The director of more than 50 films, Pilger explains why he believes „extremists“ run the political system in the United States and the UK.
He talks about why he supports Julian Assange, what whitleblowers mean to society today, and why he feels real change will never come from within mainstream political parties.
Pilger also discusses the motivation behind many of his most popular films, including what led him to travel to Iraq to document the effect of sanctions, what Libya was like prior to the NATO bombing of 2011, the state of aborigines in Australia, and the start of his career in 1970 when he documented the resistance of US soldiers during the war in Vietnam.
Analysts and lawmakers warn FBI that ramifications over its demand that Apple unlock San Bernardino killerâs iPhone âcould snowball around the worldâ
âIt shows that the US policy was a catastrophic failure,â Becker argued, adding that prioritizing the ousting of President Bashar Assad over defeating IS makes US foreign policy âlook downright schizophrenic.â
But at the base here is the truly inconvenient truth that the use of torture by US authorities is simply unconstitutional. Under article VI of the U.S. Constitution, as treaties signed and ratified by the U.S. government, both Conventions are part of âthe supreme law of the land and [further] the judges of every state shall be bound by them.â This, not arguments over whether it âworksâ or doesnât, is the central one for this country and its political leadership.
The billionairesâ ownership and sponsorship of corporate media helps explain why the corporate media narrative serves their interests. In Britain, five billionaires own 80% of print media. This represents a trend happening in Britain and globally. And here‘s why it matters.
2015 was one of the worst years on record for oil and gas producers in Canada. First, the Keystone XL pipeline project was stopped through the tireless efforts of activists on both sides of the border. Then, unrelated to this, the price of oil dropped so much that the industryâs products, especially bitumen from tar sands, became increasingly unprofitable. The low price of crude brought at least 40,000 direct job losses to the Canadian oil industry and as many as 100,000 overall last year. This is a trend that industry insiders predict will continue through 2016.
Seven U.S. Marshals armed with automatic weapons arrested a Texas man for not paying a $1,500 student loan from three decades ago, he claims. Paul Aker said he was surprised at his Houston home on Thursday by seven people in combat gear.
„They grabbed me, they threw me down,“ the 48-year-old Aker told the Daily News on Tuesday. „Local PD is just standing there.“
From Indiana to Louisiana, a movement among thousands of corn farmers in the United States is trying to hold a Swiss GMO agribusiness giant to account for willful deceit and is making steady progress in court. According to these lawsuits – which may soon become class action – Syngenta, one of the world‘s largest agrochemical companies, deliberately misled small farmers into thinking that the genetically modified Viptera corn it was pushing on them would be approved for export to China. When China‘s unpredictable import authorities held off on granting approval and then turned back a shipment that contained Syngenta‘s genetically modified crop, the glut of excess corn that farmers had on their hands caused prices to crash and resulted in nearly $6 billion in damages.
17.02.2016 - 19:55 [ Electronic Frontier Foundation ]
This morning, EFF filed the following opposition letter explaining why S.B. 1220 and H.B. 1021, will chill the publicâs right to seek government records.
Kein wohlwollender Hegemon
Angesichts des zunehmenden Aufbegehrens gegen die deutsche Dominanz ĂŒber die EU werden inzwischen erste vorsichtig kritische Stimmen im Berliner Establishment laut. Wenn „darĂŒber nachgedacht“ werde, „dass Berlin eine fĂŒhrende Rolle einnehmen solle“, dann könne diese „nicht darin bestehen, dass wir die Richtung vorgeben und die anderen uns folgen sollen“, Ă€uĂerte zu Jahresbeginn der Leiter der MĂŒnchner Sicherheitskonferenz, Wolfgang Ischinger.[12] „Wir waren jahrelang … kein benevolenter Hegemon, obwohl es lĂ€ngst klar war, welch groĂe Macht wir in Europa gewonnen hatten“, rĂ€umt die ehemalige SPD-Politikerin Gesine Schwan ein.[13] Auch der einstige EU-Kommissar GĂŒnter Verheugen urteilt: „Was wir jetzt erleben, ist teilweise … eine Quittung dafĂŒr, dass eine ganze Reihe von europĂ€ischen Staaten sich von Berlin seit Jahren gegĂ€ngelt und bevormundet fĂŒhlt.“[14] Nicht zuletzt mit Blick auf das zunehmende Aufbegehren gegen die deutsche Dominanz Ă€uĂert Verheugen: „Das Jahr 2016 wird möglicherweise ein entscheidendes Jahr fĂŒr die ĂberlebensfĂ€higkeit der EuropĂ€ischen Union.“
Most of the Blackwater operatives killed in Yemen were believed to be from Colombia and Argentina; however, there were also casualties from the United States (U.S.), Australia, and France.
The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) says Saudi Arabia has seized a ship carrying food for Yemen over „humanitarian IT equipment“ and diverted it to its southwestern province of Jizan.
