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Prisão de Abu Ghraib será reconstruída
O Blog do Dissidente | September 3rd 2008 by Liverig
O governo iraquiano anunciou que pretende reconstruir a prisão de Abu Ghraib, fechada em 2006 após um escândalo de abuso de prisioneiros por parte de tropas americanas. Sem estabelecer uma data para a reabertura, um porta-voz iraquiano afirmou que read more
Moving towards dystopia
The Defiant One | September 2nd 2008 by Keith Chircop
...and nobody's doing a damn thing about it. read more
Exactly when isn’t rendition extraordinary?
Scholars and Rogues | August 30th 2008 by Scholars and Rogues
Not to mention in violation of any law known to God and man. Read Sangitha McKenzie Millar’s earth-shattering story, “Extraordinary Rendition, Extraordinary Mistake,” just posted on Foreign Policy in Focus. Excerpt: Mamdouh Habib, a read more
I loathe Scott Pelley
Brain Spank | August 25th 2008 by Michael
Ever since the bastard visited the worst kind of yellow journalism on Ahmadinejad last year, I’ve had a black place for him in my mind. I’m no fan of that shit Ahmadinejad, but Pelley’s questions were pregnant with flawed assumptio read more
Fantasy+Indifference+Moral Senility=the Abu ghraibing of America
Puffin's Place | August 21st 2008 by kaehele
Most of us have read reports of the impact of the torture-ready Fox tv show 24 on the Administration’s reframing of interrogation guidelines and the rise of Jack Bauer among the fantasist policy makers in the Bush White House.. A recent (August read more
America on the Couch By Mike Whitney
Dandelion Salad | August 18th 2008
Dandelion Salad By Mike Whitney 08/17/08 “ICH” America is a country badly in need of therapy. We don’t know who we are anymore; everything is topsy-turvy. It’s like we’re suffering a national identity crisis and need a t read more
Standard Operating Procedure: People Behind the Abu Ghraib Abuse
Et Cetera: Publick and Privat Curiosities | August 10th 2008
Standard Operating Procedure: The People Behind the Abu Ghraib Abuse Academy Award winner and documentary filmmaker Errol Morris’s Standard Operating Procedure is an inquiry into the prisoner torture and abuse scandal at Abu Ghraib prison. It read more
Sunni Shi'a Strife: An Invention Of US Occupation
Politics After 50 | August 10th 2008 by Omyword!
Please read Sumbul Ali-Karamali's op-ed, Of Documentaries and Dehumanization, at Juan Cole's website Informed Comment. In just a few paragraphs, you can get a quick picture of the roots of Islam, to hopefully destroy the false impressions created by read more
Politica da Podio olimpico, quando il bue dice cornuto all’asin…
Gli appunti del paz83 | August 8th 2008 by Matteo Castellani Tarabini
(nella foto: esempio di diritto umano americano/britannico, ovviamente sul gradino più alto del Podio) Siamo ormai alla parodia, alla barzelletta. Due buoi che danno del cornuto all’asino. Nell’ordine: Mosca, per bocca del suo presidente read more
MISREADING THE U.S. FATALLY FLAWED CONSTITUTION FOR THE SAKE OF T…
Real Liberal Christian Church - Christian Commons | August 7th 2008 by Tom Usher
Title: "In Memory 9-11 and Katrina." U.S. District Judge Marcia Krieger has ruled that fencing in protesters at the Democratic National Convention will be lawful. She said that the right to protest must be balanced against security needs. She read more
Randi Rhodes: Wazzup?
Chickaboomer | August 7th 2008 by Marty Davis
Tom Taylor's Radio Info: "Air America and its former afternoon talkshow host aren't liable for comments [Randi] Rhodes made live on her radio show, when she criticized CACI International over its work at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. A three-judge p read more
Human Rights Facts (52): The War on Terror
PAP Blog | August 6th 2008 by filip spagnoli
The War on Terror, started by the US government as a response to the September 11, 2001 terror attacks and later joined by other governments, has had and continues to have grave consequences for the human rights of their citizens and of citizens of o read more
A new look at our political detainees
Count Me Blue | July 31st 2008 by RJ Corby
Warning: Some of the photos below are explicit and shocking. But, then again, so is our treatment of political prisoners on President Bush's watch. Anyway, proceed accordingly.Chris Jordan, a Photoshop political activist (I just made that up - I don' read more
Palästinenser zerfleischen sich langsam selbst
Transatlantikblog | July 31st 2008 by Markus
Die jüngsten Berichte über massive Menschenrechtsverletzungen seitens der Hamas gegenüber mutmaßlichen Fatah-Anhängern in Gaza sowie seitens der Fatah gegenüber mutmaßlichen Hamas-Anhängern im Westjordanland haben keinen erkennbaren Niedersch read more
Sind Sie bereit, die Tatsachen über Israel zu erfahren?
