March 5, 2009
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Craig Murray – Your Help Needed – Reveal Torture to Stop It
I can testify that beyond any doubt the British government has for at least six years a considered but secret policy of cooperation with torture abroad. Continue reading
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William Blum: Anti-Empire Report, Number 67 – Being serious about torture. Or not.
On the very day of Obama’s inauguration, the United Nation’s special torture rapporteur invoked the Convention in calling on the United States to pursue former president George W. Bush and defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld for torture and bad treatment of Guantanamo prisoners. Continue reading
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Housmans Radical Books (London) Newsletter for March 2009
Housmans Radical Books (London) Newsletter of events for March 2009 Continue reading
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Amira Hass on the Israel Donors Conference, a gift to Israel
As an occupying power, Israel is obligated to assure the well-being of the population under its control. But Israel is harming it instead, after which the United States (like other countries) rushes to compensate for the damage. Continue reading
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COHA: Revamping U.S.-Cuban Politics: Playing the Guantánamo Card in a Game of Constructive Diplomacy
In recent months, media coverage of Guantánamo Bay has focused on the relocation and plans for the prosecution of detainees now housed there by the United States government. But there is another issue that all but goes unaddressed – the legitimacy of the U.S. naval base’s very presence along the southeastern coastline of Cuba. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 