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Tiller Assassin Says More Murders Imminent - Now It's Time to Waterboard Him, Right? »
Posted by: metavirus 5 months, 2 weeks ago in Political News
The man charged with murdering a high-profile abortion doctor claimed from his jail cell Sunday that similar violence was planned around the nation for as ...
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What Would Jesus Do? 54% of American Christians Support Torture »
Posted by: metavirus 6 months, 3 weeks ago in Religion
A new poll out today demonstrates that American Christians are gung-ho over torture. More than half of people who attend services at least once a ...
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Israel Is Committing War Crimes -- George E. Bisharat »
Posted by: berkeley 10 months, 2 weeks ago in Political News
Israel's current assault on the Gaza Strip cannot be justified by self-defense. Rather, it involves serious violations of international law, including war crimes. Senior ...
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Justice after Bush -- Prosecuting an outlaw administration »
Posted by: berkeley 10 months, 3 weeks ago in Political News
Americans may wish to avoid what is necessary. We may believe that concerns about presidential lawbreaking are naive. That all presidents commit crimes. We may ...
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Philippe Sands Considers A Legacy Of 'Torture' : NPR »
Posted by: Beau7890 10 months, 2 weeks ago in Political News
Although the Bush administration has stated that the interrogations techniques used at Guantanamo Bay came from the bottom up, British lawyer Philippe Sands disagrees.
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Wingnut Radio Host Waterboarded, Admits That It's "Absolutely Torture" »
Posted by: metavirus 6 months ago in Political News
A rightwing radio host set out to prove that waterboarding isn't torture. Things didn't exactly go accordingly to plan. After undergoing the procedure ...
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The Banality of Bush White House Evil »
Posted by: Beau7890 6 months, 4 weeks ago in Political News
The ticking time bomb was not another potential Qaeda attack on America but the Bush administration’s ticking timetable for selling a war in Iraq ...
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Israel fears wave of war crimes lawsuits over Gaza offensive »
Posted by: berkeley 10 months ago in Political News
Senior Israeli ministers have expressed serious fears during the past few days about the possibility that Israel will be pressed to agree to an international ...
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Red State: Jesus Would Have Approved Waterboarding »
Posted by: metavirus 6 months ago in Political News
Red State continues to push the argument that Jesus would have been cool with torture: "It’s likely even Jesus would have OK’d water ...
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Binding U.S. law requires prosecutions for those who authorize torture - Glenn Greenwald »
Posted by: berkeley 10 months ago in Political News
It seems fairly easy -- even for those overtly hostile to the basic rules of logic and law -- to see what conclusions are compelled by these ...
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BBC NEWS | Middle East | Gaza homes destruction 'wanton' »
Posted by: dissent 8 months, 2 weeks ago in News
Human rights investigators say Israeli forces engaged in "wanton destruction" of Palestinian homes during the recent conflict in Gaza.
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YouTube - Guardian investigation uncovers evidence of alleged Israeli war crimes in Gaza Part 3 »
Posted by: dissent 2 months, 4 weeks ago in News
Part 3 of 3 deals with the drones targeting civilians
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Obama is losing a battle he doesn't know he's in »
Posted by: berkeley 10 months, 2 weeks ago in Political News
Barack Obama 's chances of making a fresh start in US relations with the Muslim world, and the Middle East in particular, appear to diminish ...
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Israel faces deluge of criticism over Gaza at UN - Telegraph »
Posted by: tehranchik 10 months, 2 weeks ago in Political News
Speakers from countries as politically disparate as Iran, Brazil, Spain and Iceland condemned what they saw as Israel's disproportionate use of force and called ...
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War and Natural Gas: The Israeli Invasion and Gaza's Offshore Gas Fields »
Posted by: dissent 5 months, 3 weeks ago in News
The military invasion of the Gaza Strip by Israeli Forces bears a direct relation to the control and ownership of strategic offshore gas reserves.
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