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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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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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Wikileaks releases major RAND study into Iraq, Afghan intelligence, counterinsugency: Pentagon Papers II?
This major November, 2008 RAND Corporation study on intelligence operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, conducted 300 interviews at all levels with US, UK and Dutch intelligence officers and diplomats. Continue reading
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The Coup Five Years On: Haiti's Harsh Realities By YVES ENGLER
Haiti provides an example of how self-described “progressive” Western government-funded NGOs function as an arm of imperialism. A sort of NGO laboratory, Haiti is a highly vulnerable society where NGOs have a great deal of influence. Continue reading
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Empire – Obama’s Middle East Challenge – Pt 1
29 January, 2009 In this episode of Empire, Marwan Bishara, Al Jazeera’s senior political analyst, and his guests zero in on the special relationship between the US and Israel. From its beginning, when it took the US only 11 minutes to recognise Israel, through its difficult early years, to the blossoming bond when the alliance… Continue reading
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The conflict in the Congo is a resource war waged by U.S. and British allies By Kambale Musavuli
Herman Cohen’s ‘Can Africa Trade Its Way to Peace?’ in the New York Times reflects the disastrous policies that favor profits over people. In his article, the former lobbyist for Mobutu and Kabila’s government in the United States and former assistant secretary of state for Africa from 1989 to 1993 argues, ‘Having controlled the Kivu… Continue reading
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COHA: “The Rock in the Sun”: Haiti’s Préval Pleads For the U.S. and Rest of the World to End Global Negligence Towards Latin America’s Poorest Country
The question now is will the new Obama administration further assist Haiti, or will it proceed with a 200-year-old pattern of inadequate response to the island’s crushing needs? Continue reading
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COHA: Mixed Results In Salvadoran Elections
The FMLN for the first time in twenty years of right-wing rule, the former guerrilla party has a good chance to win the upcoming presidential ballot in March. Continue reading
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Global Energy War: Washington's New Kissinger African Plans
It is here that then EUCOM and NATO top military commander Jones arranged the foundation of the future AFRICOM. Continue reading
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Israel's Message to Iran By Shourideh C. Molavi
But Israel’s military attack does not only affect the ‘Palestinian problem’ but has widespread regional implications for any future political or military engagement with Iran. Continue reading
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When Israel expelled Palestinians: Randall Kuhn OP-ED
Think about what would happen if San Diego expelled most of its Hispanic, African American, Asian American, and Native American population, about 48 percent of the total, and forcibly relocated them to Tijuana? Continue reading
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Michael Parenti: Afghanistan, Another Untold Story
The war against Afghanistan, a battered impoverished country, continues to be portrayed in US official circles as a gallant crusade against terrorism. If it ever was that, it also has been a means to other things: destroying a leftist revolutionary social order, gaining profitable control of one of the last vast untapped reserves of the… Continue reading
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Kathleen and Bill Christison – Will You Continue to Ignore Gaza’s Suffering, Mr Obama?
Right now, the circumstances could not be more inhumane. Right now, the paramount Palestinian crisis is in Gaza, where Israel – with active political and ongoing financial backing from the United States – is blockading a tiny, horribly overcrowded piece of land and consciously depriving its 1.5 million people of all of the essentials of… Continue reading
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Evo Morales on Climate Change: Save the Planet from Capitalism!
‘Humankind is capable of saving the Earth if we recover the principles of solidarity, complementarity and harmony with nature in contraposition to the reign of competition, profits and rampant consumption of natural resources’ Continue reading
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Unofficial Translation of U.S.-Iraq Troop Agreement from the Arabic Text
19 November, 2008 An Agreement between the Republic of Iraq and the United States of America regarding the Withdrawal of the American Forces from Iraq and Regulating their Activities During their Temporary Presence in it PREFACE The United States of America and the Republic of Iraq – which will hereafter be referred to as the… Continue reading
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COHA: A Strange Concept of “Security”
Catholic priest Rafael de Jesus Gallego, after he had been given assurances through the US Embassy’s Human Rights Office that it his visa would be routinely granted to him. Father Rafael was later told that the visa had been denied for ‘security’ reasons. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 