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Torture As Official US Policy »
Posted by: populist 1 year, 5 months ago in News
Post-9/11, torture has been official US policy under George Bush - authorized at the highest levels of government. Evidence of its systematic practice continues to ...
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Flip flopper John McCain, tortured POW, voted AGAINST torture ban. »
Posted by: lbrtyordeath 1 year, 4 months ago in News
WASHINGTON — The Senate voted 51 to 45 on Wednesday afternoon to ban waterboarding and other harsh interrogation methods used by the Central Intelligence Agency ...
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No More 'Enemy Combatants' -- But Is Obama Merely Rebranding Bush's 'War on Terror'? »
Posted by: bowsnumba1 9 months, 2 weeks ago in Political News
Words matter, as Obama said on the campaign trail. But when it comes to his detention and counterterrorism policies, his actions are speaking louder.
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Neuroscience, National Security & the “War on Terror” »
Posted by: populist 1 year, 5 months ago in Science & Technology
Operating with little ethical oversight, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has been tapping cutting-edge advances in neuroscience, computers and robotics in a quest ...
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How War on Terror Turned into War on American Ideals »
Posted by: hyperbola 1 year, 4 months ago in News
Tthe story of how the United States government, in a paroxysm of panic and paranoia following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, turned into rogue like ...
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Guantánamo Bouncy Castle – in America: The Gift Shop »
Posted by: tehranchik 1 year, 3 months ago in Political News
With torture as official US policy, the Constitution under perpetual attack, the Geneva Conventions shredded and children facing war crimes trials — to cite just a ...
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Street Art and the War on Terror »
Posted by: tehranchik 1 year, 2 months ago in Political News
Artists visions of the war on terror.
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Twilight Struggle »
Posted by: tehranchik 1 year, 2 months ago in Political News
On Sunday, U.S. helicopters accompanied by a special forces team struck in Sukkariyeh, Syria, just over the border from Iraq. It was a raid ...
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Bashar Assad, no longer the pariah President »
Posted by: tehranchik 1 year, 1 month ago in Political News
Bashar Assad, President of Syria, is good at the people stuff. He pops his head around the door during an interview with his wife, then ...
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Musharraf Quits as President to Avoid Impeachment »
Posted by: lbrtyordeath 1 year, 4 months ago in News
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf resigned on Monday, before impending impeachment processes could run their course.
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Principles of Just War in Different Religions. »
Posted by: amrmediaintl 9 months, 2 weeks ago in Political News
Thucydides, the well-known author of The History of the Peloponnesian War wrote: "The strong do as they can, while the weak suffer what they must ...
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Washington Arrogance Has Fomented a Muslim Revolution - by Paul Craig Roberts »
Posted by: dissent 1 year ago in News
Government teaches by example, and America’s example is lawlessness. America’s brutal crimes against the Muslim world have invited every Muslim to become a ...
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Al-Qaeda Threats Starting to Sound Like A Broken Record »
Posted by: lewandn 3 months ago in Political Opinion
Al-Qaeda makes new terror threats directed at German voters just prior to elections -- perhaps a lapse in judgment considering no one in Europe really likes ...
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Can Any Candidate Clean Up Bush's Massive Post 9/11 Mess? »
Posted by: bowsnumba1 1 year, 3 months ago in News
The squandering of vast resources after 9/11 and our slide toward debt and dependency pose a greater threat to the U.S. than Osama ...
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Another U.S. missile strike in Pakistan provokes anger »
Posted by: Fedquip 1 year, 3 months ago in News
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A U.S. missile strike Wednesday in Pakistan further inflamed relations between the two anti-terrorism allies, just hours after the American military chief ...
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