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atrocity archives - via Metafilter 2/21/09
EU, NATO, US: 21st Century Alliance For Global Domination - Global Research 2/19/09
CSTO – a NATO for the East? – Global Research 2/9/09
War without Borders: A Geopolitical Assessment of NATO - Global Research 4/2/09
NATO’s Sixty Year Legacy: Threat Of Nuclear War In Europe - Global Research 3/31/09
Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) Unveils Global Governance Agenda - Global Research 3/31/09
Human Slavery Thriving in the Shadows - Alternet 2/23/09
Over 10 million people around the world are victims of human trafficking.
Bolivia: National Revolution and “Communitarian Socialism” - Global Research 4/25/09
Exclusive Interview with El Salvador’s New President on Ending 130 Years of Oligarchy and Military Rule - Alternet 3/18/09
El Salvador’s Quiet Revolution - Mother Jones 3/16/09
EU, NATO, US: 21st Century Alliance For Global Domination - Global Research 2/19/09
CSTO – a NATO for the East? – Global Research 2/9/09
War without Borders: A Geopolitical Assessment of NATO - Global Research 4/2/09
NATO’s Sixty Year Legacy: Threat Of Nuclear War In Europe - Global Research 3/31/09
Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) Unveils Global Governance Agenda - Global Research 3/31/09
Human Slavery Thriving in the Shadows - Alternet 2/23/09
Over 10 million people around the world are victims of human trafficking.
Bolivia: National Revolution and “Communitarian Socialism” - Global Research 4/25/09
Exclusive Interview with El Salvador’s New President on Ending 130 Years of Oligarchy and Military Rule - Alternet 3/18/09
El Salvador’s Quiet Revolution - Mother Jones 3/16/09
Sri Lankan Humanitarian Crisis Deserves Attention - The Progressive 4/24/09
Killings and Concentration Camps: A Colossal Humanitarian Tragedy is Underway in Sri Lanka and No One is Saying a Word - Alternet 4/1/09
US, China and the war in Sri Lanka - Global Research 3/24/09
Secret Aussie blacklist leaked - The Register, UK 3/30/09
The inevitable has happened – the secret Australian blacklist of banned websites has been published on the internet.
The list contains some 2,395 sites about half of which do not contain child sexual abuse images. It includes online poker sites, fetish, satanic and Christian sites, Wikipedia pages, gay and straight pornography, a travel operator and even the website for a Queensland dentist.
UAE royal caught torturing man on video - Boing Boing 4/23/09
A video showing a member of the United Arab Emirates’ royal family torturing a man with whips, electrocution and a nail-spiked board has been released. The Minister of the Interior (one of the torturer’s brothers) reviewed the recording and concluded “all rules, policies and procedures were followed correctly by the Police Department.” A man in a UAE police uniform is seen on the tape tying the victim’s arms and legs, and later holding him down as the Sheikh pours salt on the man’s wounds and then drives over him with his Mercedes SUV.
In a statement to ABC News, the UAE Ministry of the Interior said it had reviewed the tape and acknowledged the involvement of Sheikh Issa bin Zayed al Nahyan, brother of the country’s crown prince, Sheikh Mohammed.
Coca-Cola Crisis in India - Desert Peace 4/21/09
Communities across India are under assault from Coca-Cola practices in the country. A pattern has emerged as a result of Coca-Cola’s bottling operations in India.
Somalia: You Are Being Lied to About Pirates - Global Research 4/15/09
A Taste of AFRICOM: Somalia did find peace and tried to stop piracy until the US bombed the shit out of it in 2006 - Blog Catalog 4/17/09
In 2006 “the CIA propagated that Al-Qaeda had made its base in Somalia where three senior leaders were residing. CIA then encouraged Ethiopia to invade Somalia in support of weak TFG forces (Transitional Federal Government) against UIC fighters (Union of Islamic Courts) and promised to provide intelligence and air cover. Ethiopian troops backed by USA invaded Somalia on 28 December 2006. The UIC was quickly defeated in a sweeping offensive and the six-month peace period was shattered. It was believed that the UIC leadership fled into Kenya or to Yemen and the hard-line fighters cached their arms and melded back into their clans leaving the mostly untrained, new recruits to face the Ethiopian troops.
