Torture

Pakistanis Protest Conviction of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui

By Sara Flounders

Global Research, February 20, 2010

Workers World - 2010-02-10

Militant organized demonstrations of outrage and anger took place throughout Pakistan when news of a guilty verdict for Dr. Aafia Siddiqui was announced on Feb. 3. A jury in a New York federal court found Siddiqui guilty of seven… »»»

You can do your part to lift the siege in Gaza - boycott Israeli products

Did You Know?
TheBaByG
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February 09, 2010
Did you know that by boycotting Israeli products, you can singlehandedly lift the siege on Gaza. Following is a list of products to boycott.
Coca Cola
Maggi Garnier
Tommy Hilfiger
Kotex
Helena Rubinstein
NOKIA
Banana Republic
Selfridges &Co
Wonderbra
La Roche-Posay
Nursery World
Lancôme Paris
Victorias Secret
Léggs
La Mer
Harper Collins
Hillshire Farm
Kia Ora
Home Depot
Georgia Lightning
Estee Lauder
Buitoni
DIM
Perrier
Just My size
Lindex
Aramis
origins
HEMA
Perscriptives
Vichy
Playtex
Structure
Aoste
Bryan
Lovable
BallPark
Dohwe Egberts
Kotex
Mast Industries
Nur die
The White barn candle
River Island
Pauls
Johnson&Johnson
Sanez
McDonalds
Kraft
IBM
Ambi… »»»

VIDEO: War and the Economy: We Must Take our Countries Back

We can’t give in and we can’t give up
By Cynthia McKinney

Global Research, February 10, 2010

Transcript of Cynthia McKinney’s speeches in Munich, Germany
NATO Rally Speech, Munich, Germany
Thank you for allowing me to come from the United States and participate in this rally for peace.
My country has been hijacked by a criminal cabal intent on… »»»

Ignoring torture jury convicts Siddiqui_on Anti-War Teachin

This show was broadcast February 6, 2010.
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Every Saturday - Anti-War - Progressive Truth Teach-in at 9:00am Pacific — 12 noon Eastern — 17:00 GMT Will be archived here after the broadcast by Monday. Ignoring Torture Claims and Questionable Evidence, New York Jury Convicts… »»»

The US Military: A Mindset of Barbarism

uruknet.de 2-6-2010
Dahr Jamail

(Image: Lance Page / t r u t h o u t; Adapted: The U.S. Army)t r u t h o u t, February 6, 2010
On December 27, in the eastern Kunar region of Afghanistan, ten Afghans, eight of whom were schoolchildren, were dragged… »»»

The Aduction of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui

Mysteries in Dr. Aafia Siddiqui’s ‘armed assault’ case

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International Criminal Court Complaint Filed Against Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Tenet, Rice, Gonzales

by Prof. Francis A. Boyle

Global Research, January 20, 2010
After Downing Street - 2010-01-19
INTERNATIONAL ARREST WARRANTS REQUESTED
Professor Francis A. Boyle of the University of Illinois College of Law in Champaign, U.S.A. has filed a Complaint with the Prosecutor for the International Criminal Court (I.C.C.) in The Hague against U.S. citizens George W. Bush, Richard… »»»

9/11 The Musical - “OSama Bin Laden”

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Tony Blair testifies before inquiry re: War Criminal charges

Tony Blair, War Criminal, Testifies Before Inquiry
By Chris Marsden
Global Research, February 1, 2010
World Socialist Web Site - 2010-01-30
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair’s testimony before the Chilcot inquiry into the 2003 Iraq war marks him down once more as a war criminal. His testimony made clear that he collaborated in preparing an illegal war of aggression,… »»»

Defense Secretary Robert Gates Confirms Blackwater in Pakistan

rebelreports 1-21-2010

By Jeremy Scahill
In an interview with the Pakistani TV station Express TV, Defense Secretary Robert Gates confirmed that the private security firms Blackwater and DynCorp are operating inside Pakistan. “They’re operating as individual companies here in Pakistan,” Gates said, according to a DoD transcript of the interview. “There are rules concerning the contracting… »»»

Torture Murders at Gitmo Revealed

1-20-2010
democracynow.org
Casting Doubt on US Claims of Suicide, Attorney Scott Horton Reveals 3 Gitmo Prisoners Died After Torture at Secret Site
 New evidence has emerged suggesting three Guantánamo prisoners whom the US claims  took their own lives in June 2006 died not from suicide, but torture. A six-month investigation by Harper’s Magazine indicates the three prisoners were… »»»

Israel steps up arrests of grassroots activists

electronicintifada.net1-20-2010
Press release, Adalah-NY, CodePink: Women for Peace, Jewish Voice for Peace and the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, 20 January 2010
The following press release was issued by Adalah-NY, CodePink: Women for Peace, Jewish Voice for Peace and the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation on 19 January 2010:
Israel must end a… »»»

Are America’s Mercenary Armies Really Drug Cartels?

