The Ghost and the Machine: Drone Warfare and Accountability

Kathy Kelly and Afghan Youth Peace

Fazillah, age 25, lives in Maidan Shar, the central city of Afghanistan’s Wardak province.  She married about six years ago, and gave birth to a son, Aymal, who just turned five without a father. Fazillah tells her son… Continue reading

NDAA Nullification Passes Virginia Senate by a Veto-Proof 39-1 Vote

Michael Boldin

Today, the Virginia Senate took a firm stand in support of liberty, the Constitution for the United States, and the Constitution of Virginia by voting in favor of House Bill 1160 (HB1160), the “NDAA Nullification Act.”

The final vote… Continue reading

AIPAC and the Push Toward War
Robert Wright
The Atlantic” –  Late last week, amid little fanfare, Senators

Ten reasons why AIPAC is so dangerous

Medea Benjamin

The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) is one of the most powerful lobby organizations in the country. AIPAC’s clout helps fuel a never-ending cycle of violence in the Middle East.

Here are ten reasons why AIPAC is so dangerous.

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Noam Chomsky: The Decline of American Empire (Part 2)

The principles of imperial domination have undergone little change, but the capacity to implement them has markedly declined.

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Noam Chomsky: America’s Decline Is Real — and Increasingly Self-Inflicted

Noam Chomsky, TomDispatch.com

Significant anniversaries are solemnly commemorated — Japan’s attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, for example.  Others are ignored, and we can often learn valuable lessons from them about what is likely to lie ahead. … Continue reading

Transformational Politics

Awakening an American Society and the Global Community

Be Part of the Evolution

Clive Hambidge

“Julian Assange” said Noam Chomsky “should be congratulated for  carrying out the responsibilities of a citizen in democratic societies, where the

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Europe’s Own Human Rights Crisis

Benjamin Ward

To many friends of human rights in Europe, the Arab Spring has been the most thrilling period since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Judging from their soaring rhetoric about yearning for freedom among Arab peoples, European Union leaders share that enthusiasm. Today there is an… Continue reading

UN Expert Concludes: Israel Implements a strategy of Judaization

ICAHD

Prof. Raquel Rolnik, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing, has concluded this morning (Sunday, February 12th 2012) of a two week visit to Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory. Speaking in Jerusalem this afternoon Prof. Rolink said: “From the… Continue reading

61 Homes Demolished in Gaza!

Barbara Lubin

I am writing this letter to you late at night and I am asking you to help me. Over the years I have asked for you to step up and reach out to the people here in Palestine because to be honest with… Continue reading

Human Rights Watch Human Rights Watch 2012

This 22nd annual Human Rights Watch summarizes human rights conditions in more than 90 countries and territories worldwide in 2011. It reflects extensive investigative work that Human Rights Watch staff has undertaken during the year, often in close partnership with domestic human rights activists.

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Israel Teams With Terror Group to Kill Iran’s Nuclear Scientists, U.S. officials tell NBC News

Richard Engel and Robert Windrem
NBC News

February 09, 2012 “NBC” — Deadly attacks on Iranian nuclear scientists are being carried out by an Iranian dissident group that is financed, trained and armed by Israel’s secret service… Continue reading

Karzai condemns NATO airstrike that killed eight Afghan children

Afghan President Hamid Karzai “strongly condemned” a NATO airstrike that killed at least eight children in eastern Afghanistan, a palace statement said Thursday, DPA reported.

An investigation was also launched into the incident, which took place in Geyawa village in the Nejrab district of… Continue reading

ATTAC/CADTM Morocco against capitalism globalization

 Attac/Cadtm Maroc

Final Declaration of the 4th national Congress of ATTAC/CADTM Morocco

Attac/cadtm Morocco association held its 4th national Conference on 27, 28 and 29 January 2012 with the slogan “for the strengthening of the popular dimension of the fight against capitalism globalization in Morocco”. Despite

A 75th Anniversary for the American Dream

Friends,

On this day 25 years ago, in 1987, I became a filmmaker. It was around ten in the morning and the first-ever roll of Kodak 16mm film for my first-ever movie was loaded into my friend’s camera to shoot the very first scene of ‘Roger… Continue reading