Torture
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Waterboarding Approved Specifically To Justify Iraq War By Craig Murray
Only torture could yield ‘intelligence’ of such links to provide a justification of the invasion of Iraq. There could be no clearer indication that these evil people wished to launch an illegal war of aggression for their other reasons. Continue reading
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The most moral army in the world. Fact By Yitzhak Laor
Israel’s denial [or torture] was adamant. No Israeli newspaper addressed the accusations directly. Our ambassador in London said the morality of the prophets does not permit torture, and therefore these charges were baseless. Continue reading
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United States Pressure Detainees to Hide Torture at Guantanamo
It is known that lawyers from the US government tried to force a British resident imprisoned in the base -which it maintains against the will of the Cuban people and government- to sign a document saying he had never been tortured there. Continue reading
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Trying Again to Stop Torture: My Formal Statement for the Joint Committee on Human Rights By Craig Murray
In the meeting, Sir Michael Wood told me that it was not illegal for us to obtain intelligence from torture, provided someone else did the torture. Continue reading
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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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Media Lens: Putting Out The People’s Eyes – Machiavelli And The Press Complaints Commission
The results of the PCC’s work speak for themselves: if a member of the public makes a complaint against the press, he or she has about a 250:1 chance of getting an adjudication in his or her favour. Moore describes these as “pretty terrible odds” Continue reading
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BBC: Israel army studies ‘abuse video’
http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/Groupvideo.1769886 Below I have reproduced the BBC’s copy: There is no information as to when or where the video was shot The Israeli military is investigating a video in which a Palestinian detainee appears to be humiliated by a group of Israeli soldiers. The video, broadcast by Israeli TV after being posted on YouTube, shows… Continue reading
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Anti-Empire Report, March 3, 2008 By William Blum
Anti-Empire Report, March 3, 2008 Read this or George W. Bush will be president the rest of your life www.killinghope.org How could they have known? It wasn’t on Oprah or Fox News. Hillary Clinton and many other members of Congress claim that their support of the invasion of Iraq was based on faulty intelligence reports.… Continue reading
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Re “historical curiosity” or the semiotics of a war crime By William Bowles
Is it simply a historical curiosity or do you think … [the memos have] some relevance to what is happening in Iraq at the moment? The question whacked me between the eyes for what it revealed about the sick mindset of the smug and sanctimonious bastards at the BBC’s misnamed news department (I await expectantly… Continue reading
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Uzbekistan: They speak with forked tongue by William Bowles
The BBC, whose name should be changed perhaps to the Bullshit Broadcasting Corporation, has behaved absolutely despicably, censoring any opinion that contradicts that of the official British and US line on their dealings with the Karimov dictatorship. Continue reading
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Blair’s ‘Morality’ gone mad By William Bowles
One of the arguments used by the government in its attempt to justify preventive detention is that the sources cannot be revealed for fear of ‘compromising’ them. The truth however, is a lot grimmer as Straw’s defence of torture reveals. For what Straw’s comment exposes is a totally morally bankrupt ruling elite, getting more desperate… Continue reading
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Welcome to the Hall of (Daily) Mirrors By William Bowles
For decades the ruling class has pretty well had things ‘under control’. It could rely on an electorate dosed to the eyeballs on anti-communism with liberal lacings of racism, a side dish of xenophobia followed by a dessert of crumbs from the well-stocked larder of the capitalist way of life. Live now, pay later. Continue reading
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The immoral low ground By William Bowles
9 May 2004 “Saddam a “presentable young man” with “engaging smile,” “Let’s “do business,” said British Embassy in 1969.”” “”The goal has never been to win the Olympic high jump in democracy,” Paul Wolfowitz “That strategic objective, of a free, democratic, de-Baathified Iraq, is grandiose, and unattainable…. It’s just a matter of time before we… Continue reading
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The Ties That Bind By William Bowles
By now it should be clear that the photos published in the Daily Mirror last week, were a deliberate attempt to deflect exposure of the real and horrifying level of murder, torture and abuse inflicted on the Iraqi people. Not only since the occupation, but for past thirteen years of sanctions and bombings that resulted… Continue reading
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Of cluster bombs and piss: two sides of the same coin By William Bowles
The ‘tradition’ of pissing on the enemies of the empire has a long and ignoble history. British troops, when faced with Ghandi’s non-violent resistance to the colonisers, recognising that murdering them didn’t work, took to pissing on them instead, in order to get them to move from the vast sit-down demos the Indian anti-colonial movement… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 