The grassroots March Against Monsanto movement is spreading across the nation, and the initiative spells out an increasingly massive number of activists and concerned citizens who will ultimately be responsible for ending the GMO juggernaut through peaceful protest and the spread of information. … Read More
Pyongyang slams ‘reckless’ arrival of USS Nimitz for S. Korea war games
The nuclear-powered USS Nimitz has anchored off the South Korean’s port of Busan on Saturday. The ship will take part in search and rescue operations and sea maneuvers from Monday to Tuesday off the country’s eastern coast, the South Korean Defense Ministry announced.Pyongyang’s cross-border affairs ministry branded the deployment as a “grave military provocation” that would heighten tension in the Korean Peninsula.”The joint naval drill involving the latest weaponry including the nuclear aircraft carrier is a wanton blackmail against us and demonstrates… that their attempt to invade us has reached an extremely reckless level,” the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea said in a statement on Saturday night.The Carrier Strike Group Eleven, of which Nimitz is the flagship, includes eight warships (including the aircraft carrier itself), four surface action group destroyers and three escort ships. Nimitz also has 64 combat aircraft stationed on board.The group’s commander, Rear Admiral Mike White, said the arrival was scheduled and not a response to the period of heightened tension in the region. “This is not a response to any particular event, but part of our continuous engagement, much like we shared for 60 years,” he said.The US and its military ally South Korea conduct over a dozen joint military drills annually, some of which include tens of thousands of troops and some of world’s most powerful military hardware. Currently, a joint anti-submarine warfare exercise is underway in the Yellow Sea.North Korea regularly denounces such war games as provocative, claiming they are cover for a possible attack. The latest exercise, during which the US deployed its nuclear-capable stealth bombers, was met with a flurry of threats from Pyongyang, which said it would use its nuclear arsenal against American and South Korean troops if attacked.Washington is flexing its military might in response to North Korea’s third nuclear test in February. The move was condemned internationally, and led to the UN Security Council issuing new sanctions against Pyongyang.However, North Korea insists that it needs nuclear weapons to defend its national sovereignty from Washington and Seoul, and defies the UNSC’s resolutions requiring it to halt development of nuclear weapons and ballistic missile technology. … Read More
Radio Host to Lead Armed March on DC July 4th ‘To Put Gov’t on Notice’
Categories: Editor’s Choice, Headlines & Head Lies, New World OrderTags: adam kokesh, Adam Kokesh open carry, open carry march, Washington armed marchRadio host and activist Adam Kokesh plans to lead an armed march from the Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia all the way to the White House and back.(Read more…) … Read More
Israel in the room? Egypt quits nuke talks over ‘inefficiency’ in Middle East
“We cannot continue waiting forever for the implementation of this resolution,” Egypt’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Monday, as talks in Geneva entered second week. Cairo said it was pulling out of the talks “to send a strong message of non-acceptance of the continued lack of seriousness in dealing with the establishment of a nuclear-free zone in the Middle East.” Egypt called for more responsibility from member states in “implementing legitimate international resolutions” saying there is “continued lack of seriousness in dealing with the establishment of a nuclear-free zone in the Middle East.” Egypt’s comments are largely seen as reference to neighboring Israel, which neither confirms nor denies the possession of nuclear weapons. “Egypt along with many Arab countries has joined the treaty with the understanding that it would lead to a Middle East completely free of nuclear weapons. However, more than 30 years later, one country in the Middle East, namely Israel, remains outside the NPT,” Egypt`s Assistant Foreign Minister Hisham Badr told a news conference in Geneva earlier this month. Arab states and Iran have repeatedly warned that Israeli purported nuclear program threatens peace in the region. US and Israeli officials have said that one of the necessary conditions to enable a nuclear arms-free zone in the Middle East is Iran`s nuclear program curbed. Meanwhile, Tehran claims its nuclear program solely pursues peaceful purposes such as energy and research. The Geneva talks were meant to prepare for the next major review of the Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT). Held every five years, the next one is scheduled for 2015. The NPT, originated in 1970, was introduced to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and to promote the peaceful use of nuclear energy. According to the document five states were recognized as nuclear-weapon states: the US, Russia, the UK, France and China. A total of 190 parties have signed the treaty. Israel, India, Pakistan, North Korea and South Sudan are not signatories to the NPT. Pyongyang withdrew from the treaty in 2003 when it was accused of launching an enriched uranium weapons program. … Read More
‘Meaningful negotiations may end hunger strike, but Obama must act too’ – Gitmo attorney
