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The United States of Corruption: Government of Corporate Overlords, by the CIA/Pentagon, for the Royal Elite
Responding to President Obama’s Claim that "We, the People, are the Government"
B.Z. Burnbridge Cinco de Mayo, 2010
"From the bosom of the devastated Earth, a voice goes up with our own. It says ’Disarm!’ ’Disarm!’ The sword of murder is not the balance of justice." —Julia Ward Howe, Mother’s Day Declaration, 1872
In the past industrial century, human beings have been (…)

The extreme right wing Australian Government is variously complicit in an ongoing Aboriginal Genocide (9,000 avoidable Aboriginal deaths annually out of an Indigenous Australian population of 0.5 million), Afghan Genocide (4.5 million post-invasion violent and non-violent excess deaths, Australia is part of the war criminal US Alliance) and the Tamil Genocide (scores of thousands killed, 0.3 million in concentration camps, Australian persecution of Tamils and other assistance to the (…)

May 2nd, 2010
Mister President Obama The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W.
Washington DC 20500
Mister President,
More than a year after your election, we sincerely thought that we would not be having to write you again to ask you to free the Cuban Five – René González, Ramón Labañino, Gerardo Hernández, Fernando González and Antonio Guerrero, who have been political prisoners (…)

Who cares that millions of children are suffering and dying around the world, in places like Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Palestine, Gaza, Sudan, the Congo, Colombia, and Mexico, and in the United States?
Why are American voters only given the choice of voting for members of the political, social and economic elite to be their president, rather than for leaders who care for and identify with the needs of ordinary people?
Do presidential candidates supplant their empathy with loyalty to (…)

Australia is a world leader in annual per capita greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution. Thus the annual per capita Domestic and Exported GHG pollution of Australia is 54 tonnes CO2-equivalent (CO2-e) per person per year as compared to 60 times less (0.9 tonnes CO2-e per person per year) for Bangladesh, a densely populated mega-delta country acutely threatened by man-made global warming.
Top climate scientists say that the World must urgently reduce the atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) (…)

Ann Wright Spotlights the Killing Fields of Gaza from William Hughes on Vimeo.
Former U.S. Diplomat, and U.S. Army/Army Reserves veteran, Ann Wright, a retired Colonel, described how Palestinians are being slaughtered again in the “border zone” at Gaza/Egypt. She traveled to Gaza three times in 2009. Col. Wright, who is also a CODEPINK activist, denounced the ongoing “collective punishment,” which is the fate of the Palestinians under the Israeli onslaught. In her remarks, she also (…)

Sights and Scenes from the “Our Harbor Day Celebration” from William Hughes on Vimeo.
On a sunny Saturday, May 1, 2010, scores of individuals participated in plays, parades and protests. They also staged “storytelling” events, which spotlighted different themes, particularly, “Human Rights.” One play was held in the historic Plaza at Baltimore’s City Hall, only blocks from the Inner Harbor. Excerpts of the play are featured in this video, along with a commentary by Ms. Diane Wittner on (…)

Jeremy Scahill: “Torture Is Ongoing Under Obama!” from William Hughes on Vimeo.
On Thursday, April 29, 2010, a “Teach-In on Capitol Hill,” was held in Room 2168 of the Rayburn House Building, in Washington, D.C., dealing with the question of what the U.S. Congress must do to end the U.S. Wars and secure a peaceful Middle East. One of the five panelists at the event was Jeremy Scahill. He is an investigative reporter and the author of the best-selling book, “Blackwater:The Rise of the (…)

Teach-In on Capitol Hill on Ending U.S. Wars from William Hughes on Vimeo.
On Thursday, April 29, 2010, a “Teach-In on Capitol Hill,” was held in Room 2168 of the Rayburn House Building, in Washington, D.C., dealing with the question of what the U.S. Congress must do to end the U.S. Wars and secure a peaceful Middle East. Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH) served as the Moderator. On the panel were: David Swanson, Chris Hedges, Ann Wright, Jeremy Scahill and Josh Stieber. For more details on (…)

The Israelis recently celebrated 62 years of Independence of their race-based state built on mass murder, ethnic cleansing, theft, mass imprisonment of subject populations, abusive imprisonment of 800,000 children in what the Catholic Church describes as the Gaza Concentration Camp, race-based Apartheid laws, gross human rights abuse - and all of this summarized by the 2 words Palestinian Genocide (for details see "Palestinian Genocide": and "Palestine Genocide Essays": ).
However the (…)