Why Spain Can Actually Prosecute Bush and Co. for Their Crimes - Alternet 4/10/09
ISRAEL & PALESTINE
Israeli army ordered to devise Iran war - Global Research 3/17/09
US Army Confirms Israeli Has Nukes - Military.com 3/18/09
Israel Treated Gaza Like Its Own Private Death Laboratory - Alternet 2/13/09
Israel tested out a “focused lethality” weapon that minimizes explosive damage to structures while inflicting catastrophic wounds on its victims.
War and Natural Gas: The Israeli Invasion and Gaza’s Offshore Gas Fields - Global Research 2/20/09
Israel engaged in covert war inside Iran: report (Reuters) -Yahoo 2/17/09
A Short History of the Israeli – Palestinian Conflict: Past Is Prologue– Global Research 2/8/09
Israeli FM: US Will Accept Any Israeli Decision - AntiWar 4/24/09
In particular, Lieberman insisted that despite America’s support for the “two-state solution” which the Israeli administration has rejected, President Obama will not put forth any new peace initiatives unless Israel wants them to. “Believe me,” Lieberman declared, “American accepts all our decisions.”
CREEPING FASCISM IN THE UK
Spy chief: We risk a police state - Telegraph, UK 2/19/09
Dame Stella Rimington, the former head of MI5, has warned that the fear of terrorism is being exploited by the Government to erode civil liberties and risks creating a police state.
We are all extremists now - Guardian, UK 2/21/09
Secret Police Unit to Spy on British ‘Domestic Extremists’– Daily Mail , UK via Cryptogon 2/9/09
A secret police intelligence unit has been set up to spy on Left-wing and Right-wing political groups. The Confidential Intelligence Unit (CIU) has the power to operate across the UK and will mount surveillance and run informers on ‘domestic extremists’.
Activists: UK nearly a police state - Raw Story 2/28/09
DNA of 1.1m children on database - Guardian, UK 2/26/09
Schools use ‘crowd control’ bouncers - Guardian, UK 4/12/09
Bouncers, ex-soldiers and former police officers are being brought into schools to provide “crowd control” and cover absent teachers’ lessons, a teacher has revealed.
One school, thought to be in London, employed two permanent cover teachers through an agency for professional doormen, the National Union of Teachers annual conference in Cardiff heard today.
Bouncers, who more usually work nights keeping order in pubs and clubs, are being employed in schools because they are “stern and loud”, said Andrew Baisley, a teacher at Haverstock school in Camden, north London.
“I know of bouncers being employed specifically because they are bouncers to cover lessons,” he told the conference.
Recruitment agencies are advertising for people with “ex-marine, prison officer, bouncer, policeman, fireman” backgrounds to become supervisors, who do not need to have any teaching qualifications to oversee lessons.
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A Scary Corporate Coup Is Under Way — We’ve Got to Stop It - Alternet 3/31/09
If Wall Street gets its way, Washington will pass new “reforms” that consolidate power and ratify a corporate state.
Burt’s Bees, Tom’s of Maine, Naked Juice: Your Favorite Brands? Take Another Look — They May Not Be What They Seem - Alternet 3/17/09
Confident that you are buying good, socially conscious brands? Find out the real story behind all that marketing money and store visibility.
IBM launches water-management services operation (AP) - Yahoo 3/13/09
IBM files for patent on offshoring jobs - Record Online 3/30/09
BANKING / INVESTMENT INDUSTRY
Kucinich questions $3.6 billion in bonuses to Merrill Lynch executives - Cleveland Plain Dealer 3/30/09
Merrill Lynch’s bonuses were 22 times larger than the $165 million bonuses AIG paid its executives”…In contrast to the bonuses awarded by AIG, the Merrill bonuses constituted a significant proportion of allocated TARP funds, which were not locked into place by preexisting contract and were performance, not retention, in nature,” Kucinich said in the letter which mentioned the House Oversight subcommittee he chairs is probing the issue.
