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Glenn Greenwald> U.S. again bombs mourners
U.S. again bombs mourners The Obama policy of attacking rescuers and grieving rituals continues this weekend in Pakistan BY GLENN GREENWALD MONDAY, JUN 4, 2012 Salon.com (updated below) In February, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism documented that after the U.S. kills people with drones in Pakistan, it then targets for death those who show up at the […]
Perlstein> How FBI Entrapment Is Inventing ‘Terrorists’ – and Letting Bad Guys Off the Hook
How FBI Entrapment Is Inventing ‘Terrorists’ – and Letting Bad Guys Off the Hook POSTED: May 15, 3:10 PM ET | By Rick Perlstein Rolling Stone Mark McGowan, Patricia Faella, Marcus Faella, Kent McLellan, Jennifer McGowan, Dustin Perry, Richard Stockdale and Christopher Brooks of the American Front arrested in Florida. REUTERS/Osceola County Jail /LANDOV This past October, at […]
Andrew Bacevich> Scoring the Global War on Terror> From Liberation to Assassination in Three Quick Rounds
Scoring the Global War on Terror From Liberation to Assassination in Three Quick Rounds A war that once occupied center stage in national politics has now slipped to the periphery, with legal and moral questions raised by the war left dangling in midair. Andrew Bacevich February 19, 2012 TomDispatch.com With the United […]
Charlie Chaplin, Victim of McCarthyism, Had MI5 File> Video
(photo: Wikimedia Commons) Charlie Chaplin, Victim of McCarthyism, Had MI5 File Kevin Gosztola February 16, 2012 Firedoglake He is known to have been prevented from returning to the United States by J. Edgar Hoover in 1953 when he went to London for the premiere of his film Limelight in London. Now, tens of thousands of files […]
William Fisher> Trial By Media: The Justice System No One Wants You to Know About
Trial By Media: The Justice System No One Wants You to Know About Sunday 25 December 2011 by: William Fisher, Truthout | News Analysis Former Attorney General John Ashcroft, now a lobbyist, appears before a House Judiciary subcommittee in Washington, Tuesday, March 11, 2008. (Photo: Doug Mills/The New York Times) Remember Mike Nifong? Sure. […]
Ceding Liberty to Terror: Senate Votes Against Due-Process Rights> How they voted
Ceding Liberty to Terror: Senate Votes Against Due-Process Rights CONOR FRIEDERSDORF DEC 2 2011, 11:17 AM ET 76 The Atlantic Asked to deny presidential authority to indefinitely detain Americans without charges or a trial, they declined, citing the threat of al-Qaeda. Is it lawful for the president to order any American held indefinitely as a terrorist, without […]
Ray McGovern Weighs in on Afghanistan
Published on Tuesday, March 29, 2011 by CommonDreams.org Only Thing Clear About Obama’s Afghan Policy: It’s a Disaster by Ray McGovern “Let me be clear,” President Barack Obama is fond of saying. And his desire was on full display two years ago when he announced a “comprehensive, new strategy” for the war in Afghanistan — but only […]
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