March 3, 2012
How to Leave Guantánamo: By Means of a Plea Deal or In A Coffin by Andy Worthington, March 2, 2012 Guantánamo briefly emerged from the shadows on Wednesday, February 29, when Majid Khan, a Pakistani national described as one of 14 “high-value detainees” when he arrived at Guantánamo in September 2006, after three [...]
Tags: al-Qaeda, Guantánamo, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Khan, Majid Khan, Osama bin Laden, Pakistan, United States
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January 13, 2012
Photo: Joint Task Force Guantanamo Unexpected Road Block to Afghanistan Peace: Gitmo By Spencer Ackerman Email Author Photo: Joint Task Force Guantanamo Negotiating a peace deal with the Taliban after 10 years of war in Afghanistan is hard enough. But the stalemated politics of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility risk effectively killing the negotiations before they [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, Guantánamo Bay, Joint Task Force Guantanamo, Karen Joy Greenberg, Obama, Politics, Spencer Ackerman, Taliban
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January 11, 2012
Only 6 Guantanamo prisoners have been tried before a military commission [ACLU] New York, New York - This week marks the 10-year anniversary of the first prisoner arriving at Guantanamo Bay, making it the longest-standing war prison in US history. Guantanamo has been a catastrophic failure on every front. It has long been past the time [...]
Tags: Al Jazeera, American Civil Liberties Union, Barack Obama, Geneva Convention, Guantánamo, Guantanamo Bay detention camp, Obama, United States
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January 7, 2012
(John Moore / Getty Images)The Daily Beast carried this headlinetoday: Ex-Commander of Guantanamo Prison: ‘Close It’ After Ten Years, Disparate Voices Call for Guantanamo Closure Next week, January 11, will mark ten years since the US government opened the prison facility in Guantanamo Bay on the island nation of Cuba. As this solemn [...]
Tags: George W. Bush, Guantánamo, Guantánamo Bay, National Defense Authorization Act, Obama, Shaker Aamer, United States, Witness Against Torture
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January 3, 2012
‘Obama Just Didn’t Have the Balls to Follow With the Right Thing’ By RT January 02, 2012 “RT” – One of the first promises made by President Obama when he first came to power back in 2008 was to close the controversial Guantanamo Bay detention centre. Four years later it is still operational. [...]
Tags: Barack Obama, Central Intelligence Agency, George W. Bush, Guantánamo, Obama, President of the United States, United States, Yemen
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December 31, 2011
Perhaps the saying that fascism always begins at home is not so far fetched. But it is a little late to look at one aspect and then declare that this is the beginning. Unfortunately for the highly propagandized US population there has been a slow creep toward a fascist nation occurring for [...]
Tags: AUMF, Berlin Wall, Guantanamo Bay detention camp, Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, National Lawyers Guild, September 11 attacks, United State, Washington DC
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December 28, 2011
New Guantanamo Commander Seeking to Diminish Detainee Rights Further Lawyers for the defense of detainees charged with involvement in 9/11 have sternly objected to the new rules by John Glaser, December 27, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum The new commander of the Guantanamo Bay prison is seeking to impose new rules on communication [...]
Tags: Abd Rahim al-Nashiri, al-Qaeda, Attorney-client privilege, Detention (imprisonment), Guantánamo Bay, Guantanamo Bay detention camp, Pentagon, September 11 attacks
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October 16, 2011
Nude in Black and White Mr. Fish By Mr. Fish While visiting the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., at age 11, I found out that the transparent bubble on a warplane from which a gunner fires his machine gun is called a blister. This seemed somehow appropriately unsettling, as if any aircraft [...]
Tags: Barack Obama, Fish, Freedom Plaza, National Air and Space Museum, Susan Dey, Wall Street, Washington, Washington DC
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July 5, 2011
Editor’s Note: Australian participant on the Freedom Flotilla to Gaza Michael Coleman has been arrested by Greek Police for attempting to block their pursuit of the Canadian boat the “Tahrir” as it left port. Michael and Soha, another Canadian Flotilla team member, were in two kayaks beside the “Tahrir”. As soon as the boat’s [...]
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June 30, 2011
King George III Won: Happy Fourth of July! By David Swanson http://warisacrime.org/node/58333 Preface: It has always been a matter of concern that the US has for so long lived in an deluded state that it had gained its independence from the harsh and odious British rule to replace that with a Grand Dream of Republicanism. In this way the future [...]
