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  • Abu Ghraib General Karpinski: Rumsfeld authorized abuse
    25 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Abu Ghraib General Karpinski: Rumsfeld authorized abuse
    Abu Ghraib General Lambastes Bush Administration
    By Marjorie Cohn
    I had been hesitant to speak out before because this Administration is so vindictive. But now I will...Anybody who confronts this Administration or Rumsfeld or the Pentagon with a true assessment, they find themselves either out of a job, out of their positions, fired, relieved or chastised. Their career comes to an end. Janis Karpinski, interview with Marjorie (…)

  • DIPLOMATIC ASSURANCES - WORTHLESS
    21 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By William Fisher
    Countries that rely on ‘diplomatic assurances’ that other countries won’t torture transferred prisoners “are either engaging in wishful thinking or using the assurances as a figleaf to cover their complicity,” a new report from Human Rights Watch (HRW) charges.
    HRW said, “There is substantial evidence that in the course of the global “war on terrorism,” an increasing number of governments have transferred, or proposed sending, alleged terrorist suspects to countries (…)

  • New Abuse Photos Could Spark Riots, US General Warns
    18 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By William Fisher
    Civil libertarians and the Pentagon appear headed for yet another trainwreck in the ongoing dispute over the so-called second batch of photos from Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
    In response to a lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the Centre for Constitutional Rights (CCR), and a number of medical and veterans groups demanding release of 87 new videos and photographs depicting detainee abuse at the now infamous prison, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of (…)

  • Psychoanalyst Stephen Soldz on Torture at Abu Ghraib
    14 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Welcome to Talk Nation Radio produced in New England at WHUS Storrs.
    Talk Nation.org for news and discussion on politics, human rights, and the environment.
    I’m Dori Smith
    Our guest today is
    Stephen Soldz of Roslindale Neighbors for Peace and Justice.
    He describes himself as a psychoanalyst, clinical psychologist, and social activist, and while teaching at the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis he also finds time to write and perform research duties on a web page he (…)

  • Israeli jailed for killing activist
    13 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by DAN WILLIAMS
    AN ISRAELI soldier was jailed for eight years yesterday for killing the British activist Tom Hurndall, who was shot while protecting Palestinian children during violence in Gaza in 2003.
    The sentence was the harshest punishment meted out to an Israeli soldier for actions in a combat zone since the start of a Palestinian uprising nearly five years ago.
    Taysir Hayb, a Bedouin Arab soldier, was convicted in June of manslaughter for shooting Mr Hurndall, an activist with (…)

  • Lawsuit filed against Rumsfeld: Cruel Confinement of ’Enemy Combatant’ in the United States
    10 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Lawsuit filed against Rumsfeld: Cruel Confinement of ’Enemy Combatant’ in the United States Author: Human Rights Watch Published on August 8, 2005, 10:03
    A lawsuit filed today against U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld reveals the gratuitous cruelty inflicted on a foreign student held without charges for more than two years as an "enemy combatant" in a South Carolina naval brig, Human Rights Watch said. Although three men have been confined in the United States after being (…)

  • Breaking News : Cuban Five Win a New Trial!
    10 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Announcement from the National Committee to Free the Cuban Five
    Today - August 9, 2005 - after more than one year of weighing the evidence, the 11th Circuit Court of a Appeals vacated the trial court’s ruling against the Cuban Five and ordered a new trial with a change of venue. This is a sensational victory for the Five, the Cuban people and the international people’s movement that supports them! The Five will now receive a new trial in a place other than Miami. This blow to the U.S. (…)

  • High Court Asked to Take Guantanamo Case
    9 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WASHINGTON — Lawyers for a Guantanamo detainee asked the Supreme Court on Monday to consider blocking military tribunals for terror suspects, and overturn what they called an extreme ruling by high-court nominee John Roberts.
    Roberts was on a three-judge federal appeals court panel that last month ruled against Salim Ahmed Hamdan, a Yemeni who once was al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden’s driver.
    Hamdan’s attorneys told justices that the appeals court gave the White House authority "to (…)

  • Bush Teaches Intelligent Design in Prison
    8 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By GREG MOSES
    Actually that wasn’t the headline. According to Yahoo News, the USA President thinks intelligent design should be taught in schools. That was the headline. And I have no problem with that. In a perfect world, it would be taught in schools And for just the reasons that Bush gives to the AP:
    "I think that part of education is to expose people to different schools of thought," Bush said. "You’re asking me whether or not people ought to be exposed to different ideas, the answer (…)

  • The Gorilla in the Room Must Be Dealt With
    6 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Lack of Election Reform Threatens to Make All Progress Irrelevant.
    by Anthony Wade
    August 6, 2005
    The good fight has been fought for some years now. Progress has indeed been made. There are rumblings of indictments from the Valerie Plame incident, that may exceed Karl Rove. With each passing death in Iraq a nation begins to realize that this is just not worth it, despite the bravado of Bush, a man who knows nothing about sacrifice. The Downing Street Memos are still out there, waiting (…)