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Daily Briefing—14th-15th July 2010
Posted: 14 July 2010 by Editors in Daily BriefingTags: Af-Pak War, Afghanistan, Africa, Al Jazeera, Al Shabaab, banking, BDS, Boubacar Coris Diop, BP, Build America Bonds, censorship, China, CIA, corporatism, Darian Worden, David Petraeus, David Rose, Egypt, FCC, Federal Reserve, France, Gaza, Gaza blockade, Gulf of Tonkin Incident, Gulf oil spill, Horn of Africa, illegal immigration, Iran, ISI, ISIS, Israel, Israel-Lebanon War, Jeff Stein, Jeremy Sapienza, Jim Lobe, Johnny Rotton, Justin Raimondo, Kyrgyzstan, labor unions, Mumbai attacks, Newt Gingrich, NPT, nuclear weapons, Obama, Obama Administration, Pakistan, poverty, Robert Scheer, Saddam Hussein, Shahram Amiri, Somalia, South Korea, Stephen Walt, student loan, Tariq Aziz, Thalif Deen, Tonkin Gulf, Uganda, UN, unemployment, Uzbekistan, Vietnam War
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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 ScienceTags: 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.
Afghanistan: ‘American Escalation of Force’ on Passenger Bus Kills Civilians, Sparks Protests
Posted: 12 April 2010 by Editors in Af-Pak War, International Affairs, Political ScienceTags: Af-Pak War, Afghanistan, Ahmed Wali Karzai, airstrikes, blowback, Charar Dara, Chechnya, CIVIC, civilian casualties, Gareth Porter, Germany, Glenn Greenwald, Hamid Karzai, Haroun Mir, human rights, international law, ISAF, Jerome Starkey, Kandahar, Kunduz, Mohammad Tahir, Mohammed Nab, NATO, Newspeak, Obama, Obama Administration, Philip Alston, SOF, Stanley McChrystal, suicide bombing, Tajikistan, terrorism, Timor Shah, Tooryalai Wesa, UNAMA, US, Uzbekistan, War, War on Terror, Wikileaks, William McRaven
The latest atrocity adds to the long list inflicted on Afghans since the U.S. invasion. It adds to intuitive reactions and propaganda efforts that feed the illusion of terrorism as a virtue. Jerome Starkey of the London Times reports to Russia Today (7:51):
Jeramy Scahill on Blackwater’s Covert War in Pakistan (Video)
Posted: 24 November 2009 by Editors in Af-Pak War, Political ScienceTags: Af-Pak War, Afghanistan, al-Qaeda, al-Qaida, Blackwater, Blackwater SELECT, Bush Administration, Central Asia, CIA, Congress, corporatism, counterterrorism, drone program, executive assassination wing, fascism, George Bush, human rights, international law, ISI, James Risen, Jeremy Scahill, JSOC, law, Middle East, military industrial complex, Morning Joe, NY Times, Obama, Obama Administration, Pakistan, Predator drones, Taliban, terrorism, US, Uzbekistan, War, war crimes, War on Terror, Xe
Jeremy Scahill, leading journalist on Blackwater/Xe, broke the story at The Nation. He discussed it at Democracy Now! and on “Morning Joe” at msnbc this morning (8:05):
U.K. Ambassador: Renditioned Detainees ‘Raped With Broken Bottles’ in ‘Soviet-Style Gulags’
Posted: 5 November 2009 by Editors in Af-Pak War, International Affairs, Political ScienceTags: Af-Pak War, Afghan elections, Bush Administration, Central Asia, Craig Murray, enhanced interrogation techniques, extraordinary rendition, false confessions, fascism, George Bush, Gulags, Hamid Karzai, heroin, human rights, international law, ISAF, KGB, kidnapping, law, libertarian, Middle East, NATO, natural gas, Newspeak, Obama, oil, opium, political prisoners, prison rape, rendition, Soviet Union, terrorism, torture, US, USSR, Uzbekistan, War, War on Terror
The U.S. and U.K made extensive use of Uzbekistan’s the torture regime in its extraordinary rendition program, Craig Murray says, exporting interrogations to a country that “left the Soviet Union in order to maintain the Soviet system” of Gulag oppression.
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.
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