May 12, 2012
No Secret Why CIA is Now Romanticizing ‘Harsh Interrogation’ Techniques by Robert Crawford “The dark side — that’s what we do.” José Rodriguez, former head of the CIA’s clandestine service, used these words in a “60 Minutes” interview last Sunday to defend the use of water-boarding and other “harsh interrogation” techniques on suspected terrorists. His self-assurance [...]
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September 13, 2011
Former MI5 chief urges terrorist talks Lady Eliza Manningham-Buller, the former head of MI5, attacked anti-terrorist laws passed under Labour. Photograph: Graeme Robertson/Getty Images Lady Eliza Manningham-Buller says dialogue with terror groups, including al-Qaida, requires courage but ‘is necessary’ reddit this Richard Norton-Taylor The Guardian, Tuesday 13 September 2011 Article history The former head [...]
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August 4, 2011
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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July 28, 2011
Protesters, both dressed in an orange overalls to depict detainees at the U.S. military detention center in Guantanamo, Cuba, demonstrates outside Britain’s Houses of Parliament, where President Obama was to give an address May 25. (Lefteris Pitarakis / AP Photo) The American Civil Liberties Union and other organizations have called on President Obama to [...]
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July 15, 2011
United States: Investigate Bush, Other Top Officials for Torture Inquiry Into 2 Deaths in CIA Custody Insufficient JULY 11, 2011 George Bush © 2004 AP Images Donald Rumsfeld © 2004 AP Images Dick Cheney © 2006 AP Images George Tenet © 2004 Reuters RELATED MATERIALS: Getting Away with Torture MORE COVERAGE: Guardian UK: George W [...]
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July 14, 2011
Transcript DANNY WOOD, FREE SPEECH RADIO NEWS: A report released today by Human Rights Watch says there are grounds for President Barack Obama to order criminal investigations of former president George W. Bush, vice president Dick Cheney, defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld, and CIA director George Tenet for ordering the use of torture, secret detention facilities, [...]
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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 [...]
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July 12, 2011
Obama’s Bush-League World Is the Obama National Security Team a Pilotless Drone? By Tom Engelhardt George W. who? I mean, the guy is so over. He turned the big six-five the other day and it was barely a footnote in the news. And Dick Cheney, tick-tick-tick. Condoleezza Rice? She’s already onto her next memoir, and yet it’s as [...]
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July 12, 2011
Years Later: Human Rights Watch Announces That Bush and Cheney Tortured — What Gives? By David Swanson http://warisacrime.org/node/58454 Statutes of limitations for torture not resulting in death have passed. The DOJ has refused to prosecute 99 of 101 cases of torture-to-death that it looked at. Obama has long since publicly told the DOJ not to [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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June 30, 2011
The Politics of Militarization and Corporatization in Higher Education War Colleges By HENRY GIROUX While there is an ongoing discussion about the increasing corporatization of higher education—extending from the attempted buying of faculty positions by right-wing billionaires such as the Koch brothers to the increasing casualization of faculty labor and the commodification of knowledge, what [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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June 24, 2011
Tom Engelhardt There has been a great deal written and said about what is seen as the imperial project and the way in which imperialist aims and aspirations invariably are expressed in terms of war. Perhaps one of the most startling figures available is the way in which war itself has become very much a slaughterhouse [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 24, 2011
After bin Laden, U.S. reopens Afghan, Pakistan strategy inShare2 Share this Digg Email Print Related News John Kerry warns Pakistan over Bin Laden Mon, May 16 2011 Kerry in Pakistan with tough questions, meets army Sun, May 15 2011 Pakistan’s parliament warns U.S. over bin Laden raid Sat, May 14 2011 Special report: The bin [...]
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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 [...]
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Posted in Capital, Capital Project, Capitalism, CIA, Consent, debate and discussion, Democracy, Democracy in the Arab World, Dissent, Economics, Economy, Education, elections, Elites, Fascism, Fatah, Gaza, Golan Heights, Goldstone, Human Rights, Imperial Project, Imperialism, Intifada, Islam and the US, Israel, Israel and diaspora forces of crime, Israel and force, Israel and oil, Israel and the settlers, Israel and zionist moral crimes, Israel death and destruction, Israel expulsion, Israel lobby and what it can do, Israel's wall, Israeli checkpoints, Leon Panetta, Libya, Middle East, Militants, Military, Military madmen, Mission Creep, NATO, Negotiate. It's now or never, Obama, Obama warmonger, oil, Peace Movement, Pentagon, people's protests, Propaganda, Psycopaths, Racism, Right of return, Right to return, torture, Torture as an aid to memory loss, Torture rules ok, torture works better than drugs, Torturers are true Americans, US economy, US elections, US Foreign Policy, US torture; art and science, US war crimes, USA, voodoo rhythm economics, War, War Crimes, War is a crime, War on terror | No Comments »
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 [...]
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