TORTURE/WAR CRIMES

May 17 19:40

MSM Blackout On NDAA Being Blocked As Unconsitutional

The corporate media blacks out news that a federal judge has struck down NDAA powers that allow the government to US citizens in jail indefinitely without charge or trial.

Meanwhile, the US congress is hammering out the 2013 that looks to further expand the government's totalitarian powers.

Of course they would be, since they have repeatedly brainwashed the public into believing the government needs to be able to lock up anyone for as long as they want and even torture or assassinate them to keep us safe from the boogey man.

May 17 18:17

U.S. Provided Intelligence for Turkish Air Raid: Official

WASHINGTON — American spy drones provided intelligence to Turkey’s air force for an errant bombing raid in December that killed 35 civilians instead of Kurdish separatists, a U.S. defense official said May 17.

May 17 15:19

Yemen: reported US covert action 2012

Key US counter terrorism actions in Yemen
Since 2011 US counter terrorism operations in Yemen have been conducted by both the Pentagon and the Central Intelligence Agency. Attacks are aimed at Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and more recently, Ansar al-Sharia.

US activity may also consist of naval bombardments and air strikes, often in conjunction with, or in support of, the Yemen military.

As Yemen came under severe pressure during the Arab Spring and militants seized control of cities and towns in the south, the US significantly stepped up its attacks, most notably with drone strikes.

May 17 13:28

Austin Texas Begins Training Police For Drone Deployments

After congress recently approved the deployment of 30,000 drones over US skies, police in Austin, Texas are now training to use them.

May 16 18:00

Federal Judge Temporarily Strikes Down NDAA As Unconstitutional

A preliminary ruling temporarily suspends the enforcement of NDAA infinite detention, finding it is being used to silence journalists and likely to be unconstitutional.

May 16 16:08

Will Americans Be Forced to House and Feed the TSA Goons or Gov. Thugs in Homes Against Their Will?

I do not underestimate President Obama, He is capable of anything. Even forcing us to quarter government thugs in our homes to keep us safe. There is no proof he might do this. Obama does retaliate when there is a public backlash. DO not be surprised if he forces Government thugs to live in our homes against our will.

May 16 15:42

Wall Street Banks Secretly Build The World's Largest Private Army

Wall Street banks have secretly taken over US firearms and ammunition manufacturers and mercenary firms in a stealth build up world's largest private military force.

A Daily KOs article reveals that Wall Street banks have used private equity firms to acquire and launch a massive stealth takeover of private security firms, US ammo and gun manufacturers, uniforms, silencers and an army of mercenaries to build what amounts to the world's largest private army.

May 16 14:52

What I wanna' be when I grow up

I'm an American kid. My Mom and Dad work for the US Federal Government. When I grow up I wanna' be a torturer - just like my Mom and Dad. Why?

May 16 09:46

Former President Bush and Administration Guilty of War Crimes

Susanne Posel, Contributor
Activist Post

Last week, in a trial held in Kuala Lumpur, former US President George W. Bush and several of his key administration members were convicted of war crimes.

The tribunal was led by retired Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad. After the guilty verdict reached by five senior judges was delivered, Mahathir Mohamad said: “Powerful countries are getting away with murder.”

After a week filled with testimony, personal statements and deliberations, the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Commission, a five-person panel announced their guilty verdict. This verdict will be filed with the Commission’s Register of War Criminals to be made public record...

May 16 09:14

Update on Negotiations With Israel Over Palestinian Prisoner Hunger Strike

Stephen Lendman, Contributor
Activist Post

As they say, it's not over 'till it's over. Palestinian prisoners have been mass hunger striking since April 17. Others began earlier. Some haven't eaten for two months or longer.

On May 14, a deal was announced. Egypt negotiated one with the Israel Prison Service (IPS) and striker representatives. Palestine Prisoners Society head Qadura Fares confirmed it. So did Israeli authorities.

Independent verification didn't follow. Nor did full clarification of terms. Israel's adept at creating considerable opt-out wiggle room. Deals aren't always as they seem. Broken ones reveal charades.

Israel offered concessions. Prisoners agreed to terms. Some remain vague. The devil's in the details. What's ahead remains uncertain. Israel's history reflects promises made and broken. Palestinians know well.

May 16 07:14

Ratko Mladic trial begins 20 years after atrocities

Ratko Mladic is appearing on trial in The Hague for the massacre of 8,000 Muslims at Srebrenica, the first act of genocide on European soil since the Nazi Holocaust.