The latest official figures from the Guantanamo authorities suggest that 100 of total 166 inmates are taking part in a hunger strike that started around February 6. The number of prisoners being force-fed under medical observation with no “life-threatening conditions” is fluctuating from day to day. But one of the lawyers, Carlos Warner told RT that anyone who is being tube fed after losing a “third or more of his body weight is in a very dire position.”RT: What’s the latest you’ve got from your client, a Kuwaiti man, Fayiz Kandari, what condition is he, and the rest of the inmates, in?Carlos Warner: He’s in a terrible condition. I talked to him on Friday by telephone. He indicated that they are using a large tube in his nose, a size 10 instead of a size 8, which is causing him pain. He went into detail about the raid. He wanted me to underscore that this is a peaceful process, they intend no violence and any detainee that engages in violence has it wrong. This is a peaceful protest against what’s happening in Guantanamo.RT: I guess the authorities will say they’ve got a duty to care, to look after these guys as well, they say none of them are in a condition that is life threatening. True or False?CW: Completely false. Obviously anyone who is being tube fed and who’s lost, at this point, a third or more of his body weight is in a very dire position.RT: Where’s the boundary between the duty of care I just spoke about and being force fed? Is it justified do you think?CW: If you’re going to be force fed, listen to the men. Do not put a bigger tube and punish them in the way you do it. But the issue here is with the president. President Obama must pick up the ball and end this strike, the military has come around and is admitting that the camp is in a full scale strike of a duration and scope we’ve never seen. The president has to intervene. Yesterday, he’s at the correspondent’s dinner making jokes while men are dying in Guantanamo. We ask that he pays some attention.RT: Carlos, is that why the prisoners have ramped up their protest. We have seen a spike recently. That’s one of the reasons, yes or no?CW: Look that’s the fuel that’s driving the fire. Now the military could negotiate an end to this in a matter of days. It would incorporate those who work with the men, and talk to the men instead of using force, I think they could end the strike. However, the fuel behind the fire is indefinite detention and until President Obama does something about that we are going to be stuck in the same position in 2-3 months when something else happens. It’s completely on the president’s doorstep here.RT: Two-three months, I guess there’s likely to have been a death or two by then, with-in 2 or 3 months is it not?CW: Well, I think the military has admitted that. You had a military advisor in the press saying there are going to be multiple deaths because of tis and that’s the fact, that’s what happens when you have hopelessness and that’s what happens when you have this terrible situation that’s being aggravated by the military. The military is at fault here, they need to negotiate an end and not just exert their will on these hopeless men. But ultimately the moves have to happen in Washington. You need to have the president say, we are dedicated to closing it, and I’m appointing someone to do it.RT: Is that all that could be done to stop this hunger strike or is that past the point of no return almost? CW: No, the military can still end this by negotiating, and Fayiz Kandari said that on Friday. He said that nobody in the camp has talked to them in a meaningful way. They just attack and exert their will. So, I think if the military negotiates they can end the strike, but that’s not going to end the problem. The problem will remain until the president decides to pick up the ball and follow through with his promise to close Guantanamo. And if he doesn’t – people will die. … Read More
Anti-Thatcher protesters gather in Trafalgar Square (VIDEO, PHOTOS)
The event, which has been promoted by various Facebook groups, has built up steam this week as the row over Thatcher’s legacy in Britain has turned increasingly sour.According to the UK media, protesters were estimated to number 3,000 and there was a strong police presence. So far five people have been arrested on suspicion of being drunk and disorderly or for “inflicting grievous bodily harm,” the Guardian reports.It is unclear how many people are attending the protests but Marc Vallee a photographer who has been documenting British protest for over ten years said some elements were “more combative”, such as the students who brought London to standstill in the 2010 demonstrations against tuition fees.The mayor of London, Boris Johnson, warned on Friday that anyone breaking the law would be “properly dealt with”.“We live in a democracy where people are entitled to protest, where they are entitled to have fun and do what they want. What they can’t do is, I think; use the death of an elderly person to begin riot or affray or that sort of thing. So we’re getting ready for all that,” said Johnson, speaking on LBC radio.Hundreds of officers will be kitted up and ready to be deployed at flashpoints. The Metropolitan police are keen to avoid any accusations of over-reacting to a peaceful demonstration against Thatcher’s legacy; it was reported by the Guardian. The police are privately confidant that they will be able to handle things. Their ability to monitor social media postings has increased greatly since the riots of 2011 and the attack on the Milbank towers in 2010.Saturday’s protest has no official organizer and is the indirect result of an anarchist collective active in the 1980’s called Class War, now long since defunct. Two decades ago Class War announced that there should be a gathering on Trafalgar Square on the first Saturday after Thatcher’s death.“As one of the few Class War warriors still about, I thought it was my duty to speak up on behalf of the event,” said Ian Bone, Class War’s most famous former campaigner.A delegation of miners from Durham in the north east of England, as well as former mining areas of Yorkshire and South Wales have also travelled to the event.Even twenty years after the one year long miner’s strike, in which Thatcher battled the miners and Trade Unions to close huge numbers of pits which were deemed to be unprofitable; there is still bitterness and anger among the communities that were destroyed by her policies.“She destroyed our communities, she destroyed our villages, she has destroyed our pits and she tried to destroy our dignity,” David Hopper, general secretary of the Durham Miners Association, told the Guardian.Tony Smith, a former miner from Nottinghamshire, said that any feelings of the inappropriateness of celebrating an old woman’s death were overridden by the damage she caused.