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George W Bush should be prosecuted over torture, says human rights group

by on 14. Jul, 2011 in Newsletter Links

Human Rights Watch claims Obama administration ‘failing to act on evidence’, and also names Cheney and Rumsfeld in report  Chris McGreal in Washington The Guardian, Tuesday 12 July 2011 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 [...]

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Lebanese Parliament Approves Hezbollah-Backed Cabinet

by on 13. Jul, 2011 in Newsletter Links

Harsh Debate Ends With Walkout by US-Backed Faction  by Jason Ditz Antiwar Forum   July 07, 2011 Some six months after the US-backed March 14th faction’s coalition government collapsed, the rival March 8 bloc, backed by the Shi’ite Hezbollah movement, has finally managed to form its own government, as parliament approved the new cabinet. The cabinet [...]

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Obama Under Fire Over Detention of Terror Suspect on US Navy Ship

by on 08. Jul, 2011 in Newsletter Links

                                        Somali man taken to New York to face criminal court trial after being questioned for two months without a lawyer  by Ed Pilkington The Guardian    Thursday, July 7, 2011  The Obama administration approved the secret detention of a Somali terror suspect on board a US navy ship, where for two months he was subjected [...]

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Congress Split, Weak-Kneed on Libya

by on 24. Jun, 2011 in Newsletter Links

Congress Split, Weak-Kneed on Libya John Glaser, June 23, 2011 This week’s news of a resolution from senior Senators to permit military operations in Libya for one year was met with muddled reaction in Congress. The splits within both parties have been preventing clear assertions or definitive action going forward. Today’s WSJ reports that the [...]

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Chomsky: ”The West Is Terrified of Arabic Democracies”

by on 24. Jun, 2011 in Newsletter Links

Chomsky: ”The West Is Terrified of Arabic Democracies”                                              Noam Chomsky is one of the major intellectuals of our time. The eighty-two-year-old American linguist, philosopher and activist is a severe critic of US foreign and economic policy. Ceyda Nurtsch talked to him about the Arabic spring in its global context June 22, 2011  Mr. Chomsky, [...]

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Now Will Obama and Congress Listen? — How US Mayors Passed an Antiwar Resolution

by on 22. Jun, 2011 in Newsletter Links

Now Will Obama and Congress Listen? — How US Mayors Passed an Antiwar Resolution By DAVID SWANSON David Swanson is a writer in Charlottesville, Va. CounterPunch     June 21, 2011 The U.S. Conference of Mayors has just done something it hasn’t done since Vietnam, passing a resolution that supports efforts to speed up the ending of [...]

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Interview: Alice Walker on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla and the struggle for justice

by on 20. Jun, 2011 in Newsletter Links

Interview: Alice Walker on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla and the struggle for justice Ali Abunimah  Ali Abunimah is co-founder of The Electronic Intifada, author of One Country: A Bold Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse and is a contributor to The Goldstone Report: The Legacy of the Landmark Investigation of the Gaza Conflict (Nation Books). [...]

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Obama, We’re At War. Stop Insulting Us.

by on 20. Jun, 2011 in Newsletter Links

Obama, We’re At War. Stop Insulting Us. By Stephen M. Walt Stephen M. Walt is the Robert and Renée Belfer professor of international relations at Harvard University.  Foreign Policy    July 17, 2011  - – An accountant, a social scientist and a lawyer are seated in a room. A guy walks in and asks them: “how much [...]

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Bahraini blogger on State Dep’t tour says Hillary Clinton ‘betrayed’ and ‘crushed’ Bahrain democracy movement

by on 20. Jun, 2011 in Newsletter Links

Bahraini blogger on State Dep’t tour says Hillary Clinton ‘betrayed’ and ‘crushed’ Bahrain democracy movement by Philip Weiss Mondoweiss        June 16, 2011 I came to Netroots Nation with a keen sense that I’d be disappointed by what the progressive base of the Democratic Party has to say about the Middle East, but a Bahraini writer [...]

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U.S. Underwrites Internet Detour Around Censors

by on 14. Jun, 2011 in Newsletter Links

U.S. Underwrites Internet Detour Around Censors By JAMES GLANZ and JOHN MARKOFF The New York Times      Published: June 12, 2011  The Obama administration is leading a global effort to deploy “shadow” Internet and mobile phone systems that dissidents can use to undermine repressive governments that seek to silence them by censoring or shutting down telecommunications [...]

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U.S. Is Intensifying a Secret Campaign of Yemen Airstrikes

by on 10. Jun, 2011 in Newsletter Links

U.S. Is Intensifying a Secret Campaign of Yemen Airstrikes By MARK MAZZETTI The New York Times    Published: June 8, 2011  WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has intensified the American covert war in Yemen, exploiting a growing power vacuum in the country to strike at militant suspects with armed drones and fighter jets, according to American [...]

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US to boycott world racism conference

by on 03. Jun, 2011 in Newsletter Links

US to boycott world racism conference News24      2011-06-02 12:20 New Yoke – The Obama administration said on Wednesday it will boycott a world conference against racism being held at the UN headquarters in September because of concerns about anti-Semitism. The UN summit marks the 10-year commemoration of the 2001 World Conference Against Racism that was [...]

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