Is there a common thread between the sexual abuse scandal at Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, the Franklin Cover-up Scandal – Omaha (1989), Catholic and Protestant clergy sexual abuse, GOP leadership cover-up of the Foley affair, … ...
By JEAN-GUY ALLARD Philip Agee, the former CIA agent who in 1968 had the courage to resign from an agency that was known for its criminal support of bloody dictators, claims that he made up ...
By John Catalinotto Workers’ World | Jan 11, 2008 In an attempt to limit political damage and protect the highest officials, the new U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey has ordered a special investigation of the ...
Two articles here. The first concerns the wretched past of Richard Armitage, the second his “Smart Power” Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a seemingly liberal program that advocates undoing much of ...
” … Some Harvard faculty members are concerned that the university’s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy helped revise the counterinsurgency field manual … “ ••••••• Press TV 22 Dec 2007 American academics have been ...
by Alex Constantine While a fugitive in Pakistan, Ramzi Yousef was instrumental in several bombings and a previous plot to kill Benazir Bhutto, then prime minister. Mrs. Bhutto chaired the Pakistan People’s Party, founded in ...
A 19th-century image shows federal troops employing several forms of torture. One man stood on a barrel for several hours; another carried a large log, his leg weighted with a ball and chain; a third ...
Erik Prince By Antony Loewenstein www.newmatilda.com, 9 October 2007 ‘It may be worse than Abu Ghraib.’ Those were the words of an unidentified US military official in the aftermath of an incident in Baghdad in mid-September ...
New Questions About Blackwater Actions in Iraq – Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Oct 1, 2007 Previously undisclosed information reveals (1) Blackwater has engaged in 195 “escalation of force” incidents since 2005, an average ...
by Ron Jacobs August 11, 2007 Eight former Black Panthers are currently in prison in California on charges related to the 1971 killing of a San Francisco police officer. Similar charges were thrown out back ...
Hired Guns at the Border? The Contracting Has Begun By Nick Braune Mid-Vally Town Crier, July 23, 2007 The July 8th front page of McAllen’s paper, The Monitor, had an article, ‘Border Patrol May See Surge,’ ...
Bill Morlin and Karen Dorn Steele SpokesmanReview.com, July 18, 2007 Two Spokane-based psychologists working under contract to the CIA at interrogation sites for the war on terror practiced “voodoo science” that was brutal and ineffective, ...
Star Tribune reposted at http://powerlineblog.com/archives/018234.php Star Tribune columnist Katherine Kersten commented on his explanation: On Tuesday, Ellison told me that he invoked the Reichstag fire to make the point that “in the aftermath of a ...
Life in a CIA Torture Center Z Magazine by Stephen Soldz June 11, 2007 Late last week the Council of Europe released a report on the CIA’s secret prisons in Eastern Europe. The report concluded ...
GW Bush is flying around the world demanding human rights reform in foreign countries – while the CIA coerces “confessions” from kidnapped “combatants” (who have not engaged in combat) in secret offshore prisons. The “Big ...
The tortured lives of interrogators By LAURA BLUMENFELD Washington Post, June 9, 2007 CHICAGO — The American interrogator was afraid. Of what and why, he couldn’t say. He was riding the L train in Chicago, ...
“Contract workers have been involved in — but not punished for — numerous scandals during the Iraq war. … These contractors were among the interrogators and translators who tortured prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison … ...
By Alex Constantine On July 19, 1942 – the same day that Flight 5191 passenger Arnold Andrews was born – Heinrich Himmler issued his order for “The Completion of the ‘Final Solution’ in the Government-General.” ...
“As the echo of the wedding bells before the blowin’ rain Dissolved into the bells of the lightning Tolling for the rebel, tolling for the rake Tolling for the luckless, the abandoned an’ forsaked Tolling ...
Fenton Dawson of Affiliated Computer Services (ACS) died in the Comair crash. ACS was involved in the NSA’s Project Groudbreaker (criminalized NSA program). Dawson was government relations liaison at ACS. ACS was founded by Darwin ...
Why did Lockheed hire James Comey, the deputy AG who appointed Patrick Fitzgerald to the Plame case? (One of the stories below has more information on him.) Comey’s job was subsequently filled by Robert McCallum ...
By Alex Constantine The term “homeland security” is out of place in the American lexicon. It’s old world. It vaguely recalls Bavarian boot leather. When the Bush administration started up with this phrase after 9/11, ...
