Investigative journalist Greg Palast travels to Geneva to ask some hard questions about the WTO’s latest attempts to win a losing game Read the rest of this entry »

(KurtNimmo) – The alternative media in the United States and corporate media outlets in Europe and Israel are now reporting on a story that surfaced earlier in the week revealing a weapons build-up in preparation for an attack on Iran. Read the rest of this entry »

(RussiaToday) – February 12, 2010 – The US now has a list of Americans that the country can now murder abroad if they are fraternizing with terror groups. Paul Craig Roberts says that all of this points to a sign that the United States has become a police state. Read the rest of this entry »

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(Guardian) – The Hebron Fund is raising vast sums for Israeli settlements that violate the Geneva convention, with little scrutiny Read the rest of this entry »

(AsiaTimes) – The United States and Western “bomb, bomb, bomb Iran” crowd – hysteria running at fever pitch ahead of Thursday’s multilateral nuclear talks in Geneva – could do worse than have a word with Brazilian President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva. Read the rest of this entry »

(Reuters) – As Washington and Tehran began talks over Iran’s nuclear program, U.S. lawmakers approved legislation to bar foreign companies exporting gasoline to Iran from also delivering crude oil to America’s emergency petroleum stockpile. Read the rest of this entry »

(Reuters) – As Washington and Tehran began talks over Iran’s nuclear program, U.S. lawmakers approved legislation to bar foreign companies exporting gasoline to Iran from also delivering crude oil to America’s emergency petroleum stockpile. Read the rest of this entry »

The World Health Organization, the UN agency (ir-) responsible for declaring a Phase 6 “PANDEMIC” global alert over what it calls H1N1 Influenza A or Swine Flu, whose chief Dr Margaret Chan has repeatedly warned that while Swine Flu to date had been rather mild, that the emergency declaration was necessary because it “could mutate” aggressively into a deadly pandemic killing millions, now admits well into the flu season in the Northern Hemisphere that H1N1 has apparently not mutated. Read the rest of this entry »

Premier British intelligence agency, MI6 chief, has been told that Saudi Arabia will permit Israel to fly over the kingdom to bomb Iran’s nuclear sites. Read the rest of this entry »

Bilderberg has had front-men call anew for creating a global currency and establishing major European Union-style regions for the administrative convenience of a planned world government. Read the rest of this entry »

(Bloomberg) – The dollar’s role in international trade should be reduced by establishing a new currency to protect emerging markets from the “confidence game” of financial speculation, the United Nations said. Read the rest of this entry »

What every American should be made to learn about the IG Torture Report Read the rest of this entry »

(Google) – China’s Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi called Wednesday for international diplomacy to avert an “arms race in outer space.” Read the rest of this entry »

The Palestinian Authority and Hamas movements have trespassed all the limits with their continuous arrests and torture of political activists, and then killing many of them them in their jails. The attitude of these two movements is now Jonaid jailsimilar to what the Israeli occupation has done and is still doing against the Palestinians in occupied Palestine. The Palestinian National Authority and Hamas have increased the incarceration of political activists, and committed hundreds of politicians, political activists and resistance members into their respective jails. Read the rest of this entry »

German Bundeswehr manual challenges US and UK denials over DU in Afghanistan Read the rest of this entry »

The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) 2008 Annual Report

PCHR is an “independent legal body dedicated to the protection of human rights, the promotion of the rule of law, and the upholding of democratic principles in the Occupied Territories.” It issues documents, fact sheets, and reports like its latest 2008 Annual Report – divided in two parts. Read the rest of this entry »

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Global Research Editor’s note

We bring to the attention of our readers this 2005 article by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. published by Rollingstone.com. Read the rest of this entry »

Founded in Geneva, Switzerland in 1863, the International Committee of the Red Cross is an “impartial, neutral and independent organization whose exclusively humanitarian mission is to protect the lives and dignity of victims of armed conflict and other situations of violence and to provide them with assistance.” It also tries “to prevent suffering by promoting and strengthening humanitarian law and universal humanitarian principles.” Read the rest of this entry »

On July 13, a World Health Organization (WHO) Global Alert headlined, “WHO recommendations on pandemic (H1N1) 2009 vaccinations” suggest that universally mandated ones are coming. It stated that on July 7, the pharmaceutical industry-dominated Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) on Immunization held an “extraordinary meeting in Geneva to discuss issues and make recommendations related to vaccine for the pandemic (H1N1) 2009.” Read the rest of this entry »

The Bolivian district attorney’s office has identified Hugo Achá Melgar who, according to the AFP news agency, is Bolivia’s representative to the U.S. Human Rights Foundation (HRF), as providing the bulk of the funds for the terrorist gang foiled in Santa Cruz while plotting to assassinate President Evo Morales. Read the rest of this entry »

