Obama to revive terror tribunals

On 15 May, 2009, in Current events, by joe

 
 

 
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In Case You Missed It
 
Abu Ghraib – The Sequel
 
This is a must watch video
 
These are the photos the American Government doesn’t want you to see. While researching a story on guards at Abu Ghraib, I obtained a copy of the unreleased photographs and videos. Taken at the same time as the photos released in 2004 and often of the same abuses, this is the first time they have been shown to the public. 
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11944.htm
 
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Will They Hate Us for the Secret Photographs?
 
By Jacob G. Hornberger
 
What are Obama and the Pentagon using as an excuse to keep these photographs secret? They’re saying that foreigners will get angry if they see photographic evidence of bad things that U.S. officials have been doing to foreigners as part of U.S. foreign policy since 9/11. Isn’t that an implicit admission that foreigners do get angry over the bad things that the U.S. government does as part of its foreign policy? 
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22626.htm
 
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We Tortured To Justify War
 
By Joe Conason
 
Dick Cheney keeps saying “enhanced interrogation” was used to stop imminent attacks, but evidence is mounting that the real reason was to invent evidence linking Saddam Hussein to al-Qaida. 
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22619.htm
 
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Rumsfeld Remained
 
 You’re A War Criminal
 
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 At the entrance to the White House Correspondents Dinner, Donald Rumsfeld remained by Codepink “You’re A War Criminal” 
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22622.htm
 
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“Get Out of Iraq. Get Out Afghanistan”
 
“Come Home America.”
 
By Dennis Kucinich
 
“Don’t tell the American people that you are ending the war by continuing to fund the war. Don’t tell the American people that the war will end when their plans leave 50, 000 troops in Iraq. Don’t tell the American people that the way out of Afghanistan is to escalate our presence. 
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22630.htm
 
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Palestinians Recall 61 Years of Exile
 
Nakba remembered amid Gaza suffering
 

 
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Saving Israel From Itself
 
By John J. Mearsheimer
 
The United States and Israel fundamentally disagree about the need to establish a Palestinian state living side by side with Israel. – This is not a fight Obama is likely to win, even though the United States is more powerful than Israel and most Americans favor creating a Palestinian state and bringing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to a close. 
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22627.htm
 
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Here’s how Israel would destroy Iran’s nuclear program:
 

 
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Billions promised, but Gazans still waiting:
 
International diplomats, Israeli officials and leaders of the Palestinian Authority haven’t been able to figure out how to rebuild Gaza while keeping the cash out of the hands of Hamas, which runs the narrow strip of land. Food aid can get in, but substantial reconstruction hasn’t begun.
http://snipurl.com/i3nut
 
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“Settlers” call on PM to reject two-state solution:
 
‘One country for one people,’ protest settlers outside Netanyahu’s residence ahead of his upcoming visit to Washington
http://snipurl.com/i3nx2
 
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U.S. Senator Kerry: Chances for two-state solution dwindling:
 
U.S. Senator John Kerry told an economic forum on Friday he believed the window of opportunity for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was closing.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1085836.html
 
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Boycott Israel campaign starts to bite:
 
Motorola, Caterpillar, Veolia, the Tesco supermarket chain, and other companies across the world that do business with Israel are suffering losses due to a global boycott in support of Palestinian rights.
http://www.greenleft.org.au/2009/794/40892
 
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House Passes War Funds :
 
The bill passed 368 to 60, with 200 Democrats and all but nine Republicans supporting it.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/14/AR2009051403480_pf.html
 
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Dick Cheney ‘suggested waterboarding’ Iraqi prisoner:
 
The former US vice-president, suggested waterboarding an Iraqi prisoner whom White House officials suspected might possess knowledge of a potential connection between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda, it has emerged.
http://snipurl.com/i3o9p
 
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9/11 Commission Report Based On Torture “Evidence”:
 
One of the Main Sources for the 9/11 Commission Report was Tortured Until He Agreed to Sign a Confession that He Was NOT EVEN ALLOWED TO READ
http://snipurl.com/i3ocx
 
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Obama mulls ‘indefinite detention’ of terror suspects:
 
President Barack Obama’s “administration is weighing plans to detain some terror suspects on US soil — indefinitely and without trial — as part of a plan to retool military commission trials that were conducted for prisoners held in Guantanamo Bay,” The Wall Street Journal said.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22623.htm
 
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Obama to revive terror tribunals:
 
President Barack Obama will restart military tribunals for a small number of Guantanamo detainees, reviving a fiercely disputed trial system he once denounced
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2009/05/14/9462946-ap.html
 
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McCain Backs Obama on Blocking Abuse Photos:
 

 
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Least we forget:
 
Some of the images Bush did not want us to see
 
Photographs have been leaked of Iraqi citizens tortured by US soldiers at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison on the outskirts of Baghdad.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6217.htm
 
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White House Czar Calls for End to ‘War on Drugs’:
 
The Obama administration’s new drug czar says he wants to banish the idea that the U.S. is fighting “a war on drugs,” a move that would underscore a shift favoring treatment over incarceration in trying to reduce illicit drug use.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124225891527617397.html?
 
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China’s yuan ‘set to usurp US dollar’ as world’s reserve currency:
 
The Chinese yuan is preparing to overtake the US dollar as the world’s reserve currency, economist Nouriel Roubini has warned.
http://snipurl.com/i3oii
 
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“The Worst Is Yet to Come”:
 
If You’re Not Petrified, You’re Not Paying Attention
http://snipurl.com/i3ojy
 
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