December 30, 2009 Gordon Duff from uruknet.de
Did Bush/Cheney rebuild Reagan’s “Iran Contra” drug gang?
December 30, 2009
(CINCINNATI, Ohio) - News out of Afghanistan, Pakistan and India reports massive corruption at the highest levels of government, corruption that could only be financed with drug money. In Afghanistan, the president’s brother is… »»»

Dred Scott Redux: Obama and the Supremes Stand Up for Slavery

by Chris Floyd Friday, 18 December 2009 chris-floyd.com
While we were all out doing our Christmas shopping, the highest court in the land quietly put the kibosh on a few more of the remaining shards of human liberty.
It happened earlier this week, in a discreet ruling that attracted almost no notice and took little time…. »»»

Taliban Release Video of Captive U.S. Soldier

english.chosun.com December 26, 2009
Captive U.S. Soldier

Video frame grab from the Taliban propaganda video purportedly shows U.S. soldier Bowe Bergdahl, 23, who was captured more than five months ago in eastern Afghanistan on Dec. 25, 2009. /AP
The Taliban has released a new video that purportedly shows a U.S. soldier who was captured in Afghanistan… »»»

Death Squads in Honduras — Is the blood on Obama’s hands?

uruknet.de

Killing Activists in Honduras

by Joseph Shansky

Walter TrochezDecember 23, 2009

Walter Trochez

“As a revolutionary I will be today, tomorrow and forever on the front lines of my people, all the while knowing that I may lose my life.” - Walter Trochez, 25, murdered in Tegucigalpa on… »»»

Rolf Lindgren on the Charges against the 911 Defendants

This show was broadcast December 22, 2009.
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Coming up Tuesday at 9:00 am Pacific - 12:00 Noon Eastern - 17:00 GMTWill be archived here after the broadcast by Tuesday evening. “THE KEVIN BARRETT SHOW” Tuesday–Live Interview with Rolf Lindgren on the Charges… »»»

Let’s Talk About Torture!

Nick Pell uruknet.de December 19, 2009

December 19, 2009
“‘Mer’ca doesn’t torture.” - His Imperial Majesty, George Bush II
“I intend to close Guantanamo, and I will follow through on that. I have said repeatedly that America doesn’t torture. And I’m gonna make sure that we don’t torture.” -… »»»

“Obama declares war on Pakistan”–Webster Tarpley

This show was broadcast December 15, 2009.
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Coming up Tuesday at 9:00 am Pacific - 12:00 Noon Eastern - 17:00 GMTWill be archived here after the broadcast by Tuesday evening. “THE KEVIN BARRETT SHOW” Tuesday–Live Interview with Webster Tarpley:“Obama declares war on… »»»

KSM Conspiracy Charges Analyzed and Debunked

By Rolf Lindgren and Dr. Kevin Barrett December 9, 2009 truthjihad.com
Don’t believe the charges until you’ve read the charge sheet
By Rolf Lindgren and Dr. Kevin Barrett
December 9, 2009
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM) and five co-defendants have been charged with conspiracy and related charges.  Their trial, recently announced by president Barack… »»»

Iran’s six-month-old crackdown on media and Internet

12 December 2009 rsf.org
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Six months after Iran’s disputed 12 June presidential election, the authorities continue to censor news and information and persecute journalists. More than 100 journalists have been arrested in these past six months and around 50 have fled into exile. A dozen newspapers have been… »»»

Ramping up Afghanistan war to control Caspian oil and gas transport routes

By Jerry Mazza Dec 8, 2009 onlinejournal.com

The 800-pound gorilla standing in the auditorium at West Point is still waiting for an answer to why Obama made his surge-speech for 30,000 more troops and $30 billion to pay for them. That gorilla wonders “why” Obama pitched so hard for the US to stay and… »»»

Live Interview with Guantanamo historian Andy Worthington

This show was originally broadcast on December 1, 2009.
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Coming up Tuesday at 9:00 am Pacific - 12:00 Noon Eastern - 17:00 GMTWill be archived here after the broadcast by Tuesday evening. “THE KEVIN BARRETT SHOW” Tuesday Live Interview with Guantanamo historian… »»»

Gitmo Prisoner “suicided”?

Friday 20 November 2009  truthout.org
by: Jeffrey Kaye, t r u t h o u t | Report

(Image: Lance Page / t r u t h o u t; Adapted: daliborlev, Ninja M.)

