America the beautiful is an illusion

In all theaters of war, slaughter, sadism, and other atrocities are institutionalized. Rape becomes a weapon of war. On June 19, 2008, the Security Council agreed, adopting Resolution 1820. It demanded an “immediate and complete halt to acts of sexual violence against civilians in conflict zones.” It said: “Women and girls are particularly targeted by […]

Violence and war overstated in the climate of fear

It seems as if violence is everywhere, but historically, we’ve never had it this peaceful. Statistics reveal dramatic reductions in war deaths, family violence, racism, rape, murder and all sorts of mayhem. Prominent Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker Pinker writes: “The decline of violence may be the most significant and least appreciated development in the history […]

Dominique Strauss-Kahn some facts to consider

The International Monetary Fund’s director, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, was arrested last Sunday in New York City on the allegation of an immigrant hotel maid that he attempted to rape her in his hotel room. Strauss-Kahn, like former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, was a threat to the system, and, like Eliot Spitzer, Strass-Kahn has been deleted […]

CIA ties of Julian Assange’s chief accuser

Julian Assange’s chief accuser in Sweden has a significant history of work with anti-Castro groups, at least one of which is U.S. funded and openly supported by a former CIA agent convicted in the mass murder of seventy three Cubans on an airliner he was involved in blowing up. Julian Assange’s chief accuser in Sweden […]

The attempt to rape Julian Assange and WikiLeaks

WikiLeaks’ release of 250,000 United States embassy cables certainly reveals the US government’s view of the world. And it is clear that they are not taking it laying down: Australian lawyer James D. Catlin , writes: “Apparently having consensual sex in Sweden without a condom is punishable by a term of imprisonment of a minimum […]

Judge gives U.S.-led contract mercenaries a shoot-to-kill pass

The Federal Appeals Court decision to toss a lawsuit claiming contractors tortured detainees in Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison is what you’d expect from a tyranny. The new ruling brushes off the charges by 212 Iraqis who said they or their late husbands were abused by U.S. personnel at Abu Ghraib, and charged private security firm […]

U.S. Officials admitted boys sodomized at Abu Ghraib

Pulitzer prize winning reporter Seymour Hersh’s claim that boys were sodomized at Abu Ghraib and that the Pentagon has video of the rapes was startling. The following reports suggest Hersh was right: The Guardian reported in 2004: “Formal statements by inmates published yesterday describe horrific treatment at the hands of guards, including the rape of […]