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POPSDocumentary -The CIA And The Nazis A History channel documentary, that gives an insight into the inner workings of what went after WW2 and led up to the cold war and how the two are inter-connected, and also what happened to the thousands of Nazi's that were brought to America by the US military. The truth is, thousands of former Nazis, some of whom committed atrocities, went to work for the United States government without the public’s knowledge. During the war, their crimes ranged from overseeing slave labor camps to sending orphans to their deaths. After the war, they were on the US payroll either as scientists in America or as intelligence agents in Europe.
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POPSDistinguishing Science and Pseudoscience # Penetrating political systems, it justifies atrocities in the name of racial purity # Penetrating the educational system, it can drive out science and sensibility; # In the field of health, it dooms thousands to unnecessary death or suffering # Penetrating religion, it generates fanaticism, intolerance, and holy war # Penetrating the communications media, it can make it difficult for voters to obtain factual information on important public issues
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POPSLawsuit Over Research Monkeys Mistreatment The same old story. "Yes you did". "No I didn't". As a scientist in research myself (Bio-Chem), I know all too well what goes on in those labs, And I am glad to see someone is investigating these horrific atrocities committed upon these innocent creatures in the name of scientific research. There is nothing scientific about it. It is just maiming and torture under the disguise of surgery. I find this sort of thing absolutely disgusting. There is a related story on the same page. Click on the link to view that and the accompanying video. I think what irritated me in the first place was that this is going on in my home town, and is related to my line of work. These methods are becoming more antiquated as we progress further into the 21st century.
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POPSWrist-slap and Tackle: Obama Goes Mild on CIA Torture http://chris-floyd.com/component/content/artic
Holder has announced a tepid probe into some of the possible "excesses" committed by a few CIA interrogators, while letting the true architects and perpetrators of an elaborate, deliberate, inherent system of torture get off scot-free. Glenn Greenwald has many of the details here and here, among them the telling – and damning – fact that Obama and Holder have apparently decided that the "torture memos" prepared at the White House's order should be considered "settled law;" that is, only those agents whose tortures might have gone a bit beyond the already heinous tortures "allowed" by the White House memos are to be investigated for possible prosecution. As long as you stayed within the gruesome "guidelines" of the White House torture memos, then your atrocities are now to be considered "legal." This is yet another open reinforcement of the long-established covert practice of what we might call Nixon's Law: "If the president orders it, it cannot be illegal."
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POPSRight-wing terror tactics: here we go again! Remember Bush scaring us to war over weapons of mass destruction? Remember McCain's Convention images of the Twin Towers collapsing? Remember Palin's refrain that Obama was "palling around with terrorists?" How many times will Americans listen when right-wingers cry "Wolf?"
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POPSScary Fundamentalists
When people adhere to fundamentalist principles they are often driven to extreme action in support of their beliefs and so the rest of us, the rational world, have to deal with the fallout. Murders and atrocities are committed in the name of God and they have been for centuries now. It is depressing to consider how long the religious battle has been raging because there can be no end to it unless religion itself disappears. If Protestants and Catholics can´t get on with each other what chance is there of either getting on with Muslims? Religion has been responsible for death and persecution on a grand scale. The war waged between the Catholic and Protestant faiths has left an especially deep scar in the UK and even in my home country of Scotland there are still religiously motivated acts of violence (thankfully rare nowadays). However on a world scale the violence caused by religious intolerance is still the greatest threat to peace today. As an atheist I am always surprised by the
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POPSThe True Face of Television TV, is the great opium of the masses, simply put it is the greatest propaganda tool ever devised. Seven Corporations control all the major media TV, Cable, Radio and Newspapers in America. This is reminiscent of when the Nazis were able to control the minds, prosperity and attitudes of their people while committing atrocities and mayhem not seen in their controlled media. If the Bush family allowed these seven corporations even more control of the media then Obama has accelerated it. It goes back to the 1%, they can control what the masses see and hear and therefore the feeling and beliefs of a nation, for many people if they didn't see it on TV then it didn't happen at all. The majority of the American people are being led like lambs to the slaughter, unfortunately the whole world is watching and and the majority of them are getting the whole news, while Americans are force fed a censored view of what is actually going on.