With recent news reports centering on Attorney General Eric Holder’s announcement that some Guantanamo detainees would be prosecuted in federal court and revamped, albeit… »»»

Report: CIA torture prison found in Lithuania

19 Nov 2009 presstv.ir

This former Lithuanian horse stable was converted into a secret CIA detention center.

The CIA has built one of its secret European prisons inside an exclusive riding academy outside Vilnius, Lithuania, ABC News has reported.
Citing a Lithuanian government official and a former US intelligence agent, the US TV network said the… »»»

Who are Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the other accused terrorists?

No Lies Editor Note to reader: Read carefully. If you throw out the defendants’ confessions obviously obtained via torture, there is not much left of the government’s case.
Warren Richey 11-14-2009 csmonitor.com
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others are to stand trial in New York. Here’s the evidence federal prosecutors will use against… »»»

Former UK ambassador: CIA sent people to be ‘raped with broken bottles’

Daniel Tencer 11-4-2009 rawstory.com
The CIA relied on intelligence based on torture in prisons in Uzbekistan, a place where widespread torture practices include raping suspects with broken bottles and boiling them alive, says a former British ambassador to the central Asian country.
Craig Murray, the rector of the University of Dundee in Scotland and until… »»»

CIA agents guilty of Italy kidnap

4 November 2009 news.bbc.co.uk

Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr was snatched from a street in Milan

An Italian judge has convicted 23 Americans - all but one of them CIA agents - and two Italian secret agents for the 2003 kidnap of a Muslim cleric.
The agents were accused of abducting Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr, known… »»»

US manacled prisoners to the ceiling

03 November, 2009 russiatoday.com

“Half of US intelligence info came from detainees”
Recently declassified documents reveal that half of all human intelligence the US government had on Al-Qaeda was discovered through detainee interrogations, Christopher Farrell from Judicial Watch told RT.
“It hadn’t been previously produced in any other record,” he said.
At the end of October, the… »»»

Obama engaged in rendition & moveable torture prisons?

11-3-2009 russiatoday.com
“Rendition is the CIA term for
illegal kidnapping”
Following fresh speculation that the CIA is still running secret prisons, author and journalist Webster Tarpley shares some details on “rendition” activity in Ireland, Romania, Germany, Egypt and now the UK.
A US jet, thought to be involved in previous rendition flights, was spotted touching down in Birmingham…. »»»

Live Interview with Dr. Ian Douglas on Bush & Blair War Crimes

This show was broadcast October 27, 2009.
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The complete show is above. The first half was on a bad connection to Cairo.
Below is the 2nd half of the show with good sound quality. — Use Player
Coming up Tuesday at 9:00… »»»

FOR JUSTICE FOR IRAQ: LEGAL CASE FILED AGAINST FOUR US PRESIDENTS AND FOUR UK PRIME MINISTERS FOR WAR CRIMES, CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY AND GENOCIDE IN IRAQ

PRESS RELEASE

For immediate release

Date: 7 October 2009

FOR JUSTICE FOR IRAQ:
LEGAL CASE FILED AGAINST
FOUR US PRESIDENTS
AND FOUR UK PRIME MINISTERS
FOR WAR CRIMES, CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY
AND GENOCIDE IN IRAQ

MADRID: Today the Spanish Senate, acting to confirm a decision already taken under pressure from powerful governments accused of grave crimes,… »»»

Visions from the New World Order — Art of Andrea Kalajian

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Freed Iraqi shoe thrower tells of torture in jail

Martin Chulov in Baghdad guardian.co.uk 15 September 2009
Freed Iraqi shoe thrower tells of torture in jail
‘My flower to the occupier’: Defiant journalist Muntazer al-Zaidi stands by protest against visiting George Bush
The Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at George Bush has marked his release from jail by angrily defending his action and claiming he… »»»

Videos–Arrest John Yoo Demonstration — at UC Berkeley

About 100 Protestors gathered at UC Berkeley to demand John Yoo’s arrest and firing.

Report to No Lies Radio by Vic Sadot
Fire John Yoo Demonstration at UC Berkeley August 17, 2009
There was a spirited rally of about 100 people outside of the Law School entrance at UC Berkeley in Berkeley, California  as Professor John Yoo came… »»»

TORTURE INSIDE THE USA

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Torture at Angola Prison

President Obama promises to close Guantanamo, but a court proceeding in Louisiana exposes brutality closer to home
by Jordan Flaherty
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A prisoner consoles a friend who is dying at Angola, where 90 percent of the 5,200 prisoners die before they’re released. When Angola was… »»»