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Guantanamo Hunger Strike Spreads
by Stephen Lendman
Detainees have few ways to resist. Refusing food challenges injustice. It's now past two months.
Media scoundrels at first ignored it. Now they say little. Capitol Hill's quiet. Pentagon officials downplay it. Russia Today reports it daily. More on that below.
Around 130 detainees refuse food. They're surviving only on water. Some are being force-fed. Doing so constitutes torture.
Playing the Venezuelan Anti-Semitism Card
by Stephen Lendman
Throughout his tenure, Washington officials vilified Chavez unjustifiably. So did media scoundrels.
He was America top hemispheric enemy. Donald Rumsfeld once likened him to Hitler. Pat Robertson called for his assassination. Anti-semitism accusations surfaced often.
His December 2005 Christmas Eve address was held against him. He said nothing offensive. His comments were maliciously taken the wrong way. He said:
"The world is for all of us, then, but it so happens that a minority, the descendants of the same ones that crucified Christ, the descendants of the same ones that kicked Bolivar out of here and also crucified him in their own way over there in Santa Marta, in Colombia."
Expanding Draconian Computer Fraud and Abuse Act Powers
by Stephen Lendman
A previous article discussed CFAA. It explained the following:
It's an anti-hacking law. It's a computer trespass law. It criminalizes accessing computer systems "without authorization."
"(E)xceeds authorized access" terminology was left undefined.
In 1984, it was enacted. It was amended numerous times. It's primarily a criminal law. It covers seven types of offenses.
Scandal Hits Cyprus
by Stephen Lendman
Grand theft is official Cypriot policy. Bank account haircuts are authorized. Those above 100,000 euros are targeted.
Depositors may lose much more than initially thought. Minimally it's around 40% of their money. It may be double that amount or more. Potentially it's everything.
Monsanto Protection Act
by Stephen Lendman
Agribusiness giant Monsanto's the world's leading GMO seed producer. They're hazardous to human health. They should be banned. They proliferate.
GMO foods and ingredients are toxic. They're unsafe to eat. Independent studies prove it. Monsanto and other agribusiness giants want all animal and vegetable life forms patented. They want worldwide food control.
Obama's a partner in crime. He promised GMO labeling. He's done nothing to mandate it. It gets worse.
His food czar is former Monsanto executive Michael Taylor. He serves as FDA Deputy Commissioner for Foods. He believes unsafe ones are fit to eat.
On March 26, Obama signed the Monsanto Protection Act. It's the Farmer Assurance Provision rider in HR 933: Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2013.
Palestinian Land Day
By Dr. Elias Akleh
Saturday March 30th was the 37th commemoration of Palestinian Land Day. Palestinians walked the streets of every major Palestinian town denouncing the Israeli occupation, the confiscation of Palestinian land, the building of illegal Israeli colonies, the Israeli demolition of Palestinian homes and demanding freedom, liberation of all occupied Palestine and the establishment of an independent Palestinian state.
Has the Arab League mortally wounded itself by declaring war on Syria?
Franklin Lamb
Damascus -- Frankly, it never was much of a “League” of Arab states.
And arguably it never really achieved a whole lot but two dozen lavish ‘summits’ offering inflated rhetoric, often calculated to assuage the Arab people about their central cause, Palestine.
This, despite high hopes across Arabia when its founders promulgated a Charter on March 22, 1945 and took a solemn oath to prevent the theft of Palestine by European colonists. Yet, notions of fundamental fairness require that we all acknowledge, that to its credit, the Arab League has tried to achieve a modicum of pan-Arab cooperation on issues involving economic and financial affairs, commercial relations, customs, currency, questions of agriculture and industry, communications including railroads, roads, aviation, navigation, postal services, cultural affairs, nationality, passports, visas, execution of judgments, extradition of criminals and even a bit regarding social affairs and health issues.
Global Paradox: Peace Not Wars
Mahboob A. Khawaja, PhD.
“Lies of the Iraq War” the 10th anniversary of the Iraq’s genocide approximately 3 million human beings massacred and human habitats destroyed under the false pretext of WMD. This week, the global news media hurriedly doing the damage control of its complacent image and showing the belated facts of the bogus “War on Terror.” The facts were facts in March 2003, when George Bush, the Congress and Tony Blair planned aggression against the innocent people of Iraq, the Western news media served as a weapon to launch the cruel war. Now it wants to distance itself and perhaps repair the self-inflicted and well sponsored atrocities carried out against the mankind.
Iran and the West are Talking: Why War not Peace?
Mahboob A. Khawaja, PhD.
On the occasion of international talks to be held on Tuesday, February 26, in Almaty, Kazakhstan, between Iran and the Six Western nations, the major agenda issues for negotiations are outcomes of perceptions not proven reality that Iran is developing nuclear capability and that Iran could any way is poised to threaten the military-political hegemony of the Western industrialized nations. Many well placed Western strategists have worked hard to transform some of the illusory perceptions into workable acts of stage performance as was the case with the Israeli PM Netanyahu recently speaking at the UNO General Assembly. Facts are denied access in the mainstream Western news media and fictions become front-page headlines for public consumption and fear mongering. It is the same strategy used by George Bush and his accompanying psychopaths shortly after the September 2001 attacks on America.
Pakistan: Darkness Renewed
Mahboob A. Khawaja, PhD.
Daily killings of innocent citizens speak out loud that political darkness is renewed and that Pakistan needs a Navigational Change. Terrorists are terrorizing the nation. Perhaps, it is reasonable to assume that there is no responsible political governance in Pakistan. Ironically, the same security forces and their elite administrators are paid by the Foreign Master and they generate daily statistic of hundreds of killings by drone attacks and ‘extremism.’ They are well paid in cash dollars to do the job - the role and functions of traitors who deserve to be questioned and be held accountable in a court of law.
Man’s inhumanity to Man
'Many and sharp the num'rous ills
Inwoven with our frame!
More pointed still we make ourselves
Regret, remorse, and shame!
And Man, whose heav'n-erected face
The smiles of love adorn, -
Man's inhumanity to man
Makes countless thousands mourn
(Robert Burns. Man was made to Mourn: A Dirge, 1785)
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