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Busted, Pentagon — Why The Photos Probably Do Show Detainees Sodomized and Raped

by on 02. Jun, 2009 in Hard News

By Naomi Wolf               Huffington Post    May 29, 2009  The Telegraph of London broke the news – because the US press is in a drugged stupor — that the photos Obama is refusing to release of detainee abuse depict, among other sexual tortures, an American soldier raping a female [...]

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Colin Powell Skates Free on Torture

by on 27. May, 2009 in Analysis

by Robert Parry Robert Parry broke many of the Iran-Contra stories in the 1980s for the Associated Press and Newsweek. His latest book, Neck Deep: The Disastrous Presidency of George W. Bush, was written with two of his sons, Sam and Nat. His two previous books are Secrecy & Privilege: The Rise of the Bush [...]

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Dick Cheney: Washington trembles at the return of ‘Darth Vader’

by on 26. May, 2009 in Analysis

Dick Cheney was a formidable backroom operator during his eight years as vice-president in the Bush administration. Having abandoned his short-lived retirement in Wyoming, he is now leading the Republican charge against Obama from the front. Ewen MacAskill reports from Washington on the political resurrection of the last true believer of the neo-con years Ewen [...]

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US must rein in Israel’s nuclear arms

by on 26. May, 2009 in Analysis, Opinion

Obama needs to spell it out to the Israeli government: your weapons of mass destruction are just as dangerous as Iran’s

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Obama Steers Toward Endless War With Islam

by on 22. May, 2009 in Opinion

In just over 100 days, President Obama is on the verge of ensuring that militant Islam’s war on America will be waged for decades to come and its forces will never suffer manpower or money shortages. How did he accomplish so much in some little time? He simply behaved as all U.S. political leaders behave; that is, as an ignorant and arrogant interventionist.

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Finding Ways to Stay in Iraq

by on 20. May, 2009 in Analysis, Opinion

  by Scott Horton Those who bought into the slogans “Hope” and “Change” last fall should have read the fine print. We were warned. Over and over during the campaign for the presidency Barack Obama made it clear that “withdrawal” from Iraq on his flexible 16-month timetable meant only the removal of “combat forces.” He [...]

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The 13 People Who Made Torture Possible

by on 20. May, 2009 in Analysis

The Bush administration’s Torture 13. They authorized it, they decided how to implement it, and they crafted the legal fig leaf to justify it. by Marcy Wheeler On April 16, the Obama administration released four memos that were used to authorize torture in interrogations during the Bush administration. When President Obama released the memos, he [...]

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The Fabrications of Jay S. Bybee

by on 19. May, 2009 in Analysis, Opinion

By Martin Garbus  The Nation  May 14, 2009 Few people know how to avoid, evade, beat around the bush, beg the question, bypass, circumvent, fudge, sidestep, prevaricate, equivocate, dodge, duck, avoid and ignore as well as Federal Judge Jay S. Bybee, the author of a torture memorandum given to the Central Intelligence Agency. Few people [...]

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Professor Benjamin Davis: The Man Who Knew Too Much? A Convenient Suicide in a Libyan Prison

by on 14. May, 2009 in General

  JURIST    May 12, 2009   Little noted thusfar by the newspapers of record in the United States, Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, the al-Qaeda operative tortured for the United States by the Egyptian secret police, died in a Libyan prison this past weekend of what has been called a “suicide.”  

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Audio: Family of Secrets

by on 14. May, 2009 in General

Guns and Butter,   broadcast May 6, 2009 – 1:00pm   “Family of Secrets”, The Bush Dynasty, The Powerful Forces That Put It In The White House, and What Their Influence Means For America, with author Russ Baker.   Click here to Play: http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22595.htm

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Can Obama escape Dominating AIPAC Influence?

by on 06. May, 2009 in General

With all the money, political and corporate connections they have at their disposal in the US, Israeli lobbies must certainly have a tremendously powerful influence over the ambitious and greedy men and women who enter politics, argues Debbie Menon. No one in Mainstream US media, is addressing the real problem which is, the fact that [...]

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Why Do You Kill?: A former German Parliament Member Speaks on the Iraqi Resistance

by on 30. Apr, 2009 in Analysis

Christian Avard Source: Huffington Post In one of his final interviews, former president George W. Bush told ABC News Martha Raddatz that the war in Iraq was justified because of al-Qaeda. But Raddatz said that wasn’t “until the U.S. invaded.” Then Bush responded with “So what? The point is that al-Qaeda said they’re going to [...]

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