Tags: Barack Obama, Daniel Ellsberg, David Swanson, George III of the United Kingdom, George W. Bush, History, Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky, Pentagon Papers, Richard Nixon, United State, United States Congress, United States Declaration of Independence, War Powers Resolution
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May 22, 2011
Barack Obama says he would repeat Pakistan raid Barack Obama says he respects Pakistani sovereignty but would go after another ‘very high-value target’ if found to be there Share98 Press Association guardian.co.uk, Sunday 22 May 2011 10.03 BST Article history Andrew Marr interviewed Barack Obama in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House. Photograph: [...]
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May 17, 2011
Subscribe to FFF Email Update Subscribe to Freedom Daily DONATE TO FFF Hornberger’s Blog Monday, May 16, 2010 Hornberger’s Blog Index Information about RSS REMINDER: The Jacob Hornberger Show every Saturday at 7-8 pm EST. Listen and watch live on the Internet: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/the-future-of-freedom-foundation America’s Post-9/11 Turn toward Dictatorship by Jacob G. Hornberger Among the most potent [...]
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May 17, 2011
One day everyone or at least those left alive and still able to think and speak will thank Assange whoever and whatever he was,is and will be. For the elites the hegemons the imperialists and the capitalists the truth has to be guarded against. Elaborate systems of lies, deceit and murder must be put in place [...]
Tags: ENI, iPhone, Iran, Julian Assange, New York Times, The McClatchy Company, United States, WikiLeaks
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May 17, 2011
Carney knowledge used to be a crime but these days it seem to be the best way of avoiding a discussion by using it to say they were right now what is your question? Even to a child in a school yard that is not an accepted way of talking but in the US anything [...]
Tags: 1948 Palestinian exodus, Israel, Jay Carney, Nazi Germany, Palestinian refugee, Syria, United States, White House
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May 16, 2011
Sanity is where you find it and a recent article by Justin Raimondo of antiwar.com is exactly the place to go to see sanity in action. Perhaps the better word or phrase is “strict critical analysis”, but that is entirely a matter for you to decide. However, there is one possible complaint, and that [...]
Tags: 1948 Palestinian exodus, Bashar-al Assad, Justin Raimondo, middle east, Riders On The Storm, Rudolf Rocker, Tel Aviv, United States
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May 16, 2011
60 More Days in Libya: Obama Does Bush Lawyers Proud By David Swanson http://warisacrime.org/node/57853 Now we know why Obama has gone to such outrageous lengths to keep Bush’s lawyers out of prison, claiming powers of secrecy and immunity beyond Cheney’s wildest dreams and pressuring foreign nations to clamp down on any outbreaks of law [...]
Tags: John McCain, John Yoo, Libya, NATO, United Nations, United States, United States Constitution, War Powers Resolution
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May 16, 2011
This is an article from Der Spiegel about the Bin Laden assassination. After all the rumour and innuendo dies down what we can expect is that the US will continue to lie about what really happened for what can only be reasons of world domination. However, by simply going into a foreign country and assassinating someone like Israel their close cohorts [...]
Tags: al-Qaeda, al-Qaida, AlQaeda, Barack Obama, David Suzuki, Der Spiegel, Osama BinLaden, Peter Kropotkin, Terrorist Organizations, United States
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May 16, 2011
Round Up the Usual Suspects … and Shoot Them By DOUGLAS LUMMIS The issue is not whether bin Laden was a very bad man (I suppose he was) or for that matter whether Barack Obama is also a very bad man (looking worse all the time), but what happens to the law when states violate [...]
Tags: Barack Obama, Extrajudicial punishment, Laws of war, Marjorie Cohn, Osama BinLaden, United States, Wendell Willkie, Zbigniew Brzezinski
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May 15, 2011
This is part one of a story about the US and war. It forms part of Volume 1 of the autobiography of Mark Twain It makes interesting reading, George Ikners ikners.com Click to Print This Page [page 403]Monday, March 12, 1906 Mr. Clemens comments on the killing of six hundred Moros—Men, women and children—In a [...]
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May 14, 2011
Have knees will crawl the US and Mining magnates a specialty If you believe the official line the US did not see 911 coming and somehow have managed to blunder their way along playing the good guys against the forces of darkness. Yet they would have everyone believe their CIA possesses intelligence beyond the [...]