May 16 07:06

In their hunger, Palestinian strikers are acquiring names

But in their hunger, the strikers are acquiring names. I do not mean names on an obscure website, but ones that appear repeatedly in the daily press and on television, and have wide circulation in the social media. The most prominent name is that of Khader Adnan, a baker and MA student in economics at Birzeit University in the West Bank. Adnan was released from an Israeli jail after 66 excruciating days of hunger strike that commenced on February 21 of this year. He opted for self-starvation to protest what legal jargon calls “administrative detention,” which in this case amounted to abduction by a foreign state that had no legal grounds whatsoever for seizing him.

May 16 05:44

America as a Shining Drone Upon a Hill

On Staring Death in the Face and Not Noticing

Here’s the essence of it: you can trust America’s crème de la crème, the most elevated, responsible people, no matter what weapons, what powers, you put in their hands. No need to constantly look over their shoulders.

By their own account, they have, in fact, been covertly exceptional, moral, and legal for more than a decade (minus, of course, the odd black site and torture chamber) – so covertly exceptional, in fact, that they haven’t quite gotten the credit they deserve. Now, they would like to make the latest version of their exceptional mission to the world known to the rest of us. It is finally in our interest, it seems, to be a good deal better informed about America’s covert wars in a year in which the widely announced "covert" killing of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan is a major selling point in the president’s reelection campaign.

May 15 18:31

Feds To Remove Group Known To Conduct Bombings Against Iran From Terror List

The US government moves to allow the west to 'do business' with the terrorist group responsible bombings and assassinations of Iranian scientists.

May 15 14:12

The Girl Killed By Barack Obama - She Never Saw It Coming

President Obama caught on video deliberately spreading misinformation about murder being carried out on his orders to conduct targeted assassinations.

May 15 13:25

Nakba - the Palestinians' never ending catastrophe

Alan Hart argues that Zionism's mission is the complete liquidation of the Palestinian presence in historical Palestine and that, "unless the major powers led by America summon up the will to call and hold Zionism's monster child to account for its crimes, there will be a final ethnic cleansing of Palestine at some point in a foreseeable future".

“…the Jews of the world must play their necessary part in containing and confronting Zionism. As I never tire of pointing out, silence is not the way to refute and demolish a charge of complicity in Zionism’s crimes.”

May 15 12:56

UN Openly Giving Al-Qaeda Cover In Syria To Identify Targets

The media is now openly reporting Al-Qaeda terrorists are working alongside UN Observers in Syria as videos show the terrorists gathering intel for future strikes.

When is a terrorist not a terrorist? When the terrorists are committing acts of terrorism that promote the United States imperialistic agenda.

May 15 09:57

AMERICA: Desperate Times Demand Revolutionary Measures Towards Sociopolitical-environmental Collapse

Runway capitalism is moving unrelentingly towards sociopolitical-environmental collapse—cheered on by a two-headed single party machine known as US Congress. Activists, who see the coming disasters as catastrophic, are seeking revolutionary change through non-cooperation, and occupy disruptions. Yet, many are the still delusional hopefuls desperately fumbling with traditional responses; including "Kum ba yah" marches, and the futile support for progressive left-leaning candidates seeking positions of influence inside the Washington beltway.

May 15 09:45

Libyans want answers for deadly NATO airstrikes

TRIPOLI, Libya — Mohammed al-Gherari lost five family members, including a young niece and nephew, when NATO accidentally struck their compound in the Libyan capital as they slept.

Nearly a year later, his grief is compounded by threats and allegations from neighbors who believe he and others who survived the attack were harboring a regime loyalist or hiding weapons for Moammar Gadhafi’s forces.

May 15 09:41

No Secret Why CIA is Now Romanticizing 'Harsh Interrogation' Techniques

José Rodriguez, former head of the CIA’s clandestine service, used these words in a "60 Minutes" interview last Sunday to defend the use of water-boarding and other "harsh interrogation" techniques on suspected terrorists. His self-assurance recalls the observation of General Taguba, the lead investigator into the abuses at Abu Ghraib, that "the only question that remains to be answered is whether those who ordered the use of torture will be held to account." Rodriguez’s new book, Harsh Measures is an undisguised justification of CIA torture.

Webmaster's Commentary: 

WHEN WE TORTURE: The world understands that the confessions obtained under torture is NOT actionable intelligence, but a propaganda ploy toward acheiving some predetermined geopolitical outcome.

