Torture as an aid to memory loss

Former US chief prosecutor condemns ‘law-free zone’ of Guantánamo

October 30, 2011
Former US chief prosecutor condemns ‘law-free zone’ of Guantánamo

  A shackled detainee is taken from a vehicle for interrogation at Camp Delta, at the Guantanamo base in Cuba in 2006. Photograph: Brennan Linsley/AP Ten years on from its creation, calls are mounting from legal and human rights experts for closure of the ‘torture’ centre on Cuba reddit this Ed Vulliamy in New York [...]

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Rumsfeld-Torture judge says Rumsfeld can be sued

August 4, 2011
Rumsfeld-Torture judge says Rumsfeld can be sued

Rumsfeld Iraq ‘torture‘ suit given go-ahead Former Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has been represented by the justice department Continue reading the main story Related Stories Bush ‘should face torture probe’ Rumsfeld defends US war in Iraq Profile: Donald Rumsfeld A US judge has ruled that a former American military contractor who claims he was tortured [...]

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What is it about torture that the US, the UK and their supporters (including Australia) find so appealing

July 14, 2011
What is it about torture that the US, the UK and their supporters (including Australia) find so appealing

  Files showed that the Foreign Office, headed by Jack Straw, decided in 2002 that the transfer of British citizens to Guantánamo Bay was its preferred option. Photograph: Martin Argles for the Guardian The government‘s motive for attempting to conceal evidence from Guantánamo Bay detainees became apparent last summer when a hoard of intelligence service [...]

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Torture for whom the bell tolls. Bush and Cheney. Surely Obama is not far behind

July 12, 2011
Torture for whom the bell tolls. Bush and Cheney. Surely Obama is not far behind

  George W Bush, whose administration is accused by Human Rights Watch of authorizing use of torture. Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images A US human rights group has called on foreign governments to prosecute George W Bush and some of his senior officials for war crimes if the Obama administration fails to investigate a growing body of evidence [...]

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Karzai “bombings that kill innocent civilians are the work of people who don’t want the nation to have a life without sadness.” He must be talking about the US, NATO and Australia.

July 3, 2011
Karzai “bombings that kill innocent civilians are the work of people who don’t want the nation to have a life without sadness.” He must be talking about the US, NATO and Australia.

KABUL, Afghanistan – Despite U.S. reports of progress on the battlefield, American troops were killed in the first half of this year at the same pace as in 2010 — an indication that the war’s toll on U.S. forces has not eased as the Obama administration moves to shift the burden to the Afghans. While [...]

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In the end it’s just the money made and the money spent. The deaths always are collateral to the military-industrial and thinking about the complex

July 3, 2011
In the end it’s just the money made and the money spent. The deaths always are collateral to the military-industrial and thinking about the complex

Unwarranted Influence: Dwight D. Eisenhower and the Military-Industrial Complex By James Ledbetter • Yale University Press • 2011 • 268 pages • $26 Prophets of War: Lockheed Martin and the Making of the Military-Industrial Complex By William D. Hartung • Nation Books • 2011 • 296 pages • $25.95 Fifty years ago, Dwight D. Eisenhower’s [...]

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Torturer’s Memoirs A David Swanson article

June 29, 2011
Torturer’s Memoirs A David Swanson article

Memoirs of Torturers By David Swanson http://warisacrime.org/node/58316 On September 18, 2009, seven former heads of the CIA publicly told President Barack Obama not to prosecute CIA torturers.  On April 16, 2009, Obama had already publicly told Attorney General Eric Holder not to prosecute CIA torturers.  On September 18th, Holder publicly reassured the CIA. The coast [...]

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The US and torture

June 28, 2011
The US and torture

As commander of U.S. troops in Iraq, David Petraeus made his opposition to torture crystal clear. Which is why it came as a surprise when Petraeus, nominated to lead the CIA, asked Congress on Thursday to clarify how far interrogators can go in inflicting pain on detainees in “special cases.” Petraeus referred to what’s known [...]

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Syria and torture

June 20, 2011
Syria and torture

By Tulay Karadeniz – Sat Jun 18, 12:07 pm ET BOYNUYOGUN, Turkey (Reuters) – At the small playground in the Boynuyogun refugee camp scores of children wait patiently for a turn on the swing, while in the television tents the adults watch events in the Syria they have fled. The camp’s 600 tents house 3,500 people, around a third of [...]

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War and the realities of domination and murder.

June 9, 2011
War and the realities of domination and murder.

  War is Not About Truth, Justice and the American Way   June 8, 2011: War is Not About Truth, Justice and the American Way Lawrence Wilkerson Pt2: I learned that war was about power, politics and commercial advantage  June 8, 11 Wilkerson: For Truth, Justice and the American Way Lawrence Wilkerson, Collin Powell’s former Chief [...]

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A possible Gates apology

June 7, 2011
A possible Gates apology

If Killing Were As Evil As Flirting Submitted by davidswanson on Tue, 2011-06-07 04:14 Afghanistan I, Robert Gates, resign my position as Secretary of Defense of the United States of America with deep regret for actions that do not reflect my true values. For decades I have experienced a steady lapse of judgment for which [...]

