Die Kurden sind begeistert von Öcalans Plänen für eine politische Lösung. Die türkische Regierung bescheinigt dem PKK-Chef eine „Sprache des Friedens“.
Daily Archives: 21. März 2013
Prozess verschoben Eigentlich sollte Lothar König ab Dienstag vor Gericht stehen. Doch dann tauchte ein Packen Akten auf. Die seien ihm bewusst vorenthalten worden, kritisiert sein Anwalt
Die Aktenteile seien „hochmanipulativ“, so Eisenberg. Er nennt etwa mit Anmerkungen versehene Screenshots aus Videoaufnahmen, die das Geschehen völlig falsch interpretierten. Er vermutet, dass ihm Unterlagen bewusst vorenthalten wurden. „Wenn man die Akte in die Hand nimmt, kann man den unterschlagenen Teil gar nicht übersehen.“ Er habe den zuständigen Richter aufgefordert, die Unregelmäßigkeit bis Montag 14 Uhr zu aufzuklären. Da dem Richter das nicht möglich gewesen sei, habe dieser den Termin aufgehoben.
Neustart am 2. April
Die Gerichtssprecherin konnte am Montag zu dieser Darstellung keine Stellungnahme abgeben. Ein Sprecher der Staatsanwaltschaft sagte, dass man die Sache erst intern prüfen müsse.
Robert Jensen – Jahrestag eines Verbrechens
Ganz egal, ob wir sie alle ignorieren, hier ist die Realität: Der Einmarsch der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika in den Irak war illegal. Die Anführer, die den Krieg planten und durchführten, sind Verbrecher. Die Bürger der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika tragen einige Verantwortung, weil sie diese Anführer nicht zur Verantwortung gezogen haben.
Iraq War Anniversary: Birth Defects And Cancer Rates At Devastating High In Basra And Fallujah (VIDEO)
Ten years after the start of the U.S. invasion in Iraq, doctors in some of the Middle Eastern nation‘s cities are witnessing an abnormally high number of cases of cancer and birth defects. Scientists suspect the rise is tied to the use of depleted uranium and white phosphorus in military assaults.
Response to Jemima Khan
This email is from WikiLeaks’ Joseph Farrell to Jemima Khan, a former Assange supporter and UK celebrity. Khan took a role on Universal’s $2.5m budget documentary „We Steal Secrets“ by Alex Gibney. WikiLeaks and others strongly criticised the title as being false, biased, and prejudicial to ongoing criminal proceedings in the United States. In response Khan attacked Assange in the new Statesman, likening his criticism of the film to the behavior of the infamous Scientology cult leader, L. Ron Hubbard. The film’s director Alex Gibney then wrote an article likening Assange to the pope (in the context of promoting his film about paedophilia in the Catholic church).
A Generation of War
Those days are long gone. Today, the campus left is a ghost of its former self: there is currently no student organization of what can reasonably be called the „left“ with anything close to a nationwide organization.
Canadian and US aboriginal groups vow to block oil pipelines
An alliance of Canadian and US aboriginal groups vowed on Wednesday to block three multibillion-dollar oil pipelines that are planned to transport oil from the Alberta tar sands, saying they are prepared to take physical action to stop them.
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United States Farms Dropping in Number: What’s Behind the Change?
The number of farms in the United States is down to the lowest that it’s been in six years, according to the Associated Press. In 2012 alone, 11,630 farms were lost, and this trend is projected to continue. Along with the lost farms, over 3 million acres of viable farmland were lost – a significant amount, considering that the average farm is just over 400 acres in size.
Close shave: How the US almost gunned down Iran’s president
A Secret Service agent readjusting a shotgun mounted on a vehicle in former President George W. Bush’s motorcade discharged the weapon by accident as President Ahmadinejad left the InterContinental Hotel in New York.
10 Companies Profiting Most From War: 24/7 Wall St.
9.3.2013 From 24/7 Wall St.: The business of war is profitable. In 2011, the 100 largest contractors sold $410 billion in arms and military services. Just 10 of those companies sold over $208 billion. Based on a list of the top 100 arms-producing and military services companies in 2011 compiled by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, 24/7 Wall St. reviewed the 10 companies with the most military sales worldwide in 2011.