WHEN WE TORTURE: We demonstrate to the world that human rights, the rule of law, and human dignity are values we observe in their breach, and not in their observance.

WHEN WE TORTURE: We give carte blanche for any government hostile to the US to do precisely the same to American military personnel or civilians.

Please, those of you with family or friends in the US military, chew on that one for a while, before you decide that US torture of prisoners of war (excuse me, "enemy combatants") is a really good idea.

May 15 09:18

CIA Rendition Victim Will Have His Day in EU Human Rights Court

The “extraordinary rendition” of Khalid el-Masri, the bungled CIA kidnapping of a German car salesman over a case of mistaken identity, is going to get a very high profile, very public hearing, as the European Court of Human Rights has agreed to hear the case.

El-Masri was kidnapped during his vacation by the Macedonian government at the behest of the US in late 2003. During his detention he was tortured by the CIA for several months, and sent to Afghanistan and Iraq.

The CIA apparently thought it had Khaled al-Masri, a completely different person, and when they discovered that they had kidnapped an innocent car dealer, they dumped him off in a deserted road in Albania in the middle of the night.

Webmaster's Commentary: 

As we have known from the time of the Catholic Inquisition, torture doesn't produce actionable intelligence; it only produces confessions toward a pre-determined outcome the torturers want to have stated by the tortured.

So why, in the 21st century, are Americans, and those hired by Americans, doing this?!? Because even though they know it will not help gather intelligence, such confessions are great for government propaganda, and there are some people mentally ill enough to really enjoy torturing.

May 15 07:30

The girl killed by Barack Obama - she never saw it coming

May 15 06:55

NATO killings whitewashed: Civilian bombing raid victims ignored

May 15 06:10

Palestinian Prisoners Earn Tentative Deal With Israel to End Hunger Strike

Stephen Lendman, Contributor
Activist Post

Palestinian hunger strikers redefined courage. Mass willingness to die for justice is unprecedented.

On May 13, they reiterated their dignity or death steadfastness. More on that below.

Reports about where things stand leave unanswered questions. On Sunday, Haaretz headlined "Israel, Palestinian prisoners on verge of deal to end hunger strike," saying:

A Fatah Central Committee member claims the Israel Prison Service (IPS) will present strikers an agreement on May 14. Egyptian officials are mediating on behalf of Palestinians...

May 14 13:13

'Engaging' on foreign policy -- after the election

Mitt Romney has assembled quite a few advisors on foreign policy, many of whom worked for the Bush/Cheney team, and given the former governor's inexperience and limited understanding of international affairs -- Swiss bank accounts don't count as proficiency in this area -- those who have his ear are getting a closer look.

With that in mind, the New York Times reports today that many members of Team Romney disagree with one another -- and at times, even the candidate -- about foreign policy, and occasionally, Romney's own advisors have no idea what he's trying to say.

May 14 10:29

Minnesota Police Under Fire For Testing Drugs On Occupy Protesters

International news outlets report on reports that originated within the alternative media that Minnesota police drugged teens and dropped them at Occupy Protests.

May 14 08:22

Surviving an American Insurrection

Phoenix, AZ—The Doomsday people are saying that we are about to have a Constitutional crisis and a showdown with the Obama Administration and the turncoats within Homeland Security. Are they really just paranoid and over-reacting?

The frightening signs are there. We have a President that has nullified the Bill of Rights and now has all the powers of Stalin or Hitler should he care to use them. This nation has never been more divided in any of our lifetimes. When was there ever a leader that did not abuse absolute power?
The plan:
Stockpiling non-perishable food, water, batteries, family service radios, medicines, first aid supplies, ammunition and firearms must be part of any plan. Also locating significant defensive armaments in unexpected locations to safeguard from home invasion searches.

May 14 07:56

The Case of the Missing Terrorists

Paul Craig Roberts
Activist Post

If there were any real terrorists, Jose Rodriguez would be dead.

Who is Jose Rodriguez? He is the criminal who ran the CIA torture program. Most of his victims were not terrorists or even insurgents. Most were hapless individuals kidnapped by warlords and sold to the Americans as “terrorists” for the bounty paid.

