BREAKING: Criminal Complaint Filed Against Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Tenet et al in Hague

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Wednesday January 20, 2010 · 3:06 PM PST

2010/01/20 · 15:06

BREAKING, RUSH TRANSCRIPT, PRESS RELEASE, FRANCIS BOYLE, PROFESSOR OF INTERNATIONAL LAW. ACTION ITEM IN BOLD BELOW.

INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT COMPLAINT FILED AGAINST BUSH, CHENEY, RUMSFELD, ET AL; INTERNATIONAL ARREST WARRANTS REQUESTED

Champaign, U.S.A./The Hague, Netherlands -- Professor Francis A. Boyle of the University of Illinois College of Law in Champaign, U.S.A. has filed a Complaint with the Prosecutor for the International Criminal Court (I.C.C.) in The Hague against U..S. citizens George W. Bush, Richard Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, George Tenet, Condoleezza Rice, and Alberto Gonzales (the "Accused") for their criminal policy and practice of "extraordinary rendition" perpetrated upon about 100 human beings. This term is really their euphemism for the enforced disappearance of persons and their consequent torture. This criminal policy and practice by the Accused constitute Crimes against Humanity in violation of the Rome Statute establishing the I.C.C.

The United States is not a party to the Rome Statute. Nevertheless the Accused have...

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Monday January 18, 2010 · 1:32 PM PST

2010/01/18 · 13:32

What the Democratic establishment is not picking up is being made fun of on the major Massachusetts websites for the Globe and Herald. They cackle with glee that Coakley has made the present health care "reform" a main issue, which is exactly why people are going to Brown. A law which seeks to fine people for not buying something they can't afford, a new and incredible height in Democratic Party Establishment arrogance, and a bail-out for insurance companies, is angering people who might have voted for Obama but who are the independents who could go either way. Brown has picked up on this, and makes the centerpiece of his campaign that he will stop it.

If Brown wins he'll be gone in 2012 because in a 2-1 Dems to Repub state he cannot hang on unless he were a social liberal in the mold of Gov. William Weld, which he is not. Every Repub in Mass who is viable long-term must get right with the state's overwhelmingly liberal base. Brown is an anomaly.

It's a wake-up call and...

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Saturday January 16, 2010 · 2:17 PM PST

2010/01/16 · 14:17

I'm not all that worried about a Scott Brown win. Why? Because Democrats will get a do-over in 2 years. The senate race in Massachusetts is for nothing more than who will serve the REMAINDER of Teddy's term, so the winner will run for re-election in 2012.

I am a resident of Mass., and I can say for certain that, absent a more attractive candidate than Coakley, the state is just too solidly Democratic to accept a right-winger as more than a seat-warmer. The political establishment would not allow it, and a Capuano or a Kennedy would be mopping the floor with Brown right now. Any Republican but a pro-choice, social moderate in the mold of Bill Weld is a non-starter for a long-term senate presence for Massachusetts.

The Democratic establishment brought this on itself, by disgusting so many people with its idea of health care "reform," bail-outs, and talking out of both sides of its mouth on the wars. As bad as Brown is, many progressive voters will not touch Coakley, and simply stay home. Luckily,...

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Friday January 08, 2010 · 11:56 AM PST

2010/01/08 · 11:56

For anyone who wants to know what the rest of the world is watching on TV that gets beyond the American media's cartoon version of reality, French 24 years ago broadcast this report by an intrepid woman journalist who met with Taliban in the boonies and was granted the freedom to ask them any questions. What emerges is a three-dimensional picture of fighters who believe they are fighting a war of self-defense, for their country and their religion. One fighter interviewed talks about how he would like his daughters to be educated, and to learn to read and write.

This squares precisely with the trap the former head of the CIA's bin Laden unit, Michael Scheuer, says our armed presence here falls into. Bin Laden builds the case that Muslims are being attacked around the world, thus justifying "defensive jihad" which includes attacks on Western targets. Our attacks on Iraq and Afghanistan are persuading Muslims that their offense is their religion, and having the effect of unifying people, such as Pashtuns and Arabs, who ordinarily barely get along.

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Thursday January 07, 2010 · 12:52 PM PST

2010/01/07 · 12:52

Largest military base in nation site of key demonstration by anti-war soldiers and former soldiers. Media invited.

Event: SICK OF FIGHTING THE WARS!
What: Protest
Start Time: Friday, January 15 at 8:30am
End Time: Friday, January 15 at 6:00pm
Where: East Gate, corner of Fort Hood St and Veterans Avenue

Soldiers and dependents of the military community are literally sick of fighting the wars of the past decade.

Soldiers enter the Army ready and willing to fight for our country in wars of national defense. Soldiers do not sign up to fight wars which turn out to be based on lies, or wars of imperial aggression, as Afghanistan has become. Soldiers do not sign up to fight unjust wars and come back plagued with nightmares, physical symptoms, PTSD, and TBI among other injuries.

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Wednesday January 06, 2010 · 1:25 PM PST

2010/01/06 · 13:25

This is the film so hot that HBO at the last minute dropped it like a Wendy's potato just out of the microwave. It had to go outside the country to find a producer, Windsor Ontario NAFTC Studios.

Based on the book by the same title "The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder" by famed prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi (who successfully convicted Charles Manson under theory that one need not pull the trigger to be guilty of killing.)

Right-wingers have settled on the defense, since everything Bush said turned out to be lies, that Democrats like Bill Clinton, told the same lies, or something close to them. The difference is, A) only Bush had the latest classified intelligence at the time of the invasion which said Saddam's weapons were those of a paranoid dictator for a last-ditch defense, not those of a madman determined to give them to Al Qaeda, and B) regardless of who else was saying what or why, Bush and only Bush took it so far as to actually launch an unprovoked attack on a nation which had nothing to do with 9/11.