A Letter to Paul Wolfowitz
Twenty years ago, you became dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and hired me as a minor staff functionary. I never thanked you properly. I needed that job. Included in the benefits package was the chance to hobnob with luminaries who gathered at SAIS every few weeks to join Zbigniew Brzezinski for an off-the-record discussion of foreign policy.
M5S at the Quirinale Palace
If the President of the Republic grants this position, the M5S will present its candidate for the office of President of the Council. The M5S believes that this request is an action demonstrating great responsibility in relation to the country. If this request is not accepted, the 5 Star MoVement, as an Opposition entity, will ask for the position of President of the Copasir Committee and of the RAI Watch-guard Committee.
“Mir gäbet nix!” – Bleiben Sie standhaft, Herr Kretschmann!
Offener Brief der Parkschützer aus der Stuttgarter Bürgerbewegung gegen das urbane Umbauprogramm “Stuttgart 21″ (S21) an den Ministerpräsidenten von Baden-Württemberg, Winfried Kretschmann (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen).
Angry Cypriots clash with police outside Parliament upon Popular Bank closure news
Angry protesters, mainly bank employees, spontaneously are gathering outside the Cypriot Parliament after the news Laiki (Cyprus Popular Bank -CPB) will close down.
Run on Cyprus Popular Bank ATMs as closure fears rise
„Cyprus is sinking. They (the EU and the international community) are prepared to let Cyprus sink,“ said Gautam Kapoor, a Briton working for a Greek metals company, as he waited outside the Popular Bank ATM in central Nicosia.
Cyprus denies deal to sell Cyprus Popular Bank
„The government denies reports that the Cyprus Popular Bank has been sold to foreign investors,“ government spokesman Christos Stylianides said in a statement, giving no further comment.
TNK-BP-Übernahme perfekt: Rosneft ist weltgrößter Ölkonzern geworden
Die russische Staatsfirma Rosneft hat am Donnerstag die Übernahme des russisch-britischen Joint Ventures TNK-BP perfekt gemacht und ist damit zum größten Ölkonzern der Welt aufgestiegen.
Democratic Party to ask Napolitano to name Bersani premier
The Democratic Party (PD) insisted Thursday that it wants a „government of change“ with centre-left PD leader Pier Luigi Bersani as Italy‘s next premier.
WIKILEAKS RELEASE: #Holland: 29,690 emails from US intelligence contractor Stratfor
The Global Intelligence Files, over five million e-mails from the Texas headquartered „global intelligence“ company Stratfor. The e-mails date between July 2004 and late December 2011. They reveal the inner workings of a company that fronts as an intelligence publisher, but provides confidential intelligence services to large corporations, such as Bhopal‘s Dow Chemical Co., Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon and government agencies, including the US Department of Homeland Security, the US Marines and the US Defence Intelligence Agency. The emails show Stratfor‘s web of informers, pay-off structure, payment laundering techniques and psychological methods.
Visualizing Google‘s Transparency Report, Part 3: What Countries Ask For The Biggest Share of Netizen Data?
While Google is not equally popular in all regions, the infographic shows alarming levels of requests for Hong Kong with 5 million users, with an Internet penetration of 74.5%, and Singapore with 4 million with a 75.0% penetration of Internet users. By comparison, Hong Kong‘s neighbor Japan with 101 million users and penetration slightly higher 79.5% has the second lowest rate of requests.
Dijsselbloem says Cyprus ‚systemic‘ and has little option than to accept troika plan
“In the present situation I think there is definitely a systemic risk and I think the unrest of the last couple of days has proven this, unfortunately,“ he said in a comment that appeared to contradict some of his colleagues in the Eurogroup and the German position that the consequences of a Cypriot banking collapse and euro exit could be contained.