If Rodriguez’s identity was previously a secret, it is no more. He has been on CBS “60 Minutes” taking credit for torturing Muslims and using the information allegedly gained to kill leaders of al Qaeda. If terrorists were really the problem that Homeland Security, the FBI and CIA claim, Rodriguez’s name would be a struck through item on the terrorists’ hit list. He would be in his grave...

May 14 07:47

Woman pepper sprayed at close range, loses her eyesight

A woman, who says she was blinded when a police officer used pepper-spray at close range, is speaking out for the first time.
Monique Hernandez has been blind since the Feb. 21 incident and doctors say she’ll probably never see again.

May 13 08:30

Air Force Report: Drones May Be Used To Spy On Americans

To hell with the Air Force! They will be murdering Americans with those drones! Surveillance is just the beginning!

Following recently passed legislation to allow 30,000 drones to operate over the U.S. by 2020, a newly discovered Air Force document posted by Steve Watson at InfoWars has some interesting implications (Via Drudge Report).

The USAF intelligence brief says that if any of those drones should accidentally capture footage of Americans, the data can be stored for three months to be scrutinized by the Pentagon.

May 13 06:51

Libyan Revolution Update: Enjoying 'Democracy'

More for Syria to look forward to, after UN/NATO operations.

Tony Cartalucci, Contributor
Activist Post

Generally in the West, elections determine who is called "president" or "prime minister." But in recently "freed" Libya, when a leader doesn't perform as expected, truckloads of terrorists come to his office and attempt to gun him down. Their grievance? Apparently they expected some sort of monetary compensation for their role in overthrowing the Libyan government last year, not satisfied with "democracy" alone...

May 12 10:56

Veterans Today: The Expected Repatriotization of the Intel Cowboys

An honest appraisal of the USG’s response to the cold war will conclude that the creation of intelligence agencies to fight World Communism was certainly justified and overall attained great success. Unfortunately almost all those fighting the cold war did not realize that it was set up from the very start by the ruling super-elite banking related families many years before, in response to their intergenerational hidden agendas and secret plans to Industrialize and Globalize the world via conjured wars, both hot and cold. Unfortunately it’s been all about money, stripping as much as possible from the sheeple, and wars and illegal narcotics trafficking are the best means to do so. The cold war mission of the intel world started out good, but became an end all unto itself as the Leo Straussian existential credo, “the end justifies the means” became the operating justification for all sorts of the criminal acts that would never otherwise have been committed or allowed unless rule of law was suspended under national security. This cloak of national security has become the standard operating procedure and is now routinely invoked as cover for criminal war profiting, illegal drug trafficking and money laundering.

Most wars appear to be related to capturing illegal drug supply lines or oil or other mineral mining. It appears that numerous older intel cowboys are now seeing the shadow govt as a criminal enterprise that is out of touch and out of control, and has been completely hijacked by foreign based offshore banking power and is now the main threat to the US Republic and the US Constitution and its Bill of Rights.

May 12 10:09

When False Flags Don't Fly

Those who have studied history know that nothing invigorates and empowers an authoritarian regime more than a spectacular act of violence, some sudden and senseless loss of life that allows the autocrat to stand on the smoking rubble and identify himself as the hero.
Acts of terror and violence never benefit the average man or woman. They only ever benefit those in positions of power.This is why Nero fiddled while Rome burned: it gave him a chance to throw the Christians to the lions and rebuild the capital of the Roman Empire in his own image.

This is why Hearst and the warmongers of the emerging American Empire were delighted by the destruction of the U.S.S. Maine in Havana Harbor: it gave them the excuse they needed in order to rouse the public into supporting the Spanish-American War.

May 12 07:57

I Cried Watching This. Americans and Nato Bombing Babies , Every Human Must Watch. Spread It

May 11 11:26

The Everyday Evil of America's Torture State

If a dog had been subjected to treatment similar to the abuse inflicted on Daniel Chong, those responsible would face felony charges. Thanks to the spurious principle of “supremacy clause immunity,” there is no measurable likelihood that the people who nearly tortured Chong to death will face criminal charges. It’s quite likely they will never be identified.

May 11 08:20

U.S. military training ironically advocates attacking civilian populations to fight terrorism

Madison Ruppert, Contributor
Activist Post

Recently released documents, including full presentations, dealing with the training soldiers received at the Joint Forces Staff College in Norfolk, Virginia, reveal that our military is actually advocating the use of terrorism in an attempt to fight terrorism.

