The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law, and particularly to deny him the judgment of his peers, is in the highest degree odious and is the foundation of all totalitarian government whether Nazi or Communist.
June 2006
Thu 15 Jun 2006
Thu 15 Jun 2006
Comments on John Pilger’s New Book Freedom Next Time
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by Stephen Lendman
John Pilger is an award-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker and one of the truly great ones of our time. For nearly 50 years, he’s courageously and brilliantly done what too few others in his profession, in fact, do – his job. (more…)
Tue 13 Jun 2006
I became convinced that non-cooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good.
Mon 12 Jun 2006
By Dahr Jamail Truthout 6/12/06
    Fearful residents are now pouring out of Ramadi after the US military has been assaulting the city for months with tactics like cutting water, electricity and medical aid (more…)
Mon 12 Jun 2006
Why Pretend That Hillary Clinton Is Progressive?
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by Norman Solomon From: Commondreams.org 6/12/06
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The scheduled speech by Sen. Hillary Clinton at the “Take Back America 2006” conference (more…)
Mon 12 Jun 2006
Posibilidad: Reinventing the World through Images, Conversation and Action
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Posibilidad Latin America Update June 12, 2006
Bolivia Nationalizes Oil and Gas
Nobel Prize winner Joseph Stiglitz says Bolivia did the right thing (more…)
Mon 12 Jun 2006
The Nuremberg Principles as they pertain to the case of Dr. Dhafir
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Below are the words of Dirk Adriaensens, a member of the Executive Committee of the Brussels Tribunal, which invited Dr. Dhafir in January of this year to be their sole honorary member of their advisory committee:
“We invited Dr. Dhafir (more…)
Mon 12 Jun 2006
From: http://deoxy.org/wc/wc-nurem.htm
No. 82
Principles of International Law Recognized in the Charter of the Nuremberg Tribunal (more…)