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Dear Friends,
“What reason have atheists for saying that we cannot rise again?
Which is the more difficult to be born or to rise again?
Is it more difficult to come into being than return to it?”
Blaise Pascal, a French Mathematician, Physicist, Inventor, Writer and Catholic Philosopher.
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Occupy Takes Aim at ALEC Today in 70 US Cities
Yana Kunichoff
The Occupy movement, since its inception in September 2011, has been against corporate greed. And in 70 cities across the country, it’s found one target that best shows the rampant corporate control of our judicial system that Occupiers see as a… Continue reading
Jeffrey Sachs’ Reform Candidacy for World Bank President
by: Staff, Center for Economic and Policy Research | Op-Ed
Supports a “Competitive Process” That Will Address Pressing Issues
Washington, D.C.- Economist and health expert Jeffrey Sachs’ reported candidacy for World Bank president is welcome news for the two-and-a-half billion people… Continue reading
Unequal Protection: How Corporations Became “People” – and How You Can Fight Back
Thom Hartmann
If you believe that corporations should not have the same rights as people – if you are appalled by the 2010 Citizens United decision – then this is the book for you.
Thom Hartmann wrote this prescient… Continue reading
“Corporations Are Not People: Why They Have More Rights Than You Do and What You Can Do About It.” [Book]
If you believe corporate personhood is a threat to democracy, then “Corporations Are Not People” is a must-read book. (Truthout also strongly recommends Thom Hartmann’s “Unequal Protection: How Corporations Became People — and
President Obama and His key Advisors are a Gang of War Criminals
Dave Lindorff
February 29, 2012 “Information Clearing House” —- If a bunch of street toughs decided to gang up and beat the crap
Nestlé Test Case: Charges filed on murder of Colombian Trade Unionist
European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR)
6 March 2012 ECCHR and the Colombian trade union SINALTRAINAL yesterday filed charges with the Swiss public prosecutor in Zug against the company Nestlé and members of its senior management. They are accused of… Continue reading
US Congress passes authoritarian anti-protest law
Tom Carter
A bill passed Monday in the US Congress and Thursday in the Senate would make it a felony—a serious criminal offense punishable by lengthy terms of incarceration—to participate in many forms of protest associated with the Occupy Wall Street protests of last year. Several commentators… Continue reading
How to Leave Guantánamo:
By Means of a Plea Deal or In A Coffin
Andy Worthington
Guantánamo briefly emerged from the shadows on Wednesday, February 29, when Majid Khan, a Pakistani national described as one of 14 “high-value detainees” when he arrived at Guantánamo in September 2006, after three and a half
Corporate Immunity Looks Likely: Supreme Court Seems Ready To Side With Shell In Human Rights Suit (Update)
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday morning appeared divided along party lines, with a conservative majority ready to hold that corporations cannot be held accountable in federal courts for international human rights violations… Continue reading
Technologies of control: The Case of Hewlett Packard (HP)
A report about the direct Involvement of Hewlett Packard (HP) in the occupation. HP is used as a case study to discuss the role of the international and local corporations in Israel’s mechanisms of surveillance and control over the occupied Palestinian territories.
he Israeli occupation… Continue reading
Pentagon Knowingly Exposed U.S. Soldiers To Toxic Waste: Leaked Memo
Stuart Whatley
The Pentagon allegedly endangered U.S. soldiers by implementing and covering-up dangerously toxic waste-incineration practices at Balad Airbase in Iraq during years past, as revealed in a leaked Air Force memo [PDF]. Raw Story, which first reported the leak, writes
Liberal Democrat leader acted ‘hastily and ill-advisedly’ says peer punished for saying Israel ‘would not be there forever’
Liberal Democrat peer Lady Tonge has expressed disappointment that party leader Nick Clegg “very hastily and ill-advisedly” disowned her after she said Israel “would not be there forever”.
Tonge, a former Lib Dem MP, was… Continue reading