As insane as it sounds, it is quite unfortunately true, as you will realize as you read on. Even more unfortunate is that this is actually far from isolated, evidenced by former Mayor of New York City Rudy Giuliani advocating terrorism, the Israeli Vice Prime Minister supporting terrorism, and the training of terrorists by both the United States and the Israeli Mossad...

May 11 07:12

Activism for Justice

Stephen Lendman, Contributor
Activist Post

Activism has many forms. OWS protesters want long-denied social change. Palestinians want to live free. So do Bahrainis.

Imprisoned former Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) president Abdulhadi Alkhawaja risks death for freedom. Current president Nabeel Rajab matches his commitment.

As a result, he's been repressively targeted. Several times he was arrested and tortured for exposing human rights abuses and expressing his views freely. On May 5, he was targeted again...

May 10 17:16

Syrian War - The Prequel: 2007 New Yorker Article Exposed US-Israeli-Saudi Conspiracy to Overthrow Assad

Tony Cartalucci, Contributor
Activist Post

- Muslim Brotherhood serves as the primary instrument of US, Israel, & Saudi Arabia.
- Lebanon was designated as staging ground to destabilize Syria with Sunni extremists.
- Saudi and Muslim Brotherhood anti-Israeli and American sentiments are feigned.
- US intelligence knew in advance unleashing Sunni extremists would result in genocide.
- Saudis and Americans admit Sunni extremists are under their control.

May 10 13:33

Cop Boots Pregnant Woman In Stomach; Dept. Says It's Fine

A Georgia cop is in the news for the third time in only seven months for kicking a pregnant woman in the stomach who was crying because her brother was just tasered.

May 10 09:43

Pentagon sending trainers back into Yemen

Things aren't going to well in Yemen and most of these so-called trainers are special ops people!

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Pentagon said Tuesday it is sending military trainers back to Yemen for "routine" counterterrorism cooperation with Yemeni security forces amid an intensified battle against an offshoot of the al-Qaida terror network.

"We have begun to reintroduce small numbers of trainers into Yemen," a Pentagon spokesman, Navy Capt. John Kirby, told reporters.

May 10 09:38

Destroyed Videos Showed US Torture Victim Vomiting and Screaming!

Anybody who reads this site knows who did 911! Mr.Rodriguez like all intelligent criminals thinks it's alright to cover up crimes he is complicit in.

New information on the torture of detainees in custody at CIA “black sites” has come to light, revealing that the videotaped torture of Abu Zubaydah, tapes destroyed in 2005 by the CIA, showed Zubaydah “vomiting and screaming” after being stripped naked and waterboarded.

Jose Rodriguez, the author of a new book defending the torture of suspects as a proud moment in American history, insisted that he was perfectly within his rights to order all of the videos of the torture to be destroyed.

May 10 09:33

Poll:US Opposition to Afghan War Hits New High

Opposition Levels Unseen Since Vietnam War!

A new AP/Gfk poll is showing that the trend of opposition to the Afghan War continues, with an overwhelming 66% of Americans now opposed to the conflict, with only 8 percent of Americans remaining “strongly” in support of it.

The AP compared the poll to a late 1971 poll on the Vietnam War, which showed 65% of Americans opposed to continuing that war. But while the US was slowly beginning its withdrawal from Vietnam at that time, President Obama is just one week off of signing a deal to keep US troops occupying Afghanistan through 2024.

May 10 08:50

Malaysia puts Bush, Cheney on 'trial' for war crimes

May 10 07:56

Fortress Britain? UK welcomes suspected war criminals

Some 200 suspected war criminals are roaming the streets of Britain, and of those, just three have been removed from the country over the past 18 months.

With crimes ranging from mass murder to torture and rape, these suspects cannot be sent back to their home countries because of EU human rights laws.

The fugitives – many of them asylum seekers – are mainly form Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Afghanistan, Iraq, Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe. More than 30 have been given the right to stay.

Human Rights groups say the Home Office figures, which were released under Freedom of Information rules, prove Britain is a "safe haven" for war criminals.

May 09 15:58

LA Police Officer Confronts CIA Director on Drug Trafficking

If you have been paying attention to the (alternative) news over the latest 24 to 48 hours, you probably read about a CIA plane that just crashed carrying tons of cocaine.

Of course that plane was supposed to be transporting prisoners to a secret torture prison but that is another topic.

Since we are talking about CIA drug trafficking, this video is relevant and should be shared for all Americans to see.

