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Far Beyond Torture: The Long Dark History

2009-05-08T03:53:28Z

The intrepid David Swanson digs up another damning memo written by that factotum of evil, Jay Bybee. This particular sinister scribbling did not involve the brutal torture of gulag captives, however. No, in this case, Jay had bigger fish to fry for his masters: the murder of more than a million people in a Hitlerian act of military aggression...
And so we come back full-circle in the filthy, bloodsoaked, incestuous nest of American power politics. Bill Clinton is now regarded as a Bush (…)

- contributions / Prison, Governments, USA, Chris Floyd

Tortured Logic

2009-04-17T06:41:51Z

by Chris Floyd
I have little to say at the moment on details of the Bush torture memos released by the Obama Administration, beyond what I have been saying for many years now about these sickening practices, and what they say about America's bipartisan, imperial elite, which countenanced them, and often openly championed them...
http://www.uruknet.info?p=53484

- contributions / Governments, USA, Chris Floyd

Atrocity Unlimited: US Seeks to Turn Somalia into Global Free-Fire Zone

2008-12-12T21:02:58Z

Atrocity Unlimited: US Seeks to Turn Somalia into Global Free-Fire Zone
by Chris Floyd
Global Research, December 12, 2008 uruknet.info
Not content with destroying the only vestige of stability that Somalia had known for almost two decades by arming, backing and participating in a brutal "regime change" invasion by Ethiopia, the Bush Administration now wants to turn the ravaged land into an international "free fire zone," a giant Fallujah where any powerful nation on earth can launch (…)

- contributions / Wars and conflicts, Chris Floyd, Africa

Liberals, Bush Unite in Ethnic Cleansing of Iraq By Chris Floyd

2007-08-31T21:02:36Z

Liberals, Bush Unite in Ethnic Cleansing of Iraq
By Chris Floyd http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18278.htm
08/30/07 --- - From the New York Times: The number of Iraqis fleeing their homes has soared since the American troop increase began in February, according to data from two humanitarian groups, accelerating the partition of the country into sectarian enclaves...The effect of this vast migration is to drain religiously mixed areas in the center of Iraq, sending Shiite (…)

- contributions / Wars and conflicts, International, Governments, Chris Floyd

Sentimental Education: Academia Signs Up to Track Down Dissent

2006-10-18T06:21:32Z

Sentimental Education: Academia Signs Up to Track Down Dissent By Chris Floyd, TO UK Correspondent t r u t h o u t | Report
Tuesday 17 October 2006
I.
Why is the United States government spending millions of dollars to track down critics of George W. Bush in the press? And why have major American universities agreed to put this technology of tyranny into the state's hands?
At the most basic level, of course, both questions are easily answered: 1) Power. 2) (…)

- contributions / Governments, USA, Chris Floyd

Bush's Bloodbath In Babylon: "Coincidence" And Consequences

2006-07-20T05:04:36Z

Bush's Bloodbath In Babylon: "Coincidence" And Consequences By Chris Floyd July 18, 2006 Neighbors are Killing Neighbors (Washington Post): After more than a week of some of the most vicious sectarian violence of the war, Baghdad is a skeleton of a city: Many of its shops are shuttered, its streets drained of people.The violence erupted July 9 when Shiite Muslim militiamen rampaged through the al-Jihad neighborhood and killed dozens of Sunni Arabs. By Friday, the sixth day, the death toll (…)

- contributions / Wars and conflicts, USA, Chris Floyd

Serpent's Egg By Chris Floyd

2006-07-14T08:15:30Z

http://context.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2006/07/14/120.html
Over and over, the Bush regime and its media apologists have peddled the same mendacious line in defense of their war crime in Iraq: "We're fighting the terrorists over there so we don't have to fight them over here." But in fact the occupation is breeding a cadre of vicious terrorists intent on bringing death and destruction back home to America's streets, using the deadly skills they've learned — in the U.S. military. (…)

- contributions / Wars and conflicts, Extreme right, USA, Chris Floyd

Clowntime is Over: The Last Stand of the American Republic

2005-12-30T04:57:16Z

So now, at last, the crisis is upon us. Now the cards are finally on the table, laid out so starkly that even the Big Media sycophants and Beltway bootlickers can no longer ignore them. Now the choice for the American Establishment is clear, and inescapable: do you hold for the Republic, or for autocracy?
There is no third way here, no other option, no wiggle room, no ambiguity. The much-belated exposure of George W. Bush's warrantless spy program has forced the Bush-Cheney Regime to (…)

- contributions / Democracy, Governments, Secret Services, USA, Chris Floyd

Brass in Pocket, Blood on the Tracks

2005-12-07T22:02:34Z

by Chris Floyd
The only defense for the indefensible is to be offensive, it seems. The Bush Faction has obviously decided to stop refuting allegations about torture and just openly embrace the heinous practice instead. You've got Bush vowing to veto torture restrictions, you've got Cheney twisting arms on Capitol Hill to preserve the Faction's inalienable right to beat people to death — and now you've got Condi Rice traipsing off to Europe to tell America's allies to stop all their whining (…)

- contributions / Prison, Governments, Secret Services, USA, Chris Floyd

GLOBAL EYE: First Light

2005-11-25T06:28:12Z

First Light
By Chris Floyd Published, MOSCOW TIMES: November 25, 2005
Last week, America's troubled sleep was shattered by a trumpet blast of truth sounding deep in Washington's corridors of power, where the rule of the Lie has held sway for so long. This intrusion of reality into the bloodstained fantasyland of the Bush Regime comes late in the day for the moribund Republic — perhaps too late — but it has struck a mighty blow against the Lie's adherents, driving them into spasms of (…)

- contributions / Wars and conflicts, International, Governments, USA, Chris Floyd