Planck offenbart uns ein fast perfektes Universum
Heute wurde die bisher genaueste Karte der kosmischen Mikrowellen-Hintergrundstrahlung, der fossilen Strahlung aus der Zeit des Urknalls, vorgestellt. Die ihr zugrunde liegenden Daten wurden mit dem Weltraumteleskop Planck der Europäischen Weltraumorganisation ESA erfasst. Einige der mit dieser Karte gewonnenen Erkenntnisse rütteln an den Grundfesten unseres derzeitigen Verständnisses des Weltalls.
Wie alle Bundestags-Parteien den Zypern-Raubzug der Banken stützen
Welche etablierte Partei in Deutschland auch immer: alle sind sich einig, dass die “zypriotischen” Banken “rekapitalisiert” werden müssen, anstatt Bankrott zu gehen und dass es völlig legitim ist dafür Bürger und Staat haftbar zu machen.
Rechenschaftsberichte belegen intransparente Parteienfinanzierung
Die Bundestagsverwaltung veröffentlichte gestern die Rechenschaftsberichte der Parteien für das Jahr 2011. Die Berichte offenbaren erneut gravierende Regulierungslücken bei der Transparenz der Parteienfinanzierung. So konnten Großspender ihre Zuwendungen so stückeln, dass die einzelnen Spenden unter der Schwelle von 50.001 Euro blieben, ab der Spenden umgehend veröffentlicht werden müssen.
Secret Service Reopens Aaron Swartz Freedom of Information Act Requests
The U.S. Secret Service is reopening all Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests it had previously denied regarding the late Internet activist Aaron Swartz. The news was first broken via twitter by Truthout journalist Jason Leopold, who was one of the first reporters to request files from the Secret Service following Swartz’s death. EFF independently confirmed the decision with the Secret Service, which had been investigating Swartz’ mass downloading of scholarly texts from MIT.
Fracking opponents make voices heard
However, Senate Bill 76, which is now in the State House, would override the moratorium and allow the state to issue permits in 2015 without restriction.
Cheney‘s Halliburton Made $39.5 Billion on Iraq War
The accounting of the financial cost of the nearly decade-long Iraq War will go on for years, but a recent analysis has shed light on the companies that made money off the war by providing support services as the privatization of what were former U.S. military operations rose to unprecedented levels.
Nisshin Maru, Japan‘s Whaling Vessel, Accused By Sea Shepherd Of Intentionally Ramming Ships
The case is being brought in the Netherlands because the Sea Shepherd ships Steve Irwin and Bob Barker both sail under the Dutch flag.
Neue Ergebnisse zu rechtsextremen Einstellungen in Deutschland
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Sehr geehrte Medienvertreter/-innen,
anlässlich neuer Studienergebnisse und der Buchveröffentlichung „Rechtsextremismus der Mitte – Eine sozialpsychologische Gegenwartsdiagnose“ veranstalten wir eine Pressekonferenz.
Zeit: 25.03.2013, 11:00 Uhr
Ort: Selbständigen Abteilung für Medizinische Psychologie und Medizinische Soziologie
Philipp-Rosenthal-Straße 55 / Raum 3311
04103 Leipzig
Gitmo hunger strike: Timeline
A mass hunger strike has been unfolding in the notorious Guantanamo Bay prison for nearly six weeks. RT has been badgering the UN, prison officials, detainees’ attorneys and activists to get a full account of the situation.
Cyprus: Just The Facts
a second shock following a power plant accident in 2011 and the restructuring of Greek government debt (to which domestic banks were heavily exposed) has plunged the economy back into recession. Access to markets has been lost, the fiscal deficit and government debt has risen and domestic banks have become all but insolvent (Charts 1 and 2, previous page). Attempts to secure foreign funding and recapitalize the banks were only partially successful, prompting the authorities to ask for EU and IMF assistance. However, reluctance by the previous government to accept key demands by the Troika has delayed approval of the program until now.
Cyprus: Medvedev could cut Russia‘s euro reserves
Medvedev made the comments at a ‚co-operation‘ meeting with EU Commission delegates that opened Thursday in Moscow and is led by European Commission chief José Manuel Barroso.