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Torture: In the Company of Evil
TNTalk! Smarter Thinking for Better Times. | August 9th 2008 by TNTalk
The International Red Cross has ruled that the United States of America has engaged in a sanctioned program of torture at the U. S. Naval Facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. This finding (by the world’s preeminent body on such matters) is an undenia read more
How the UK Tabloids use video: The Mail
Andy Dickinson.net | August 8th 2008 by Andy Dickinson
It’s Friday so it must be the last day of my review of the way the UK tabloids use video and I’m rounding things off with the Daily Mail. The Daily Mail sits alongside the Daily Express in the tabloid ‘mid-market’ apparently setting it an o read more
Former Jackson, Mississippi Police Officer Sentenced to Life Impr…
New York Paralegal Blog | August 6th 2008 by Joel
WASHINGTON – Maceo Simmons, a former officer with the Jackson Police Department in Jackson, Miss., was sentenced to life imprisonment on Aug. 4, 2008, for sexually assaulting a 19-year-old woman he had detained after a traffic stop, the Justice Dep read more
What’s next for Guantanamo?
Right Commentary | July 28th 2008 by Right Commentary
I spent the majority of my time last week up on Capitol Hill attending a seminar on intelligence operations and Congress. It was a fascinating seminar put on by the people at the Georgetown Institute. These are great courses (and I encourage any poli read more
FACE THE FACTS ABOUT YOURSELF ISRAEL. LISTEN TO PAUL CRAIG ROBERT…
Real Liberal Christian Church - Christian Commons | July 26th 2008 by Tom Usher
Title: "A Graveyard is our Playground" I've posted articles by Paul Craig Roberts on this site before, but this is his finest piece so far that I've seen. July 25, 2008 The Epiphany of Rev. Thomas Are Are You Ready to Face the Facts About Israel? By read more
Torture: In the Company of Evil
TNTalk! Smarter Thinking for Better Times. | July 19th 2008 by TNTalk
- Leon Walker is a TNTalk! contributing writer. You can look for his columns on Saturdays “write here on TNTalk!” To find out more about Leon, check out our writers page. - The International Red Cross has ruled that the United States of A read more
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Shadowscope | July 5th 2008 by Richard Miles
When I am writing a bunch that's the sound my wife makes. I don't exactly type. It's more like I bang the keyboard to death. I can take one of those extremely quiet keyboards and make it sound like an instrument of torture. I type so-so. I used to do read more
Law and Politics: Where is the Supreme Court?
Right Commentary | June 26th 2008 by Right Commentary
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UBL free because of GOP policies, and “Tigger” too…
Right Commentary | June 17th 2008 by Right Commentary
Today, the exchange between McCain and Obama on the national security issue reached the surreal. Obama’s likely “National Security Advisor” Richard Danzig, claims he’ll follow a “Winnie the Pooh” approach to foreig read more
Anti-Terrorism Efforts Tainted By Torture (photos)
1776 Redux - the White House Intel Report | June 17th 2008 by code red
This morning, before the Senate Committee on Armed Services, Senator Carl Levin (D) and Lindsey Graham (R) made interesting statements about the use of torture on Guantanamo detainees. Senate Committee on Armed Services Sen. Carl Levin, D-Michigan read more
Supreme Court to announce DC Gun case this week.
