In America, Speaking the Truth Is a Career-ending Event
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27-Jan-2009 (3 comments)
In America, Speaking the Truth Is a Career-ending Event
  By Paul Craig Roberts January 26, 2009 "Information Clearinghouse"-- - “The evidence is sitting on the table.  There is no avoiding the fact that this was torture.”

These are the words of Manfred Nowak, the UN official appointed by the Commission on Human Rights to examine cases of torture.  Nowak has concluded that President Obama is legally obligated to prosecute former President George W. Bush and former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. 
 

If President Obama’s bankster economic team finishes off what remains of the US economy, Obama, to deflect the public’s attention from his own failures and Americans’ growing hardships, might fulfill his responsibility to prosecute Bush and Rumsfeld.  But for now the interesting question is why did the US military succumb to illegal orders?
  In the December 2008 issue of CounterPunch, Alexander Cockburn, in his report on an inglorious chapter in the history of the Harvard Law School, provides the answer. Two brothers, Jonathan and David Lubell, both Harvard law students, were politically active against the Korean War.  It wa... >>>

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Farhad Kashani

they make fun of U.S

by Farhad Kashani on Thu Jan 29, 2009 02:11 PM PST

they make fun of U.S president in this country on 24/7 bases on TV, radio, Internet, newspaper, ....., in Iran, if you call Khamenei "agha" instead of "Hazrat Ayatollah or magham moazam rahbari", they will vanish you. Your beloved IRI regime is somewhere around 200 years behind the rest of the world. and apparently, so are you!!


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Mehdi Mazloom

which truth?

by Mehdi Mazloom on Wed Jan 28, 2009 03:32 PM PST

the fact that Arabs and Islamsits wish to kill all Jews, and repeat their ugly feat of Khybar where in 635 ACE, Muhammad and his band of thugs ganged on a peaceful and prosperous Jewish tribes. beheaded their man, stole their properties, and raped their woman. This is also the truth.

Arab & Muslims have demostrated  their intolerance to non-Muslims is also the truth

You know Ossamah Bin Ladin also thinks he is saying the truth. And his career was ended as leader of Al Qaeda.


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rosie is roxy is roshan

Good one.

by rosie is roxy is roshan on Tue Jan 27, 2009 04:28 PM PST

Thanks.


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