Morgan Stanley pays $7.2M for duping retirees- CNN 3/25/09
Washington Mutual sues FDIC for over $13 billion - Raw Story 3/21/09
Terrorism By Another Name: AIG Is Blackmailing America - George Washington blog 3/18/09
PHARMACEUTICAL & CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES
Perchlorate Chemicals Found in 100% of Tested Infant Formula Products - Natural News 4/4/09
Chemicals Used to Disinfect Water Create Dangerous Toxins - Natural News 4/4/09
Big Pharma’s Drugs to be Weaponized to Fight “Mind Wars” on Future Battlefields - Natural News 2/2/09
How Aspartame Became Legal – The Timeline - Rense 2/23/09
Big Pharma Quietly Hikes Drug Prices 100 Percent or More - Prison Planet 2/20/09
Big Pharma’s Drugs to be Weaponized to Fight “Mind Wars” on Future Battlefields - Natural News 2/2/09
Lawmakers Seek to Return Right to Sue Device Makers - NYTimes 2/20/09
A Supreme Court decision in 2008 barred lawsuits against makers of medical devices approved by the F.D.A.
DuPont Magically Granted Three-Year Extension on Safety Testing of PFOA (Teflon) - Natural News 4/11/09
The Environmental Appeals Board of the U.S. federal government has granted the DuPont corporation a three-year extension on its obligation to conduct a comprehensive assessment of a widely used chemical believed to expose consumers to the toxic substance perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA).
A number of studies have linked PFOA to health problems, with one more recent study linking it for the first time to infertility. The chemical, used to manufacture nonstick surfaces such as Teflon, has been found in the blood of people around the world. Under a voluntary EPA initiative, DuPont and a number of other companies have agreed to phase out all use of PFOA by 2015.
Big Pharma’s Thalidomide Drug was Actually Developed as Nazi Chemical Weapon (Today It’s Used as Chemotherapy) - Natural News 4/15/09
Pfizer to Pay £50 Million After Deaths of Nigerian Children in Drug Trial Experiment – Independent, UK 4/7/09
Big Pharma’s Latest Insanity? A “PolyPill” Combining Five Different Drugs Into One Pill - Natural News 3/30/09
Walgreen Offers Free Health Care for Unemployed: Compassion or Marketing Gimmick - Alternet 3/31/09
Big Food Is Copying Big Tobacco’s Disinformation Tactics, How Many Will Die This Time? - Alternet 4/11/09
The Multiple Ways Monsanto is Putting Normal Seeds Out of Reach - Surviving The Middle Class Crash blog 3/12/09
Monsanto Sues Germany Over GM Ban - via Cryptogon 4/26/09
Monsanto’s Bt Cotton Kills the Soil as Well as Farmers - Institute of Science in Society 3/22/09
The impact of GMO’s on soil organisms is not commonly studied. This is a vital lacunae because Bt toxin crops such as Mon 810 corn or Bt-cotton or Bt Brinjal have serious impact on beneficial soil organisms.
Coca-Cola Crisis in India - Desert Peace 4/21/09
Communities across India are under assault from Coca-Cola practices in the country. A pattern has emerged as a result of Coca-Cola’s bottling operations in India.
OTHER NOTABLE CORPORATE NEWS
Oakland hires private security - Raw Story 4/20/09
‘Force multiplier,’ money motivates merger of feds, AZ cops - Raw Story 4/24/09
US Cities Increasing Use of Armed Mercenaries to Replace Police - OpEd News 4/23/09
The United States is in the midst of the most radical privatization agenda in its history. We see this in schools, health care, prisons, and certainly with the US military/national security/intelligence apparatus. There are almost 200,000 “private contractors” in Iraq (more than US soldiers) and Obama is continuing to use mercenaries there and in Afghanistan and Israel/Palestine. At present, 70 percent of the US intelligence budget is going to private companies.
U.S. Cities Increasing Use of Armed Mercenaries to Replace Police - Alternet 4/24/09
Some estimate that private security inside the US actually outnumber police 5-to-1.
Allstate is Cooking the Books – InjuryBoard 2/8/09
