C.I.A. Baghdad chief was ‘sacked’ after two detainees died in custody; 2009 already deadliest year of the Afghan War; Israel ‘unwilling to negotiate’ an East Jerusalem withdrawal; I.A.E.A. diplomats say Iran has not expanded uranium enrichment; Bernanke reappointed to second term as FED head; U.K. wants to disallow internet service for those who participate in ‘illegal’ file sharing
Archive for August, 2009
Report: C.I.A. Covered Up Murder, Performed Mock Executions, Threatened to Kill Children
Posted: 25 August 2009 by Little Alex in Af-Pak War, International Affairs, National News, Political ScienceTags: terrorism, libertarian, War, CIA, human rights, 9/11, al-Qaida, al-Qaeda, liberty, international law, US, George Bush, torture, Constitution, waterboarding, enhanced interrogation, War on Terror, WWII, IHL, law, military industrial complex, ACLU, Glenn Greenwald, DOJ, KSM, Abu Zubaydah, Convention Against Torture, FOIA, Amrit Singh, John Sifton, Eric Holder, Dick Cheney, John Yoo, John Durham, EIT, John Ashcroft, mock executions, al-Nashiri, OIG, NSC, Jameel Jaffer, Declan McCullagh, Jay Bybee, David Addington
A May 2004 Central Intelligence Agency Office of the Inspector General report details new revelations of the Agency violating federal statutes and international law in torturing detainees. The redacted report was released Monday, due to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union.
Strong Suspicions Israel Kidnaps Young Palestinians for Their Organs
Posted: 24 August 2009 by Little Alex in International AffairsTags: Aftonbladet, anti-Statism, Avigdor Lieberman, Bilal Achmed Ghanan, Donald Boström, Ehud Olmert, fascism, Gaza, genocide, holocaust, human rights, IDF, international law, Israel, Middle East, Netanyahu, Newspeak, Norman Finkelstein, organ trafficking, Palestine-Israel, Palestinians, Sweden, West Bank, WWII, Zionism
Donald Boström reported last week that Israel Defensive Forces (I.D.F) kidnaps and kills Palestinians to steal their organs at Sweden’s largest daily newspaper, Aftonbladet.
Daily Briefing — 23rd-24th August 2009
Posted: 24 August 2009 by Editors in Daily BriefingTags: 9/11, Af-Pak War, Afghanistan, Amnesty International, Bagram, China, CIA, deficit, drug war, Eric Holder, fascism, FBI, Federal Reserve, Five-Day War, Georgia, Gitmo, Glenn Greenwald, Guantanamo Bay, Hamid Karzai, HIG, Honduras, human rights, IAEA, international law, Iran, Israel, John Durham, law, libertarian, liberty, Manuel Zelaya, Mexico, Mike Mullen, military coup, Mohammed Jawad, NPT, nuclear weapons, Obama, Palestine-Israel, Palestinians, Pittsburgh G-20 Summit, police brutality, Red Cross, Russia, settlements, Stanley McChrystal, torture, Uighurs, Ukraine, US, Venezuela, War, War on Terror, West Bank, Zionism
Teenage detainee released from Gitmo; C.I.A. report details new torure abuses including mock executions; Holder appoints special prosecutor to investigate torture in a limited limited probe; Obama was create a new rendition policy, continuing the Bush policy; McChrystal wants 45,000 more troops in Afghanistan; Israel increasing West Bank settlements
Pittsburgh wants 4,000 for the G-20 Summit in September
C.I.A. Assassination Program Ghost-Contracts Blackwater
Posted: 24 August 2009 by Little Alex in International Affairs, Political ScienceTags: Af-Pak War, Afghanistan, al-Qaeda, assaination, Blackwater, Cofer Black, Dick Cheney, Erik Prince, George Bush, Greystone, Hillary, Iraq, James Risen, Jan Schakowsky, Jeremy Scahill, Mark Mazzetti, NY Times, Obama, Pakistan, Paravant, Porter Goss, Richard Holbrooke, terrorism, Tiger Swan, US Training Center, WaPo, War on Terror, Washington Post, Xe
Jeremy Scahill, leading journalist on Blackwater, interviewed on Democracy Now! (DN!) on Mark Mazzetti’s breaking story at The New York Times (NYT).
Turkish Intelligence Asset ‘Key Figure’ in German Terror Plot
Posted: 23 August 2009 by Little Alex in International Affairs, Political ScienceTags: Adam Yilmaz, Attila Selek, BKA, BND, Bundesnachrichtendienst, CIA, Daniel Schneider, Fritz Gelowicz, George Bush, Germany, Islamic Jihad Union, Islamofascism, Mevlut K, MIT, Newspeak, Sauerland Group, Sibel Edmonds, terrorism, Tom Ridge, Turkey, Uzbekistan, War on Terror
This revelation — on top of former F.B.I. translator Sibel Edmonds blowing the whistle (most recently, in a sworn deposition) on strong links between the American-Turkish lobby and high U.S. officials in the Bush Administration and Congress plus last week’s book release of former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge ‘asserting’ that Bush Administration top advisers pressured him to ‘raise the national threat level just before the 2004 election in what he suspected was an effort to influence the vote’ by raising fear-induced political capital — raises the eyebrow to allegations of false-flag operations being plotted and/or used to ‘manufacture consent’ for the so-called “War on Terror” in the U.S. and abroad.