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Torture and a moral compass

June 6, 2011
Torture and a moral compass

TORTURE: FINDING OUR MORAL COMPASS Print Share A singe cell unit taken at the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Under Khmer Rouge, prisons and interrogation centers were euphemistically referred to as “Security Centers.” (Courtesy Alan Chan via flickr)  By Morris Davis The imagery depicting the mutilated body of 13-year old Hamza Ali [...]

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Perpetual war means perpetual lies

June 4, 2011
Perpetual war means perpetual lies

The whole drive behind both the Capital and Imperial Projects is the need for profit and for that profit to keep growing. It is the most vicious of circles as it demands more and more space on the planet and more and more money to give the appearance that it works. The US response to [...]

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War Crimes Watch. War Criminals are always on both sides

June 4, 2011
War Crimes Watch. War Criminals are always on both sides

        War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity   The brutality with which the US government exercises its “war on terror” is condemned both by the court of international public opinion and by the principles of international law governing human rights. The wars of aggression in Iraq and Afghanistan and the torture of [...]

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Syrian abuses are crimes against humanity

June 2, 2011
Syrian abuses are crimes against humanity

  The conference of the Syrian opposition in Turkey is to forge plans for a democratic Syria [AFP] The nature and scale of human rights abuses by Syrian security forces in the crackdown on anti-government protesters over the past two months could qualify as crimes against humanity, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said. In a statement released [...]

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Attempted citizen’s arrest on Kissinger

June 2, 2011
Attempted citizen’s arrest on Kissinger

This type of action serves to highlight what these people like Kissinger have  done. It is all very worthwhile, but a little scary for the arrester.  George Ikners ikners.com a WordPress site Kissinger Protested at New York Event Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger came under protest Tuesday at a public event in New [...]

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A US case of misdiagnosis

June 1, 2011
A US case of misdiagnosis

Misdiagnosing the Middle East |More F. Gregory Gause III | May 26, 2011 There is a dangerous consensus about the Middle East based on the assumption that authoritarian politics are the root of instability, violence and anti-Americanism. Thus the United States is obliged, for both its own security and the furtherance of its values, to [...]

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Legal Torture? Only in the USA

May 31, 2011
Legal Torture? Only in the USA

Tomgram: Engelhardt, Welcome to Post-Legal America Posted by Tom Engelhardt at 9:05pm, May 30, 2011. [Note to TomDispatch Readers: A small reminder: the popular TD offer of a signed, personalized copy of Adam Hochschild’s now-bestselling new book, To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918, in return for a $100 contribution to this website will end [...]

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No torture or corpse mutilation US says to its Afghan workers. A rare show of concern perhaps.

May 29, 2011
No torture or corpse mutilation US says to its Afghan workers. A rare show of concern perhaps.

U.S. Tells Its Afghan Workers: No Torture, Corpse Mutilation By Spencer Ackerman It’s never a good sign when you have to tell the men guarding your base not to murder civilians, torture detainees or desecrate corpses. But U.S. special-operations forces in Afghanistan are leaving nothing to chance. The Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force-Afghanistan put 10 contracts [...]

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A close vote in the US on Afghanistan. War weariness it’s called but what about the death and destruction to the Afghans

May 27, 2011
A close vote in the US on Afghanistan. War weariness it’s called but what about the death and destruction to the Afghans

If a vote were held in Canberra do you think it would be anything other than extremely close to unanimous. That’s what you get for lovin’ the US. House Call to End Afghan War Suffers Narrow Defeat Massive Swing From 2010 Vote Shows Growing Antiwar Sentiment by Jason Ditz, May 26, 2011 Email This | Print [...]

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It’s a violent world of his making. Obama and the imperial project

May 26, 2011
It’s a violent world of his making. Obama and the imperial project

Welcome to the violent world of Mr. Hopey Changey 26 May 2011 When Britain lost control of Egypt in 1956, Prime Minister Anthony Eden said he wanted the nationalist president Gamal Abdel Nasser “destroyed… murdered… I don’t give a damn if there’s anarchy and chaos in Egypt”. Those insolent Arabs, Winston Churchill had urged in [...]

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The Middle East. Rhetoric, Reality and oily speak all combine to say and do nothing for those who suffer most

May 23, 2011
The Middle East. Rhetoric, Reality and oily speak all combine to say and do nothing for those who suffer most

Obama’s Middle East: Rhetoric and Reality David Bromwich Charles Dharapak/AP Photo  President Barack Obama meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel in the Oval Office at the White House, Friday, May 20, 2011. Being president of the world has sometimes seemed a job more agreeable to Barack Obama than being president of the United [...]

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Because we killed the bad guy, I guess that’s what makes it alright. Words, lyrics and dance routines by various US, Allied and Australian psychopaths

May 23, 2011
Because we killed the bad guy, I guess that’s what makes it alright. Words, lyrics and dance routines by various US, Allied and Australian psychopaths

Gen. Sanchez: From Abu Ghraib to US Senate If it feels good do it, is probably the main thought flowing through the psychopaths brain as torture is administered to anyone. It represents yet another confusion of means and ends. The real nature of propaganda is to look at the end result, say that is what [...]

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