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According to the BBC and The Santa Clarita Signal in interviewing Janis Karpinski, Israeli intelligence agents were involved in interrogating and torturing prisoners at Abu Ghraib.
The Pentagon announced it will be removing some of it’s troops from overseas peacekeeping missions now that its unique immunity from prosecution for war-crimes had expired.
Like Oliver Stone’s film J.F.K, Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11 is rapidly becoming the canon for explaning recent U.S. domestic and foreign policy and it’s outcomes. Stephen Rosenthal and Junaid Ahmad’s review of the film investigates deeper, showing Moore to be selective in his damnation, accurately criticising Republican policy while being silent on the equally immoral…
Discourse has a link to Jon Stewart’s debunking of the statements of the VP & Rumsfeld – it’s hilarious.
Sad but true according to Ha’aretz (courtesy of the Angry Arab Blog). Scapegoating, advocating expulsion of Arab citizens, stripping of citizenship, construction of ghettos and bantustans, and the quest for “living space”: the victims have become the victimisers.
The Project on Government Oversight is sueing against the Justice Department’s attempt to reclassify letters and other documentation which have previously been made public concerning the whistle-blower Sibel Edmonds.
Caught in the spotlight, the cockroaches of the current U.S. justice department have begun to scatter, issuing statements that the Gonzales August 2002 legal memo arguing methods to dodge prohibition of aggressive interrogation tactics would be reviewed. So lets be clear, it has taken nearly two years of this memo being in operation (or at…
With all of the hoopla over the release of Clintons book, and the sycophantic interview with the liar Dan Rather (“President Clinton points out that when Hussein kicked U.N. weapons inspectors out of Iraq in 1998, he ordered a four-day bombing raid, but was unable to find out how many if any chemical and biological…
An excellent interview with Juan Cole at Asia Times gives some very thoughtful reasoning on Iraq’s and the U.S. presidential futures.