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Mumia Hospitalized: Family Visitation Denied | Prison Radio
ACTION ALERT Demand Mumia’s family hospital visitation rights At 1pm EST today, Mumia Abu-Jamal had a medical emergency and was taken to the Intensive Care Unit at Schuylkill Medical Center in Pottsville, PA. SCI Mahanoy prison officials are blocking all family visits at Schuylkill. Mumia’s family is currently waiting at Schuylkill. We have absolutely […]
Phil Africa of MOVE dies under suspicious circumstances in Pennsylvania prison
Phil took his commitment and work as a revolutionary very seriously, but was often smiling, laughing and giving people hugs and encouragement. He was a warm father figure to many in the prison, where he taught inmates how to box, to think, and how to get stronger. Despite having two of his children murdered by […]
US Now Admits it is Funding “Occupy Central” in Hong Kong | Global Research
One foreign policy expert, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive subject, said Putin had called Xi to share his concern about the West’s role in Ukraine. Those concerns appear to have filtered down into conversations held over cups of tea in China, according to civil society group members. “They are […]
Article: Important victory in case of Ray McGovern’s brutal arrest | OpEdNews
The Partnership for Civil Justice Fund is pleased to announce an important victory in the ongoing case of peace activist Ray McGovern, the former CIA analyst, who was brutalized and arrested by officers in 2011 for standing in silent protest during a speech given by then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.The PCJF filed a civil […]
Las Vegas Shooter Jerad Miller Mocked Isla Vista Killer Elliot Rodger On Facebook
The Las Vegas shooter also criticized gun control advocates who blamed the NRA for the Isla Vista killings. On his Facebook page, Miller shared a photo from gun dealer FLL123.com’s page showing “King of the Hill” character Dale Gribble criticizing the left:“So yet another liberal left-wing wack job [sic] goes on yet another mass shooting […]
U.S. Marshals Seize Local Cops’ Cell Phone Tracking Files in Extraordinary Attempt to Keep Information From Public | American Civil Liberties Union
Over the past several months, the ACLU has filed dozens of public records requests with Florida law enforcement agencies seeking information about their use of controversial cell phone tracking devices known as “stingrays.” The devices are also known as “cell site simulators” or “IMSI catchers.” Stingrays track phones by mimicking service providers’ cell towers and […]
#Chagossians: Wikileaked cable admissible after all | UK Human Rights Blog
Rosalind English here has summarised this unsuccessful appeal against the rejection of the Chagossians’ claims by the Divisional Court, and I have posted on this litigation arising out of the removal and subsequent exclusion of the population from the Chagos Archipelago in the British Indian Ocean Territory: see here, here, here and here. The photograph […]
The Himalayan Times : UN to organise Biological Weapons Convention in Nepal – Detail News : Nepal News Portal
KATHMANDU: The United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs UNODA, through the United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Asia and the Pacific UNRCPD and the UNODA-Geneva Branch, and with financial support from the European Union EU, is organising a national workshop on the implementation of the Biological Weapons Convention BWC with the government […]
Some 5,000 people gather in Kiev to protest Timoshenko’s return to politics > Strategic-Culture.org – Strategic Culture Foundation
“Timoshenko’s return was never on the list of Maidan’s demands. Instead, the talk was about changing the entire system to administer the country,” says a resolution adopted after the rally.Timoshenko, jailed under President Viktor Yanukovich, was released from prison on Saturday in line with the parliament’s decision. She came to Kiev and spoke to protesters […]
Secret pre-Iraq War talks between Blair and Bush to be published — RT News
Blair has been criticized for failing to challenge then-US President George W. Bush on Iraq’s alleged weapons of mass destruction, specifically chemical and biological weapons, which a Joint Intelligence Committee report said in September 2002 “could be ready for firing in 45 minutes.”The former Labour leader said he worked to restrain the Bush administration’s seeming […]
Nonconformity and Freethinking Now Considered Mental Illnesses | The Unbounded Spirit
Is nonconformity and freethinking a mental illness? According to the newest addition of the DSM-IV Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, it certainly is. The manual identifies a new mental illness called “oppositional defiant disorder” or ODD. Defined as an “ongoing pattern of disobedient, hostile and defiant behavior,” symptoms include questioning authority, negativity, defiance, […]
Daily Kos: This is a BFD: Prosecutor Jailed In Misconduct Plea Deal
The prosecution gave the defense maybe 12 sheets of paper during discovery.The two key pieces of evidence the prosecution withheld were that witnesses reported seeing a man park a green van nearby and walk into the woods near the Mortons\’ house and that Morton\’s 3-year-old son specifically said Morton wasn\’t at the scene.The ugliness of […]
FBI monitored anti-war website in error for six years, documents show | World news | theguardian.com
Internal documents show that the FBI’s monitoring of antiwar.com, a news and commentary website critical of US foreign policy, was sparked in significant measure by a judgment that it had threatened to “hack the FBI website” and involved a formal assessment of the “threat” the site posed to US national security. But antiwar.com never threatened […]
U.S. Military Ordered Doctors to Help Torture Detainees, Says Report | TIME.com
A 19-strong panel of experts, convened by the Columbia University-based think tank Institute on Medicine as a Profession and the non-profit organization Open Society Foundations, spent over two years reviewing public records into the medical professions’ alleged complicity in the abuse of prisoners suspected of terrorism who were held in U.S. custody during the years after […]
We killed Griquatown family – AWB member – Crime & Courts | IOL News | IOL.co.za
She said she also gave an affidavit to the police in Middleburg, where she is currently incarcerated while awaiting trial for possession of explosives and ammunition. She will appear in the Carolina Magistrate’s Court on November 28 on these charges.She said she was transferred to Kimberley so that she could meet the accused’s defence team.She […]
For Immediate Release: American Indian Movement of Colorado & Idle No More Denver to Protest at Broncos/Washington Football Game | Last Real Indians
AMERICAN INDIAN MOVEMENT of Colorado and IDLE NO MORE Denver PRESS RELEASE MONDAY,OCTOBER 21, 2013 American Indian Movement of Colorado & Idle No More Denver ANNOUNCE PROTEST FOR BRONCOS/WASHINGTON FOOTBALL GAME SUNDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2013 “REDSKINS” = RACIST, Says AIM/IDLE NO MORE CALL ON NEWS/SPORTS REPORTERS TO STOP USING THE“R-‐WORD” […]