Tags: Australian Uranium, Julia Gillard, Libya, Meet the Press, Muammar al-Gaddafi, National security, NATO, NBC, United States, White House
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May 14, 2011
Obama Confirms Libya War to Continue – But Will He Ever Ask Congress? With No Authorization Sought, Officials Mull Ways to Skirt Legal Requirements by Jason Ditz, May 13, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Following a White House meeting today with NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen,President Obama confirmed that the US [...]
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May 14, 2011
Afghanistan: war without end? Obama promised no open-ended occupation – and to draw down forces from July. A 2.5% cut is hardly an encouraging start Share68 Comments (94) David Swanson guardian.co.uk, Thursday 12 May 2011 19.31 BST Article history General David Petraeus, commander of US and Nato forces in Afghanistan, greets US defence secretary [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, Barack Obama, David Petraeus, Joe Biden, Jonathan Alter, Kabul, Osama BinLaden, Robert Gates, United States, United States Armed Forces, United States Secretary of Defense
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May 13, 2011
Defense Intelligence Staff chief blows British cover for Iraq War Submitted by NicolasDavies on Fri, 2011-05-13 01:13 Iraq Paul Pillar, a senior CIA analyst who worked on the 25-page “summary of intelligence” presented to Congress in 2002, later told PBS, “The purpose was to strengthen the case for going to war…I regret having had a [...]
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May 13, 2011
The totally cold hearted and bloodthirsty imperial project can perhaps even if for some ulterior reason produce something like a good result. For those of you who think that worse is better try looking at those affected and think about grabbing even the most meagre of forced concessions with open arms. No doubt anyone allowed [...]
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Posted in Air war, Al Qaeda, Anarchism, Arab Jews, Arab Spring, Assange, Assassination, Atomics Corporation, Australia, Australia Politics, Australian complicity in US warmongering policies and war crimes, Australian economy, Australian Foreign Policy, Australian Politics, Capital, Capital Project, Capitalism, CIA, Consent, Democracy, Dissent, Fascism, Foreign Policy, Gitmo, Gitmo disclosures, Guantanamo Bay a human disaster, Guantanamo crimes, Human Rights, Islam and the US, Israel, Militants, Military, Military madmen, Military Murders, Mission Creep, Obama, Obama warmonger, oil, Peace Movement, Pentagon, people's protests, Propaganda, Protest, Racism, US economy, US elections, US Foreign Policy, US Politics, US war crimes, USA, War, War Crimes, War is a crime, Waterboarding, Wikileaks, Women in the Middle East, Women's issues, Womens' views and action | No Comments »
May 12, 2011
Kill the Men, Take the Thumb Drives Was the Bin Laden raid a manhunt or an intelligence grab? By William SaletanPosted Wednesday, May 11, 2011, at 8:46 AM ET How important was intelligence-gathering to the Bin Laden raid?One after another, elements of the U.S. account of Osama Bin Laden‘s death have unraveled. First it was [...]
Tags: 60 Minutes, Abbottabad, Barack Obama, Central Intelligence Agency, Leon Panetta, New York Times, Osama bin Laden, Thomas E. Donilon, United States Navy SEALs
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May 12, 2011
Tomgram: William Astore, A New Age of “Enlightened” War Posted by William Astore at 10:00am, May 12, 2011. In case you hadn’t noticed, they are — no kidding around — absolutely the niftiest non-humans on Earth. I’m speaking about the special operations force of Navy SEALs that took out Osama bin Laden. They and their special ops [...]
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May 12, 2011
Afghanistan: war without end? The Guardian Obama promised no open-ended occupation – and to draw down forces from July. A 2.5% cut is hardly an encouraging start David Swanson guardian.co.uk, Thursday 12 May 2011 19.31 BST General David Petraeus, commander of US and Nato forces in Afghanistan, greets US defence secretary Robert Gates upon his [...]
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May 9, 2011
THE NEW YORKER ONLINE ONLY NEWS DESK Notes on Washington and the world by the staff of The New Yorker. « The Sounds of 9/11 Main What a Week: Mostly Osama, and Some Other Stuff » MAY 5, 2011 PRAGMATIC TORTURE Posted by David K. Shipler Advocates of torture who enjoy tormenting the rest of us with [...]
Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, Church Committee, Dick Cheney, Frank Church, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Michael Sandel, New Yorker, Osama bin Laden, Presidency of George W. Bush, Torture, United State, United States House Committee on Homeland Security
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May 9, 2011
The Predators: Where is Your Democracy? By Kathy Kelly http://warisacrime.org/node/57779 On May 4, 2011, CNN World News asked whether killing Osama bin Laden was legal under international law. Other news commentary has questioned whether it would have been both possible and advantageous to bring Osama bin Laden to trial rather than kill him. World attention [...]
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May 9, 2011
After bin Laden Hit, U.S. Aides Raise Dubious Hopes for Peace by Gareth Porter, May 09, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Barack Obama and top administration officials have taken advantage of the killing of Osama bin Laden to establish a new narrative suggesting the event will pave the way for negotiations [...]
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May 8, 2011
An email from Noam Chomsky Noam Chomsky University of Leeds (UCU) – Blog, November 30, 2009 I had a startling experience a few weeks ago. I travelled to Mexico City for talks at the National University, an enormous and very impressive institution with high standards of achievement and scholarship. Entrance is selective, but the university [...]
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May 8, 2011
While the establishment media was busy parroting President Obama’s announcement of Osama bin Laden’s supposed assassination, reporting the unsubstantiated claims as if they were unquestionable facts, much of the so-called “alternative” press was far morecautious — and accurate, it turns out. But more importantly, with the new official storyline indicating that bin Laden was in fact unarmed, bigger and [...]
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May 6, 2011
Even the administration in the US including those elements who organised and carried out the killing accept that this action is hardly the end of Al Qaeda, the euphoria among the population could well be displaced by further concerted actions from the group. What seems to come from the ever changing reports of what happened [...]
Tags: Abbottabad, al-Qaeda, Ayman Al Zawahiri, Jay Carney, Osama bin Laden, United States, United States Department of Homeland Security, White House
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May 5, 2011
This not a cheap ticket. It costs an enormous amount. Death and destruction on a wide scale mixed with a specific target does not come cheap. Particularly if you are in the rifle sights or too close to the bomb crater. George Ikners ikners.com a WordPress site Opening photo is of Paul Pillar Bin Ladin‘s [...]
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May 3, 2011
At the end of the day is what some people think is a fairly overused saying, but sometimes it covers the situation. Whatever you may think of Bin Laden and Afghanistan you really need to work out what their position was that led to their actions. It would take a fairly obstinate person to disregard [...]
Tags: Arab people, Crusades, Israel, middle east, Moshe Dayan, United Nations, United States, Zionism
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April 29, 2011
US General: Slow Transition Out of Afghanistan Insists Forces Already ‘Significantly’ Thinned Out by Jason Ditz, April 28, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Speaking to reporters on Thursday, Major General Richard Mills cautioned against expecting any major withdrawals from Afghanistan, insisting that any moves would be a “slow transition” and that [...]
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April 29, 2011
Leaked Files Detail Gitmo’s History of Child Prisoners Over 60 Detainees Were Under 18 When Captured by Jason Ditz, April 28, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Guantanamo Bay’s detention center hasn’t just been home to aging militants, like 89 year old Mohammed Sadiq, who was described in his 2002 assessment as suffering [...]
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April 27, 2011
Leaked files: Gitmo inmate informed on 123 others 1 Comment and 3 Reactions|Tweet|Share|Print|Email|More ** FILE ** An inmate of Camp X-Ray is escorted by two guards while other inmates are seen in their cells at the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in March 2002. By Associated Press 9:47 a.m., Tuesday, April [...]
Tags: Abu Hamza al-Masri, al-Qaeda, Guantanamo Bay detention camp, New York Times, Osama bin Laden, Tora Bora, United States, WikiLeaks
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April 27, 2011
Study: Gitmo Doctors Ignored Signs of Torture Officials Shrugged Off Data Suggesting Beatings by Jason Ditz, April 26, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum A newly released study details a number of cases in which government doctors at Guantanamo Bay ignored strong evidence of torture and other signs of detainee [...]
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April 26, 2011
The Guardian has a very extensive site with a huge amount of information on all Gitmo detainees. You can got to the interactive site at http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2011/apr/25/guantanamo-files-guantanamo-bay This is a very majot source of information Guantánamo [...]
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April 26, 2011
The United States released dozens of so-called “high-risk” detainees from the Guantanamo Bay prison facility and held more than 150 innocent men for years, according to new reports about a trove of leaked military [...]
