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Who Is This "Dick Cheeny" Guy? »
Posted by: Spadecaller 1 month, 2 weeks ago in Political News
"Why should I care what he thinks? Do people believe he's important? As far as I could tell, his speech was actually some weird ...
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1 in 7 Freed Detainees Rejoins Fight, Report Finds »
Posted by: gamahuche 1 month, 2 weeks ago in News
An unreleased Pentagon report concludes that about one in seven of the 534 prisoners already transferred abroad from the detention center in Guantánamo Bay ...
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Do Conservatives Actually Believe Their Own Lies? »
Posted by: eezzbeat 1 month, 1 week ago in Political News
Blatant dishonesty for partisan gain is much easier to understand than rampant stupidity among leading federal lawmakers.
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For years now, many of us have pondered ...Read (774) | Share | Discuss (139) | Read Full Story at alternet.org
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Memorial Day - Spadecaller »
Posted by: Spadecaller 1 month, 2 weeks ago in Political News
Accompanied by composer Antonin Dvo?ák's New World Symphony - Largo (Symphony No. 9 Op. 95), this video showcases the reality of war as it ...
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Obama: Git-less, Not Gitmo »
Posted by: WikiMap 1 month, 3 weeks ago in News
Mr. Obama pledged to close Git-less during his office run. He made it official in January by ordering its closure. Now what? What do we ...
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Ex-Detainees In Afghanistan's Bagram Allege Abuse »
Posted by: Mikunited 1 week, 5 days ago in Political News
A number of former detainees at the US-run Bagram military base in Afghanistan allege they suffered abuse and neglect.
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Red Cross Described 'Torture' at CIA Jails »
Posted by: Beau7890 3 months, 3 weeks ago in News
The International Committee of the Red Cross concluded in a secret report that the Bush administration's treatment of al-Qaeda captives "constituted torture," a finding ...
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Obama to Keep Tribunals; Stance Angers Some Backers »
Posted by: engineer 1 month, 3 weeks ago in News
The White House said Friday that the administration would prosecute some detainees being held at the prison in Guantá namo Bay , Cuba, in a military ...
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Obama 'to revive military trials' »
Posted by: altnrg 1 month, 3 weeks ago in News
President Obama halted the trials as one of his first acts on taking office in January, saying the US was entering a new era of ...
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US Army sergeant convicted of murdering four Iraqi detainees »
Posted by: FunnyBoyz 2 months, 3 weeks ago in News
Prosecutors told a court martial in Germany on Wednesday that Master Sgt John Hatley acted as "judge, jury and executioner" of the four men, captured ...
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The Sounds of Silence - Cantos Gregorianos Modernos »
Posted by: Spadecaller 7 months, 3 weeks ago in Arts & Entertainment
Here's an updated interpretation of "The Sounds of Silence," the song which catapulted the 1960s folk music duo Simon and Garfunkel into the limelight ...
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The Bush Administration Homicides »
Posted by: Progressive 2 months ago in Political News
For five years as a researcher for Human Rights Watch and reporter, John Sifton helped investigate homicides resulting from the Bush administration's torture policy.
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Jordan's King Abdullah II Says Bush Tortured »
Posted by: tehranchik 2 months, 1 week ago in Political News
The king gets to the nub of the matter: these were "illegal means of treating detainees." And the king of Jordan knows a great deal ...
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Morality Isn’t Free »
Posted by: tehranchik 2 months ago in Political News
I had a number of thoughts over the weekend about the ongoing torture debate—and in particular the historical turn it seems to have taken ...
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Real Change: Obama Reforms Military Tribunals for GITMO Detainees »
Posted by: capj71 1 month, 3 weeks ago in Political News
Today President Obama put out a statement stressing that military tribunals are going to be the method of trial for some GITMO detainees. However, he ...
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