January 23, 2014 BEIRUT – As Secretary of State John Kerry delivered his opening remarks at the Syria peace talks in Switzerland on Wednesday, he expressed outrage at new revelations of the brutal tactics perpetrated ...
Doctors were asked to torture detainees for intelligence gathering, and unethical practices continue, review concludes November 3, 2013 Doctors and psychologists working for the US military violated the ethical codes of their profession under instruction from ...
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Photo: Newspaper shows Antonio González Pacheco – nicknamed Billy the Kid – competing in city’s half-marathon in 2010 October 8, 2013 A man alleged to be one of the infamous torturers of the Franco regime, ...
WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 (UPI) — A group of 56 detainees in Iraqi prisons is suing a U.S. company for the abuse they allegedly suffered by employees who served as interpreters. The Iraqi citizens are suing ...
” … Biden even compared the redemptive value of facing the truth on torture to the effect of the war-crimes tribunals on Germany. Obama probably didn’t authorize the analogy, but he may well have signed ...
Photo: Insurgent suspects are led away by US forces. Some of those held in Iraqi custody suffered appalling abuse, the war logs reveal. Photograph: Sean Smith for the Guardian A grim picture of the US and ...
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Allen Barker’s Mental Firewall: “It basically asserts that if you act like Mengele then you are a Nazi pig. Then there are a few obvious conclusions that are also part of the “theorem.” The Nazi Pig ...
Buenos Aires — Last July at the Libertad (Freedom) prison in Uruguay was unusual. Miguel Angel Estrella, an Argentine pianist (and now Argentina’s Ambassador to UNESCO), was giving a concert in the same prison where ...
What started as a murmur is turning into a yell. On Wednesday, a coalition of religious leaders and human rights groups joined to protest the promotion of a CIA officer accused of advocating for torture ...
The following interview with Dorothy Burdick, author of Such Things Are Known (excerpts follow the interview), was taped on September 16, 1995. Ms Burdick’s book, currently not in print, describes directed-energy harassment — laser strikes, acoustic ...
Photo: Colonel Jim Steele In 2004, with the war in Iraq going from bad to worse, the US drafted in a veteran of Central America’s dirty wars to help set up a new force to ...
President Emeritus of the Center for Constitutional Rights, Michael Ratner, the U.S. lawyer for Julian Assange talked to the Voice of Russia’s John Robles regarding the current situation surrounding Julian Assange who remains trapped in ...
” … We currently have a president who, despite claims of ‘the most transparent administration in history’ and a promise to champion ‘patriotic and courageous’ government whistleblowers, has, by dredging up from the depths of ...
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January 28, 2013 (Reuters) – – Lawyers for five alleged conspirators who attacked America on September 11 and say they were tortured in secret CIA prisons have asked a U.S. military judge to order that ...
Author Sues CIA for Info on Trujillo Victim January 11, 2013 WASHINGTON (CN) – An author sued the CIA for records on the 1956 kidnapping and murder of a Columbia University professor and critic of ...
By Craig Whitlock WaPo/Independent, January 2, 2013 The three European men with Somali roots were arrested on a murky pretext in August as they passed through the small African country of Djibouti. But the ...
Photo: Spanish diplomat Carmelo Soria was found dead in a canal in Chile in 1976 “… Those charged include Juan Contreras, the former director of the secret police, Dina. Contreras is currently serving a life sentence ...
“… The notorious US/CIA funded Navy Mechanics School (ESMA) was where opponents (active or perceived) to the dictatorship were raped, tortured, murdered and scientifically experimented on. The sport of choice for the trainee torturers wasn’t ...
From the Huffington Post: Los Angeles-based Stanley K. Sheinbaum was, in his “younger years,” referred to as the head of the Malibu Mafia, a self-styled group of L.A. Westside liberals active in Democratic politics, which ...
There is a long list of officials, including President Obama himself, who are guilty of ensuring that no one will be held accountable for the cruel abuses inflicted on captives in the name of interrogation ...
Mormon Church Appointee Aided CIA on Terror Controversial techniques included waterboarding October 18, 2012 A Spokane psychologist who helped develop controversial interrogation methods, which some human rights groups say amount to torture, became the new ...
A recently uncovered FBI ‘primer’ document on interrogation techniques cites manuals from the CIA’s dark past. Bt Lisa Hajjar Al Jazeera, August 10, 2012 Santa Barbara, CA – A 2011 FBI “primer” on overseas interrogations, ...
Lloyds owns stake in US firm accused over CIA torture flights Banking group, which has £8.5m slice of CSC, is under pressure along with other City investors from human rights charity By Rupert Neate ...
By Bob Egelko SF Chronicle, May 3, 2012 John Yoo, a law professor at the University of California at Berkeley, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington in 2008 John Yoo, the UC Berkeley law professor ...
” … Egypt’s intelligence services — the mukhabarat — have long been known for the use of torture and domestic surveillance, for rigging elections, and for an abiding hatred of the Islamists who constitute Mr. ...
By Melina Milazzo Human Rigjhts First, April 12, 2012 Last week the Department of Defense announced that Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four co-conspirators accused of orchestrating the 9/11 attacks will be arraigned next month before ...
By Matthew Schofield McClatchy Newspapers, Apr. 5, 2012 WASHINGTON — News organizations including The McClatchy Co., The Washington Post and The New York Times filed an objection Thursday to Pentagon plans to close a terrorism hearing ...
By Sharon Weinberger Washington Post, January 14, 2007 IF HARLAN GIRARD IS CRAZY, HE DOESN’T ACT THE PART. He is standing just where he said he would be, below the Philadelphia train station’s World War ...
Evergreen International Aviation, Inc. From SourceWatch Evergreen International Aviation, Inc. is an Oregon-based aviation company with longstanding ties to the CIA. Its huge Evergreen Maintenance Center in Arizona was bought from the Agency, which offered ...
Press Release, February 13, 2012 WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), the Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, reintroduced the American Anti-Torture Act in order to establish a uniform, ...
By ADAM KLASFELD Courthouse News Service, January 10, 2012 MANHATTAN (CN) – The Center for Constitutional Rights wants the Pentagon, CIA and Justice Department to disclose the interrogation tapes of accused Sept. 11 hijacker Mohammed ...
Andy Worthington Andy Worthington is the author of The Guantánamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America’s Illegal Prison (published by Pluto Press, distributed by Macmillan in the US, and available from Amazon ...