Right Commentary | June 15th 2008 by Right Commentary
The Supreme Court returns to the bench Monday with 17 cases still unresolved, including its first-ever comprehensive look at the Second Amendment’s right to bear arms. The guns case - including Washington, D.C.’s ban on handguns - is wide read more
Supreme Court Grants Habeas Corpus to Detainees at GTMO
Right Commentary | June 13th 2008 by Right Commentary
By a 5 to 4 vote that brought strongly worded and remorseful dissents from the Court’s conservative justices, the majority held that an alternative procedure designed by the Administration and Congress was inadequate to insure that the detainee read more
Supreme Court stands up and rebukes White House
Where's the Outrage? | June 13th 2008 by Errington Thompson
There is a ton that needs to be said about this decision. Instead of me wandering thru this decision, let’s see what Glenn Greenwald, a lawyer, has to say. From Greenwald: In a major rebuke to the Bush administration’s theories of presid read more
Supreme Court Rules Guantanamo Detainees Can Appeal
Balanced News Blog | June 12th 2008
Foreign terrorism suspects held at the Guantánamo Bay naval base in Cuba have constitutional rights to challenge their detention there in United States courts, the Supreme Court ruled, 5 to 4, on Thursday in a historic decision on the balance betwee read more
Detainee Transfers in Afghanistan
telespy | June 5th 2008 by anas
Afghanistan DetaineesThis week, Amnesty International and the B.C. Civil Liberties Association will be attempting to have the Federal Court of Canada interfere with the UN and NATO sanctioned mission of Canadian personnel operating in Afghanistan. Sp read more
Guantanamo Is a Model Prison
Lex Libertas | June 4th 2008 by Owen
This doesn’t sound like an immoral black-hole: Guantanamo Is a Model Prison There is much talk in the media, in our capital and elsewhere about the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. I have paid close attention to this dialogue, and read more
US sends suspects to face torture
group121 | June 3rd 2008 by anas
The US has been secretly sending prisoners suspected of al-Qaida connections to countries where torture during interrogation is legal, according to US diplomatic and intelligence sources. Prisoners moved to such countries as Egypt and Jordan can be s read more
Interrogation methods
group121 | June 3rd 2008 by anas
Analysis: Interrogation methods US says the prisoners are "unlawful combatants" As the row over America's treatment of suspected al-Qaeda prisoners continues, Jenny Waters outline what means of questioning are acceptable under in read more
Mas Selamat escape: Detention center Supt sacked, deputy and othe…
Simply Jean | May 26th 2008 by Simply Jean
I am a little surprised at how things turned out to be. I thought the incident was purely an accident and that no one will be punished. However, now we have the center head being sacked and the rest all demoted with a pay cut. Even the ISD’s co read more
"shock & awe-ful thing"s: "Taking Liberties" & forced drugging o…
ThisCanadian | May 16th 2008
Think you've got rights? not if an American official decides YOU DO NOT... "Change you deserve" indeed. no habeas corpus no right to personal security... they can tase you... or FORCIBLY DRUG YOU with psychoactive pharmaceuticals... read more
Military Analysts & Pentagon Access: Outreach or Propaganda
Right Commentary | May 1st 2008 by Right Commentary
Washington, D.C. (Rightcommentary.com): A story has been slowly bubbling, mostly of interest to those of us within the Beltway, regarding the access that the Pentagon provided former military members and other influential individuals - collectively r read more
Medical negligence acknowledged in detainee's cancer death: A la…
Patient AdvoCare | May 1st 2008
The federal government has acknowledged it was negligent in the death of an immigrant whose cancer went undiagnosed for nearly a year while he was in custody at the San Diego Correctional Facility.The government last week acknowledged medical neglige read more
Speaking Truth To Power: The Canary In the Coalmine (Literally)
ObjectifyThis | March 6th 2008 by Marina
Fight the Culture of Hate! Vincent Navarro, formerly Jesse Jackson’s senior health advisor in the ‘84 and ‘88 Primaries, tells it like it is over at Counterpunch: HillaryCare Failed. That’s right, folks, the experienced cyni read more
Mas "Limping Terrorist" Selamat threatened to attack multiple loc…
Simply Jean | February 29th 2008 by Simply Jean
The police received a call from a phone booth at Block 10 Haig Road on Thursday evening from a person claiming to be Mas "Limping Terrorist" Selamat. He then proceed to threaten to "attach multiple locations". This prompted police to read more
Teenage inmates in Darwin detention centre orgy
Bad News Day | February 27th 2008
Juvenile delinquents had a “sex romp” at a detention center after staff accidentally left security doors unlocked. Boys were able to sneak into a girls’ dormitory at the Don Darle centre in Darwin after dark. “About six inma read more
The TSA Took My Baby Away: Conspiracy Report
Area51.Org: Paranormal and Conspiracy Reports | December 13th 2007 by Sky Londa
We’ve all heard about how bad the airports are these days, but I don’t think I realized just how bad things have gotten. Michelle from Illinois sets us straight: she was a TSA detainee at O’Hare International, and lived to tell us read more
Abuse is bad for the emotional health? Really?
Hell's Handmaiden | August 16th 2007 by John
Psychologists apparently think that mentally and physically abusing people is generally a bad thing. Who could have guessed? The American Psychological Association, the world’s largest professional organization of psychologists, is poised to is read more
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