The First Step is Admitting That It’s Torture
The US Senate’s minimal, partial, heavily redacted summary of its report on the CIA’s post-9/11 torture program is out. That report’s reception by establishment media turns out to be at least as...
View ArticleSending troops to protect dictators threatens all of us
... with its new commitment to station troops in Bahrain, we can have no doubt where the British government stands: behind autocracy and “enduring interests”. Just as the refusal to hold previous US...
View ArticleU.S. Torture: Old Wine, New Bottles
“The object of terrorism is terrorism. The object of oppression is oppression. The object of torture is torture. The object of murder is murder. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to...
View ArticleThe 3 Things the Media Gets Wrong When It Covers Torture
It’s the political story of the week in Washington. At long last, after the endless stalling and foot-shuffling, the arguments about redaction and CIA computer hacking, the claims that its release...
View ArticleThe European powers and CIA torture
The real concerns of European state leaders regarding the report’s findings are two-fold. First, there is the personal fate of individuals, such as Britain’s Tony Blair. Manfred Nowak, a former UN...
View ArticleMeet Alfreda Bikowsky, the Senior Officer at the Center of the CIA’s Torture...
NBC News yesterday called her a “key apologist” for the CIA’s torture program. A follow-up New Yorker article dubbed her “The Unidentified Queen of Torture” and in part “the model for the lead...
View ArticleAbolishing the CIA
The shock resonating from the Senate Intelligence Committee’s CIA torture report isn’t due so much to the revelations themselves, grotesque as the details are, but to the fact that they’re now...
View ArticleFederal Court Gives “Early Christmas Present” to War Criminals Bush, Cheney,...
Late Friday, a federal judge dismissed a civil claim filed against George W. Bush and other high-ranking officials regarding their conduct in planning and waging the Iraq War, and immunized them from...
View ArticleTorture’s Time for Accountability
America’s reputation for cognitive dissonance is being tested by the Senate report documenting the U.S. government’s torture of detainees and the fact that nothing is happening to those responsible....
View ArticleRussian State Duma chief suggests trying US for WWII nuke attacks
The Russian Lower House speaker wants to instigate an international investigation into the 1945 nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the US military – a possible crime against humanity with no...
View ArticlePalestine files ‘Israeli war crimes’ probe request with accession letter to ICC
Along with the letters of accession to the ICC, Palestine has reportedly filed a request to the Hague to investigate Israeli war crimes during the 50-day war in Gaza last summer. Palestinian officials...
View ArticleIsrael’s Prime Minister Netanyahu fearful of War Crime Charges as Palestinian...
PA President Mahmoud Abbas has signed the Rome Statute in a bid to join the ICC, prompting threats by the Israeli prime minister that he will instruct the U.S. congress to cut off all funding to the...
View ArticleWhat would Happen if the International Criminal Court Indicted Israel’s...
If the International Criminal Court takes up Israeli government actions in the occupied Palestinian territories, it could well find specific officials guilty of breaches of the Rome Statute of 2002....
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Leaked ‘kill list’ shows US knew kids were dying
“Drawing information from top secret documents spirited away by former NSA analyst Edward Snowden, Der Spiegel reports that the “kill list” used by NATO forces in Afghanistan included low-ranking...
View ArticleMariupol Attack is a War Crime: The Evidence points to Kiev
The UN is calling the attack on Mariupol a War Crime. Now that the evidence is pointing to Kiev will the UN show enough conscience to pursue it? Motive, method, and opportunity are the key facts needed...
View ArticleBirds of a Feather: John McCain Defends Henry Kissinger
It has been said that birds of a feather flock together, and proof of that statement can be seen in the fact that terrorist sympathizer John McCain was recently forced to act as Knight in Shining Armor...
View ArticleAmerican police brutality, exported from Chicago to Guantánamo
Allegations stemming from interviews and court documents, concerning five Chicago suspects, suggest Zuley and his colleagues shackled suspects to walls for extended periods, threatened their family...
View ArticleUN Reveals ‘Credible and Reliable’ Evidence of US Military Torture in...
According to the report, prevalent torture methods used by Afghan forces include, "prolonged and severe beating with cables, pipes, hoses or wooden sticks (including on the soles of the feet),...
View Article‘Dirty Brigades': US-Trained Iraqi Forces Investigated for War Crimes
U.S.-trained and armed Iraqi military units, the key to the American strategy against ISIS, are under investigation for committing some of the same atrocities as the terror group, American and Iraqi...
View ArticleThe Destruction of Libya, the Destabilization of a Nation. US-NATO Crimes...
The late Col. Muammar Gaddafi, hailed as the “Great Leader” by the Libyan people during his incumbency, was murdered by Chad, Somali and Sudanese mercenaries in collusion with NATO and US invading...
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