5 April 2012 Milan Kundera’s truism, “the struggle of people against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting”, described East Timor. The day before … East Timor: a lesson in why the poorest threaten the powerfulRead more
USA
Posted inEconomics / Law / ToMl / TPP / Trade / USA Empire
Exposes TTIP Corporate Takeover
Confirming that the TransAtlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) amounts to “a huge transfer of power from people to big business,” Greenpeace Netherlands on Monday … Exposes TTIP Corporate TakeoverRead more
Posted inPeace / Politics / Social / ToMl / USA Empire
The Life and Death of Daniel Berrigan
Rev. Daniel Berrigan, the renown anti-war activist, award-winning poet, author and Jesuit priest, who inspired religious opposition to the Vietnam war and later the U.S. … The Life and Death of Daniel BerriganRead more
Posted inAssassination / Dictatorship / Empire / Latin America / Massacre / Multimedia / Politics / USA Empire
America’s Death Squads
Posted inJapan / ToMl / USA Empire
President Obama Should Meet A-Bomb Survivors
President Obama is considering a visit to Hiroshima during the G-7 economic summit in Japan later this month. Hiroshima is an impressively rebuilt, thriving city … President Obama Should Meet A-Bomb SurvivorsRead more
Posted inDrug / Police / ToMl / USA Empire
War on drugs failed
I have had the honour of serving as the European Director of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP) for the last four years, and have been … War on drugs failedRead more
Posted inFascism / Government / Internet / ToMl / USA Empire
The Android Administration
Google’s Remarkably Close Relationship With the Obama White House. When President Obama announced his support last week for a Federal Communications Commission plan to open … The Android AdministrationRead more
Posted inPolitics / ToMl / USA Empire
Slickest Con Man Out of NYC
Tom Robbins talking: Roy Cohn is a figure in American history who is well known to people at least of our generation, probably not so … Slickest Con Man Out of NYCRead more
Posted inIraq / Justice / ToMl / USA Empire
The political trial of a caring man and the end of justice in America
8 November 2012 In 1999, I travelled to Iraq with Denis Halliday who had resigned as assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations rather than enforce … The political trial of a caring man and the end of justice in AmericaRead more
Posted inLaw / ToMl / TPP / Trade / USA Empire
Threats to Regulatory Protections
Greenpeace Netherlands leaked negotiating texts of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) agreement, the proposed trade deal between the United States and Europe. The … Threats to Regulatory ProtectionsRead more