Video: News Reports On Possible Iran Attack Pick Up Momentum

(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

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

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(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

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.

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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: 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