT BASE LEWIS-McCHORD, Wash. — The U.S. soldiers allegedly floated a plan as simple as it was savage: to randomly target and kill an Afghan civilian, and to get away with it.
    For weeks, according to Army charging documents, rogue members of a platoon from the 5th Stryker Combat Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, hatched the idea. Then, one day last winter, a solitary Afghan man approached them in the village of La Mohammed Kalay. The "kill team" activated the plan.
    One soldier created a (…)

  • GEAB N°47: Welcome to the United States of Austerity
    19 September 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    GEAB N°47 is available! The Global systemic crisis – Spring 2011: Welcome to the United States of Austerity / Towards a very serious breakdown of the world economic and financial system Public announcement GEAB N°47 (September 16, 2010) -
    As anticipated by LEAP/E2020 last February in the GEAB No. 42, the second half of 2010 is really characterized by a sudden worsening of the crisis marked by the end of the illusion of recovery maintained by Western leaders (1) and the thousands of (…)

  • The Fraudulent Criminalization of Marijuana
    16 September 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
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    For almost 40 years, the United States has waged a war on its own citizens who have used marijuana as a part of a drug culture originally encouraged by the government. The war was commenced despite the government’s own findings that marijuana posed less of a risk to American society than alcohol, and that the greatest harm that would result from criminalization would be the injury caused to those arrested for possession and use. The harm caused by the war extends beyond its 15 million (…)

  • The Big Bang Leads to the Big Whimper (aka: Basel III)
    15 September 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Big Bang Leads to the Big Whimper (aka: Basel III)
    Mittwoch, 15. September 2010 05:23 von Bill Black
    The following essay appeared first on Benzinga, a financial website in the U.S.A., where Bill Black publishes a column covering regulation. Black is the author of The Best Way to Rob a Bank Is to Own One and an associate professor of economics and law at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. His academic articles, congressional testimony, and musings about the financial crisis can (…)

  • Ultimately, Don Quixote will Triumph
    14 September 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    Ultimately, Don Quixote will Triumph
    Sonntag, 12. September 2010 22:23 von Lars Schall
    Bill Murphy, the chairman of the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee, gave chaostheorien.de an exclusive interview, in which he stressed the importance of a clear understanding of the gold market. Moreover, he explained why central banks can’t prevent the gold price from rising anymore, and said: “The Gold Cartel have been winning battles in the last ten years, but they’re losing the war.“
    Bill Murphy (…)

  • The Language of Pipelines
    14 September 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Language of Pipelines
    Samstag, 11. September 2010 05:23 von Lars Schall
    The historian Dr. Daniele Ganser from the University of Basel, Switzerland, answers in the following interview questions related to the “National Energy Policy Development Group” of 2001, Peak Oil and the connection to pipelines in Central Asia. According to Dr. Ganser it is very doubtful that NATO will succeed in Afghanistan in order to built the proposed pipeline from Turkmenistan to Pakistan/India.
    Dr. (…)

  • US Military Officers for 9/11 Truth
    12 September 2010 par (Open-Publishing)
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    US Military Officers for 9/11 Truth
    "As officers in the U.S. military, we took an oath to "support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic." Regardless of our current status — active duty, reserves, retired, or civilian — that oath remains in force. Therefore it is not just our responsibility, it is our duty to expose the real perpetrators of 9/11 and bring them to justice, no matter how hard it is, how long it takes, how much we have to (…)

  • Video: Peace Path in Baltimore
    12 September 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    On September 11, 2010, the Women in Black Baltimore sponsored its annual "Peace Path." Peace and justice activists/volunteers were placed along Charles Street in the city. For more background, go to:
    http://www.peacepath911.org/