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  • LIVING IN THE FOURTH REICH
    24 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    LIVING IN THE FOURTH REICH
    By Gary Steven Corseri
    In the Third Reich we said We were just following orders. Today we say, We’re just doing our job.
    In the Third Reich We were anti-Semitic. (We hated the Jews.) In the Fourth Reich We are anti-Semitic. (We hate the Arabs.)
    In the Third Reich We had our Minister of Information. Goebbels said If you tell a lie big enough And often enough People believe it.
    In the Fourth Reich We have Corporate Media. We get 24-7 lies Interspersed with (…)

  • Republican Strains Emerge Over Iraq-Republican in Senate not willing to put up with this much longer
    18 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    WASHINGTON — As bad news continues to emerge from Iraq and the U.S. detention camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, some Republicans are starting to edge away from the White House on its policies in the war on terror.
    The strains were on display yesterday, at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Guantanamo Bay to address what Chairman Arlen Specter called the "crazy quilt" system that governs the treatment of about 520 suspected enemy combatants being held there. Mr. Specter, a Republican from (…)

  • Torture’s Part Of The Territory
    13 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Torture’s Part Of The Territory Naomi Klein June 07, 2005 Brace yourself for a flood of gruesome new torture snapshots. Last week, a federal judge ordered the Defense Department to release dozens of additional photographs and videotapes depicting prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib.
    The photographs will elicit what has become a predictable response: Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld will claim to be shocked and will assure us that action is already being taken to prevent such abuses from (…)

  • Blaming the Messenger Fools No One
    13 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Blaming the Messenger Fools No One Robert Scheer June 07, 2005 On Sunday, the Iraqi government announced that Saddam Hussein would be charged with crimes going back to the 1982 killings of almost 160 men in the Shiite village of Dujail.
    The evidence will come in no small measure from reports by Amnesty International and other human rights groups published before and during the United States’ semi-secret alliance with Hussein in the 1980s.
    This unsavory partnership with Hussein was (…)

  • GULAG, SHMOOLAG
    12 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By William Fisher
    When Amnesty International described U.S. anti-terrorist prisons as “the Gulag of our time”, it gave the Bush Administration the ideal gift for the politician who has nothing: An opportunity to change the subject.
    Its over-the-top and historically dubious language allowed the president, the vice-president, the secretary of defense and many other Bushies to get everyone focused on syntax and away from the prisoner abuse issue.
    This is the second goodie the (…)

  • GULAG, SHMOOLAG
    9 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By William Fisher
    When Amnesty International described U.S. anti-terrorist prisons as “the Gulag of our time”, it gave the Bush Administration the ideal gift for the politician who has nothing: An opportunity to change the subject.
    Its over-the-top and historically dubious language allowed the president, the vice-president, the secretary of defense and many other Bushies to get everyone focused on syntax and away from the prisoner abuse issue.
    This is the second goodie the (…)

  • Flip Flopper Alert: The Bush Administration Was For Amnesty International Before It Was Against It
    4 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Bush Administration Was For Amnesty International Before It Was Against It
    Tonight, Vice President Cheney will appear on CNN’s Larry King Live and reportedly condemn a recent Amnesty International report that faults the U.S. for its treatment of detainees in the war on terror. Cheney has said:
    For Amnesty International to suggest that somehow the United States is a violator of human rights, I frankly just don’t take them seriously.
    Other Administration officials have similarly (…)

  • AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL: Response to President Bush
    4 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    AI Index: AMR 51/087/2005 (Public) News Service No: 149 31 May 2005
    USA: Response to President Bush
    President Bush again failed to address longstanding concerns regarding US detention policies and practices in the context of the "war on terror", Amnesty International said in response to his comments today.
    At Guantánamo, the US has operated an isolated prison camp in which people are confined arbitrarily, held virtually incommunicado, without charge, trial or access to due process. (…)

  • WHY RUMSFELD SHOULD GO
    4 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By William Fisher
    Let’s give Donald Rumsfeld the benefit of the doubt. He’s not a war criminal. He never wrote any memo authorizing specific techniques for abusing prisoners. He doesn’t believe in abusing people. He’s an amusing guy. He used to be a media superstar in the Bush family firmament. The President called him the best Secretary of Defense in our country’s history.
    But it’s time for him to go. And here’s why.
    One of the principal reasons the United States has a Secretary of (…)

  • Amnesty Takes Aim at ’Gulag’ in Guantanamo
    27 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    LONDON - Amnesty International castigated the U.S. prison camp in Guantanamo Bay as a failure Wednesday, calling it "the gulag of our time" in the human rights group’s harshest rebuke yet of American detention policies. ADVERTISEMENT
    Amnesty urged Washington to shut down the prison at the U.S. Navy’s base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where some 540 men are held on suspicion of links to Afghanistan’s ousted Taliban regime or the al-Qaida terror network. Some have been jailed for more than three (…)