Despite claims to the contrary, the prison facilities at Guantanamo Bay are actually expanding and becoming an even more permanent feature in the war on justice, yoghurt salesmen, due process.
The controversy over the US-run detention centre at Guantanamo Bay is to erupt anew with confirmation by the Pentagon that a new, permanent prison will open [...]
Continue Reading July 31st, 2006 Björn Hallberg
Salon via Norman Finkelstein: “Israel claims it’s justified in bombing civilians because Hezbollah mingles with them. In fact, the militant group doesn’t trust its civilians and stays as far away from them as possible.”
And on the topic of civilians …
Continue Reading July 29th, 2006 Björn Hallberg
According to a predictable new study from New Zealand on the effects of the infamous defoliant turned chemical weapon.
A team from New Zealand’s Massey University has now shown that the group of 24 Vietnam veterans it tested suffered significant genetic damage, compared with a similar sized group of soldiers who did not serve in Vietnam, [...]
Continue Reading July 29th, 2006 Björn Hallberg
So the US didn’t trust its ally enough to be forthcoming about what it transported in the chartered Airbus A310 that logged in as civilian craft at Prestwick, Scotland. It’s lucky for the US though that Britain allows itself to be trampled on time and again and to be a party to state terrorism. Britain [...]
Continue Reading July 28th, 2006 Björn Hallberg
See, this is what you get for allying yourself with the US empire. In fact, you could just as well officially turn over sovereignty altogether because for all intents and or purposes you already have. Welcome Poland, the new proxy chip in northern Europe.
Poland’s president has expressed reservations about surrendering sovereignty to the US at [...]
Continue Reading July 27th, 2006 Björn Hallberg
By purposely targeting, killing UN observers in an act of plain and simple terrorism. No doubt in preparation for massacres and human rights violations that aren’t fit for print.
Kofi Annan: UN attack looks deliberate
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan today said he was “shocked” at Israel’s “apparently deliberate targeting” of a UN post in Lebanon, in [...]
Continue Reading July 26th, 2006 Björn Hallberg
When Pakistan builds a heavy-water reactor geared specifically towards plutonium production the Black House turns to “dissuasion” and “discouragement.” As one commentator notes in brief over at Raw Story, Iranian nuclear facilities provoke a different reaction despite no one having proven that Iran is even gearing towards weapons production per se. Pakistan flat out admits [...]
Continue Reading July 25th, 2006 Björn Hallberg
The truth usually comes out eventually. Here is a fine example of the US promoting democracy abroad and rigging an entire political system for their benefit.
“In the 1958-1968 decade, the U.S. Government approved four covert programs to try to influence the direction of Japanese political life,” the State Department revealed this week in the latest [...]
Continue Reading July 25th, 2006 Björn Hallberg
Though they vehemently deny it. Among the ideas pushed by the US: Indian farmers would have to accept being driven out of business by US produce being dumped on the Indian market.
Blaming the US for its rigid stand on the contentious issue of farm subsidies and the collapse of WTO talks in Geneva, India today [...]
Continue Reading July 25th, 2006 Björn Hallberg
The headline you wont see printed in black and white but it is nevertheless what is going on in East Africa. The best part? The United States uses Ethiopia to wage a proxy war after decades of destabilization and terror failed to produce the desired results. Larry Chin writes for Online Journal:
While most of the [...]
Continue Reading July 25th, 2006 Björn Hallberg
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