“The strength of feeling is so deep it overrides any reservations. We’ve lived under Thatcher’s shadow for many years. It split families right down the middle and that resentment is still going on,” he said.As well as the protest in Trafalgar Square, Facebook sites have been set up calling for parties to be held to celebrate the former Prime Minister’s death. The Maggie’s Good Riddance Party said it will hold a “right jolly knees up” outside St Paul’s Cathedral on the day of her funeral, which is scheduled for Wednesday, and turn their backs on the funeral procession as it passes by.But most activists are concentrating on events on Saturday and are aware that if they turn up at the funeral they are likely to get arrested, according to Val Swain spokesperson for the police monitoring group Netpol.Although Margaret Thatcher was controversial, when she came to power in 1979 she inherited a country on its knees, known as “the sick man of Europe”, Britain was a country crippled by strikes and held ransom by the Trade Unions. Her supporters argue that she did what she had to do to make Britain competitive again, even if that meant putting millions out of work.When she left office in 1990 Britain was transformed, some industries such as financial services would become dominant but others like manufacturing would never recover.The funeral will begin with a procession from Downing Street to St Paul’s Cathedral, a gun salute will be fired from the Tower of London and the coffin will carried into St Paul’s by servicemen from regiments and ships associated with the Falkland’s campaign. It will be the first funeral of a British politician attended by the Queen since Winston Churchill’s in 1965. … Read More
Anti-Thatcher protesters gather in Trafalgar Square (PHOTOS)
The event, which has been promoted by various Facebook groups, has built up steam this week as the row over Thatcher’s legacy in Britain has turned increasingly sour.According to the UK media, protesters were estimated to number 3,000 and there was a strong police presence.It is unclear how many people are attending the protests but Marc Vallee a photographer who has been documenting British protest for over ten years said some elements were “more combative”, such as the students who brought London to standstill in the 2010 demonstrations against tuition fees.The mayor of London, Boris Johnson, warned on Friday that anyone breaking the law would be “properly dealt with”.“We live in a democracy where people are entitled to protest, where they are entitled to have fun and do what they want. What they can’t do is, I think; use the death of an elderly person to begin riot or affray or that sort of thing. So we’re getting ready for all that,” said Johnson, speaking on LBC radio.Hundreds of officers will be kitted up and ready to be deployed at flashpoints. The Metropolitan police are keen to avoid any accusations of over-reacting to a peaceful demonstration against Thatcher’s legacy; it was reported by the Guardian. The police are privately confidant that they will be able to handle things. Their ability to monitor social media postings has increased greatly since the riots of 2011 and the attack on the Milbank towers in 2010.Saturday’s protest has no official organizer and is the indirect result of an anarchist collective active in the 1980’s called Class War, now long since defunct. Two decades ago Class War announced that there should be a gathering on Trafalgar Square on the first Saturday after Thatcher’s death.“As one of the few Class War warriors still about, I thought it was my duty to speak up on behalf of the event,” said Ian Bone, Class War’s most famous former campaigner.A delegation of miners from Durham in the north east of England, as well as former mining areas of Yorkshire and South Wales have also travelled to the event.Even twenty years after the one year long miner’s strike, in which Thatcher battled the miners and Trade Unions to close huge numbers of pits which were deemed to be unprofitable; there is still bitterness and anger among the communities that were destroyed by her policies.“She destroyed our communities, she destroyed our villages, she has destroyed our pits and she tried to destroy our dignity,” David Hopper, general secretary of the Durham Miners Association, told the Guardian.Tony Smith, a former miner from Nottinghamshire, said that any feelings of the inappropriateness of celebrating an old woman’s death were overridden by the damage she caused.“The strength of feeling is so deep it overrides any reservations. We’ve lived under Thatcher’s shadow for many years. It split families right down the middle and that resentment is still going on,” he said.As well as the protest in Trafalgar Square, Facebook sites have been set up calling for parties to be held to celebrate the former Prime Minister’s death. The Maggie’s Good Riddance Party said it will hold a “right jolly knees up” outside St Paul’s Cathedral on the day of her funeral, which is scheduled for Wednesday, and turn their backs on the funeral procession as it passes by.But most activists are concentrating on events on Saturday and are aware that if they turn up at the funeral they are likely to get arrested, according to Val Swain spokesperson for the police monitoring group Netpol.Although Margaret Thatcher was controversial, when she came to power in 1979 she inherited a country on its knees, known as “the sick man of Europe”, Britain was a country crippled by strikes and held ransom by the Trade Unions. Her supporters argue that she did what she had to do to make Britain competitive again, even if that meant putting millions out of work.When she left office in 1990 Britain was transformed, some industries such as financial services would become dominant but others like manufacturing would never recover.The funeral will begin with a procession from Downing Street to St Paul’s Cathedral, a gun salute will be fired from the Tower of London and the coffin will carried into St Paul’s by servicemen from regiments and ships associated with the Falkland’s campaign. It will be the first funeral of a British politician attended by the Queen since Winston Churchill’s in 1965. … Read More