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Tuesday January 05, 2010 · 4:35 PM PST

2010/01/05 · 16:35

Viva Palestina is requesting calls from stateside supporters to these Egyptian embassies in the US to allow the convoy through. Latest news is the Egyptian Government has seized Viva Palestina's vehicles. I don't think it would be a bad idea to add that you will otherwise lobby your congressman to cut Egypt off with a dime. Second in US foreign aid only behind Israel.

From my inbox:

Ask them to let the Convoy through! To open
Rafah Crossing! And to let our people in Gaza live!

From Viva Palestina:

To all friends of Palestine

Our situation is now at a crisis point! Riot has broken out in the port of Al- Arish...

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Tuesday December 29, 2009 · 9:49 AM PST

2009/12/29 · 09:49

This is a breaking news report sent to me by Cindy Sheehan, who is following the Gaza Freedom March, 1400 marchers from across the globe who are joining Gazans in solidarity to help expose their plight after years of blockade and exactly a year after the violent attack in what Israel called "Operation Cast Lead." Cindy is a hero of mine.
UPDATE: Kossacks Soysause and Robert Naiman are on march.

BREAKING: U.S. Citizens attacked by Egyptian Riot Police in Cairo outside of U.S. Embassy

Cindy Sheehan

One of my friends, Joshua Smith, just texted me from Cairo and said that some U.S. citizens of the Gaza Freedom March went to the U.S. Embassy today there to try and implore the staff there to intercede on behalf of the March to help get them into Gaza--they were not so warmly welcomed.

Recently, almost 1400 people from around the globe met in Cairo to march into Gaza to join Gazans in solidarity and to help expose their plight after years of blockade and exactly a year after the violent attack in what Israel called "Operation Cast Lead" that killed hundreds of innocent Gazan civilians. So far the Marchers have been denied access (Egypt closed the Rafah crossing) and their gatherings have become increasingly and more violently suppressed.

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Saturday December 26, 2009 · 3:15 PM PST

2009/12/26 · 15:15

Short diary, but this needs saying, and this is why I don't read the papers anymore. The test of how bad a bill is, is how far backwards the MSM has to bend to find a spin for a lousy piece of legislation. I'm glad I found out that the reason "THE LEFT" (I guess that means me) is mad with Obama is because he plays "by the rules."

Let's see. People worked and campaigned their butts off for him, gave him two solid majorities, then when the Dems cave too fast and compromise when they don't have to, it's us who don't play by the rules. I thought diving into the political process WAS playing by the rules. Dumb, stupid me. Good thing we have the old farts at the NY Times to set me straight.

Even the title of the article is offensive: "The Left's New View of Obama." I love it when Times reporters tell me A) that I'm "the left," and B) what my new view is. Thank you, patron, for being so kind to leetle peasant like me!

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Wednesday December 23, 2009 · 1:28 PM PST

2009/12/23 · 13:28

Now that we see that health care reform was all a game, and that the fix was in all along, I recall the days when many of us argued over whether spending energy pushing for prosecution of Bush crimes was a waste of time. Instead, let's work for something real and tangible, like HCR. My own friends said grow up, what was done was done, and to focus on the fight ahead. We had a president and two strong majorities.

Now that we have been betrayed, the public option is dead, and HCR looks like Christmas for insurance companies, perhaps it is the enforcement of present laws, rather than making new ones which should occupy our attention again. Perhaps our tolerance of warrantless spying, Iraq war lies, and political persecutions like the one against Gov. Don Siegelman by Karl Rove, is what brought us to this ugly pass in the first place. Both parties, without even bothering to disguise it, clearly do not give the least little damn about what we think. They will do what is good for their corporate contributors, smile, and spin it like it is a great victory for us. Please, if you're going to screw men, screw me. But don't pee down my back then try to tell me that it's raining out.

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Sunday December 20, 2009 · 11:31 AM PST

2009/12/20 · 11:31

I just thought I'd throw this out on a snowy day in New England, since we know most of the Taliban, in the words of former commander of US forces in Afghanistan General Karl Eikenberry, "is drawn from the ranks of unemployed men looking for wages to support their families." Col. Tom Collins, a Pentagon spokesman, puts it at a "vast majority," and Joe Biden put out a number of 70%.

Young Afghan men, like young American men, and women, have to eat and feed their families, and when unemployment is 40% like it is an A'stan, you take what you can get. IRIN News agency reported this last March:

"A 25-year-old man we will call Shakir has told IRIN he rues rejecting an offer of "work" from a Taliban agent whereby he would get 500 Afghanis (about US$10) a day for carrying out attacks on government offices in Farah Province, southwestern Afghanistan. Those who accepted the offer are better off, he thinks. "People are jobless,...

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Saturday December 19, 2009 · 1:30 PM PST

2009/12/19 · 13:30

Thank you LiberatedClownfor the inspiration

The public option is dead, because he won't tell Pelosi to yank committee seats and put peoples' offices in the basement. He has continued and expanded Bush policies on civil liberties, FISA, state secrets, Military Commissions Act, detention without trial. He protects torturers. And now he has sent many more young men to their deaths in Afghanistan, in a economically-driven insurgency, with no better explanation than Bush-era fear-mongering about Al Q, who number perhaps 400 tops on both sides of the Af-Pak border.

When the impeach Bush movement was in full swing it was ridiculed at this site with "just get Obama elected and he'll fix everything." Let's face it folks. We've been took. He has taken off the mask and chosen, he has sided with the pharma-corporate-military industrial complex, and from now on he will be playing the "Stick it to them they have no place else to go" game with progressives.

During impeachment we were arguing that the Executive never gives back powers it has grabbed, not even Obama...

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