Bring Back Our Girls by Susu Jeffrey Bring Back Our Girls. Bring Back Our Girls since April 15th, 2014 it's been months & months forever for teenage girls assembled for their final physics exam. Kidnapped in the middle of the night. Bring Back Our Girls. Bring back our 276 girl students or is it 329 More
Nigerian says spiritual leaders who fail to confront extremists such as Boko Haram allow fanaticism to thrive IAN JOHNSTON The Independent 10 August 2014 Atrocities carried out by fanatics such as Nigeria's Boko Haram show the dangers of religious belief with the "scroll of faith … indistinguishable from the roll call of death", according to More
Nigerian says spiritual leaders who fail to confront extremists such as Boko Haram allow fanaticism to thrive IAN JOHNSTON The Independent 10 August 2014 Atrocities carried out by fanatics such as Nigeria's Boko Haram show the dangers of religious belief with the "scroll of faith … indistinguishable from the roll call of death", according to More
The confirmation Wednesday by a Swedish court of international arrest warrant for Julian Assange demonstrates that "there is a police investigation, but a political persecution," says lawyer and author Eva Golinger. RT.com Published: July 16, 2014 | 22:37 GMT Last updated: July 16, 2014 © REUTERS Note: This article has been translated from Spanish by an More
This report turns the tide in the privacy debate at the United Nations and opens the door for more substantive scrutiny of states’ surveillance practices and their compliance with international human rights law. BY PARKER HIGGINS AND KATITZA RODRIGUEZ EFF.org July 16, 2014 The UN High Commissioner on Human Rights has released an excellent report today on the More
By Polly Mann WAMM Newsletter Spring II 2014 I became interested in Iceland during World War II when the husband of a close friend was stationed at a military base near Reykjavik. (The U.S. maintained a military base and naval station in Iceland until 2006.) No American soldier could go into Reykjavik without written authority from More
To claim that racist parties are democratic is based on a dangerous and ahistorical view of ideology, says Henrik Arnstad. Here are the notes preceeding the posting of the article below. ”Den [mellankrigstida] fascismen ansåg krossandet av demokratin vara ett villkor för ultranationalismens triumf. Men den nutida extremhögern vill göra demokratin etniskt homogen och reservera More
Posted by Alexander Reed Kelly truthdig.com March 14, 2014 Photo by bulliver (CC BY 2.0) Sarah Harrison, an editor at WikiLeaks who has also worked with NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden, won’t return to her home country of England because she fears being prosecuted as a terrorist for seeking to influence her government. Harrison’s fear comes More
The NSA Snake John Cole, Cagle Cartoons, The Scranton Times-Tribune truthdig.com
Edward Snowden’s critics have alleged that he revealed classified US secrets to the enemies of the US. But it seems increasingly likely that he revealed them to . . . Barack Obama. By Juan Cole 10/28/2013 Informed Comment frontpagemag.com The revelation from the Snowden Papers that the National Security Agency had German Chancellor Angela More
By Kevin Gosztola Monday November 4, 2013 The Dissenter Fire Dog Lake Following the September 11th attacks, physicians and other medical professionals, “particularly psychologists,” were involved in the “design and administration” of harsh treatment and torture. This conduct was “in clear conflict with established international and national professional principles and laws,” a new report from a task More
Glenn Greenwald theguardian.com, Friday 23 August 2013 The NSA whistleblower says: 'I have never spoken with, worked with, or provided any journalistic materials to the Independent' GCHQ's headquarters on the outskirts of Cheltenham. Photograph: Barry Batchelor/PA (Updated below) The Independent this morning published an article - which it repeatedly claims comes from "documents obtained from the NSA by Edward Snowden" - More
