By Chris Hedges, Truthdig, Dec. 6, 2010 Innocence, as defined by law, makes us complicit with the crimes of the state. To do nothing, to be judged by the state as an innocent, is to be guilty. It is to…
Category: International
Afghanistan: Women remain prisoners
KABUL, 2 December 2010 (IRIN) – Zarghoona* has completed her three-month sentence at a prison in Kandahar Province, southern Afghanistan, but she is not allowed home because no male relative has shown up to guarantee that she will not run…
The National Security State and the Assassination of JFK
The CIA, the Pentagon, and the ‘Peace President’ by Andrew Gavin Marshall, Global Research, Nov. 23, 2010 Just 47 years ago, on November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. This marked the turning of the…
Chomsky: Threat of war with Iran is real
Paul Jay interviews Noam Chomsky on the expansion of post-WW 2 power and the recent signs of it’s decline: America can no longer force countries to do its bidding, as evidenced by growing independence in South America, and Turkish-Brazilian initiatives…
A Cry From Argentina: ‘Close Guantanamo’
By Amy Goodman, Truthdig, Nov. 16, 2010 “Gitmo is going to remain open for the foreseeable future,” said an unnamed White House official to The Washington Post this week. For guidance on the notorious U.S. Navy base in Cuba, President…
Factory, coal mine show connections matter most in Afghan business
By Jonathan S. Landay, McClatchy Newspapers, Nov. 14, 2010 KARKAR COAL MINE, Afghanistan — Shovel-wielding miners in rags and plastic shoes, some with the protruding ribs and work-ravaged pallor of labor camp prisoners, toil deep inside this remote northern mountain,…
Iraq: War Crimes and Atrocities
By Felicity Arbuthnot, Global Research, Nov. 8, 2010 Perhaps the most surprising aspect of the latest, vast cache of documents from Wikileaks, is that anyone was surprised at the revelations. For Iraqis, Afghans and the region, and Iraq and Afghanistan…
Nicaragua in America’s cross-hairs again
By Stan Goff, Feral Scholar, Nov. 3, 2010 Rio San Juan del Norte empties into the Caribbean Sea along the border between Nicaragua and Costa Rica. The river is renowned for its biodiversity, and is surrounded on the Costa Rican…
Canada’s role in the persecution of child soldier Omar Khadr
By Keith Jones, Global Research, Nov. 1, 2010 The military commission trial of child-soldier Omar Khadr and the plea bargain that the Obama administration and the Pentagon coerced from him this week have been widely and rightly condemned. Now just…
The persecution of Omar Khadr
America and Obama Hit Bottom: Pressuring Child Soldier to Plead Guilty to Murder Violates International Law and Basic Common Decency By Dave Lindorff, Oct. 25, 2010 As the author of The Case for Impeachment (St. Martin’s Press, 2006), I never…