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Will Turkey Sever Ties With Israel?
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad says the current tension between Israel and Turkey has increased the possibility of war in the region. Prospects for war have grown: Assad http://www.presstv.i r/detail.aspx?id=133569&se ctionid=351020206... ...
The Erosion of Individual Liberties: When Justice and Politics Become One
Lt. Col. Barry Wingard, Truthout: "In the "War on Terror," I am amazed how every time our enemy takes action, it sets into motion a scramble by our government to take away the individual rights of Americans.... ...
Highlighting the surveillance society
Wired by David Kravets 06/29/10 Welcome to the surveillance society. That’s what the American Civil Liberties Union concluded Tuesday with a report chronicling government spying and the detention of... ...
US kills 5 people in Pakistan
Sunday: Noor Ahmed, a senior government official in North Waziristan, says Sunday's attack occurred near Miramshah, the main town in the rugged tribal area. He says tribesmen have recovered five bodies... ...
5 Million Iraqis Killed, Maimed, Tortured, Displaced
By Fred Branfman Is the suffering our leaders inflict on innocent civilians relevant to deciding whether to support our present war-making in Afghanistan and Pakistan? Would it matter if the N.Y. Times... ...
Do Armed Contractors Belong in War Zones?
http://www.commondreams.or g/headline/2010/06/16-10 Human Rights First: Group Urges Commission to Advance Accountablity for Private Military Contractors, Protect Civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan http://www.com mondreams.org/newswire/201 0/06/18-11 https://freep age.twoday.net/search?q=co ntractor http://freepage.t woday.net/search?q=Pratap+ Chatterjee ...
The Supreme Court Says NO to the People - Again
Michael Winship, Truthout: "At a dinner party, an ever-so-proper aristocrat who had been at the British evacuation of Dunkirk 60 years ago, remained tightlipped despite intense questioning from the other... ...
New Report Reveals How Bush Torture Program Involved Human Experimentation
In a 27-page report, "Experiments in Torture: Human Subject Research and Evidence of Experimentation in the 'Enhanced' Interrogation Program" (available here), the organization Physicians for Human Rights... ...
Rights group criticizes bloody Afghanistan air war
Miami Herald 09/17/08 U.S. and NATO air bombings in Afghanistan have killed more than 500 civilians since 2006, fueling a public backlash against the coalition’s war effort, a prominent human rights... ...
US Carnage In Afghanistan
Harrowing video film backs Afghan villagers' claims of carnage caused by US troops Tom Coghlan in Kabul These are the images that have forced the Pentagon into a rare U-turn. Until yesterday the US... ...