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die Bundesregierung (CDU/CSU–SPD), vertreten durch die Bundeskanzlerin Dr. Angela Merkel (CDU),
wegen ihrer rechtlichen und politischen Mitverantwortung für den völkerrechtswidrigen US-Drohnenkrieg, der über die Satelliten- und Datenrelais-Station der US-Airbase Ramstein in der Pfalz abgewickelt wird. Es ist die größte Militärbasis der USA im Ausland mit knapp zehntausend Militärs und Zivilbediensteten. Von hier, also von deutschem Boden aus, werden bewaffnete Drohneneinsätze im Nahen und Mittleren Osten sowie auf dem afrikanischen Kontinent gesteuert.
One week after Congress held the first hearing in 41 years on the president’s authority to order the use of nuclear weapons, two of Columbia Law School’s leading scholars of war powers and the Constitution discussed what’s at stake before a large audience at the New-York Historical Society in Manhattan. During the Nov. 21 event, Philip Bobbitt, the Herbert Wechsler Professor of Federal Jurisprudence, and Matthew Waxman, the Liviu Librescu Professor of Law, discussed war powers and the presidency, including a proposal by Waxman that would constrain the president’s authority to order a nuclear first strike. The proposal, which Waxman has been developing with Richard Betts, a professor at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs, aims to reform nuclear launch procedures. Under the proposal, the secretary of defense would need to affirm that a nuclear first-strike order is valid and the attorney general would need to certify that it is legal.
GW Bush 20 Sept 2001: "“And one of the great goals of this nation's war is to restore public confidence in the airline industry and to tell the traveling public, get on board, do your business around the country, fly and enjoy America's great destination spots. Go down to Disney World in Florida, take your families and enjoy life the way we want it to be enjoyed.”
by Hans-Jurgen Schlamp 27 nov 2009: As part of the war on terror, American intelligence services have been monitoring European bank transactions since 2001. When the EU found out about it in 2006, they were outraged. But now it looks like the bloc will ag
The move of SWIFT the data server to Switzerland would be an excellent opportunity to stop the nearly unlimited access of US authorities on EU bank transactions. But EU justice and interior minister are apparently keen agree a deal as soon as possible, on
Loretta Napoleonis krönika i ETC, sept 2009. "Vakna upp innan det är försent." Begreppet feodal demokrati."Bekämpandet av terrorismens finansiering, de väpnade gruppernas blodomlopp, föll snart i glömska. Sedan attacken den 11 september 2001 har motsvaran
The Media Response to the Growing Influence of the 9 /11 Truth Movement Reflections on a Recent Evaluation of Dr. David Ray Griffin http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=16505 The Media Response to the Growing Influence of the 9/11 Truth M
January 2, 2001 MEMORANDUM TO: OPINION LEADERS from Project for the New American Century On the last day of 2000, President Clinton signed the International Criminal Court convention...The president did so, he said, in order to put the U.S. in a position
Internews [empowering local media worldwide] subscribes to the values articulated by Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel in their book, The Elements of Journalism: * The purpose of journalism is to provide people with the information they need to be free a
Noam Chomsky, Reader Supported News , 07 May 11 "In April 2002, the head of the FBI, Robert Mueller, informed the press that after the most intensive investigation in history, the FBI could say no more than that it "believed" that the plot was hatched in
Dana Priest & William Arkin: "The top-secret world the government created in response to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, has become so large, so unwieldy and so secretive that no one knows how much money it costs, how many people it employs, how