Military Attorney: Waterboarding is ‘Tip of the Iceberg’
By David Edwards and Muriel Kane
“They started this monthly treatment where they would come in with a scalpel or a razor type of instrument and they would slash his genitals, just with small cuts.”
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article22672.htm
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“Little Known Military Thug Squad Still Brutalizing Prisoners at Gitmo Under Obama”
Democracy Now!
Jeremy Scahill reports the Obama administration is continuing to use a notorious military police unit at Guantanamo that regularly brutalizes unarmed prisoners, including gang-beating them, breaking their bones, gouging their eyes and dousing them with chemicals. This force, officially known as the Immediate Reaction Force, has been labeled the “Extreme Repression Force” by Guantanamo prisoners
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article22674.htm
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Obama: From Anti-war Law Professor to Warmonger in 100 Days
By Alexander Cockburn
It didn’t take long for President Barack Obama to swing behind targeted assassinations and bombing raids.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article22670.htm
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Watching Obama Morph Into Dick Cheney
By Paul Craig Roberts
America has lost her soul, and so has her president.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article22671.htm
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US Colonel Advocates US ‘Military Attacks’ on ‘Partisan Media’
in Essay for Neocon, Pro-Israel Group JINSA
By Jeremy Scahill
Lest people think that the views of people like Col. Ralph Peters and the JINSA/PNAC neocons are relics of the past, remember that the Obama administration includes heavy hitters from this world among its ranks, as well as fierce neocon supporters.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article22678.htm
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Orwell Rolls in His Grave
Video
“Could a media system, controlled by a few global corporations with the ability to overwhelm all competing voices, be able to turn lies into truth?…”
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13062.htm
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Frauds R’ Us: The Scams and Crimes of Wall Street
By Danny Schechter
Its clear that, like on the war, government officials did mislead us. From original deregulators in the Carter-Reagan years to the financial “modernizers of the Clinton-Bush 2 era with their refusal to accept responsibility for the consequences of their free market fantasies, the gutting of rules and regulations, and their embrace of a phony “ownership society.”
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article22676.htm
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http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=7633914
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Netanyahu: Jerusalem to stay Israeli and undivided : PM:
I declared this during visit to U.S.; remarks likely to arouse consternation among Palestinians
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1087232.html
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Obama Gov’t Restores Visa to Former Spy, Netanhayu Adviser:
He had been barred from entering the US by the Bush administration after implication in a spying scandal. A Pentagon official, Larry Franklin, jailed in 2006 for passing secrets about Iran to the Israel lobby group AIPAC, was reported to have met Arad frequently.
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10542.shtml
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FM: Israel, US ‘on same page’ on Iran:
Israel and the US are on the same page as far as the Iranian “threat” goes, and any disagreements between the countries are merely tactical, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said on Thursday.
http://snipurl.com/ii18n
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US to fully fund Israeli missile system:
Israel has been concerned that the US – which has supported the Arrow project since its inception over 20 years ago – would end the funding due to major cuts made to the American defense budget by Secretary of Defense Robert Gates. The development costs for the coming year will likely reach some $100 million
http://snipurl.com/ii1a1
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US keeps nuclear “don’t ask, don’t tell” -Israel aide:
The U.S. administration of President Barack Obama will not force Israel to state publicly whether it has nuclear weapons, an Israeli official said on Thursday
http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSLL942309
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Leaders of Tamils ‘shot dead under a white flag’:
Two Tamil Tiger leaders were shot dead as they tried to surrender following last-minute negotiations to guarantee their safety, it was claimed yesterday.
http://snipurl.com/ii1bm
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Prabhakaran shot from point blank range:
When asked how the LTTE chief Prabhakaran was killed, Brig Shavendra Silva, commander of the 58th Division said that he was shot in the head at point blank range.
http://snipurl.com/ii1cj
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LTTE chief Prabhakaran’s wife, daughter and younger son found shot dead in Mullaitivu District:
According to India Today, the family was shot dead by the Security Forces as it tried to break out of the No-Fire Zone. Another 150 bodies were found in the lagoon area.
http://www.satp.org/satporgtp/detailed_news.asp?date1=5/21/2009#5
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Red Cross Barred From Sri Lankan Refugee Camp:
The outspoken criticism by the normally discreet aid organization came a day after the United Nations pressed Sri Lanka’s government to allow unfettered access to the war zone in the country’s north
http://snipurl.com/ii1ej
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Obama defends withholding abuse photos:
In his speech Thursday at the National Archives, Obama said he has an obligation to protect Americans who are serving in harm’s way, and that the release of the photos would endanger them by inflaming anti-American opinion.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/top/all/6434967.html
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Federal Judge Says U.S. Can Hold Gitmo Detainees Indefinitely:
A federal judge says the United States can continue to hold some prisoners at Guantanamo Bay indefinitely without any charges.
http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=48411
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Obama Is Said to Consider Preventive Detention Plan:
President Obama told human rights advocates at the White House on Wednesday that he was mulling the need for a “preventive detention” system that would establish a legal basis for the United States to incarcerate terrorism suspects who are deemed a threat to national security but cannot be tried, two participants in the private session said.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/21/us/politics/21obama.html?_r=3&emc=eta1
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http://english.pravda.ru/business/finance/19-05-2009/107581-dollar_russia-0
