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Iraq in throes of environmental catastrophe »
Posted by: berkeley 3 months, 1 week ago in News
You wake up in the morning to find your nostrils clogged. Houses and trees have vanished beneath a choking brown smog. A hot wind blasts ...
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- Complicity -- and Accountability -- on Torture »Posted by: berkeley 6 months, 1 week ago in Political News
As torture chronicler extraordinaire Mark Danner has pointed out, one of the great paradoxes of the torture scandal "is that it is not about things ...
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The Red Cross Torture Report: What It Means - The New York Review of Books »
Posted by: berkeley 6 months, 3 weeks ago in Political News
Download the text of the ICRC Report on the Treatment of Fourteen "High Value Detainees" in CIA Custody by The International Committee of the Red ...
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Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, George Bush should be put to justice NOW »
Posted by: heinzrainer 5 months, 1 week ago in Political News
When I read the latest revelation, and we will hear more and more as the days go by,
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We Don't Torture »
Posted by: berkeley 6 months, 3 weeks ago in Political News
No one is upset about the fact that America tortures, they're just upset that they now know about it.
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Obama's Defense of Rumsfeld and Yoo »
Posted by: populist 9 months, 1 week ago in Political News
While Barack Obama’s Justice Department is deliberating over what to do in the al-Marri case, the same Justice Department is defending Former Defense Secretary ...
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Will Bush officials face war crimes trials? Few expect it »
Posted by: ameliog 10 months, 3 weeks ago in Political News
Emboldened by a Democratic win of the White House, civil libertarians and human rights groups want the incoming Obama administration to investigate whether the Bush ...
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DOJ Sits on Secret CIA Interrogation Memo »
Posted by: berkeley 6 months, 3 weeks ago in News
The still-unreleased Office of Legal Counsel memo spelled out for the CIA what interrogation practices were considered lawful after President Bush issued an executive order ...
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Obama Appoints Torturer as Afghanistan Commander »
Posted by: hyperbola 6 months ago in Political News
As President Obama taps Lt. Gen. Stanley McChrystal to run the Afghan war, do these revelations, divulged to Esquire at great personal risk by an ...
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Obama Signals Move to Save Bush Bigwigs on Torture »
Posted by: berkeley 6 months, 2 weeks ago in Political News
So what has happened so far? After his groveling trip on Monday to soothe the hurt feelings of the tender little babies at the CIA ...
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Rumsfeld denying GQ report »
Posted by: rumple4skin 5 months, 3 weeks ago in News
Through a spokesman, former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has responded to GQ's story about his tenure in the Bush administration. In an e-mail ...
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The CIA's willing torturers »
Posted by: berkeley 2 months, 2 weeks ago in Political News
The CIA report into prisoner abuse reveals a new, ugly reality: America's torturers weren't simply following orders
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More UK torture collusion claims »
Posted by: berkeley 6 months, 2 weeks ago in News
Up to 17 British intelligence officers allegedly colluded in the rendition and torture of seven former Guantanamo Bay detainees, the High Court has heard.
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CIA Releases Its Instructions For Breaking a Detainee's Will »
Posted by: berkeley 2 months, 2 weeks ago in Political News
The CIA on Tuesday declined to comment on the memo, which was written by an agency lawyer whose name was redacted from the document. But ...
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Why a war crimes fact-finding commission could uniquely enable prosecutions »
Posted by: berkeley 8 months, 1 week ago in Political News
But the path back from the dark side may lead us down some unfamiliar valleys of remorse and repugnance before we can return to the ...
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