Tag Human rights

Cheney: an evil person for evil times

The Guard­ian: ‘Mem­oirs to reveal Dick Cheney thought Bush had gone soft on war on ter­ror.’ Who knows what dark place we’d all be in if this man had become U.S. President.

Free Ezra Nawi

Sign and send a mesage: freeezra.org Join Naomi Klein, Neve Gor­don, Noam Chom­sky and thou­sands of oth­ers and tell Israel not to jail Ezra Nawi, one of Israel’s most cour­ageous human rights act­iv­ists. His crime? He tried to stop a mil­it­ary bull­dozer from des­troy­ing the homes of Palestinian Bedouins in the South Hebron region. Nawi, a…

UK government covers up torture

For­eign Office link to tor­ture cover-up How do these people sleep at night?

Free Gaza makes it into the Gaza Strip again

Des­pite the Israeli government’s threat to for­cibly stop them the Free Gaza group made a second suc­cess­ful sail­ing to Gaza Strip today. Their first sail­ing, on 24 August, made them the first people to freely enter Gaza Strip in forty-one years. Israel has imposed an immoral and illegal1 block­ade on Gaza Strip since June 2007, in an attempt to…

America’s Police State coming along just nicely

Glenn Gre­en­wald reports on the appalling events in Saint Paul, Min­nesota, where the Repub­lic­ans have been hold­ing their National Con­ven­tion over the week­end. It appears the Fed­eral Gov­ern­ment has been orches­trat­ing fascist-like police raids across the city on oppos­i­tion groups in attempt to shut them up. Pro­test­ers here in Min­neapolis have been tar­geted by a series of highly…

Free Gaza boats successfully break Israeli blockade

Over the week­end a group from the Free Gaza Move­ment, includ­ing my good friend Ken O’Keefe, set out in boats from Cyprus and suc­cess­fully broke Israel’s contempt­ible eco­nomic block­ade of Gaza. Ken emailed through a few pho­tos today, with this mes­sage: Some pic­tures to share of a day that may have largely ignored in the West, but was deeply…

New Zealand Police soft on serious crime?

It appears the New Zea­l­and Police are soft on ser­i­ous crime. The U.S. Sec­ret­ary of State, Condoleezza Rice, travels to New Zea­l­and this week­end and I’m ashamed to say she’s able to without a prom­ise from the NZ Police that she will be arres­ted and charged with war crimes, includ­ing tor­ture and the “supreme inter­na­tional crime,” initiating…

Spineless politicians drafting spineless law

To draft and sup­port loath­some law like this surely you have to be either extremely ignor­ant of his­tory or have sym­path­ies for fas­cism. Some politi­cians clearly have no qualms show­ing off how spine­less they are by using fear to trade our freedoms and make it look like they’re actu­ally doing some­thing. No Right Turn on…

Story of Cain and Abel still taking place today?

Speak­ing of Sur­vival Inter­na­tional, they’ve pos­ted a video on their web­site of gun­men hired by farm­ers to attack a Mak­uxi Indian vil­lage in Brazil, part of a bru­tal attempt at an Indian land grab. The cor­rel­a­tion between this and Daniel Quinn’s altern­at­ive the­ory of the story of Cain and Abel is quite stark.

They murder while we accidently kill

I’ve lost count of the num­ber of times I’ve run into right-wingers who seem to have an unwaver­ing belief that the crimes of their foes are be loudly pro­claimed and harshly pun­ished while their own crimes are to be wholly jus­ti­fied in the pur­suit of their ideo­logy. The ends jus­ti­fies the means apparently.

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