7 November 2013 — Information Clearing House
Torture on Tape:
Disturbing Video Shows U.S. Special Forces Observing Brutal Afghan Interrogation
Video
A video just posted online shows a hogtied prisoner being whipped by Afghan security forces, as what appears to be two unidentified American military officers look on.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36785.htm
8 November 2013 — Socialist Appeal
We here publish the video footage of the debate between Alan Woods – editor of www.marxist.com and author of “Bolshevism: the Road to Revolution” – and Orlando Figes – Professor of History at Birkbeck University and author of “A People’s Tragedy” – on the true nature of the Russian Revolution, and what it meant for the people of Russia and the class struggle internationally.
7 November 2013 — Democracy Now!
A new report says medical professionals working under U.S. military orders have been complicit in the abuse of terrorism suspects. The Task Force on Preserving Medical Professionalism concluded that medical staff who worked with the CIA and Pentagon “designed and participated in cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment and torture of detainees” at Guantánamo Bay and at secret prisons overseas. Continue reading
5 November 2013 — Information Clearing House
Pay No Attention to That Imperialist Behind the Curtain
By Robert Scheer
What John Kerry did this week in Egypt and Saudi Arabia is nothing short of despicable.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36764.htm
5 November 2013 — Mondoweiss
Israeli soldiers hid in an alleyway outside a school and fired stun grenades directly at school children, before grabbing two young boys and marching them towards a nearby police station.
4 November 2013 — The Real News Network
John Weeks: The privatization of the Royal Mail will enrich investors but leave workers worse off Continue reading
4 November 2013 — The Real News Network
John Weeks: The privatization of the Royal Mail will enrich investors but leave workers worse off Continue reading
23 October 2013 — Information Clearing House
US is Fighting in Yemen’s Civil War
By Ryan Goodman
The president is waging a secret war in Yemen, and it’s time for him to come clean.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36620.htm
23 October 2013 — The Real News Network
On Reality Asserts Itself with Paul Jay: Glen Ford, Executive Editor of Black Agenda Report, tells his story as a red-diaper baby, growing up facing racism in the North living with his white activist mother, and living in the Deep South with his black deejay father. (inc. transcript) Continue reading
23 October 2013 — Mondoweiss
This is a short film produced by Defence for Children Palestine. Tayma ‘Fteiha is a 13-year-old girl rapper who must share the steps to her home in Silwan, East Jerusalem, with settlers who have colonized her neighborhood and aim to demolish Palestinians houses. They flash their pistols at her as they walk up the steps. She says she feels “crushed” every time she leaves her house. Continue reading
21 October 2013 — Information Clearing House
Engineering Consent For More Wars
U.S. Military Investing Heavily in Africa
By Shashank Bengali
The Pentagon has begun a burst of spending in Africa, investing in air facilities, flight services, telecommunications and electrical upgrades as the U.S. military deepens its footprint in a region with a rising threat of “Islamist terrorism”.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36604.htm
20 October 2013 — Information Clearing House
It Took Decades for Truth to be Revealed in Algeria. How Long Will it Take Syria?
By Robert Fisk
The real story of the much more recent Algerian war – between the Islamists and the government in the 1990s (total deaths 250,000, a hundred thousand more than in Syria today) – still cannot be told by Algerian historians.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36597.htm
19 October 2013 — Information Clearing House
Assassination Pushes Libya Towards Civil War Two Years after Gaddafi Murder
By Chris Stephen in Tripoli
Fighting rages in Benghazi as Tripoli braces for fallout from the kidnapping of prime minister Ali Zaidan.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36579.htm
17 October 2013 — Information Clearing House
West Toxic Lie On Syria Exposed
By Finian Cunningham
Western propaganda lies evidently have a memory problem.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36555.htm
17 October 2013 — Manufacturing Dissent and GRTV
Manufacturing Dissent is a documentary posthumously dedicated to Syrian Palestinian actor Mohamad Rafea, who was kidnapped, tortured and finally brutally murdered on Sunday November 4th 2012 by terrorist groups that have been set loose on the country since the US, UK and their western and Gulf State allies launched a covert war in Syria in early 2011, dressed up by the media as a “revolution”. The words spoken in this video by Rafea, and the courage he shows here, is why he was murdered.
17 October 2013 — grtv
Journalist, author, activist and historian Harvey Wasserman has been reporting on, and participating in, the nuclear free movement for decades. In that time, by his judgment, only one other event matches the danger to the world posed by the Cuban Missile Crisis. That event is the ongoing nuclear disaster at Fukushima. Continue reading
14 October 2013 — New Left Project
This is an amazing work. Please republish. Don’t know anything about the artist except that he’s a bin man but will attempt to find out more for your delectation. See NextgenUK. Continue reading
14 October 2013 — Democracy Now!
In a Democracy Now! special, we spend the hour with four former U.S. intelligence officials — all whistleblowers themselves — who have just returned from visiting National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden in Russia. They are former CIA analyst Ray McGovern, former FBI agent Coleen Rowley, former National Security Agency senior executive Thomas Drake, and former U.S. Justice Department ethics adviser Jesselyn Radack, now of the Government Accountability Project. Continue reading
14 October 2013 — Democracy Now!
In a Democracy Now! special, we spend the hour with four former U.S. intelligence officials — all whistleblowers themselves — who have just returned from visiting National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden in Russia. They are former CIA analyst Ray McGovern, former FBI agent Coleen Rowley, former National Security Agency senior executive Thomas Drake, and former U.S. Justice Department ethics adviser Jesselyn Radack, now of the Government Accountability Project. Continue reading
13 October 2013 — Information Clearing House
Post-Intervention Libya: A Militia State
By Richard Falk
The seizure of al-Libi and the subsequent kidnapping of the prime minister may be metaphors of what ‘governance’ in Libya has come to signify.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36513.htm
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