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Rights groups call for Justice Department probe into Mumia Abu-Jamal case
Mary Shaw
December 9th marked the anniversary of the 1981 murder of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner. Journalist and former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal continues to sit in prison for the crime, which he maintains that he did not commit.
Earlier this year, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to consider an appeal by Abu-Jamal, thereby letting his murder conviction stand. The appeal argued that some blacks had been unfairly excluded from the jury. Prosecutors are currently seeking to reinstate Abu-Jamal's death sentence in follow-up to a 2008 order by the U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeal for a new capital sentencing hearing over concerns that the original jury was improperly instructed.
At this point, it appears that Abu-Jamal is running out of options. And so his supporters are taking the matter to the U.S. Justice Department. And this is not just the work of a few radical black revolutionaries.
President Obama's Nobel Speech, Just Wars and just Stop It!
eileen fleming
On December 10, 2009, in Oslo, President Obama espoused the first heresy of Christianity in his Nobel speech when he cited the concept of a "just war" furthering the fallacy "that war is justified."
The first and greatest heresy in the Christian faith occurred in the third century when Augustine penned the "Just War Theory" which gave the church's OK to violence perpetuated by the empire and "our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system."-Dorothy Day
Clement, Tertillian, Polycarp and every other early Church Father taught that violence was a contradiction of what Christ was about, but as Gandhi commented, "Everyone but Christians understands that Jesus was nonviolent."
A NEEDED CRITICAL RESPONSE TO OBAMA'S NOBEL SPEECH
Allen L Roland
Reuters/Kevin Lamarque
President Obama's explicit pro-war speech, while accepting the Nobel Peace prize, is a glaring indication of America's morally tainted priorities and deserves an equally explicit critical pro-peace response:
President Obama's saber rattling Nobel Peace Prize speech where he evoked the concept of "just war" and argued for the use of force that is "necessary" and "morally justified " ~ seemingly legitimizing our illegal wars and occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan as well as the attacks on Pakistan as necessary Wars for Peace ~ begs for a critical response and Ramzi Kysia , an Arab-American essayist and an organizer with the Free Gaza Movement, is more than up to that task.
To the soul of my father
Najwa Sheikh Ahmed
At the age of 80 my father passed away, after a long journey of suffering, and working hard to obtain us, his children decent life, a life that is better than his own. As many refugees my fathers’ life was not normal nor easy, he had to work harder than any body to change a reality that he has nothing to do with it, the reality of losing the home, the land, the reality of being a refugee, an adjective that stolen all his rights as a human being, the rights of having a home, and living in dignity and respect.
When my father passed away I felt so sad, overwhelmed with anger and pain that a person can hold, not only for loosing my father, but mainly because he passed away without fulfilling his main dream of seeing his homeland again for the last time. A wish that he was looking forward it, a year after a year, without any feeling of desperation or tireless.
‘Yes, I believe’ Speech of Mr Obama, Nobel Peace Prize winner 2009!
Robert A. Verlinden
Mr. Barack Obama, Esq.
The President of the United States of America.
Dear Mr. President,
Please realize the slavery started in Africa was possible by the assistance of black elite as well as the holocaust could sprawl by the co-operation of the Jewish elite.
These examples show why we cannot trust on institutions and the elite, which means the representatives of the system of the invisible political powers[1].
Affirming WAR, DISPAIR – Pres Obama's Oslo peace speech
By Carolyn Bennett
U.S. President Barack Obama's speech formally accepting a Nobel Peace Prize was to me an alarming oration.
The "change" president proclaimed aggression and endless war in the world "as it is" - a world he accepts without offer of solution. At Oslo President Obama declared his acceptance of misery - often the result of U.S.-declared wars - as an unchangeable human destiny. In curious language falling unconvincingly from his mouth, the president termed oppression inevitable; war "just" and "necessary," the result of "human folly."
"We are at war," the president echoed his predecessor on page one of the White House transcript of his speech. From there, standing before the Nobel committee that handed him this windfall, he went often in religious nuance to wage and to justify acts of aggression.
The speech topped the alarm raised by his earlier promise to continue killing Afghans and Pakistanis. The Oslo speech unveiled an in-your-face militarist uncaring of the future or of any human being or institution of law domestic or international. It was a commentary dripping with despair for the United States and the world - and most particularly for the people of South/Central Asia (and the Middle East), Americans, society, soldiers and soldiers' families.
In light of the rise of Jewish fundamentalism Arabs are in dire need of a thorough Referendum, the main character, the state of Israel
Salim Nazzal
The disgusting view of the fundamentalist Jewish colonizer driving his car several times over the Palestinian young man Wasim muwasada has invoked extreme rage among Palestinians.
The criminal event is not an isolated event because the “defense” Israeli army was watching the dreadful act without any attempt to hinder it, and also because such crimes have become a normal thing in the Jewish religious culture towards Palestinians. For Palestinians the Zionist Jewish culture of baby killing and extreme brutality is not the act of a fanatic person, but, rather, the product of a culture based on murder and violence. The cultural mind which allowed, justified and instructed the murder of Palestinian children and pregnant woman in Deir Yasin in 1948 is the same cultural mind which permitted the murder Palestinian babies in 2009.
Official Lies about 911 Exposed
Dr. David Ray Griffin
Although John Farmer's "The Ground Truth" has attracted a lot of favorable attention, it is a deeply flawed book, containing misleading claims and providing an extremely one-sided account of 9/11.
Much of the attention received by the book has been prompted by misleading claims made by Farmer and his publisher. The book's dust-jacket calls it the "definitive account" of 9/11, but it actually deals almost entirely with only one question about that day: why the airliners were not intercepted.
Also, the book's subtitle calls it "the untold story" of 9/11 and its dust-jacket says that it "breathtakingly revises" our understanding of that day. In reality, however, it simply provides new support for the story told about the planes in "The 9/11 Commission Report," which appeared in 2004, and in two publications that appeared in 2006: Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton's book "Without Precedent," and Michael Bronner's essay in "Vanity Fair."
Resisting An Underlying Moral Vacuum
By Emily Spence
Overview: Is our species, overall, mentally ill in some way? How could this not be the case when we, continually, have, along with many constructive ones, the same sorts of unconscionable, dysfunctional and destructive behaviors happening again and again through the centuries?
There are moment in life when one, seriously, wonders whether our species, overall, is mentally ill in some underlying ways. Then again, any definitive determination is likely relativistic since it largely depends on the standards that a given society and culture use to define mental illness, it would seem.
OPEN LETTER FROM A CONCERNED VET TO PRESIDENT OBAMA
Allen L Roland
President Obama's national approval poll numbers continue to tumble especially among veterans who increasing feel neglected, betrayed and sold out . Obama's political Afghanistan exit strategy may very well eventually result in his own one term exit:
As our self proclaimed war president, Barack Obama, receives his tainted Nobel Peace Prize today in Oslo, Norway ~ his national approval ratings continue to dramatically tumble. His obvious Nobel anointment by the global elite seemingly legitimizes Obama's illegal wars and occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan as well as the attacks on Pakistan as necessary Wars for Peace ~ further enslaving the people of those countries and strengthening the ignorance of the public ~ who will now begin to assume, as Orwell predicted, that war is peace.
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