At the same time, O‘Brien noted that for the past two weeks Saudi Arabia has continued to impede the work of UN staff in the country, âcausing delays to important missions.â The diplomat said that Riyadh is also blocking sea access to Yemen‘s ports, and is preventing aid from traveling around the country,
Former US Ambassador to Syria Robert Ford, who had been supporting an aggressive program of arming opposition brigades that had been approved by the CIA, told a January 2015 seminar in Washington, âFor a long time we have looked the other way while the Nusra Front and armed groups on the ground, some of which are getting help from us, have coordinated in military operations against the regime.â
The report, dated 29 January 2016, is written by the Operation Commander, Rear Admiral Enrico Credendino of the Italian Navy, for the European Union Military Committee and the Political and Security Committee of the EU. It gives refugee flow statistics and outlines the performed and planned operation phases (1, 2A, 2B and 3), the corresponding activities of the joint EU forces operating in the Mediterranean and the future strategies for the operation.
One of the main elements within the report is the planned, but still pending transition from Phase 2A (operating in High Seas) to Phase 2B (operating in Libyan Territorial Waters) due to the volatile government situation in Libya, where the building of a ‚Government of National Accord‘ (GNA) is still under way.
The report presses the responsible EU bodies to help speed up the process of forming a ‚reliable‘ government in Libya that in return is expected to ‚invite‘ EU forces to operate within their Territorial Waters (Phase 2B) and later even give permission to extend the EU military operations onshore (phase 3).
17.02.2016 - 17:11 [ New York Civil Liberties Union ]
âIf carrying a cell phone means being exposed to military grade surveillance equipment, then the privacy of nearly all New Yorkers is at risk,â said Donna Lieberman, executive director of the NYCLU.
President for life Robert Mugabe wants the UN (meaning America) to provide $1.5 billion per year, to feed Zimbabwean people who are currently going hungry, thanks to his governmentâs decade long policy of looting and trashing productive farms. Naturally he blames his countryâs problems on âclimate changeâ.
This past Friday, we published our response to an Australian lawyer, Stuart Gibson, who apparently works for a real law firm called Mills Oakley. I know that Gibson is a real lawyer, because he‘s represented big famous clients in the press before, including this impressive TV appearance in which he is left „categorically denying“ statements that his client appears to have made directly and then having to defend himself when the news anchor points out what his client has actually said. Anyway, Mr. Gibson did not appear to appreciate my blog post on Friday, and sent a series of short emails over the weekend, with increasing fervor, in which he insisted that I „get proper legal advice instead of publishing your utter dribble,“ that my „legal theories“ were „nonsensical“ and finally demanded to know if I had „the guts“ to face him in court.
Es handelt sich um die zweijÀhrige Tochter einer Familie aus Albanien. Ausgewiesen werden soll aber nicht der Rest der Famlie, weil die nachweisen können, dass ihnen in Albanien Verfolgung droht. Das Kind ist aber in Deutschland geboren und kann daher keine Verfolgung in Albanien nachweisen.
‚When candidates call from overseas or new immigrants call and speak English, we are required and allowed to speak to them in English, so what is the difference?‘
Im Dezember war A. Sch. in den NSA-Untersuchungsausschuss geladen. Die Ăffentlichkeit hat den Zeugen, der eine zeitlang fĂŒr die EinfĂŒhrung von XKeyscore vom BND an das Bundesamt fĂŒr Verfassungsschutz (BfV) abgesandt war, nie zu Gesicht bekommen â er stand unter besonderem IdentitĂ€tsschutz. Seine gesamte Vernehmung war nicht-öffentlich, aber nicht komplett eingestuft.
A California magistrate has ordered Apple to help authorities hack a cell phone belonging to one of the shooters in the San Bernardino attack last year. In an ironic twist, however, the FBI didnât ask the court to order Apple to unlock the phone, but merely to help the FBI in its bruteforce attempts to unlock the device on its own.
17.02.2016 - 16:35 [ Electronic Frontier Foundation ]
We learned on Tuesday evening that a U.S. federal magistrate judge ordered Apple to backdoor an iPhone that was used by one of the perpetrators of the San Bernardino shootings in December. Apple is fighting the order which would compromise the security of all its users around the world.
Polen, Zypern, RumĂ€nien: Beispiele fĂŒr LĂ€nder, in denen der Widerstand gegen TTIP in der Vergangenheit lĂ€ngst nicht so groĂ war wie in der anderen europĂ€ischen LĂ€ndern. Ein entscheidender Grund dafĂŒr ist die in diesen LĂ€ndern weitverbreitete Hoffnung, dass TTIP ihren BĂŒrgern Visabefreiungen bringen wird.
(12/2015) Zielperspektive: ein EU-Geheimdienst nach dem Muster der NSA bzw. CIA. Dazu passt auch das von der österreichischen Regierung fĂŒr 2016 geplante neue Polizeiliche Staatsschutzgesetz (PStSG).
Machen wir es wie die Niederlande! Keine Smart Meter in Ăsterreich! Denn diese neuen StrommessgerĂ€te ermöglichen die umfassende Bespitzelung unseres Lebens, sie sind teuer und hoch anfĂ€llig fĂŒr Missbrauch, sie gefĂ€hrden unsere Gesundheit und die Umwelt. Diese Aktion kann jetzt auch online unterstĂŒtzt werden. Bitte unterschreiben und weiterve