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Daily Briefing—4th Aug 2010

Posted: 4 August 2010 by Editors in Daily Briefing
Tags: 14th Amendment, ACLU, Aegis System, Af-Pak War, Afghanistan, al-Qaeda, al-Quds, Allison Kilkenny, Allstate, Amazon, American Empire, Andy Worthington, Anwar al-Awlaki, Asif Ali Zardari, assimilation, Baathists, bailout, Bashar Assad, black sites, body scanners, BP, Bradley Manning, Bruce Fein, CCR, Charles Davis, China, Chuck Schumer, CIA, cluster bombs, COIN, Colombia, copyrights, Dahr Jamail, Death Penalty, Desmond Tutu, Dianne Feinstein, dispersants, domestic surveillance, DPRK, e-waste, East Jerusalem, economic sanctions, Ecopetrol, Ecuador oil drilling, Edward Lee, embed journalists, Eric Margolis, extrajudicial assassination, fair use, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Gareth Porter, gay marriage, Gaza, George Donnelly, Germany, Glenn Greenwald, Goldman Sachs, Guantanamo Bay, Gulf oil spill, Hizbollah, human rghts, ICC, IED's, illegal immirgation, immigration, imperialism, India, Iran, Iraq, Iraq War, Iraq withdrawal, IRGC, Islamic State of Iraq, Israel, Jeremy Scahill, JPEL, Julian Assange, Kagame, Kashmir, land grabbing, landmine treaty, Lebanon, Libya, LTTE, Marc Lynch, Marc Thiessen, Michael Hastings, Middle East, Mike Rogers, missile shields, Noam Chomsky, North Korea, nuclear revolution, nuclear weapons, NY Fed, NY Times, Obama, Obama Administration, Omar Hassan al-Bashir, Omar Khadr, OTC derivatives, Pakistan, Pardiss Kebriaei, poverty, Prop 8, Prudential, Rwanda, Rwanda genocide, SCOTUS, SOFA, Somalia, South Korea, Sri Lanka, state capitalism, static kill, Status of Forces Agreement, Stephen Walt, Sudan, Syria, Taliban, Talisman, Tamil Tigers, TARP, Task Force 373, TF 373, Timothy Geithner, Tom Engelhardt, toxic assets, Treasury Department, TSA, Turkey, UN, UN Security Council, Venezuela, Wall Street, Wikileaks

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Sri Lanka ‘Will Hang’ Former Army Chief for War Crimes Investigation Participation

Posted: 7 June 2010 by Little Alex in International Affairs, Political Science
Tags: Anna Neistat, Arundhati Roy, BBC, China, corporatism, Cuba, detention camps, Geneva Conventions, Gotabhaya Rajapakse, HardTalk, human rights, Human Rights Watch, IHL, India, international humanitarian law, international law, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, LTTE, Mahinda Rajapakse, Manmohan Singh, Pakistan, Pratibha Patil, Rajavarothayam Sambanthan, Rajiv Gandhi assassination, Russia, Sarath Fonseka, SLAF, Sonia Gandhi, Sri Lanka, Stephen Sackur, Sutirtho Patranobis, Tajikistan, Tamil Tigers, UN, UN Security Council, UNHRC, UNSC, Uzbekistan, Venezuela

The Sri Lankan defense minister has threatened to hang a parliament member, recently resigned from the S.L.A.F., if he exposes the country’s war crimes against the Tamils. The suppression of the war crimes during the country’s quarter-century civil war and the government’s forging alliances have dangerous potential.

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Daily Briefing — 18th-19th June 2009

Posted: 19 June 2009 by Editors in Daily Briefing
Tags: 1968 Chicago riots, ACLU, Afghanistan, Africa, Ahmadinejad, anarchism, AntiWar radio, Avigdor Lieberman, banking, Campaign for Liberty, Chicago Police, China, Democrats, DNA, economy, ElBaradei, Eric Holder, Eva Bartlett, fascism, Gareth Porter, Gaza, Gaza Massacre, Georgia, Gitmo, Glenn Greenwald, Google, Hawaii, Hillary Clinton, human rights, Human Rights Watch, IAEA, ICC, IDF, IFFC, IMF, international law, Iran, Iran elections, Israel, Joe Lieberman, John Dugard, Johnathon Cook, Ken Ballen, law, libertarian, liberty, Lindsey Graham, LTTE, Middle East, missile defense, Mousavi, Newspeak, North Korea, Obama, Pakistan, Palestine, Palestine-Israel, Patrick Doherty, Rome Statue, Russia, Saakashvili, Scott Horton, SCOTUS, Sri Lanka, Stanley McChrystal, state secret privilege, Steve Bierfeldt, Supreme Court, Tamil Tigers, terrorism, torture, UN, US, war crimes, William Osbourne, world hunger

Israel beats and tortures children; U.S. tries to spin mass murder of civilians in the Obama-led Farah Massacre; Democrats’ consent makes these Obama’s wars; Gleen Greenwald on “state secrets” and Obama’s rhetoric against secrecy conflicting; Iran protests continue despite orders from Supreme Leader to cease; John Dugard blasts Obama’s silence on the Gaza Massacre; Chicago Police to ‘celebrate’ 1968 brutality next week. (more…)

Daily Briefing — 15th-16th Jun 2009

Posted: 16 June 2009 by Editors in Daily Briefing
Tags: #gr88, #Iran9, #iranelection, ACLU, Afghanistan, Ahmadinejad, Ayatollah, Bar Ilan speech, CIA, Dennis Ross, DPRK, drug war, Georgia, Gideon Levy, Glenn Greenwald, Gordon Brown, Guardian Council, Hameedullah Shah, healthcare, INSS, Iran, Iran elections, Iraq, Jeremy Scahill, Kent Conrad, LTTE, Mousavi, Netanyahu, Nicholas Kristof, North Korea, Obama, Qais Azimy, Russia, Saakashvili, Sri Lanka, Tamil Tigers, torture

Iran’s LOL-ection, wasteful war spending with Jeremy Scahill, more torture documents uncovered, U.N. calls for probe into U.S.-led air strikes in the Af-Pak War, analysis of Bibi Netanyahu’s speech of nothingness, and more… (more…)

Daily Briefing — 11th June 2009

Posted: 11 June 2009 by Editors in Daily Briefing
Tags: ACLU, Afghanistan, Ahmadinejad, Chechnya, Chinese Muslims, Clinton, Dennis Ross, economy, euro, fascism, Federal Reserve, G-20, Gitmo, human rights, IMF, Iran, Iraq, Israel, John Kerry, Kurdistan, Kurds, libertarian, liberty, LTTE, Mohammed El Gharani, Mousavi, Newspeak, NPT, nuclear weapons, Obama, Pittsburgh G-20 Summit, PKK, Roger Cohen, Russia, Sri Lanka, Tamil Tigers, terrorism, torture, Troy Davis, Uighurs, US, US dollar, War, war crimes, yen, Zionism

Violence highest in Afghanistan since 2001, Dennis Ross says talks with Iran before war are a ‘easier sell”, Ismael Hossein-Zadeh on Obama’s ‘doublespeak’ regarding Iran, “U.S. Troops Out of Iraqi Cities? Think Again”, The ACLU sues the gov’t to release torture docs, Gitmo detainee kidnapped as a teenager released to his home, Iraq VP declares ‘no statehood for Kurds’, the U.S. dollar falls more. (more…)