Posts Tagged ‘Torture’
Israel: Rogue Terrrorist State Marching on a Fast Track to Hell
Pravda.ru | By Lisa Karpova | 29 June 2010 Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the head of United Nations relief operations in Gaza have deplored Israel’s latest attack on a recreational facility for children in Gaza, the second such incident in a month. A group of about 25 armed and masked men attacked and set fire to the facility on [...]
Americans Testing Microwave Weapon to Roast the Taleban
Danger Room | By Noah Schachtman | 19 June 2010 U.S. Testing Pain Ray in Afghanistan (Updated Again) The U.S. mission in Afghanistan centers around swaying locals to its side. And there’s no better persuasion tool than an invisible pain ray that makes people feel like they’re on fire. OK, OK. Maybe that isn’t precisely the logic [...]
Saree Makdisi on “the racism of our age”
Los Angeles Times | By Saree Makdisi | 13 June 2010 Don't single out Helen Thomas The veteran journalist was pilloried for her remark about Israel, but where's the uproar over such comments directed at Palestinians? Unconscionable. Offensive. Hurtful. Bigoted. Terrible. Hateful. These are the words being used to describe Helen Thomas' [...]
U.S. Authorities Misleading Pakistan on Aafia Siddiqui’s Repatriation
Asian News International (ANI) | 11 June 2010 Pak Govt. can bring back Qaeda suspect Aafia Siddiqui in a day if it wants: US counsel Karachi, Jun.11 (ANI): Hinting that the Pakistan Government was not serious in bringing back Dr. Aafia Siddiui, the Al-Qaeda terror suspect currently detained in a US jail, her American lawyer has said that [...]
Stop this Racist War — U.S. War Veteran
ThePhaedrus83 | By Mike Prysner | 20 December 2009 Amazing Speech by War Veteran In this excerpt from an amazing speech, War Veteran Mike Prysner holds Ammerican racism and their belief in their own superiority as the real drivers of American current wars of occupation. He speaks of the mother, who cried hysterically and told him and his [...]
Helen Thomas: Zionists Control America; Obama gave up totally, early on
Helen Thomas on her one question for Obama DC's most experienced journalist says Obama lost credibility when he dodged question on Israeli nukes “American politics, pro-Israel. If you take a vote in Congress, maybe you might get five people vote against any further aid to Israel as it continues its occupation. That's about it. They [...]
Vietnam and the Bush-Obama Wars
Antiwar | By William Pfaff | 28 May 2010 Mac Bundy Said He Was ‘All Wrong’ Lessons in Disaster: McGeorge Bundy and the Path to War in Vietnam By Gordon M. Goldstein Holt, 300 pp., $16.00 (paper) The debate over foreign policy that culminated in President Barack Obama’s address to the nation on December 1, 2009, concerns a war [...]
America’s Non-Compliance
London Review of Books | Vol. 32 No. 9 · 13 May 2010 | pages 18-22 Gareth Peirce presents the case against extradition During the first months of this year, the embers of a long running legal controversy have reignited in the United States. ‘Of all the issues,’ Rahm Emanuel was told by the senior Republican senator for South Carolina, [...]
Occupied Iraq: The Silence is Deafening
Pravda.ru | By Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey | 24 February 2010 The Truth About Iraq: The Country is Out of Control Has anyone noticed how suddenly there is little or no news coming out of Iraq? Have the “insurgents” simply melted away, have they all been paid off? With the British and US troops cowering in massive military bases outside the [...]
U.S. Senate Looking into Blackwater/Xe and Other Mercenaries’ Wrongdoings
Christian Science Monitor | By Gordon Lubold| 24 February 2010 Blackwater fallout: Senate moves to rein in military contractors The Senate holds a hearing Wednesday on ways to improve oversight of private military contractors, after a series of incidents involving Blackwater. On Tuesday, Rep. Jan Schakowsky and Sen. Bernie Sanders introduced a [...]
