Politics

Kuwaiti man repeatedly tortured is freed after 14 years in Guantanamo

https://www.rt.com/usa/328329-kuwaiti-detainee-guantanamo-transfer/

PCR: A decade or more ago Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld claimed, as part of the “scare Americans to death about terrorism” strategy, that the prisoners in Washington’s Guantanamo prison are “the most dangerous, best-trained, vicious killers on the face of the earth.” Rumsfeld’s erroneous claim was endlessly repeated by the presstitutes and swallowed whole by the gullible American and European public.

New Zealand looks set to follow in Canada’s footsteps in providing unconditional money to all of its citizens.  The country have announced plans to scrap benefits and to introduce basic citizens’ income, also known as Universal Basic Income (UBI). Leader of the opposition Labour party, Andrew Little, said his party were considering proposals to provide a basic, unconditional, fixed payment made to every single person in the country in order to combat the “possibility of higher structural unemployment”.

Saudi-led coalition warplanes bombed a restaurant and a crowded market place in rebel held Hajja province in northern Yemen shortly before noon on Tuesday, killing at least 41 civilians and wounding 35 others. The BBC reports: Witnesses said at least two missiles hit a busy market in the Mustaba district of Hajja province at midday. Video footage purportedly of the aftermath showed what appeared to be the bodies of several children. Hajja is controlled by Houthi rebels, who the coalition is battling on behalf of Yemen’s government.

TPP Is Not A Trade Agreement

The sole purpose of TTP is to give global corporations immunity to the laws of the countries in which they do business. Indeed, TPP allows a private corporation to repeal soverign laws of sovereign countries, which no longer would be sovereign. All a corporation has to do is to sue the country for “restraint of trade” if the corporations’ profits are harmed by the country’s laws. For example, Monsanto could sue France and force the French government to repeal its laws against GMOs.

Following MoveOn.org's "success" last Friday, George Soros is back on the lips of an increasing number of Americans as Bloomberg reports, the liberal billionaire, whose effort to unseat President George W. Bush in 2004 shattered political spending records, is returning to big-ticket activism after an 11-year hiatus. Soros has spent or committed more than $13 million to support Hillary Clinton and other Democrats this election cycle and has warned Donald Trump (and Ted Cruz) of "consequences" for their words and actions. Welcome to the Oligarchy.