Detainees get right to civilian courts

Detainees Might Get Treated Like People

 

The Supreme Court ruled in June 2008 that “Guantanamo Bay detainees have a right to challenge their detention in US civilian courts.”

See the BBC News video

Also interesting is Bush’s reaction, also BBC News video

CIA Cocaine Connection Evidence

“There is no doubt in my mind there is a complicity in the flow of drugs into this country.”

- Sen. John Kerry.

Dateline Special, NBC, 10 minutes

This article is intended to be an easy introduction for the uninitiated. Many other websites already exist that talk about the evidence of such a scandal.  George Washington University’s National Security Archive has excellent resources. But I wanted to create something easily digestable.  So here it is…

1.  Documents relating to the John Kerry Senate Investigation into CIA-Cocaine allegations

2.  Video of Robert Bonner, ex-DEA head, on 60 Minutes, admitting the CIA sold drugs in the US

3.  Oliver North’s handwritten notes, written during Iran-Contra hearings, which state a certain CIA plane was used for drug runs.

4.  Video and documents relating to Mena, Arkansas, an airforce airfield allegedly instrumental in bringing the drugs into the US.

5.  Recent allegations of continued drug smuggling by the CIA and other US government agencies.

6.  Why would they do such a thing?

Gary Webb’s Life and Death

The Cost of Telling the Truth

Gary Webb in his own words

Gary Webb won a Pulitzer Prize for his work uncovering the connections between the CIA, cocaine, and Contras.  His work was later supported by various Senate committees and FOIA documents. [The original articles by Webb are here.]

Evidence of Voter Fraud with Greg Palast and RFK, Jr.

DOCUMENTATION OF VOTER FRAUD

This speech, given in NYC in 2007, documents the dire need for investigative journalism in the United States.  Greg Palast, a BBC journalist, has direct, documented evidence in his book “Armed Madhouse” that the state of Florida knowingly disenfranchised thousands of voters.  

The felon list they used to decide whether someone could vote or not was 95 percent wrong.  Similar events also happened in New Mexico.  

Greg Palast and RFK, Jr., NYC 2007, Google Video, 1hr 4 minutes

Greg Palast delivers an incredibly informative and funny speech about voter fraud.  RFK, Jr’s speech was about the fall of investigative journalism in America after Reagan’s repeal of the Fairness Doctrine in 1988.

Media Criticism

THE BIG IDEA WITH NOAM CHOMSKY

“The Big Idea”

2 hrs 37 min, google stream

Unlawful Search

HOW TO DEAL WITH THE POLICE

“Busted: The Citizen’s Guide to Surviving Police Encounters”

45 min, Google stream

http://www.flexyourrights.org/

UNBELIEVABLE – is Bin Laden Dead?

FBI CLAIMS THERE IS NO 9/11 BIN LADEN LINK / COULD BIN LADEN ACTUALLY BE DEAD?

Bin Laden is still on the FBI’s most wanted list. However, there is no mention of 9/11. When questioned about it, Rex Tomb, Chief of Investigative Publicity for the FBI responded, “The reason why 9/11 is not mentioned on Osama bin Laden’s Most Wanted page is because the FBI has no hard evidence connecting bin Laden to 9/11.” [Thank you Project Censored for the tip on the FBI statement.]

This is totally consistent with previous statements by Osama – immediately after 9/11, he claimed to not be behind the attacks. Why would someone that really doesn’t give a fuck what America thinks lie and claim he wasn’t behind a specific attack? In the past he had been proud.

CIA Documentary

SECRETS OF THE CIA

Sky News (UK)

122 Minutes

This should be required viewing in American history classes.

TOXIC LIVING NYC

LARGEST EVER OIL SPILL IN NORTH AMERICA IN BROOKLYN NYC

Greenpoint, Brooklyn is home to the largest oil spill in Americ.  It is 50% larger than the imfamous Exxon Valdez incident  (it is termed only a “slow seepage” by EXXON). The “seepage” happened over decades on Newton Greek (where Manhattan Avenue meets the water for you locals). The oil has yet to be cleaned up, and has been linked to increased cancer and illness in the Greenpoint area.

VBS (Vice Magazine’s TV Station) has done a good piece on this:

VBS – TOXIC Brooklyn (1 of 7)

 

IPS News did a great article on it, as did NY Magazine.  Sadly, most New Yorkers have not heard about this yet.

Bougainville History

COCONUT REVOLUTION

“Coconut Revolution”

52 minutes, google video stream

Directed by Dom Rotheroe, funded by Soros Documentary Fund

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Winner:
FICA Festival of Environmental Film, Brazil
BEMA Richard Keefe Memorial Award – WWF
Golden Kite, Best Documentary, Mar del Plata, Argentina
Silver Kite, Best Film for Young People, Argentina

Runner up:
BEMA (British Environmental Media Awards) Best Documentary
Amnesty International Awards, Best Documentary
One World Media Awards 2001, TV Documentary

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Coconut Revolution shows the island of Bougainville fighting a revolutionary war for control of their own resources.

Bougainville has tremendous reserves of both copper and gold, and it has been at the hands of European colonialists for centuries.  BBC Bougainville Timeline (only up to 2007)

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