Al Jazeera journalist released after more than 2500 days

"Six years and seven months were stolen from my life in Guantanamo camp under torture and inhuman treatment by those who call themselves a democratic people,"

Sami al-Hajj

China's other oppression - Muslim Uighurs in Xinjiang

While the eyes of the media are focused on the oppression of Tibet, far away to the northern reaches of the worlds greatest nation(population over 1.2 billion), lies the province of Xinjiang surrounded by Mongolia, Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, India, Tibet, Chinhai, and Gansu.
Once backed by the US to rebel, the situation in this harsh land is dire.

Of course China's opening up, as evidenced by the media coverage of the 2008 earthquake allowed to be seen by the world...nobody is watching what goes on in their back yard.

The idiot in power

In one of the world's most proudest democracies (one that helped invade a sovereign nation, decimated it's infrastructure and murdered it's people so they could also become a democracy), it is bewildering to see a Mr Brown in power.
The idea of a democracy is...well, I was told...that the PEOPLE vote for their leader.
Who exactly voted for Brown???

AI Report 2008: State of the World's Human Rights

Read the report (especially US and China)...

2008: State of the World's Human Rights

Wake up everybody.
We are all humans.
We can chose a life of love, peace and harmony if we really want.

SOFA - Status of Forces - forced on Iraq's people

IMAGINE...you are from a western country and your government allows an invading Islamic army to smash down your door any time, and take you away for "interrogation" without trial, for an indefinite period?
You would have no rights, no free movement...even though it is your country. You can't even speak the language of the invaders or understand their Muslim culture...
But your government signs a deal to allow these Islamic invaders to legally occupy your country.
I think there would be protests in the streets of London, Washington and Paris!
So, do you think the SOFA deal is really fair on the innocent Iraqi people?

Former US president Jimmy Carter said...

"The US has more than 12,000 nuclear weapons, the [former] Soviet Union has about the same; Great Britain and France have several hundred, and Israel has 150 or more,"

Did he say Israel?
A prolific UN resolution abuser, collective punisher, right-wing apartheid military state with active plans to expand it borders...possessing...150 or more, nuclear weapons???

Where are the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)? Has anybody told them?

Of course we all know about the severe threat to world peace posed by Israel. And there is probably only two solutions:

1. nuclear arm Israels threatened neighbours(a Cold-War policy commonly know as "nuclear deterrent")
2. force Israel to reliquish it's arsenal of weapons of mass destruction that obliterate women, children and well, everything.

Some facts about (US) animal factory farming

Wingspan of average leghorn chicken: 26 inches
Space average leghorn chicken given in egg factories: 6 inches
Number of 700 plus pounds pigs confined to space the size of a twin bed in typical factory farm: 3
Reason today's veal is so tender: Calves never allowed to take single step
Reason today's veal is whitish-pink: Calves force fed an anemia-producing diet
McDonald's brags: 60 million sold McDonald's doesn't brag about: 50 million butchered
McDonald's clown, Ronald McDonald, tells children: Hamburgers grow in hamburger patches and love to be eaten.
McDonald's clown, Ronald McDonald,doesn't tell children: Hamburgers are ground up cows who've had their throats slit by machetes or their brains bashed in by sledgehammers
Original actor to play Ronald McDonald: Jeff Juliano (diet now followed by Jeff Juliano: Vegetarian)
Number of animals killed for meat per hour in U.S.: 500,000
Occupation with highest employee turnover rate in U.S.: Slaughterhouse worker
Occupation with highest employee rate of injury in U.S.: Slaughterhouse worker
Cost to render an animal unconscious prior to slaughter with captive bolt pistol so that process is done humanely: 1 penny
Reason given by meat industry for not utilizing captive bolt pistol: Too expensive

John Robins

Tax the fuck out of the oil companies!

"as repetitive and uninteresting as it may sound, the fundamental laws of supply and demand are at work".

John Hofmeister, President of SHELL oil, who were making a staggering profit of $75million (£38million) a day in January 2008, when oil was a mere $100 a barrel.

It was $20 a barrel when Bush and his oil friends started his presidency.

Stay out of Palestine Mr Bin Laden

Mr B-L, Your fight is with US troops in Saudi. NOT Palestine. The Palestinian people are firstly Palestinian, secondly Muslim(although not all of them).
Don't use their oppression as an excuse for your existence.
What has happened to them is a concern for all free-thinking intelligent people. Don't use it as your public relations exercise.
Justice will eventually come to the Palestinians and bad karma will eventually come to the Zionists. It doesn't need your help to solve the injustice...what can you possibly do? Can you provide the Palestinian freedom fighter with state-of-the-art rockets and anti-aircraft systems to defend themselves? I don't think so...SO STAY OUT!

$127 for oil

Speculation that China will use oil is to blame for the latest rise.
Oil is still there under the ground just like it always. So...who is making so much money? We must pay whatever price they ask.

And, in the future when all the oil has run out...it will be the same for water.

Nakba - 60 years of disaster

As the world turns it eyes away from the world's biggest concentration camp, Israel celebrates it's creation on Palestinian land.

The Palestinian people, victims of illegal collective punishment, suffer a day-to-day existence of Israeli rocket attacks, checkpoints, closed borders, starvation, power outages, lack of fuel and medicine, disrupted education, insecurity and uncertainty.

While the Nakba(catastrophe) commemoration is being held across Palestinian towns and cities, Mr Bush is speaking at the Israeli Knesset.

Mr Bush said: "Israel's population may be just over seven million. But when you confront terror and evil, you are 307m strong, because the United States of America stands with you."

Does Mr Bush not understand the "terror and evil" that the Palestinian people are facing every second of their lives?

Cyclone Nargis vs Hurricane Katrina

America, an admitted aggressor with plans to overthrow the Burmese military junta, suddenly wants to send it soldiers into Burma with aid.
When the worried government refused the US soldiers entry, America shouted all sorts of insults.
But what about Katrina? Did the US Marines rush there to stop the looting, rapes and human misery?
A coincidence...Burma does have oil and resources...does New Orleans?

Or is it the "Christians" that the US is trying to get inside? Throughout history, imperialistic nations have sent in the Christian foot soldiers to convert the natives into submission. Image you have lost your husband and your starving children are crying in the ruins of your abode. A rich white missionary showers you with food and gifts...all you are obliged to do is attend their church.

I would welcome a change in Burma. It is one of the most oppressive nations in the world. I have met many Burmese during my years in South-East Asia and traveled the entire length of Burma's border, and visited Burmese refuge camps. These are a desperate people.

But America is not the solution. With America's track record, and the complicated ethnic patchwork, awash with weapons, it will leave a mess.

My heart goes out to the suffering people of Burma.

Jesus of Nazerth was Black

The pope, church of england et al...are a bunch of liars.
The convicted radical activist they revere was dark-skined, not Aryan-like as they would have the world (especially developing world former colonies).

A sensible warning about Iran

Ever wondered what might happen if the US decided to inflict carnage on the sovereign nation of Iran? The Neo-conservatives say that Israel will be safer and are probably already counting how much oil profits they will make as well as the control they will have on the worlds energy. Just like Iraq???

Although the Neo-cons have massive influence on the western media, they don't control it. Check out a down to earth account of the likely consequences of an attack on Iran at this link:

Attack on Iran: A Looming Folly By William Rivers Pitt