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POPSThe Green Brief #21 (July 07) 
. . . Rafsanjani himself has so far not supported this statement and where he stands is still unknown at this time. 6. There are partially-confirmed reports that Mousavi met with one, mourning protester’s family on Monday night. The protester’s father told Mousavi that his son was not very political, yet had taken a great deal of interest in Mr. Mousavi’s message. He also claimed that his son was not violent. Mousavi told the grieving family that the blood of the innocent never goes in vain. 7. After US Vice President Joe Biden’s statement yesterday, that suggested the US would not interfere if Israel were to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities, Saudi Arabia was reported as offering Israel its airspace for any future attacks on Iran. However, Saudi Arabia today denied that it had made such comments. In the meantime, US President Obama has vehemently denied that Biden’s statements implied that the US had given Israel “a green light” to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities.
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POPSThey Only Know The Languages of Menace and Violence Iran envoy says tough stance by G-8 over violence 'a mistake' Iranian Ambassador to Japan Seyed Abbas Araghchi said Friday that the Group of Eight industrialized countries will make "the biggest mistake" if their foreign ministers send a message of condemnation over Iran's post-election violence during their ongoing meeting in Italy."How have the G-8 countries proved that the Iranian presidential election had irregularities? How can they interfere in the domestic affairs of Iran?" the ambassador said, while stressing that there is "no legal problem" in the police authorities' move to repress demonstrators who have turned violent. "We will adopt a particularly tough and clear position," Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini said ahead of the three-day foreign ministers' conference, which started Thursday in Italy, according to the Italian ANSA news agency.
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POPSAmir Abbas Fakhravar Is An Iranian Jailed Dissident Fakhravar was a writer and a columnist for two major newspapers, “Khordad” and “Mosharekat” in Iran. He had a column called, “Who knows better than people” where he exposed the wrong-doings of the government authorities against his fellow students. With the help of his American friends and Iranian dissidents, Fakhravar moved to the United States in May 2006. He met with President Bush, prominent members of congress, scholars, and policy makers to discuss the atrocities of the Islamic Republic. In July 20, 2006, Fakhravar testified in a historic event before the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs committee of the US Senate. Fakhravar attended numerous conferences in the US and Europe to discuss the situation of young Iranians, jailed journalists, and political prisoners. He is a regular speaker on the current situation of Iran in college campuses, and international stage. Fakhravar spoke at a panel with Vaclav Havel, Natan Sharansky and Jose Maria Aznar at
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POPSsexual violence as "a tactic of war to humiliate, dominate, instil fear in & disperse"
Amnesty International says women and girls are being targeted in conflicts around the world while the authorities do little or nothing to prevent it. In a report called Lives Blown Apart, the organisation says these crimes persist because those who commit them know prosecutions are rare. Despite promises, treaties and legal mechanisms, governments have failed to protect women and girls, Amnesty says. The human rights group says its investigations have found that violence against women is not just a by-product of war, but often a deliberate military strategy, with women particularly targeted in ethnic cleansing campaigns. "By attacking the women you are attacking the honour of your enemy, you demoralise the men, you scare people into running away," she said. "It's a very effective weapon, because the communities are totally destroyed." The question is whether those in conflict zones who use rape in war will be deterred.