May 09 11:58

NYPD White Shirt Strikes Protestor In Throat With Baton For NO REASON

This CNN iReport shows an NYPD white shirt striking an Occupy Wall Street Protestor in the throat with his baton for no reason then arresting two random protestors for no reason.

May 09 08:23

Israel's High Court Rejects Justice

Stephen Lendman, Contributor
Activist Post

On May 8, hunger strikers Bilal Diab and Thaer Halahleh reached day 71.

On May 7, Israel's High Court ruled let 'em die. It rejected an urgent appeal to save them. They're uncharged political prisoners, not criminals.

Virtually all Palestinian prisoners are behind bars for political reasons. They resist in order to live free on their own land. International law permits it. Israel calls it terrorism.

Its High Court agrees. Justice hasn't a chance. Arab rights don't matter. Let 'em die...

May 08 16:08

Police beat up a mentally-ill homeless man to death

WARNING: this video contains graphic images

Manuel Ramos, a police officer from Fullerton, California, has been charged with second degree murder for allegedly beating a mentally-ill homeless person to death last year. His co-worker, Officer Jay Cicinelli, faces charges of involuntary manslaughter and excessive use of force. This video from a surveillance camera shows Kelly Thomas, the victim, pleading for his life while the officers beat him on the street.

May 08 10:27

US military, CIA out of control in Afghanistan'


Afghan president Hamid Karzai has warned that the recently signed strategic pact with the US is at risk of becoming "meaningless" if the people do not feel safe in the country. This comes after reports that four air strikes in recent days, carried out by international forces, left dozens of civilians dead.

May 07 15:30

DHS To Release Potential Superbug Cousin Of Anthrax In Boston Terror Drill

The DHS plans to release a cousin of the anthrax in Boston as part of a terror drill while known NDM enzymes in the area could turn the bacteria into a super bug.

May 07 13:31

Leaked Army Manual Reveals US Based War On Terror Concentration Camps

A leaked US Army Interment and Relocation Camp Manual reveals the government is preparing for mass US military concentration camp detentions.

May 07 11:53

US Army Civilian Population Internment and Resettlement Operations Manual

The US Army Field Manual No. 3-39.40 – Internment and Resettlement Operations of Civilians Populations reveals scary military plans to mass detain and relocate civilians

May 07 11:31

TV Propaganda Selling NDAA Illegal Detention Without a Trial in CBS Show NCIS

Do not be fooled by a prepackaged script given to actors selling the NDAA as reasonable for terrorist only. As you see the suspect is a white American and not a Muslim accused of blo0wing up a navy ship.What they do not tell you if the NDAA will be used for pre-crime. Regardless if a person is guilty or innocent. No person shall be deprived life, liberty or property without due process of law. Do not been fooled by actors reading from a script.

I talked with an NCIS agent in real life. What is on TV and the real world if entirely different. NCIS cannot by a push with a few strokes on a computer keyboard or with a phone call cannot get personal or financial information without a warrant signed by a judge. Nor do they have big screen TVs and a giant room.

May 07 10:33

Shock tactics: Treatment or torture?

Residents at the school carry small rucksacks, trailing wires that lead under their clothes and end in electrodes attached to their skin. Each rucksack contains a box, operated by staff members via remote control. When a button on the controller is pressed, a signal is sent generating a charge that delivers an electric shock to the skin. The teachers regularly inflict electric shocks on students, some as young as eight, zapping them for up to two seconds on their legs, arms or stomach.

Webmaster's Commentary: 

This use of shock treatment has become a major issue since Andre McCollins was strapped to a gurney and subjected to electro-shock therapy for hours, resulting in permanent brain damage.

Did I mention this is happening today, here in the United States!

May 07 09:25

Idiots volunteer to play roles in F.B.I. scripted terror plot

Over and over again, the F.B.I. writes the script, they cast idiots
to play the parts, and then bust their own terror plot with a big
show in the press.

Even the New York Times can't remember any recent terror plot
'busts' that DIDN'T involve the F.B.I. actually having to provide
the entire scenario, including the fake bombs.

They do this to keep the American public convinced that if we
don't give up our rights, if we don't accept government
transgressions and tyranny, then we will all be at the mercy of
terrorists.

Exactly like the Mafia protection racket with a better publicist...

