July 14, 2011
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 [...]
Tags: Bisher Amin Khalil al-Rawi, British nationality law, Detention (imprisonment), Government, Guantánamo Bay, Home Office, Jack Straw, United States
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July 12, 2011
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 [...]
Tags: 1996 War Crimes Act, Central Intelligence Agency, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, George Tenet, George W. Bush, Human Rights Watch, Obama administration, Presidency of George W. Bush, United States
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July 3, 2011
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 [...]
Tags: Center for International Policy, Dwight D. Eisenhower, James Ledbetter, Military–industrial complex, Pentagon, United State, William Hartung, World War II
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June 29, 2011
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 [...]
Tags: al-Qaeda, Central Intelligence Agency, Dick Cheney, George W. Bush, Interrogation, John Yoo, New York Times, United States
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June 28, 2011
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 [...]
Tags: Abu Ghraib, Central Intelligence Agency, David Petraeus, Interrogation, Osama bin Laden, Torture, United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Waterboarding
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June 20, 2011
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 [...]
Tags: Bashar-al Assad, Human rights, International Federation for Human Rights, Refugee, Refugee camp, Reuters, Syria, Turkey
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June 9, 2011
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 [...]
Tags: Colin Powell, Lawrence Wilkerson, Naval War College, Paul Jay, Saddam Hussein, Smedley Butler, The Real News, United States
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June 7, 2011
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 [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, David Petraeus, Military budget, Osama bin Laden, Robert Gates, Soviet Union, United States, United States Secretary of Defense
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June 6, 2011
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 [...]
Tags: al-Qaeda, Bashar-al Assad, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Inter-Services Intelligence, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Khmer Rouge, Mohammed al Qahtani, Syed Saleem Shahzad, Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum
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June 5, 2011
Perpetual War Is a Bigger Threat Than Terrorism MAY 31 2011, 11:45 AM ET14 Neither Barack Obama nor his Republican challengers have a strategy for victory and peace In a scathing Memorial Day jeremiad against American foreign policy, Andrew Bacevich argues that elected officials are exploiting the troops by sending them to war [...]
Tags: Andrew Bacevich, Barack Obama, Iraq, Libya, Memorial Day, Osama bin Laden, Oval Office, Terrorism, United States, War on Terror
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June 4, 2011
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 [...]
Tags: Andrew Bacevich, Australia, Barack Obama, Libya, Memorial Day, middle east, Richard Nixon, Terrorism, United State, War on Terror, Warfare and Conflict
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June 4, 2011
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 [...]
Tags: Geneva Conventions, Hague, Libya, Nuremberg Trials, Presidency of George W. Bush, Ratko Mladić, Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Syed Fahad Hashmi, United States, War crime, War in Afghanistan (2001–present), Warfare and Conflict
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June 2, 2011
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 [...]
Tags: Ammar Abdulhamid, Bashar-al Assad, European Union, Human Rights Watch, International Criminal Court, Sarah Leah Whitson, Syria, United Nations Security Council
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June 2, 2011
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 [...]
Tags: Cambodia, Chile, East Timor, Henry Kissinger, Kissinger, New York, New York City, United States Secretary of State, War crime
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June 1, 2011
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 [...]
Tags: Barack Obama, Charles Krauthammer, Iraq War, middle east, Paul Wolfowitz, Red Sea, Samantha Power, Thomas Friedman, United State, United States
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May 31, 2011
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 [...]
Tags: Adam Hochschild, Law, New York Times, Osama bin Laden, Presidency of George W. Bush, President, Tom Engelhardt, Torture, United States
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May 29, 2011
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 [...]
Tags: Afghan National Army, Afghanistan, Kabul, Pul-e-Charkhi prison, Security guard, Special Operations Task Force, Spencer Ackerman, Taliban, United States special operations forces
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May 27, 2011
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 [...]
Tags: Barack Obama, Canberra, Jim McGovern, Pakistan, Republicans, United States, United States House of Representatives, War in Afghanistan (2001–present)
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May 26, 2011
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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May 23, 2011
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 [...]
Tags: A New Beginning, Arab world, Barack Obama, Benjamin Netanyahu, Hosni Mubarak, Osama bin Laden, Oval Office, United States
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May 23, 2011
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 [...]
Tags: Abu Ghraib, Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse, Central Intelligence Agency, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Donald Rumsfeld, Janis Karpinski, Joint Special Operations Command, Kay Bailey Hutchison, Osama bin Laden, Ricardo Sanchez, Stanley McChrystal, Texas, United States Navy SEALs, United States Senate
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