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Daily Briefing—28th May 2010
Posted: 28 May 2010 by Editors in Daily BriefingTags: airstrikes, BBagram Air Base, blowback, Brazil, Chicago Police, drones, Fawaz Gerges, Glenn Greenwald, human rights, immigration, Iran, Israel, Jon Burge, Jonathan Cook, Nathan Hodge, National Security Strategy, NPT, Obama Administration, Pakistan, police brutality, Rand Paul, Scott Horton, torture
Daily Briefing—27th May 2010
Posted: 27 May 2010 by Editors in Daily BriefingTags: Af-Pak War, airstrikes, Amnesty International, black jails, Britain, Canada, Catholicism, Charles Davis, China, CIA, Colombia, DoD, drones, Dyncorp, Freedom Flotilla, Futenma, Gaza, Gaza blockade, Gitmo, Guantanamo, habeas corpus, Hezbollah, IDF, IMF, India, Iran, Israel, Japan, Jeremy Scahill, Jonathan Cook, Kashmir, Kurt Nimmo, Middle East, military industrial complex, Nathan Hodge, NPT, nuclear weapons, Obama Administration, Okinawa, Pakistan, Paul Joseph Watson, Pentagon, Philip Giraldi, POWs, PSYOPS, SDRs, Somalia, Syria, Thomas Friedman, torture, TTP, UK, USAF, USD, Vietnam War, William Pfaff
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Uranium Deal Further Ridicules Arguments for Sanctioning Iran
Posted: 17 May 2010 by Editors in International Affairs, Political ScienceTags: Brazil, Britain, China, economic sanctions, EU, European Union, FOIA, France, GAO, Glenn Kessler, Grant Smith, IAEA, India, international law, Iran, Israel, Jason Ditz, law, LEU, Michael Slackman, Middle East, Nathan Hodge, Newspeak, nuclear proliferation, nuclear weapons, Obama, Obama Administration, Pakistan, Russia, TRR, Turkey, US, Vienna Group, War
Turkey and Brazil have accepted Iran’s offer to swap uranium and enhance transparency beyond the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Obama’s Gitmo Expanding in Afghanistan
Posted: 12 May 2010 by Editors in Af-Pak WarTags: Afghanistan, Bagram Air Base, blowback, Bush Administration, Damien Corsetti, David Kilcullen, Dilawar, fascism, human rights, ICRC, Joshua Claus, military industrial complex, Nathan Hodge, Obama Administration, Omar Khadr, Red Cross, Robert Harward, torture, US, War, War on Terror
The Obama Administration has ordered the construction of new units at the detention center of the U.S. air base in Bagram.
WikiLeaks Releases Video of Soldiers Taking Pleasure in Firing Indiscriminately on Reuters Journalists, Unarmed Civilians, Children in Iraq (Video)
Posted: 5 April 2010 by Editors in International AffairsTags: Afghanistan, Bush Administration, CENTCOM, Daniel Tencer, David Petraeus, Glenn Greenwald, human rights, international law, Iraq, Iraq War, Julian Assange, media, Namir Noor-Eldeen, Nathan Hodge, New Baghdad, Newspeak, Pentagon, Reuters, Robert Gates, Rules of Engagement, Saeed Chmagh, Stanley McChrystal, state secrets, US, US Army, War, War on Terror, whistleblowers, Wikileaks
WikiLeaks obtained and, today, released footage filmed from a helicopter cockpit showing a missile strike and shooting on a crowded square in New Baghdad, Iraq in July 2007 where 12 civilians—with a Reuters photographer and his driver—were slain (2:23):
Julian Assange, editor and co-founder of WikiLeaks, confirms the authenticity of the video at Al Jazeera English (6:28):