Americans: Serfs Ruled by Oligarchs
Posted: 23 August 2009 by Editors in Af-Pak War, International Affairs, National News, Political ScienceTags: Af-Pak War, Afghanistan, AIPAC, Alvaro Uribe, anti-Statism, bailout, banking, Blackwater, Colombia, corporatism, economy, fascism, Federal Reserve, Goldman Sachs, Halliburton, Hugo Chavez, Iran, Israel, Israel lobby, John Pilger, libertarian, liberty, Middle East, military industrial complex, Newspeak, Obama, oligarchy, Pakistan, Paul Craig Roberts, TARP, US, Venezuela, War, Zionism
Paul Craig Roberts on who controls the U.S. Corporate War Party’s mass looting for Wall Street and mass murder for the military industrial complex.
Ten Lost Years — Grabbing the Wheel of a Sinking Ship
Posted: 23 August 2009 by Stefan Molyneux in National News, Political ScienceTags: anarchism, anti-Statism, Austrian School, banking, Canada, China, corporatism, debt, derivatives, economy, education, ethics, fascism, Federal Reserve, fiat currency, Freedomain Radio, Great Recession, Great Society, healthcare, inflation, libertarian, liberty, manufacturing, market-anarchism, military industrial complex, Newspeak, non-aggression principle, Philosophy, private sector, public sector, Stefan Moyneux, unemployment, US
What happened to your income over the past decade, and why…
Emergency Appeal — A World Without AntiWar.com
Posted: 23 August 2009 by Editors in International AffairsTags: Af-Pak War, Afghanistan, anarchism, antiwar movement, AntiWar radio, AntiWar.com, fundraising, Iraq War, Justin Raimondo, libertarian, liberty, non-interventionism, Obama, Pakistan, Scott Horton, US, War, Zionism
A message from AntiWar.com.
Daily Briefing — 11th-12th August 2009
Posted: 12 August 2009 by Editors in Daily BriefingTags: Afghanistan, Bagram, Clifton Williams, Congo, economy, fiat money, gold, Guantanamo, inflation, Iran, Iran election, law, libertarian, liberty, Obama, police brutality, torture, US, War
Obama ‘sinking $200m into upgrading The Other Guantanamo’; Rape in Congo escalates with U.S. operations; Gold should break 2008 high in 2009…
Disabled Students in the U.S. Face Higher Rate of Corporal Punishment in Public Schools
Posted: 11 August 2009 by Little Alex in National NewsTags: ACLU, ADHD, anarchism, anti-Statism, autism, bipolar disorder, child abuse, corporal punishment, disabled children, fascism, human rights, Human Rights Watch, Impairing Education, law, libertarian, liberty, non-aggression principle, OCD, paddling, public schools, Stefan Molyneux, US
A 70-page report from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Human Rights Watch (HRW) titled, “Impairing Education: Corporal Punishment of Students with Disabilities in U.S. Public Schools,” shows that disabled students “face corporal punishment in public schools at disproportionately high rates,” including beatings. The ACLU and HRW are calling for “an immediate moratorium on corporal punishment in U.S. public schools”.
Get Us Out of Afghanistan
Posted: 11 August 2009 by Editors in Af-Pak War, Political ScienceTags: Af-Pak War, Afghanistan, antiwar movement, AntiWar radio, AntiWar.com, economic crisis, human rights, international law, Justin Raimondo, libertarian, liberty, Middle East, Newspeak, Obama, Pakistan, Scott Horton, terrorism, US, War, War Party
A message from AntiWar.com.
Goldman Sachs: It Isn’t Mafia When We Do It
Posted: 11 August 2009 by Little Alex in National News, Political ScienceTags: AIG, Alan Grayson, bailout, banking, Bear Stearns, Ben Bernanke, Congress, corporatism, economy, fascism, FDIC, Federal Reserve, Goldman Sachs, law, Lehman Brothers, libertarian, liberty, Lloyd Blankfein, Max Keiser, Obama, Ron Paul, TARP, Timothy Geithner, US
Former Goldman Sachs CEO and Bush Administration Treasury Secretary Henry “Hank” Paulson issued himself an “ethics waiver” to handle the details of the U.S. bailing out Goldman Sachs, along with White House counsel.
Daily Briefing — 10th-11th August 2009
Posted: 11 August 2009 by Editors in Daily BriefingTags: ACLU, Af-Pak War, Afghanistan, Africa, Amnesty International, Andy Worthington, Angola, Anthony Cordesman, bailout, Baitullah Mehsud, banking, China, corporatism, digby, domestic surveillance, economy, Eric Holder, fascism, Five-Day War, Geneva Conventions, Georgia, globalism, Goldman Sachs, Hank Paulson, healthcare, Hillary Clinton, human rights, India, international law, Iraq War, Israel, Japan, Justin Raimondo, law, libertarian, liberty, LTTE, marijuana, MI6, Middle East, Netanyahu, New York City, Newspeak, Obama, Ohio, oil, overdraft fees, Pakistan, Palestine, Russia, SCOTUS, settlements, Sir John Scarlett, Somalia, South Ossetia, Sri Lanka, Stanley McChrystal, Taliban, tasers, terrorism, Tet, torture, US, War, waterboarding, West Bank, Yukio Hatoyama, Zionism
How Goldman Sachs bailed out Goldman Sachs with U.S. taxpayer dollars; U.S. Justice [sic] Dept.’s effort to probe torture abuse is one to validate torture; 59% of Pakistanis view the U.S. as their biggest threat; Israel vows to not evict unlawful Israeli settlers in the West Bank; China emulating the U.K.’s Big Brother surveillance program; NYC’s racist drug war; 84-year-old Ohio woman with Alzheimer’s slammed to the pavement by cop…
