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Undoing IMPUNITY — ICC States Rein in Rogue Cop
Dr. Carolyn LaDelle Bennett
By continuing its capricious and insular rulemaking outside the International Criminal Court the current government in Washington forestalls a necessary correction of prior and persisting lawlessness surrounding U.S. “war-on-terror” detentions — Dilemmas deepening dilemmas.
Wouldn’t it be simpler and a better way to resolve mounting dilemmas to obey and be held accountable by the same rule of law to which other countries and their heads of state and citizens and allies are held accountable?
“The Netherlands should not consider taking Guantanamo Bay detainees,” Dutch MEP, Christian Democrat Wilhelmus (Wim) van de Camp said this week, “until the United States first recognises the International Criminal Court (ICC) based in The Hague.”
Obamacare: A Health Care Rationing Scheme to Enrich Insurers, Drug Companies and Large Hospital Chains
by Stephen Lendman
On February 24, Barack Obama told a joint session of Congress that "we must....address the crushing cost of health care....caus(ing) a bankruptcy in America every thirty seconds. By the end of the year, it could cause 1.5 million Americans to lose their homes. In (each of) the last eight years....one million....Americans have lost their health insurance....Given these facts, we can no longer afford to put health care reform on hold....health care reform cannot wait, it must not wait, and it will not wait another year." Behind the facade of reform, Obama and leading Democrats ruled universal, single-payer coverage off the table before debate even began. Instead they've focused on taxing more, rationing care, placing profits above human need, disdaining vital change, shifting the cost burden to individuals and requiring everyone to be insured; imposing fines up to $1000 for non-compliance, and making a broken system even worse.
Obey Jesus Christ or the Government
By Tony Soldo
All true Christians must disconnect themselves from all organized groups of men who's purpose is to control, judge, punish, interfere with, other men. This includes all governments, business corporations, and even religions.
The only form of government that true Christians submit themselves to is the Kingdom of Heaven, which true Christians are citizens of, and Jesus Christ is the only authority and King, and Jesus commands His followers to obey His commands found in the New Testament Gospels.
Commandment 1) Love the Lord God with all your heart, soul, and mind.
Commandment 2) Love your neighbor as you love yourself.
As for Romans 13, that command is null and void if it goes against the commands of Jesus Christ, and all governments do things that go against the teachings and commands of Jesus Christ, including, and especially the US Empire, who is Babylon of Revelation chapters 17 and 18, but the US government has sent out alerts to all Christian organizations telling the pastors to teach Romans 13.
Fading Into Mist...
Sheila Samples
If you keep on excusing, you eventually give your blessing to the slave camp, to cowardly force, to organized executioners, to the cynicism of great political monsters; you finally hand over your brothers~~Albert Camus
There is no subject more restricted nor more controlled in the United States than a critical discussion of Israel. Balanced argument is ignored while each word is parsed -- and condemned. It's strange that we are free to rant and rave and point out the war crimes of our own administration -- of all other administrations throughout the world -- but not those of Israel. The few who dare to question the damage Israel has wrought throughout the Middle East for decades are immediately labeled "anti-Semitic," and are in danger of losing their friends, jobs, their reputations and, if they persist, their country -- for America has zero tolerance for those who recognize Israel's brutality.
U.S. Silent on “LOST CAUSE”
Dr. Carolyn LaDelle Bennett
A lead question Americans should be asking but aren’t and two sets of responses worth considering¯On Afghanistan.
“This is a terrible situation we’ve got into. We lost three wars in the nineteenth century there. It’s very difficult to fight people without civilian casualties but if you are foreigners the civilian casualties are held very, very strongly against you. There’s very little changing. … I think we ought to be thinking about an exit strategy” [Lamont].
“An enormous international effort” will be needed to devise an exit strategy which leaves a legacy worth having” [Lambert].
“We ought to be thinking now¯ not about wasting lives in a pointless war — but how we can bring an end to this and get out” [Lamont].
Latin America: Energy Workers in Time of Crisis
James Petras
The situation of the energy sector in Latin America is determined by both internal and external correlations of political forces, the level of class organization and power within the ruling and the working classes, the condition of the world economy and the strength and weakness of US imperialism. The ‘situation of the energy sector’ refers to several variants in terms of ownership, weight in the economy and distribution of oil revenues within the class structure.
To all the Sharp Dressed Soldiers Shipping Out
eileen fleming
[Florida, July 18, 2009] Last Wednesday, I flew to Atlanta to meet up with an old friend from my misspent youth who became a lifetime member of the ZZ Top fan club in 1983. Ever since, she has received two free tickets when ever they tour. They opened for Aerosmith who will remain forever young on Youtube: Aerosmith - Train Kept A Rollin'
The next morning I awoke fully conscious that it was the first Thursday of a weekly global call to fast for Gaza http://www.fastforgaza.net/statement during daylight hours so that the hearts and minds of the leaders of the world would open up to the human misery in Gaza Palestine and be moved to end the siege and occupation. Three hours and three cups of coffee later, I boarded the hotel elevator for the last time.
Are Israeli courts staffed by Nazi judges?
By Khalid Amayreh in the West Bank
Just as anti-Semitism became official policy in Germany in the mid 1930s, it seems hostility toward Arabs, especially Israel’s own 1.5 million Palestinian citizens, is becoming a de facto official policy of the Israeli state.
This ominous orientation is being constantly promoted by a number of manifestly racist cabinet ministers and Knesset members who declare openly that their aim is to make everyone in Israel “submit to the Jewish nature of the state.”
The brash racism is now permeating through the entire apparatus of the Jewish state, from the police, to the justice system, to the army, to the educational system and, of course, the media.
Muzzling press freedom in Palestine
By Khalid Amayreh in the West Bank
The recent decision by the Ramallah-based regime to close down the al-Jazeera offices in the West Bank illustrates the vulnerability and utter stupidity of the American-backed and Israeli-tolerated junta.
The decision came a day after Fatah Secretary-General Farouk Kaddoumi appeared on al-Jazeera, accusing Palestinian Authority Leader Mahmoud Abbas and his aide, former Gaza strong man Muhammed Dahlan, of complicity in poisoning the late Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat.
Justifying the decision, PA officials accused al Jazeera of bias, incitement and fostering division within the Palestinian community.
LIVING RICH AND CRYING POOR
by Mary Pitt
As a member of the "Depression Generation". I have loved my country as one loves a husband; for better or for worse, in sickness and in health, until death do us part. Now there are those who tell us that our nation is as severely ill as it was at that time.
I recall, one summer evening, following my father outside as he searched the scorching sky for signs of a rain cloud. "What happened to all the rain, Daddy?". I asked this man who presisted in stirring the dusty soil, planting seeds, and praying for a crop. I shall never forget his reply:
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