May 07 08:57

Bahraini women and children are being raped and tortured

Uploaded by 91177info:

While UK PM David Cameron is supplying the Bahraini regime with arms to stop the protests and thus adding to these women's misery- http://www.presstv.ir/detail/196833.html

May 07 08:38

THE FRUITS OF BRUTALITY

On Friday, 4th May, Israel’s channel 2 revealed that Israeli occupation army appointed Lt. Col. Eisner, who attacked a Danish ISM activist in the face with his rifle at the end of the confrontation on April 14, as a deputy commander of the Tactical Training Center in Tze’elim.

In his new position, Eisner will be responsible for training battalions of infantry and armor in battlefield simulations.

A Hebrew-language newspaper reported that through a private conversation taped by a third part and was broadcasted on Channel 10, Israeli officers and students from the military school supported Eisner.

May 07 07:51

The U.S. Internment Camp: Prison for a New American Century

A newly uncovered Army document details U.S. internment camps on American soil.

Ryan Cummings, Contributor
Activist Post

The topic of civilian internment camps in the United States has been largely dismissed as a paranoid “conspiracy theory” by the mainstream media. Recent legislation and newly uncovered government documents, however, reveal the sad truth: The United States is quickly descending into a full-blown authoritarian police state.

NDAA 2012: Patriot Act Part Two
On December 31, 2011, while the majority of Americans were busy watching balls drop and drinking themselves into oblivion, President Obama quietly signed into law the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012. This unprecedented legislation effectively codified the executive branch’s authority to indefinitely detain American citizens without trial, stripping them of their Constitutional right to due process and habeas corpus.

May 07 06:42

Plan by the Army to intern U.S. Civilians who speak out against the Government

Think we still live in a free country? Get this out. As many people as possible. Save it, print it, make this go viral. Else this is what is planned for everybody who speaks out against the government, a blatant violation of the 1st Amendment.

May 07 03:00

'Undercover Israeli combatants threw stones at IDF soldiers in West Bank'

Undercover soldiers hurled stones in the "general direction" of IDF soldiers as part of their activity to counter weekly demonstrations in the Palestinian village of Bil'in, the commander of the Israeli Prison Service's elite "Masada" unit revealed during his recent testimony in the trial of MK Mohammed Barakeh (Hadash).

May 06 09:08

TV Propaganda Selling NDAA Illegal Detention Without Trial in CBS Show NCIS

Do not be fooled by a prepackaged script given to actors selling the NDAA as reasonable for terrorist only. As you see the suspect is a white American and not a Muslim accused of blo0wing up a navy ship.What they do not tell you if the NDAA will be used for pre-crime. Regardless if a person is guilty or innocent. No person shall be deprived life, liberty or property without due process of law. Do not been fooled by actors reading from a script.

I talked with an NCIS agent in real life. What is on TV and the real world if entirely different. NCIS cannot by a push with a few strokes on a computer keyboard or with a phone call cannot get personal or financial information without a warrant signed by a judge. Nor do they have big screen TVs and a giant room.

May 06 07:28

TV Propaganda Selling NDAA in CBS Show NCIS

Do not be fooled by a prepackaged script given to actors selling the NDAA as reasonable for terrorist only. As you see the suspect is a white American and not a Muslim accused of blo0wing up a navy ship.What they do not tell you if the NDAA will be used for pre-crime. Regardless if a person is guilty or innocent. No person shall be deprived life, liberty or property without due process of law. Do not been fooled by actors reading from a script.

I talked with an NCIS agent in real life. WHat is on TV and the real world if entirely different. NCIS cannot by a push with a few strokes on a computer keyboard or with a phone call cannot get personal or financial information without a warrant signed by a judge. Nor do they have big screen TVs and a giant room.

May 05 08:01

U.S.-Afghan Pact ‘Does Not Rule Out Drone Strikes’

KABUL — The pact between the United States and Afghanistan could leave the door open for continued drone strikes against insurgent targets in Pakistan after 2014, U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker indicated May 2.

May 05 07:02

The President’s Private War

Did you know that the United States government is using drones to kill innocent people in Pakistan? Did you know that the Pakistani government has asked President Obama to stop it and he won't? Did you know that Pakistan is a sovereign country that has nuclear weapons and is an American ally?

Last week, the Obama administration not only acknowledged the use of the drones; it also revealed that it has plans to increase the frequency and ferocity of the attacks.

