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The smoke from Mr. Abdulmutallab’s underpants cleared extremely rapidly. Within three days we had an actual photo of the charred briefs and the explosive 6-inch packet contained therein, complete with ruler for size verification. (Nevertheless one overzealous commentator estimated 8-10 inches, due to foreshortening.) In less than a week the word was out that (…)

Grossly human rights-abusing Australia must be described as Apartheid Australia because both the major parties (the Liberal-National Party Coalition and the Labor Party, collectively known as the Lib-Labs and representing about 90% of the electorate) voted for race-based exclusion of Northern Territory Indigenous Australians from the protection of the 1975 Racial Discrimination Act (see: ).
However Apartheid Australia has gone much further than this offensive, race-based discrimination (…)

Ms. Pardiss Kebriaie on the Status of the Prisoners at Gitmo
On Monday, Jan. 11, 2010, a demonstration, “Witness Against Torture; Rally for Justice,” was held in front of the White House. Its purpose was to demand that President Barack Obama keep his campaign promises to close Guantanamo prison and to end torture. One of the speakers at the event was Ms. Pardiss Kebriaie. She is Staff Attorney with Guantanamo Global Justice Initiative at the Center for Constitutional Rights. Ms. Frida (…)

Tragically, Daniel Bensaid, leading French revolutionary socialist and author of Marx For Our Times passed away this morning, Tuesday 12th January 2010.
This is a rough translation of Liberation’s report of the death of Daniel Bensaid.
The Marxist philosopher and theorist of the old Revolutionary Communist League (LCR), a predecessor New anti-capitalist party (NPA), Daniel Bensaid, died this morning at 63. He had been seriously ill for several months.
After co-founding the JCR (…)

On Monday, Jan. 11, 2010, a demonstration, “Witness Against Torture; Rally for Justice,” was held in front of the White House. Its purpose was to demand that President Barack Obama keep his campaign promises to close Guantanamo prison and to end torture. One of the speakers at the event was Jeremy Varon. He is a Professor of History at The New School U. and a organizer with “Witness Against Torture.” Ms. Frida Berrigan served as the MC for the protest action. For background, check out: (…)

Rally at White House: “Witness Against Torture”
On Monday, Jan. 11, 2010, a demonstration, “Witness Against Torture; Rally for Justice,” was held in front of the White House. Its purpose was to demand that President Barack Obama keep his campaign promises to close Guantanamo prison and to end torture. The Human Rights activists also oppose “any plans for holding prisoners without charge or trial in the U.S: and denounce the White House’s expansion of [Bush-Cheney Gang]-style detention in (…)

Israel will build a barrier along the entire length of its southern border with Egypt, the Prime Minister’s Office said today in a statement posted on its Web site.
The barrier is meant to keep out “intruders and terrorists,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in the statement, including “illegal workers who try to enter Israel by way of its southern border.”
The barrier will cost at least a billion shekels and take several years to construct, the statement said. (…)

Yemen seizes ’Israel-linked’ cell
Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh has said the security forces have arrested a group of alleged Islamist militants linked to Israeli intelligence.
Mr Saleh did not say what evidence had been found to show the group’s links with Israel, a regional enemy of Yemen.
The arrests were connected with an attack on the US embassy in Sanaa last month which killed at least 18 people, official sources were quoted saying.
Israel’s foreign ministry has rejected (…)

Is Anyone Telling Us The Truth?
by Paul Craig Roberts*, 11 JANUARY 2010
By stitching together a string of "terrorist" events, Paul Craig Roberts zooms in on a modus operandi of false-flag and cover up operations stretching back to the Cold War period and the NATO/CIA-sponsored Operation Gladio with tentacles across Western Europe, but most famously in Italy. The bombings, which were blamed on communists to discredit them politically, were also used to create a climate of fear prompting (…)

Considering that climate change represents a real threat to the existence of humanity, of living beings and our Mother Earth as we know it today;Noting the serious danger that exists to islands, coastal areas, glaciers in the Himalayas, the Andes and mountains of the world, poles of the Earth, warm regions like Africa, water sources, populations affected by increasing natural disasters, plants and animals, and ecosystems in general;
Making clear that those most affected by climate change (…)