Yesterday marked the start of the Hajj, the annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia. The Saudi Press Agency said that a record number of Muslims were expected to make the Hajj this year – over 3.4 million anticipated over the five days of the pilgrimage. One of the pillars of Islamic faith, the Hajj must be carried out at …
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The Real Obama-Clinton Game Plan For Israel/Palestine?, By Alan Hart
On the face of it the package of “incentives” Secretary of State Clinton offered Prime Minister Netanyahu to persuade him to buy and sell to his coalition government a one-time-only freeze of 90 days on settlement construction in the occupied West Bank could be summed up with one “c” word – criminal. Criminal because by excluding occupied Arab East …
Read More »White House Says Child Soldiers Are Ok, if They Fight Terrorists , By Michelle Chen
You cannot be completely happy with all these wounds—both in your body and in your mind.” —15 year-old child soldier -The phenomenon of child soldiers, like genocide, slavery and torture, seems like one of those crimes that no nation could legitimately defend. Yet the Obama administration just decided to leave countless kids stranded on some of the world’s bloodiest battlegrounds. …
Read More »Wholesale Treason, Why Israel Bought Congress. by Gordon Duff
You Can't Make Stuff Like This Up! "Step two, "shock and awe" for Iran followed by a full scale invasion that, according to military experts directly responsible for drawing up our war plans, requires the fall of Pakistan, its "Balkanization and the military occupation of Baluchistan as a staging area." AIPAC, the Israel lobby used to, well, we don't exactly …
Read More »Guantanamo Inmates Set To Receive Payouts Of Up To £1Million By Nigel Morris and Tom Peck
British former inmates of Guantanamo Bay are to set to receive large payments from the Government to drop claims that British secret agents knew they were being tortured. Ministers are expected to announce today that a settlement has been reached with at least seven men in a combined pay-off likely to run into millions of pounds. One of the former …
Read More »Bush Can’t Travel Abroad Without Risking Arrest, By Matthew Rothschild
George W. Bush better stay at home. The confessed waterboarder is a marked man. If he travels abroad, other countries can—and should—nab him and try him for the crime of torture. In his memoir and in last week’s NBC interview, Bush acknowledged ordering waterboarding. He says the lawyers told him it wasn’t torture. But he got bad legal advice. Attorney …
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