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• The Great Unraveling

  
  They Call Me "Mr. Sinister" — Authority: 500
  The Conservatives story is falling apart . The only question now is, for how long will Parliament be prorogued?
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• Why Obama’s Surge in Afghanistan?

  
  NOVAKEO.COM — Authority: 136
  Tuesday’s announcement that President Obama will send an additional 30,000 soldiers to Afghanistan — while begging his foreign allies to send an extra 10,000 — will have dramatic effects throughout the American and world society. The hope that Obama’s election would drastically change U.S. foreign policy has ...
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• Driver who killed teens loses appeal

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  A motorist who killed six teenage pedestrians in a crash near Mildura in north-west Victoria in 2006 has lost his application for leave to appeal against his jail term. Thomas Graham Towle was sentenced to 10 years jail with a minimum of seven over the crash at Cardross in which six teenagers died and four others ...
  9 hours ago

• Why the Right backs torture, endless war and Jesus

  
  Antony Loewenstein — Authority: 144
  Andrew Sullivan explains why he cannot support the Republican Party, Christianism and extremism: I cannot support a movement that claims to believe in limited government but backed an unlimited domestic and foreign policy presidency that assumed illegal, extra-constitutional dictatorial powers until forced by the ...
  10 hours ago

• The Image and the Imagined: On Why We’re not Allowed to see Detainee Abuse

  
  P U L S E — Authority: 575
  By Aisha Ghani On Monday, November 30th the Supreme Court reversed a Second Circuit Court of Appeals order to release photographs of U.S. soldier abuse of prisoners in Afghanistan and Iraq. According to a statement by Solicitor General Elena Kagan, disclosing these photographs “would pose a clear and grave risk of ...
  11 hours ago

• UK Revelations Challenge Known Torture Narrative

  
  Invictus — Authority: 464
  Originally posted at Firedoglake The fight in a United Kingdom courtroom over secret documents related to the torture of former Guantanamo prisoner and rendition victim Binyam Mohamed has resulted in a striking new revelation, as reported by Mohameds attorney Clive Stafford Smith and British journalist Andy ...
  12 hours ago

• Israelis demolish the only shelter (a tent) of evicted Palestinian family for the 4th time

  
  WHAT REALLY HAPPENED — Authority: 674
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  13 hours ago

• Israeli Court To Al-Kurd family: Settlers Will Stay In Your Home

  
  WHAT REALLY HAPPENED — Authority: 674
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• Brutal Beatings of Saddam Hussein’s Opponents in Iraq

  
  Best Gore — Authority: 125
  This video was recorded during Saddam Hussein’s reign in Iraq. Saddam’s police were sent to teach the opponents of the regime a lesson and they delivered. The video is a compilation of various beatings, each of them pretty brutal and endless. I believe some of the beatings took place in prison. In those cases, the ...
  13 hours ago

• Harperspeak from Beijing

  
  Impolitical — Authority: 565
  From Beijing, the PM actually says something about the calls for a public inquiry on Afghan detainees and the Canadian governments handling of torture allegations. But the problem is that his position is political when this is a legal issue : "In Beijing, Prime Minister Stephen Harper told reporters he has no ...
  14 hours ago

• Mistimed surge

  
  v a l l e j o n o c t u r n o — Authority: 138
  From Salon, Juan Cole writes: President Barack Obama’s just-announced plan for Afghanistan seems modeled less on Lyndon Johnson’s Vietnam strategy than on George W. Bush’s Iraq exit strategy. Or, at least it is modeled on the Washington mythology that Iraq...
  14 hours ago

• Using Photos of Abu Zubaydah’s Torture to Intimidate and Threaten Other Prisoners

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 749
  Abu Zubaydah The set-up of Abu Zubaydah as an Al Qaeda bigwig may have been meant, among other things, for use in intimidation and torture of other prisoners. Andy Worthington recounts how a prisoner captured with Zubaydah, Omar Gharmesh, reported to another prisoner in Syria’s infamous Palestine Branch prison, ...
  14 hours ago

• Drip, drip, drip...turning into a river

  
  Impolitical — Authority: 565
  At what point do the Harper Conservatives call in the plumber to stop the leaking thats becoming a flood? Canadian Press today, with quite damaging information to add to the growing pile of Colvin backing evidence: " Red Cross repeatedly warned Canada of Afghan prison abuse: documents. " The longer they stall on a ...
  14 hours ago

• Blackwater behind plan to kill or snatch

  
  Aftermath News — Authority: 446
  mail.live.com | Dec 2, 2009 by Akhtar Jamal Islamabad—An American newsmagazine has revealed a detailed report on the secretive activities of Blackwater elements in Pakistan and claimed that they were working on a plan to kill suspected Taliban and Al-Qaeda operatives in Karachi. The New York-based weekly The ...
  14 hours ago

• Stab, stab, stabbity stab

  
  Don't Get Me Started... — Authority: 126
  I love Alaska, I really, really do, but the lack of light at this time of year makes me want to get all stabby in a Walmart check-out line. And then I get all "homesick" for things from the Lower-48 that I miss, like Crate and Barrel, Olive Garden, Cracker Barrel, Whole Foods, Trader Joes, sunlight. I just booked a ...
  15 hours ago

• Ghailani’s Speedy-Trial Challenge

  
  Later On — Authority: 160
  Marcy Wheeler : Ahmed Ghailani’s lawyers have moved to have his indictment dismissed because he was denied a speedy trial. As a reminder, Ghailani is being tried for his involvement in the African embassy bombings, under an indictment first filed in 1998. His lawyers are arguing that the government held and ...
  15 hours ago

• Documents reveal new information about destruction of torture tapes

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 459
  "Records obtained late last month by the American Civil Liberties Union reveal new information about the CIAs destruction of videotapes depicting the brutal interrogation of prisoners at CIA black sites, including the precise date the tapes were destroyed and evidence that the White House was involved in early ...
  16 hours ago

• Iranian Doctor Who Exposed Prisoner Torture Murdered..پایین با پایین… Thugocracy اسلامی با هیتلر کوچولو… محمود احمدینژاد

  
  Zipline Conservative — Authority: 128
  An Iranian doctor, Ramin Pourandarjani , 28 years old, was poisoned to death via delivered food to his residence. More enriched Uranium, Little Hitler puffs his chest. Tortured for positions against the government. Nobel prizes stripped. Down with Little Hitler and the Islamic Thugocracy. پایین هیتلر ...
  18 hours ago

• Iran doctor who reported prison torture died from overdose of a drug in his salad

  
  CKA Canadian News — Authority: 168
  A doctor who blew the whistle on the torture of jailed protesters in Iran died of poisoning from an overdose of an anti-hypertension drug in his salad, prosecutors say, fueling opposition fears that he was killed because of what he knew about the abuse.
  19 hours ago

• they call us "idealists"

  
  n e u f n e u f — Authority: 444
  [click image] ... as though the ideal is only fiction, not ideal at all....
  19 hours ago

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