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In a past Pravda.Ru article entitled Obama: Nobel Peace Prize Winning War Criminal (02/07/2013), I discussed how Barack Obama became the first president to extrajudicially execute two American citizens—Anwar al-Awlaki and his sixteen-year-old son Abdulrahman—in a drone attack. In my article Judge Rosemary Collyer: Sociopath and Murderer (04/21/2014), I further discussed how Collyer, a federal judge, dismissed a lawsuit filed by al-Awlaki’s father against the United States government by (…)

Federico Annibale is a London-based Italian student that, on last March 18, was in Frankfurt - in order to participate together with thousands of other people in the demonstration against the opening of the new ECB headquarters. During the day of mobilization, Federico was arrested; and, since more than a month by now, he is jailed in the Frankfurt prison, awaiting his trial.
His lawyers and friends tell that he is well and that receives and reads with glee the lots of letters of (…)

OBAMA KILLS TWO BIRDS WITH ONE STONE Hints of the dark place he is taking us
John Chuckman
Obama has been quoted saying he "takes full responsibility" for the two hostages, one American and one Italian, killed recently in a drone attack. At the same time, Obama praised the United States for its transparency in such matters.
What in God’s name does he mean? How can you have responsibility with no consequences? Isn’t that a bit like patting yourself on the back for high principles, (…)

In the aftermath of the shipwreck that cost almost a thousand lives off the Sicilian coast, the only voices to be heard are those of a political class that exploits, misleads and howls in an indecently. Gentle racists lambast coarse racists, democrats study technical solutions to keep the "humanitarian crisis" out of sight and out of mind, intellectual defenders of legality call for moral rallies in the face of the barbarity produced by their own laws.
True horror has the strength to (…)

by Wiljam White
A recent Daily Mail article reminds us all that a past forgotten or ignored is one to be repeated. While Jews around the world were preparing to remember the Holocaust, the Grosvenor Hotel in London played host to a group of Neo-Nazis, Nazi sympathisers and Holocaust deniers, who gathered in the Nation’s capital to share their hatred toward Jews.
The article finishes with the statement issued by hotel management that ‘the room booking was made online and hotel staff were (…)

Join us for the Stop the War 2015 fundraiser dinner on Wednesday, 22nd April at the fabulous Troia Restaurant in the heart of the city.
The dinner will be addressed by playwright David Edgar and musician Brian Eno. Other guests include Diane Abbott, Jeremy Corbyn and film-maker Amir Amirani who directed We Are Many, the story of the anti-war movement, to be shown nationwide in cinemas on the 21st May.
It will be a fun filled evening with amazing mediterranean and middle-eastern food, (…)

Hundreds took to the streets to celebrate, and the prime minister was in tears and the president led chants of “Long live Egypt!”
These scenes don’t describe a major policy achievement, nor do they refer to a sporting or military victory. Instead, this outpouring of emotion came after the Egypt Economic Development Conference, which took place in mid-March in the Red Sea resort town of Sharm El-Sheikh.
Much was made of the conference in the lead-up, and by all accounts it exceeded (…)

JOY OH JOY, HILLARY IS RUNNING
John Chuckman
Yes, there is still bias "out there," as some have written, about an American woman running for President, but I do not believe the bias is decisive: after all, America has broken what surely was its fiercest taboo with the election of a black man, twice. There is, however, another bias “out there,” and a decisive one: a bias against the Clintons, a ghastly pair in almost every respect, America’s contemporary version of the Borgias - both of (…)

THE ENDURING REALITY OF GOVERNMENT BY WEALTH AND SOME OF ITS CONSEQUENCES
John Chuckman
If you really want to understand the world in which we live – its endless wars, coups, interventions, and brutality towards great masses of people – you need to start with a correct understanding of the political machinery at work. Talk of liberal interventions or fighting for rights, Western values, and democracy are hopelessly naïve and mostly deliberately deceptive. America’s record in such matters (…)

May 1, 2015: from Milan, capital of the crisis, to Europe
After seven years of crisis the precarious pride has become rage and indignation against the burgeoning unemployment and the growth of poverty imposed by BCE & IMF to most of the population with austerity policies, particularly in Italy, Greece and the rest of the Latin Europe. Social slaughter, plunder of wealth and common goods, the end of the public city are the bases upon which governments build their response to the (…)