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ACORN Leader Decries GOP and Dems for 'War Against the Poor'
http://www.commondreams.or g/headline/2010/06/18-6 J esse Jackson Calls Shirley Sherrod a 'True Freedom Fighter' Who Fought Back Against 'Attempted Character Assassination' http://www. commondreams.org/headline/ 2010/07/22-2 -------- An ti-statists... ...
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... ...
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... ...
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... ...
Torture: British MPs call for inquiry into MI5 role
New allegations that abuse of Britons was outsourced to Pakistani agencies. http://www.guard ian.co.uk/world/2008/jul/1 5/humanrights.civilliberti es These documents detail for the first time the experiences... ...
Prevent torture equipment sales at arms fairs, say MPs
Arms fairs should be patrolled by customs officers to stop the sale of instruments of torture and other equipment banned in Britain, a cross-party committee of MPs say in a report today http://www.guardian .co.uk/armstrade/story/0,, 2143136,00.html From... ...
Amnesty says Canada turns blind eye to Afghan torture
The secretary general of Amnesty International Canada says the federal government has turned a blind eye to torture by giving up control of prisoners captured in Afghanistan. http://snipu rl.com/1ibr5 From... ...
Journalists: US military deleted photos of attack
CNN 03/04/07 Afghan journalists covering the aftermath of a suicide bomb attack and shooting in eastern Afghanistan Sunday said U.S. troops deleted their photos and video and warned them not to publish... ...
The postwar photographs that British authorities tried to keep hidden
For almost 60 years, the evidence of Britain's clandestine torture programme in postwar Germany has lain hidden in the government's files. Harrowing photographs of young men who had survived being systematically... ...