US Veterans Urge Release of Detainee Abuse Photos
Three military veteran organizations are calling on the Obama Administration to release photographs that depict the abuse of detainees in U.S. custody. Veterans For Peace, Iraq Veterans Against the War and Veterans for Common Sense jointly composed a letter to President Obama that states that they believe that releasing the pictures is crucial to U.S. [...]
Former Prince Reza Pahlavi is being contacted by IRG sick of killing and looking for a way out!
Did you see what happened yesterday? As would be Protesters were approaching Parliament 500 Government thugs armed with axes, guns, and clubs attacked them.. Hacking them up shooting them clubbing them and throwing them off a foot bridge! Old men women whoever! I just saw a report on Iranian TV that the Government forces kept [...]
That A Life & Death Not Be Forgotten
Neda Agah-Soltan, 26 years old, killed by a bullet in the front of her neck while standing on a street in Tehran. Neda Agah-Soltan was unknown by the public prior to her death, according to an article in the Los Angeles Times she was:
Born in Tehran, they said, to a father who worked for the [...]
Health Care Reform: More Than Insurance
It seems, from what I have read, heard and seen in the media, that the health care reform initiative that President Obama would like to see implemented boils down to whether or not the government expands its role in providing health care insurance benefits to the entire populace, as opposed to just those who are [...]
When Christians and Muslims work together for peace.
Another important factor is that they are all women. Liberian women. They got tired of the corruption, the civil war and all the death, rape and dismemberment. They decided to do something about it.
Pray the Devil back to Hell. This movie tells their story.
The movie has won at least five film festival awards around the [...]
Volunteer/Humanitarian Convicted of Littering while “trying to save lives”
Walt Staton labels water to be left for migrants.
Web-designer Walt Staton, 27, a volunteer with a Tucson AZ humanitarian aid group, routinely places sealed jugs of drinking water in the Arizona desert at the Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge, in the paths undocumented migrants use as they to attempt to enter the US. For that, [...]
Ah, the great healthcare debate..
I refuse to enter into it, ‘the debate over healthcare’. It should be a no-brainer as far as I am concerned.
But the rightwingers are using lies and obfuscation. This severely jerks my chain. The talking points are all the same, and frankly, I can’t believe people are buying into them.
Even my friggin orthopedic surgeon’s office [...]
Uighurs Released From Guantanamo!
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Shortly after 6:00 A.M. Thursday, four Chinese Muslims (Uighurs) were released from detention in the U.S. prison facility at Guantanamo Bay and resettled as free men in Bermuda (roughly 500 miles due [...]
11,000 Iraqi’s still being held by US Government
From Jurist:
The US-led Multi-National Force in Iraq said Tuesday that it is still holding 11,057 Iraqi prisoners in three separate camps throughout the country. The prisoners currently held in the three US camps, Camp Taji, Camp Cropper, and Camp Bucca, will either be released or transferred to Iraqi authorities as the military works to [...]
moist weather blues
well, i just got done firing off emails to my ‘representatives’ in congress. have you seen the fuckery that is passing for health care reform from the democratic congress? it has been a high blood pressure week for me- a ‘representative’ from my area to the state government in albany staged a coup d’etat and [...]
Guantanamo and detainee treatment — truth be told
“Dangerous people, detainees, prisoners of war, terrorists, extremists” – The words we use to describe our adversaries are important. Not only are they important to those people, but they matter all over the world. We must also be accurate when we describe what we have done to detainees says Glenn Greenwald at Salon.com (6/6/09). [...]
Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire Detained by US Homeland Security
USA Homeland Security detained Nobel Peace laureate Mairead Maguire in mid May as she entered the US at a Houston airport. According to information provided by the Free Gaza Movement, Maguire was returning home to Northern Ireland from a three day conference she hosted in Guatemala with three sister Nobel Peace Laureates: Rigoberta Menchu, [...]
Repressive Governments Always Fear The People
It is being reported over at The Blog Herald that China has begun aggressively blocking mainstream western Internet sites, including Twitter, Hotmail, YouTube, WordPress.com, and Bing among others. Apparently all in anticipation of the Tianamen Square Massacre on June 4.
What this tells us is that the word is more powerful than any act by repressive [...]
Who Has A Right To Protest Womens Reproductive Health?
The weekend started slow here in Roswell. Not much happening beyond the usual small town crap and kinda mundane/average news on the world level. Saturday a young friend got the letter accepting him into the Eastern New Mexico University School of Nursing, where he wants to persue his RN license, so he celebrated with the [...]
State Dept recognizes same sex partners.
From the NYT:
The State Department will offer equal benefits and protections to same-sex partners of American diplomats, according to an internal memorandum Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton sent last week to an association of gay and lesbian Foreign Service officers.
Wow wee, the federal government can recognize the rights of LGBT’s but the military can [...]
