(KurtNimmo) – The alternative media in the United States and corporate media outlets in Europe and Israel are now reporting on a story that surfaced earlier in the week revealing a weapons build-up in preparation for an attack on Iran. Continue reading
Tag Archives: convention
Prof. Francis Boyle: Israel Is Committing Genocide
(PoliticalTheatrics) – “What we’re seeing in Gaza now, is pretty much slow-motion genocide against the 1.5 million Palestinians who live in Gaza…. If you read the 1948 Genocide Convention, it clearly says that one instance of genocide is the deliberate infliction of conditions of life calculated to bring about the physical destruction of a people in whole or in part,” stated Francis A. Boyle, professor of International Law at the University of Illinois in Champaign. “And that’s exactly what has been done to Gaza, since the imposition of the blockade by Israel; then the massacre of 1,400 Palestinians, two-thirds of whom were civilians, in Operation Cast Lead. And that also raises the element in the Genocide Convention, of murder, torture, and things of that nature.”
Boyle spoke to {EIR} on Jan. 15, 2010, giving his assessment of Gaza, one year after the Israeli attacks. He stressed that he was speaking only for himself. Read More Here
See Also:
(GlobalResearch) – U.S Vows To Bury Goldstone Report At UN
Israeli sources reported Saturday that the United States vowed to Israeli leaders to bury the report of Judge Richard Goldstone on Israel’s war in Gaza last year. The sources added that the Israeli government vowed to respond to the report of Goldstone by forming an independent committee. Read More Here
When the “War on Terror” Becomes Genocide
The “Convention for the Punishment and Prevention of the Crime of Genocide” stresses the prevention of genocide more than prescribing its exact manner of punishment. Genocide does not have to be committed for the Convention to have effect. By defining “genocide” it seeks to avert agendas which will confirm the crime. Continue reading
Video: Sarah Palin’s Bad Tea – Southern Avenger
At the first ever National Tea Party Convention last weekend, Sarah Palin’s keynote speech outlined a path back to the same old big government, pro-war Bush Republicanism. Continue reading
Child Slavery In Haiti – Stephen Lendman
(Rense) – In November 1989, the UN General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child, recognizing “that in all countries in the world, there are children living in exceptionally difficult conditions, and that such children need special consideration.” Then in May 2000, the General Assembly adopted an Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography. Continue reading
MSM: The US cash behind extremist settlers
(Guardian) – The Hebron Fund is raising vast sums for Israeli settlements that violate the Geneva convention, with little scrutiny Continue reading
Enslavement by a New Copenhagen Protocol to the Climate Change Treaty
Copenhagen is about to become the successor to Kyoto as the synonym for the U.N.’s plan to control climate change. The 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change will meet in Copenhagen December 7-18. Until this meeting ends, expect to hear a growing number of climate-related horror stories, presented by a wide array of so-called environmentalists, at a rising decibel level that’s sure to drive the sane quite mad. Continue reading
Freedom’s Destruction By Constitutional De-Construction
During the Constitutional Convention, from May to September 1787, delegates from the colonies were to gather together for the express purpose of amending the Articles of Confederation to form a “more perfect union” (NOT a completely different union!). Continue reading
Thomas Paine v. the Right’s Torture Defenders
What every American should be made to learn about the IG Torture Report Continue reading
U.N. Climate Warning: We Have 4 Months to Secure Future of Planet
(UN) – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Incheon (Republic of Korea) 11 August 2009 – Remarks to the Global Environment Forum Continue reading
The OAS Treaty: Blueprint for Dismantling the Second Amendment
The Obama administration’s offensive against the Second Amendment has begun. Continue reading
MSM: Britain’s dirty little secret as a dumper of toxic waste
(Times) – Britain was accused yesterday of dumping toxic household and industrial waste in developing countries on two continents in breach of an international convention. Continue reading
Flashback: US Military Operating a Secret Chemical Weapons Program
The Sunshine Project today accuses the US military of conducting a chemical weapons research and development program in violation of international arms control law. The charges follow an 18 month investigation of the Department of Defense’s Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate (JNLWD). Continue reading
The Latest Torture Cover-Up Scam
The Obama administration appears increasingly devoted to covering up the worst crimes of the Bush era. On Monday, CIA chief Leon Panetta formally objected to federal judge Alvin Hellerstein, who was considering releasing detailed information on 92 videotaped CIA torture sessions of detainees. Continue reading
Obama Pushing Treaty To Ban Reloading
Remember Candidate Barack Obama? The guy who “wasn’t going to take away our guns”?
Well, guess what? Continue reading
Chomsky: Torture has been America’s ‘routine practice’ since ‘early days’
Left-wing social critic and political activist Noam Chomsky is not surprised that Americans felt “shock and indignation” when the Bush administration torture memos were released — but he is surprised that anyone would consider them surprising. Continue reading
Video: Obama Supports Treaty Outlawing Gun Possession
As Lou Dobbs notes here, Obama is in favor of the ratifying CIFTA, the Inter-American Convention Against Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms. Continue reading
Lawsuit Against Companies that Sold WMD to Saddam
Editor’s note: In 2002, Infowars journalist Kurt Nimmo wrote about the U.S. government and corporations selling WMD to Saddam. Continue reading
Obama Signs Spending Bill, Breaks Yet Another Promise
In a not-so-surprising move today, President Obama signed into a law a “an imperfect spending bill” worth $410 billion. According to an article released by the Associated Press, the bill was signed in private and Obama took no questions from the press regarding the bill or its signing.
Video: MSM – Ron Paul on FOX 9/9/08
Storm Troopers at the RNC
Ten days ago, as the nation focused attention on the hurricane nearing the Mississippi delta, another storm was brewing far upstream in St. Paul, Minnesota — a storm far more dangerous, it turned out, but one by and large overlooked by the Fawning Corporate Media (FCM). Continue reading
RNC: Secret Service Confiscates Ron Paul Delegates’ Materials
Delegate Dennis Rothacker from FL opened this story when he sent the
following urgent text message:
“We just had a group shot of all the RP delegates and alternates, the
secret service came and started searching everyone and took anything RP
related. We got it on video though…” Continue reading
Video: Russia Today – Ron Paul steals the show
Video: Ron Paul Rally For The Republic – Bill Kauffman
Pt. 1 of 2 Continue reading
Video: Jesse Ventura Speaks About 9/11 at Ron Paul Rally (Updated)
Pt. 1 of 3 Continue reading
Video: Fox host – RNC protesters should just be left in jail
The hosts of Fox & Friends were predictably irate on Tuesday about the alleged anarchists who have been witnessed causing disruptions during the Republican National Convention, while ignoring questionable police tactics and seemingly indiscriminate arrests directed against peaceful protesters and journalists. Continue reading
Video: DNC – Tell me what a police state looks like
A calm political protest quickly turned chaotic as anxious Denver police surrounded protestors peacefully marching toward the Democratic National Convention Center. Continue reading