War Tribunal Finds Bush, Cheney Guilty of War Crimes Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal orders reparations be given to torture victims – Common Dreams staff Former US President George W Bush, his Vice-President Dick Cheney and six other members of his administration have been found guilty of war crimes by a tribunal in Malaysia. [...]
Bin Laden: Everyone Is Missing the Big Picture Washington’s Blog May 1, 2012 Obama and Romney Are Both Ignoring the Real Issue with Killing Bin Laden The anniversary of Bin Laden’s death is big news. Obama is bragging about how he whacked Bin Laden, accusing Romney of being too soft to take out [...]
Wait a minute: that’s the WikiLeaks “Collateral Murder” video! The gunsight view of an Apache helicopter opening fire from half a mile high on a crowd of Iraqis — a few armed men, but mostly unarmed civilians, including a couple of Reuters employees — as they unsuspectingly walked the streets of a Baghdad [...]
Barack Obama at the Pentagon. Photograph: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images President Obama has unveiled plans for America’s military future, outlining a historic shift towards a smaller and leaner force that will focus on China and move away from large-scale ground warfare that has dominated the post-9/11 era. Obama became the first president to announce a strategy [...]
A World in Denial of What It Knows By Geoffrey Wheatcroft January 01, 2011 “NYTimes” — COULD there be a single phrase that explains the woes of our time, this dismal age of political miscalculations and deceptions, of reckless and disastrous wars, of financial boom and bust and downright criminality? Maybe [...]
Lets Not Forget: Bush Planned Iraq ‘Regime Change’ Before Becoming President By Neil Mackay15 September 2002: A SECRET blueprint for US global domination reveals that President Bush and his cabinet were planning a premeditated attack on Iraq to secure ‘regime change’ even before he took power in January 2001. The blueprint, uncovered by the [...]
Pentagon Propaganda Programmers Pardoned; Pro-War News at Eleven by Jeff HuberThe man who was perhaps the last of the true investigative reporters on the Pentarchy beat may have just taken a swan dive into the canvas. . For years, David Barstow of the New York Times, amid a phalanx of thewarmongery’s favorite echo chamberlains, the likes of [...]
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS BY JOHN COOK DEC 16, 2011 12:57 PM 93,097 461 GET OUR TOP STORIES FOLLOW GAWKER Christopher Hitchens’ Unforgivable Mistake The outpouring of grief, goodwill, and teary encomia that has attended news of Christopher Hitchens’ passing would—if he was anything like the persona he presented in print—have turned his stomach. He loathed sentiment, [...]
This is yet another article illustrating the real purpose of the Obama visit to Australia. Despite the fanfare and adoration from the Australian Prime Minister Obama’s real purpose was part of a posture and profile in Asia to restate the US dreams of perpetual hegemony and the capitalist need for continued expansion [...]
Here in Australia our slavish and sycophantic adoration of US world policies mean in the long run that we just as much as those in the US government who were responsible, believe just as passionately in torture as they do. It is a vicious circle that must be broken. The [...]
One Veteran’s Rough Path from Killing and Torturing to Peace By David Swanson http://warisacrime.org/content/one-veterans-rough-path-killing-and-torturing-peace Not yet 30, Evan Knappenberger has already lived several lives. His story destroys the U.S. government’s case against whistleblower Bradley Manning, exposes the toxic mix of fraud and incompetence that creates U.S. war policies, and highlights the damage [...]
As many as one in three women in the US military are raped during their service, studies suggest [GALLO/GETTY] “My experience reporting military sexual assault was worse than the actual assault,” says Jessica (a pseudonym for her protection), a former marine officer and Iraq veteran who left the military because of her command’s poor [...]
Freedom Plaza Protesters Settle In by Ray McGovern, October 12, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum “Exhilarating” is the most appropriate word to describe our assembly since Thursday on Freedom Plaza — our “Tahrir Square” — in Washington, D.C., called into being byOctober2011.org. And it appears we will be staying for the duration to exercise [...]
Nate Goldshlag was among several members of Veterans for Peace who disrupted Donald Rumsfeld’s book tour event in Boston this week. Photograph: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images On Monday 26 September, three members of Veterans For Peace and a member of Code Pink confronted Donald Rumsfeld at a Boston stop of his book tour. I attempted [...]
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 Bush should be prosecuted over torture, says human rights group Democracy Now: Ken Roth Discusses Why Bush Should Be [...]
Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld speaks about his time in the Pentagon on March 29 at The Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C. (Photo by: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images) NEWS » SEPTEMBER 23, 2011 Donald Rumsfeld’s Ugly Suits U.S. citizens suing the former defense secretary for torture may finally get a day in court. BY JOEL HANDLEY [...]
Windfalls of War Windfalls of war: Pentagon buys choppers from Russia to equip Afghan, Iraqi militaries By Sharon Weinberger The Pentagon turned to Russia to buy Mi-17 helicopters, like these shown here, to equip the Afghan and Iraqi militaries, to the consternation of American companies. Department of Defense Pentagon contracts to Russian builders of helicopters confounds US [...]
Rumsfeld may be found personally liable in cases of torture. He was going to get away with it. It appeared that Donald Rumsfeld, the defense secretary under President George W. Bush who made besmirching the Constitution a national policy, was going to escape responsibility for the torture and abuse of prisoners [...]
Despite New Denials by Rumsfeld, Evidence Shows US Military Used Waterboarding-Style Torture Friday 5 August 2011 by: Jeffrey Kaye, Truthout | Report Former United States Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld speaking at CPAC 2011 in Washington, DC. Rumsfeld has recently denied knowledge of any waterboarding by US military personnel taking place at Guantanamo Bay. (Photo: Gage [...]
The US administration argues that Rumsfeld cannot be sued personally for his official conduct [EPA] A federal judge in the US has ruled that Donald Rumsfeld, the former defence secretary, can be sued by a former military contractor who was allegedly tortured and “unjustly” imprisoned in Iraq. Lawyers for the man, who is in his [...]
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 [...]
Nick Turse, Uncovering the Military’s Secret Military Posted by Nick Turse at 6:21pm, August 3, 2011. In “Getting bin Laden,” Nicholas Schmidle’s New Yorker report on the assault on Osama bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, here’s the money sentence, according to Noah Shachtman of Wired Magazine’s Danger Room blog: “The Abbottabad raid was not [...]
A ‘sign of weakness’ in the propaganda of war OP-ED | H.D.S. Greenway August 02, 2011|By H.D.S. Greenway WHEN THE mayor of Kandahar, Ghulam Haider Hamidi, was assassinated last week, it was disappointing to hear US Ambassador Ryan Crocker describe the killing as a “sign of weakness’’ on the part of the Taliban. Surely, such [...]
Prosecute Bush *And* Obama for Torture John Glaser, July 27, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Comment | Antiwar Forum A couple weeks ago, Human Right Watch issued a report calling for a criminal investigation of Bush administration officials for the illegal regime of torture and detainee mistreatment implemented following the attack of September 11th. The [...]
War Without Humans Modern Blood Rites Revisited By Barbara Ehrenreich For a book about the all-too-human “passions of war,” my 1997 work Blood Rites ended on a strangely inhuman note: I suggested that, whatever distinctly human qualities war calls upon — honor, courage, solidarity, cruelty, and so forth — it might be useful to stop thinking [...]
Earlier this year a house subcommittee held a hearing focused on sexual assault and violence against women in the military and at the academies [Getty] Sexual assault within the ranks of the military is not a new problem. It is a systemic problem that has necessitated that the military conduct its own annual reporting on the [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
A Debate on Human Rights Watch’s Call for Bush Administration Officials to be Tried for Torture Human Rights Watch has released a new report calling on the U.S. government to launch a broad criminal investigation into alleged crimes of torture committed by former President George W. Bush and other top officials under his administration. It [...]
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 [...]
We’re All Leninists Now There seems little doubt that the Lenin owes a great deal to the world in his completely calculated use of Marxist ideals to impose a savagery on peoples of the world that has very little to compare it with. From very early days Bakunin constantly warned as did many anarchists that [...]
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 [...]
Do we have to have another big national debate about torture? Really, do we have to? Headlines like this one, in the New York Times no less, inform us that the Osama Bin Laden raid has “revived” the arguments over the “value of torture.” That’s strange, because until now, the only people “reviving” the debate over the [...]
Surveillance, Not Waterboarding, Led to bin Laden By Spencer Ackerman May 3, 2011 | 11:00 am | Categories: Terrorists, Guerillas, Pirates Updated, 12:15 p.m. Updated again, 8:10 a.m., May 4 The torture program established by the CIA appears to have played a minor role, at most, in the intelligence effort that eventually lead to Osama bin Laden’s [...]
