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Supreme Court: No Day in Court for Canadian Rendition Victim Maher Arar
http://www.commondreams.or g/newswire/2010/06/14-0 B roken Promises, Broken Laws, Broken Lives http://www.commondre ams.org/view/2010/06/16-0 Maher Arar: In Refusing to Hear My Case, the Supreme Court Has... ...
Three wars uncompleted, the price unpaid
CounterPunch by Vijay Prashad 06/13/10 On May 30, at 10:06am, the United States exchequer turned over its trillionth dollar to the U. S. armed forces for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. A trillion... ...
US 'Desperately' Trying to Keep Wikileaks from Publishing US Communications About Arab States
By Philip Shenon Pentagon investigators are trying to determine the whereabouts of the Australian-born founder of the secretive website Wikileaks for fear that he may be about to publish a huge cache... ...
Afghan president 'has lost faith in US ability to defeat Taliban'
Afghanistan's former head of intelligence says President Hamid Karzai is increasingly looking to Pakistan to end insurgency. http://www.gu ardian.co.uk/world/2010/ju n/09/afghanistan-taliban-u s-hamid-karzai From... ...
Does Obama Really Know or Care About Who Is at Guantanamo?
Andy Worthington, Truthout: "The recently released Final Report of President Obama's Guantanamo Review Task Force was supposed to provide a cogent and definitive analysis of the status of the remaining... ...
The war on terrorism is crooked, corrupt, and hypocritical
Future of Freedom Foundation by Jacob G. Hornberger 06/09/10 The so-called war on terrorism will surely go down in U.S. history as one of the most ridiculous, inane, hypocritical, crooked, corrupt, and... ...
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... ...
Hit and miss with Afghan air strikes
Asia Times by Gareth Porter 10/21/08 Air strikes against suspected Taliban leaders in Afghanistan were halted in 2004, in the belief they were ineffectual and caused too many civilian deaths. They resumed... ...
Pentagon source: strike killed 30 Afghan civilians
The probe found that the strikes against a "suspected Taliban compound" in the western province of Herat killed about 30 civilians - not the five to seven the U.S. originally acknowledged, according to... ...
US Study Is Said to Warn of Crisis in Afghanistan
Mark Mazzetti and Eric Schmitt, The New York Times: "A draft report by American intelligence agencies concludes that Afghanistan is in a 'downward spiral' and casts serious doubt on the ability of the... ...