(Bloomberg) — The pandemic sparked by swine flu may be as severe as the Hong Kong flu of 1968-69 that cost an estimated 0.7 percent of global gross domestic product, according to the World Bank. Read the rest of this entry »

The Obama administration appears increasingly devoted to covering up the worst crimes of the Bush era. On Monday, CIA chief Leon Panetta formally objected to federal judge Alvin Hellerstein, who was considering releasing detailed information on 92 videotaped CIA torture sessions of detainees. Read the rest of this entry »

(BBC) – UN health officials are expected to declare the first global flu pandemic in 40 years, after holding emergency talks on the swine flu crisis. Read the rest of this entry »

(BBC) – UN health officials are expected to declare the first global flu pandemic in 40 years, after holding emergency talks on the swine flu crisis. Read the rest of this entry »

(Reuters) – Several of the 96 states that have so far signed a treaty to ban cluster bombs have started to destroy their stockpiles of the deadly weapons even before the treaty is ratified, an advocacy group said on Friday. Read the rest of this entry »

(Bloomberg) – The World Health Organization’s pandemic alert scale should consider the severity of diseases instead of just the geographic spread, an advisory committee said today. Read the rest of this entry »

(Telegraph) – Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad dismissed the Holocaust a “great deception” on Wednesday, reiterating a view that has been denounced by moderate rivals in this month’s election. Read the rest of this entry »

(Telegraph) – Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad dismissed the Holocaust a “great deception” on Wednesday, reiterating a view that has been denounced by moderate rivals in this month’s election. Read the rest of this entry »

The US-Israeli attack on Gaza was a savage and brutal war crime. The term US- Israeli is accurate. Israel relied on US weapons, in violation of US, as well as international, law, and the US provided crucial diplomatic and ideological support. Read the rest of this entry »

The head of the US Central Command, General David Petraeus, said Friday that the US had violated the Geneva Conventions in a stunning admission from President Bush’s onetime top general in Iraq that the US may have violated international law. Read the rest of this entry »

While Congress is sidetracked by who said what to whom and when, our nation finds itself at a crossroads on the issue of torture. We are at a point where we must decide if torture is something that is now going to be considered justifiable and reasonable under certain circumstances, or is America better than that? Read the rest of this entry »

Action of Citizens for the total Dismantling of Nukes (ACDN) said Saturday that it has just produced a 33-page report concluding that the presence of as much as 75 tons of depleted uranium in Gaza soil is highly probable to the Israeli “Operation Cast Lead” offensive. Read the rest of this entry »

(CNN) – The Bush presidency is thankfully over…but the damage he and Dick Cheney did continues to press on the nerve of the American people like an impacted wisdom tooth. And until the questions surrounding arguably the most arrogant and perhaps most corrupt administration in our history are addressed, the pain won’t go away. Read the rest of this entry »

(Reuters) – International human rights experts examining alleged war crimes in the Gaza Strip said on Friday they planned to visit soon, and renewed a call for Israel to support their investigation. Read the rest of this entry »

Disease trackers are trying to determine whether a previously unseen strain of influenza in the U.S. is related to more than 130 cases of severe respiratory illness in Mexico and may spark a pandemic. Read the rest of this entry »

GENEVA – The World Health Organization (WHO) voiced concern today at a confirmed outbreak of swine flu in the United States and what it called more than 800 human “influenza-like” cases in Mexico, including about 60 deaths. Read the rest of this entry »

We now know why top Democrats are protecting Bush administration officials from facing an inquiry into the illegal torture program – because several of them were actually complicit in giving their approval for such methods to be used.

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Well, well. The New York Times has finally put a story together on the key role that two controversial psychologists played in devising the Bush administration’s torture policies. Guess we should be thankful for small favors. Read the rest of this entry »

Israel has warned Tehran that it is ready to be “the shield” defending Jewish people from a “new Holocaust” threat posed by Iran’s nuclear programme. Read the rest of this entry »

Israel has warned Tehran that it is ready to be “the shield” defending Jewish people from a “new Holocaust” threat posed by Iran’s nuclear programme. Read the rest of this entry »

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has invited all peace-loving humans across the world to take steps toward promoting justice. Read the rest of this entry »

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has invited all peace-loving humans across the world to take steps toward promoting justice. Read the rest of this entry »

Iran is trying to replicate Nazi Germany’s treatment of the Jewish people, Israeli deputy prime minister Silvan Shalom said Tuesday ahead of a Holocaust ceremony at a former death camp. Read the rest of this entry »