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source: Bradley Manning and the trial of the United States Military
Bradley Manning is arguably one of the most important figures to emerge on the political landscape this century, both to those who admire his ‘bravery’ and to those who despise his ‘treachery’.
Manning has been accused of leaking over 250,000 U.S. State Department diplomatic cables and approximately 500,000 army reports, as well as secret videos of air strikes in Iraq and Afghanistan in which journalists and civilians, (…)

In hindsight, Kristallnacht signaled what was to come: the rounding up and extermination of European Jewry. Most of the world did not intervene and worse, chose to block Jewish efforts to escape. As people either collaborated with or chose to ignore the implications of each step along the path toward genocide, the Germans carried out their plans with impunity and in public. German civilians either explicitly or tacitly supported a regime of incredible brutality. They stood by while Jewish (…)

Mister President Obama
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W.
Washington DC 20500
Mr President,
The friends of the five Cubans Gerardo Hernández, Antonio Guerrero, Fernando González, Ramón Labañino, and René González, are extremely pleased to know that Mitt Romney will not be president of the United States for the next four years. We had forebodings that this candidate augured no good concerning future relations with Cuba.
For all that, Mr President Obama, we are worried (…)

Did your Government vote for Palestinian statehood? This is an important question because fundamental to democracy and self-determination is commitment to 1-man-1-vote regardless of nationality, ethnicity, race or religion and politicians not unequivocally supporting this fundamental proposition are simply anti-democratic and hence simply not fit to be elected.
The nuclear terrorist, serial war criminal, genocidally racist rogue state of Apartheid Israel is a kleptocratic (theft-based), (…)

Source: Four Lectures on Climate Change: Kevin Anderson, Andrew Simms, Gwynne Dyer, and Daniel Nocera
We have treated the world as a garbage dump. The damage we have done has been devastating and the repercussions unimaginable.
From the disappearing bees to plastic waste vortex’s in the oceans, from the commodification of water to increasing CO2 emissions for cheap gasoline, from deforestation (pdf) to the melting ice caps, from fracking to the oil sands, our politics, our economics, (…)

AUSTRALIA: this week, it’s been all about the Australian government’s confusion – over its nuclear waste dump plan, over renewable energy, even over climate change.
Nationally, it’s becoming clear that the Australian government is in a muddle over its plan to set up a nuclear waste dump at Muckaty Station in the Northern Territory. The legal case brought by traditional Aboriginal owners, against the dump, continues. Australia is obliged to take back from France and UK, its nuclear (…)

Source: Ominous Forewarning from Prof. Norman Finkelstein: “I do think there is a plot, a conspiracy afoot… all the western powers are now acting in concert for a decisive moment.”
In November 2010, Professor Norman Finkelstein and Hamza Andreas Tzortzis spoke at a likeMEDIA.tv hosted event to address the question: “What Will Bring Peace to the Middle East?”
This was an excellent discussion where Prof. Finkelstein provided a secular perspective focusing on international law, while Mr. (…)

we petition the obama administration to:
To Nationalize the Oil Industry. We Americans have suffered enough from the oil titans that control this industry.
For too many years the oil titans have been overcharging all Americans for their fuel needs. It started with kerosene and now has evolved into a well planned monopoly. Congress needs to address this issue without fear. Nationalizing the oil industry is a good start in recovery for our country. Too many people are suffering including (…)

On behalf of most Americans and many people’s from other countries on this planet, we implore you to read and hopefully support the American Republic Manifestum. You can read it or download it for free at http://americanrepublicmanifestum.blogspot.com/ Its important that you strongly consider your options. We only wish to have a government for the people and legitimately by the people, this time. You really don’t need military action this time, there are other more effective ways to see (…)

Source: The Hypocrisy of US Foreign Policy: Obama agrees, all countries have the right to defend themselves against drone strikes
To emphasize the hypocrisy of US foreign policy in the following reply from President Obama, the word “missiles” has been replaced by “drones”, the word “landing” replaced by “striking”, and the word “Israel(i)” replaced by “the country’s”. Obama’s actual video reply follows the modified quote. "Let’s understand what the precipitating event here was that’s (…)