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Beaten and sodomized: European human rights court finds CIA guilty of torture
The European Court of Human Rights found the CIA guilty of torturing a terror suspect for the first time ever. A German citizen was illegally detained, tortured and sodomized by a CIA “rendition team’ after being mistaken for an al-Qaeda member. Continue reading
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Sarkozy’s Libyan War By Robert Harneis
The history of Khadafy’s relationship with the West, and the United States in particular, is the stuff of pulp fiction. In 1969 the CIA under the newly elected President Nixon helped him overthrow the British puppet King Idris in the newly oil rich kingdom. They picked the wrong guy. Continue reading
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Andrei KONUROV: NATO uses Afghanistan to turn into a global organization
Although the participants of the G20 summit managed to avoid debates, the agreement they had achieved appears to be very unreliable and as the crisis will go deeper, no signs of cooperation will remain. And the crisis will surely go stronger since all the measures the allies had agreed on, are actually in no way… Continue reading
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United Europe Represses the Right to Protest Against NATO By Ivan Drury
On April 4th the leaders of the NATO member countries met on the French-German border in Strasbourg France for the 60th anniversary of NATO. A major demonstration was organized to oppose this meeting, the occupation of Afghanistan, and to call for the dismantling of NATO. Continue reading