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POPSObama Fails to Challenge Muslim World on Treatment of Gays and Lesbians Pretty damning, if you ask me. But as we all know, Democrats ignore their core constituencies (blacks, labor, gays etc) except during an election year. So how come Dick Cheney gets no love for his tolerance and views on gay marriage? Why did President Obama completely ignore the persecution of gays where Islamic law is the rule of the land? It is happening in Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, and even Egypt. (The list goes on and on actually….) Gays living under strict Islamic law (whether in a nation or a region) are subject to death. Women (as a group) actually have better lives in the Muslim faith than do gays and lesbians. Although gay men seem to be particular targets of the horrific state/mosque-sanctioned atrocities. Has Obama not seen the photos of young gay men being hanged in Iran? I am really beginning to wonder why the American gay and lesbian activists were so hot for Obama to begin with.
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POPSAnother brilliant email from Canada
Round up every Tamil protester, provide transportation and send them back to "help out." Sort out your own mess. Don't blame the country you chose to live in because that country will not devote massive resources to your cause. Go back home and speak out there against the atrocities that you see happening and help fight it from there. Sacrifice yourself, your sons, your daughters and your wealth, as little or as much as that might be. Put your money where your mouth is not our money and our families where your mouth is!! Our ancestors stood up to carve out a way of living that we enjoy today. They did not go to your country, accept your hospitality then disrupt your way of life & demand you fix the injustices that they themselves would not address. Accept responsibility for allowing your country to fall into the chaotic state it is in today!! Don't shirk your own part and think we will arbitrarily shoulder your social debts. I will vote for any politician/political party wi
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POPSSex-Haunted Saints and Sinister Clowns: Engendering Anti-Abortion Terror That prominent and highly paid media figure is Bill O’Reilly. Can a talk show host be held accountable for inciting vigilantism? Bill has been "trying to stop" Tiller for years, since denouncing him as a Hitlerian child-murderer and child-rape accomplice on national television in 2006. He routinely trumpets his ability to move millions with his golden words. Should O’Reilly take responsibility for agitating one of his ‘brainwashed, admiring’ listeners into carrying out what Bill has repeatedly called for? Of course his highly paid lawyers will never allow him to be held responsible for any of it. Regardless of how he reacts to this murder we all know his role in it.
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POPSAbu Ghraib? Too Bad U.S. took pictures and humiliated them; they kill, mutilate and behead their victims....cutting off their heads while they are alive..I've seen the videos...Too Bad they don't like Guantanamo!
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POPSYankee War Crimes Exposed, Origins of US War Policy Liberators or terrorists? Saving the Union or destroying cities and civilians? Almost every major city in the South and Missouri was set on fire. Remember "Gone with the Wind"--Atlanta? The imperial terrorism of US wars did not begin with Fallujah. It is a war policy that began here. "Burning (General) Sherman" was a megalomaniac madman unleashed upon the South whose policy was virtual genocide, extermination and destruction, brutal to both blacks and whites, males and females, not sparing unarmed non-combatants. Union Brigadier General James H. Lane: “We believe in a war of extermination. I want to see every foot of ground . . . burned over – everything laid waste. . . .” If "war is hell", the U.S. since the Civil War is playing the Devil. "...blows the lid off the conspiracy of silence about the violent, mass-murdering origins of the American Leviathan state..." -- -Thomas J. DiLorenzo, www.LewRockwell.com
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POPS"universal jurisdiction" over the world's most serious crimes In April 2000 the UN Security Council admitted responsibility for failing to stop the Rwandan genocide. The Canadian Foreign Minister, Bill Graham, said that 10 years after the genocide the international community had still not learned how to stop such killings from happening again. "We lack the political will to achieve the necessary agreement on how to put in place the type of measures that will prevent a future Rwanda from happening," he said. The head of the small UN peacekeeping force in Rwanda at the time, Lieutenant General Romeo Dallaire, said that no-one was interested in saving Rwandans and the bulk of his force was ordered to leave. He suggested that attitudes now had not changed.
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POPSCheney defending what he had built. I note a certain hint of desperation in Cheney's antics as he tries to justify the atrocities he engendered. People just need to stop paying any attention to him or anything he says and he'll go away, like a bad drug trip.
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