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Good News At Last! .. Syria Bombing to be Cancelled?

Great news! By just 13 votes the Brit Parliament voted against bombing Syria.

This, along with Arab League failure to endorse, French backing off and a snowballing anti-war campaign at home MAY BE ENOUGH to stop the US attacking Syria.

Bad news for US corporations and the arms market. Bad news for the Israelis, for all the imperialist, racist and sexist warmongers who get hot on the idea of blowing people to pieces for their own profit and prestige. Continue reading “Good News At Last! .. Syria Bombing to be Cancelled?”

US/UK to risk WW3 to bomb Syrians with crazy ‘Chemical Weapons’ Pretext

update here: Good News At Last! .. Syria Bombing to be Cancelled?

The US military/industrial economy needs fresh blood.. or rather needs a war,

the final logic of insane predator capitalism.

Morality. …Can a nation which has repeatedly used and sold chemical weapons then morally bomb another country on suspicion they used them? Continue reading “US/UK to risk WW3 to bomb Syrians with crazy ‘Chemical Weapons’ Pretext”

Deal for Yasuni Paradise Lost due to Euro Greed

Morning mist floats above the Tiputini River in Yasuní National Park, Ecuador. Photograph by Tim Laman, National Geographic with thanks — Morning mist floats above the Tiputini River in Yasuní National Park, Ecuador.
Photo from Tim Laman, National Geographic +with thanks+

In 2010 Ecuador made the world an offer it couldn’t — or at least, shouldn’t have been able to — refuse. For the measly price of $3.6bn, it promised not to exploit the Ishpingo-Tiputini-Tambococha oil block in the Yasuni national park, a 675 square mile patch of pristine Amazon rainforest that is home to barely contacted indigenous tribes, thousands of species of trees and nearly 1bn barrels of crude oil. Continue reading “Deal for Yasuni Paradise Lost due to Euro Greed”

Manning shames her Tormentors, vows to Live as a Woman

…”sometimes you have to pay a heavy price to live in a free society…”

Chelsea (ex-Bradley) Manning’s post-sentence statement, issued by his lawyer, was the kind of statement you would expect to be given by a Nobel Peace Prize recipient in their acceptance speech. It is both unequivocal and profound. …

That Manning issues such a statement on the day he is sentenced to 35 years in prison is testimony to his resilience, his courage and his love. In doing so, the politicians of this world must surely cower in shame. If President Obama has any integrity left, he must pardon immediately this noble individual. Below, we reproduce it with one difference: we have added hyperlinks, where relevant, to provide greater perspective…. Continue reading “Manning shames her Tormentors, vows to Live as a Woman”

BBC censors the Smashing of Guardian’s Hard Drives

Today 20th August I can find no mention in the BBC online that their sister media outlet The Guardian was forced by police to destroy hard drives with leaked info of US security crimes, in their basement yesterday. Incredible but I just spent half an hour searching, check yourself!. ah, but of course, the BBC is controlled by the British Government. A story that is second most popular in the Washington Post ISN’T WORTH REPORTING the next day in the BBC. Is this pre-nazi Germany or what?!

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Marijuana is safe says leading Dr. Sanjay Gupta

To the so-called leaders in Washington and Ottawa: Give it up, you have lost this stupid war on drugs. And thank you Sanjay for having the fortitude and courage of a true scientist. Lou

Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN Chief Medical Correspondent: Why I changed my mind on weed – Continue reading “Marijuana is safe says leading Dr. Sanjay Gupta”

US drone kills six ”Suspects”.. so who is the Terrorist?

Without Warning, US Bombs Yemen

Hours ahead of evacuation of US embassy, ‘five missiles’ from suspected drone turn truck into ‘fireball’

– Jon Queally, staff writer

UPDATE Friday 8 more suspects murdered Eight die in new Yemen robot strikes

A Yemeni soldier stops a car at a checkpoint in a street leading to the U.S. embassy in Sanaa, Yemen, Sunday, Aug. 4, 2013. Security forces close access roads, put up extra blast walls and beef up patrols near some of the 21 U.S. diplomatic missions in the Muslim world that Washington ordered closed for the weekend over a “significant threat”of an al-Qaida attack. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)No travel warnings were issued for Yemen citizens ahead of a US drone attack on Tuesday. Continue reading “US drone kills six ”Suspects”.. so who is the Terrorist?”