UN silent despite no basis for NATO’s illegal war on Libya

By Frances Thomas
Scoop.NZ

The situation in Sirte is dire.  Six weeks under siege after months of aerial attacks.  Children and old people dead of hunger and thirst. Water supply hit. Hospitals without medical supplies to treat the ill and injured, and then bombed by NATO. The dead lying in the streets.

Constant ‘targeted’ nightly aerial bombardment by NATO air forces.  Constant ‘fire at will’ daytime attacks from ill-disciplined NTC rebels using tanks, rockets, mortars and howitzers.

In their missile-launcher-laden graffiti-decorated pick-up trucks, the rebels drive into the city edges in the morn and back out by dark, hailed as ‘freedom-fighters’ by their embedded foreign press, they more resemble armed gangs.

COTO Report Goes Down Under: An Interview with Maxwell Igan

By Megan ‘Verb’ Kargher

On behalf of COTO Report, I am pleased to present this 68-minute interview with documentary filmmaker, musician and non-violent non-compliance expert, Max Igan.

Modern Day Slavery Worldwide

Top 25 Censored Stories of 2009/2010

For 34 years, Project Censored has been bringing the most vital stories to public awareness, believing that genuine democracy depends on freedom of the press. Here are 25 stories that were underreported or otherwise unjustly ignored in 2009.

Worldwide Slavery

The abolition of slavery world wide is far from complete.  Despite international and domestic laws against the practice of slavery, there are now some twenty-seven million people living as slaves.  More than nine million are children.  Every year vast numbers of  human beings are trafficked both internationally and within national borders.  In fact it is now cheaper to purchase a slave than it has ever been at any point in history.