Tags: Al Jazeera, Daniel Fried, Guantánamo Bay, Guantanamo Review Task Force, Osama bin Laden, Sami al-Hajj, United States, WikiLeaks
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April 26, 2011
By Carol Rosenberg and Tom Lasseter | McClatchy Newspapers WASHINGTON — Faced with the worst-ever single attack by foreigners on American soil, the U.S. military set up a human intelligence laboratory at Guantanamo that used interrogation and detention practices that they largely made [...]
Tags: Abu Zubaydah, al-Qaeda, Guantanamo Bay detention camp, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Osama bin Laden, Star Spangled Banner, United States, WikiLeaks
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April 25, 2011
Guantánamo Bay files – live coverage The cache of more than 700 leaked files on Guantánamo Bay detainees lift the lid on the realities of the camp and pile more pressure on Obama‘s failure to close it. [...]
Tags: Barack Obama, Detention (imprisonment), Glenn Greenwald, Guantánamo Bay, Guantanamo Review Task Force, Guardian, New York Times, Task Force, United States, United States Department of Defense, WikiLeaks
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April 25, 2011
What are the Guantánamo Bay files? Understanding the prisoner dossiers David Leigh, the Guardian’s investigations editor, explains the files and how in key cases they expose official lies Share David Leigh guardian.co.uk, Monday 25 April 2011 Article history The Guantánamo Bay files spell out the Americans‘ suspicions about individual detainees’ involvement with terrorism, their [...]
Tags: Binyam Mohamed, Guantánamo Bay, John Walker Lindh, Joint Task Force Guantanamo, New York Times, NPR, United States, WikiLeaks
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April 25, 2011
A Statement by the United States Government “It is unfortunate that The New York Times and other news organizations have made the decision to publish numerous documents obtained illegally by Wikileaks concerning the Guantanamo detention facility. These documents contain classified information about current and former GTMO detainees, and we strongly condemn [...]
Tags: Daniel Fried, Detention (imprisonment), Guantanamo Review Task Force, List of Guantanamo Bay detainees, New York Times, Task Force, United States, WikiLeaks
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April 25, 2011
Canadian Omar Khadr was 15 when captured and is still there after nearly nine years, while men as old as 89 have been held Share162 James Ball guardian.co.uk, Monday 25 April 2011 Article history Footage from the interrogation of Omar Khadr, who was taken to Guantánamo Bay aged 15. The Guantánamo files reveal the [...]
Tags: al-Qaeda, Dick Cheney, Guantánamo Bay, Haji Faiz Mohammed, Mohammed Sadiq, Naqib Ullah, Omar Khadr, United States
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April 25, 2011
Guantánamo files lift lid on world’s most controversial prison • Innocent people interrogated for years on slimmest pretexts • Children, elderly and mentally ill among those wrongfully held • 172 prisoners remain, some with no prospect of trial or release Share251 David Leigh, James Ball, Ian Cobain and Jason Burke The Guardian, Monday 25 [...]
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April 25, 2011
Your Local Military Industrial Complex By David Swanson http://warisacrime.org/node/57616 As in any other U.S. city, things are looking up for Charlottesville, Va., job seekers who don’t mind helping to kill tons of people for no good reason. This week’s “community job fair” features some prominent members [...]
Tags: BAE Systems, Barack Obama, CACI, Charlottesville Virginia, Concurrent Technologies Corporation, General Dynamics, Muammar al-Gaddafi, Northrop Grumman, Saudi Arabia, United States, Virginia Army National Guard
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April 24, 2011
What follows is a very interesting article from the Tom Dispatch site. There is a brief introduction from Tom Englehardt and then there is the article itself by well known authors McCoy and Reilly. As this century unfolds it may [...]
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April 13, 2011
How the Supreme Court Gave Up on Guantánamo by Andy Worthington, April 12, 2011 Last Monday, on the very same day that the Obama administration gave up on Guantánamo, so too did the Supreme Court. For opponents of the unconstitutional aberration that is Guantánamo, Monday, April 4, 2011, will go down in the history books [...]
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A Gaza message to others
Editor’s Note: Australian participant on the Freedom Flotilla to Gaza Michael Coleman has been arrested by Greek Police for attempting to block their pursuit of the Canadian boat the “Tahrir” as it left port. Michael and Soha, another Canadian Flotilla team member, were in two kayaks beside the “Tahrir”. As soon as the boat’s [...]
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