Louise Arbour’s public profile is of a human rights champion and a distinguished jurist of International Law. This version is widely held, especially in Canada. However the University of Calgary and the Consortium for Peace Studies can’t all be unaware of Arbour’s darker history. What are they afraid of? Why doesn’t somebody object? Most recently Arbour joined the Soros think tank International Crisis Group where sits Zbigniew Brezinski, Wesley Clark, Lawrence Summers, Ernest Zedillo, George (…)
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Louise Arbour to recieve Peace Prize? Peace Me Off!
2 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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Ramsey Clark awarded UN Human Rights Prize
19 December 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
International Action Center Thursday, December 18 Congratulations to Ramsey Clark
Ramsey Clark receives UN Human Rights Award 2008 !
International Action Center founder Ramsey Clark, a former US Attorney General and internationally renown human rights defender, received the respected United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights on the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights at United Nations Headquarters in New York on 10 December 2008.
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Mumia Abu-Jamal on Pres. Barack Obama (2 audio videos)
16 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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New execution date set for Troy Anthony Davis
16 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentBy Don Logana
SAVANNAH, GA (WTOC) - One day after a stay of execution was lifted, a new execution date has been set for Troy Anthony Davis.
Today, the Department of Corrections scheduled the execution for October 27 at 7pm after Judge Penny Haas Freesmann signed a new death warrant for Davis.
The order states that the execution has a seven day window and can occur any time between noon on October 27 and noon on November 3.
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Noam Chomsky: Anti-Democratic Nature of US Capitalism is Being Exposed
12 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
2 commentsBretton Woods was the system of global financial management set up at the end of the second World War to ensure the interests of capital did not smother wider social concerns in post-war democracies. It was hated by the US neoliberals - the very people who created the banking crisis writes Noam Chomsky
by Noam Chomsky
THE SIMULTANEOUS unfolding of the US presidential campaign and unraveling of the financial markets presents one of those occasions where the political and economic systems (…) -
Noam Chomsky: America is not a Democracy (video)
9 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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Betrayed by the bailout: The death of democracy
7 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
Online Journal Oct 6, 2008
By William John Cox Online Journal Contributing Writer
On Friday, October 3, 2008, the American people were betrayed by those whom they had elected to represent them. The members of Congress who voted for the Wall Street “bailout” violated their oath of office to “support and defend the Constitution” . . .”that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same” . . .”and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to (…) -
Who is behind Human Rights Watch?
28 September 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
Who is behind Human Rights Watch?
by Paul Treanor
The backgrounds of the Board members of Human Rights Watch (HRW), Europe-Central Asia section, with an indication of HRW funding sources. HRW is founded on the idea that the values of the United States are universal, and that the US must impose them on the rest of the world. As the largest human-rights lobby, it is partly responsible for the increasingly expansionist US foreign policy.
No US citizen, and no US organisation, has any (…) -
Obama - Not An Option
10 July 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized." Fourth Amendment, Bill of Rights, US Constitution
Voting for Obama is not an option, he is a coward, a sellout... connected to the machine.
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China and America : The Tibet Human Rights PsyOp by Pr CHOSSUDOVSKY
22 April 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentGlobal Research April 13, 2008
China and America: The Tibet Human Rights PsyOp
The human rights issue has become the centerfold of media disinformation.
China is no model of human rights but neither are the US and its indefectible British ally, responsible for extensive war crimes and human rights violations in Iraq and around the World. The US and its allies, which uphold the practice of torture, political assassinations and the establishment of secret detention camps, continue to be (…)