Transatlantikblog | July 28th 2008 by Markus
The Epiphany of Rev. Thomas Are Die Erleuchtung des Reverend Thomas Are Are You Ready to Face the Facts About Israel? By / Von PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS [ Paul Craig Roberts ist Volkswirt Ph.D., lehrte an den Universitäten Berkeley, Oxford und Me read more
Laws, Treaties, and Human Rights are for Little People
All Spin Zone | July 17th 2008 by Richard Blair
Newsweek's Stuart Taylor, Jr. wrote a column this week opining that, "to get a full accounting of how U.S. interrogation methods were used, the president should give those accused of 'war crimes' a pass." Brad at Sadly, No! believes that Taylor shou read more
Torture: A journey into the Abyss
Progressive World Review | July 15th 2008 by Paul
When the shocking pictures from Abu Ghraib surfaced, high ranking officials in both the military and the administration tried to contain the damage by claiming the abuses were the result of just a few individuals that had run amok and were not indica read more
BUSH AUTORIZOU TORTURAS
A Busca da Verdade | July 15th 2008 by Bernardete Baronti
NYT afirma em 1ª página que governo Bush autorizou tortura“The New York Times” confirma, ainda, a existência de mais dois memorandos secretos, de 2005, mandando torturar, e que, depois de breve intervalo em 2006, Bush ordenou à CIA em julho d read more
Tausend Worte sagen mehr als ein Bild
Equilibrium | July 13th 2008
Standard Operating Procedure (Errol Morris, USA 2008) Kino Keine Frage, die militärische Intervention der Koalitionstruppen, die 2003 im Irak begann, war nie sonderlich populär. Doch welcher Krieg ist schon populär? Noch schwerer kann read more
Uranus, Pluto and the Credit Crunch; Pluto, Wiretapping and Barac…
Astrotabletalk | July 12th 2008 by Dharmaruci
Uranus continues to be pretty much stationary in the sky. He has started moving backwards, but very slowly as yet. He is within 6 minutes of the stationing point of 22.39 Pisces. So his effects continue to be very noticeable. Uranian events are shoc read more
Anhörung US State Dep.: Hundert starben in unserer Haft
Transatlantikblog | July 4th 2008 by Markus
Der Rechtsausschuss des Repräsentantenhauses hat Ende vergangenen Monats mehrere hochrangige, zumeist ehemalige Angehörige der Regierung Bush in Sachen Folter und Menschenrechtsverletzung vorgeladen. Insbesondere aus den Protokollen der Anhörung v read more
SATAN LENDS WELL UNTIL PAY-BACK TIME: RUSH LIMBAUGH: FAT CAT FOR…
Real Liberal Christian Church - Christian Commons | July 4th 2008 by Tom Usher
$38 million a year with a $100 million signing bonus is obscene. Look at all the people starving to death as a direct consequence of the wicked, selfish politics of Rush Limbaugh. Limbaugh said that the torture and sexual depravity that went on at Ab read more
Human Rights Facts (44): Dehumanization
PAP Blog | July 3rd 2008 by filip spagnoli
Here’s a small catalogue of examples of dehumanization, of the ways in which humans try to exclude others from humanity, to deny them equality, to ridicule them, to render them objects in their plan, instruments for their advancement or pleasur read more
GENERAL RICHARD MYERS SHUT DOWN LEGAL SCRUTINY OF BRUTAL INTERROG…
Real Liberal Christian Church - Christian Commons | July 3rd 2008 by Tom Usher
Bush's top general quashed torture dissent New evidence shows that despite warnings from across the military, former Gen. Richard Myers shut down legal scrutiny of brutal interrogation tactics. By Mark Benjamin June 30, 2008 | WASHINGTON -- The read more
Read’ems
Comments From Left Field | July 2nd 2008 by Michael Tedesco
If anyone missed the NY Times scoop on the Bush Administration’s failures concerning the hunt for bin Laden and our Pakistan policy, it’s a must read. To summarize, between Bush’s over-reliance on former Pakistani President Musharr read more
CIA WATERBOARDED KHALID SHEIKH MOHAMMED 100 TIMES IN TWO WEEKS: T…
Real Liberal Christian Church - Christian Commons | July 1st 2008 by Tom Usher
For decades, the CIA trained people all over the world in torture methods; however, The New York Times would have you believe the rubbish coming out of the CIA that shortly after 9/11, it didn't know how to torture people. June 22, 2008 Inside a 9/ read more
Christian Prisons, Christian Torture?
VirusHead | June 29th 2008 by Doc Heidi
I wonder how many Christians regularly visit prisoners to offer consolation and comfort anymore? I’m not talking about ministers or special group missions, but regular laypeople of the many congregations in all their many denominations all over read more
The Self-Renewing Global War On Terror
Another Point of View | June 27th 2008 by Pierre H. Vachon
The following is an insightful article which illustrates well what we've come to understand: that the Global War on Terror(TM), especially in Iraq and Afghanistan, combined with the U.S. policies of rendition, detention and torture, only serve to cr read more
Chris Floyd says: Torturegate: Truth, But No Consequences
at-Largely | June 22nd 2008 by Larisa Alexandrovna
Posted by Kathy This is really disturbing, via Chris Floyd. Emphasis by me: "... In the course of the past few days, a series of events has laid bare the stinking sepsis at the heart of the Bush Regime for all to see. "It began last Sunday read more
Summer Viewing List
Indeed my hypocrisy knows no bounds. | June 22nd 2008 by Ian Scott Shackleton
In case you've been living in a cave, I'll remind you that there's a general election coming up. November is very close. So, in the interest of making an informed decision, I offer a selection of documentary films to remind you of the issues facing read more
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