May 05 02:07

Child witnesses to Afghan massacre say Robert Bales was not alone

Here are two versions of what happened the night of March 11, when 17 Afghan villagers were shot to death.
First, the Army version: Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, troubled by marriage woes, drunkenly left Camp Belambai, 12 miles from Kandahar, with a pistol and an automatic rifle and killed six people as they slept. Bales then returned to the base and left again for another village, this time killing 11. He acted alone and he admitted to the killings, according to the Army.
Then there is the account that child witnesses provided Yalda Hakim, a journalist for SBS Dateline in Australia. Hakim, who was born in Afghanistan and immigrated to Australia as a child, is the first international journalist to interview the surviving witnesses. She said American investigators tried to prevent her from interviewing the children, saying her questions could traumatize them. She said she appealed to village leaders, who arranged for her to interview the witnesses.

May 05 00:56

Guantanamo Prisoners Back In Court

Guantanamo prisoners charged in Sept. 11 attacks back in court as long-stalled case resumes

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba — The self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks and four alleged co-conspirators will appear in public for the first time in more than three years, when U.S. officials start a second attempt at what is likely to be a drawn out legal battle that could lead to the men’s executions.

(*and if they don't say what the court wants to hear , it's back to the waterboards for them .
"Did we get bin Laden in Pakistan last year , and deep six his carcass ?"
"SPLASH" "glub-glub-glub gurgle-gurgle-gurgle ,
YES!" )

May 04 22:32

Nuclear Threat from Germany : Missing Submarine AND Nuclear Weapon (May 3, 2012)

A nuclear weapon that wasn’t supposed to exist, a single 500 kiloton hydrogen bomb, one of four being tracked, was seen being loaded at the German port of Bemerhaven, Germany.

Attempts to track the sub in the busy harbour were in vain and it is unknown what the nationality of the crew were or the destination, whether the UK, the US or some place in the Middle East.
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/04/30/raw-reports-nuclear-threat-fro...

May 04 15:01

WAR ON DRUGS: DEA “Forgets” Man In Holding Cell For 5 Days Without Food or Water

Chong said he was at a friend’s house in University City celebrating 4/20, a day many marijuana users set aside to smoke, when agents came inside and raided the residence. Chong was then taken to the DEA office in Kearny Mesa. He said agents questioned him, and then told him he could go home. One agent even offered him a ride, Chong said. No criminal charges were filed against him. But Chong did not go home that night. Instead, he was placed in a cell for five days without any human contact and was not given food or drink. In his desperation, he said he was forced to drink his own urine.

May 04 14:46

Intimidated, detained and tortured: false Imprisonment in Ethiopia

Graham Peebles calls on the international community, especially donor nations, to take action against the Meles Zenawi regime in Ethiopia, including freezing personal assets and imposing targeted sanctions, to force it to end its gross human rights violations.

May 03 07:18

Israeli treatment of hunger strikers 'appals' UN expert

A UN expert has said he is appalled by the "continuing human rights violations in Israeli prisons", as Palestinian inmates continue a mass hunger strike.

May 02 10:29

CASTING STONES AT OPERATION CAST LEAD

Israel’s military prosecution announced Tuesday that no legal steps will be taken against those responsible for the killing of 21 members of the Samouni family during the 2009 Operation Cast Lead in Gaza.

May 02 10:29

Israel closes inquiry into Palestinian family killed during Gaza war

Military says no action will be taken against soldiers responsible for shelling that killed 21 members of the Samouni family in 2009

Apr 28 07:40

Torture Cheerleaders Back In the News Trying to Defend the Indefensible

The so-called “debate” about whether torture helped to keep us safe is reemerging, as the former chief of CIA clandestine operations Jose Rodriguez is about to publish a book claiming that the use of “enhanced interrogation” practices including water-boarding saved lives.

“We made some al-Qaeda terrorists with American blood on their hands uncomfortable for a few days,” Rodriguez said in an interview with CBS News’ “60 Minutes” that will air on Sunday, April 29. “I am very secure in what we did and am very confident that what we did saved American lives.”

Webmaster's Commentary: 

One has to wonder how this Jose Rodriguez would feel about any members of any of the "alphabet soup"-named agencies using "enhanced interrogation techniques" on people he cares about to extract "actionable information".

And that is just the point; torture is NOT about extracting actionable information. It is about getting someone to confess to a pre-ordained list of acts which are necessary for the torturers' agendas, as we have known from the times of the Catholic Inquisition.

And when the US either tortures directly or outsources torture, it does the following:

1. It causes every public representative abroad to get jeered or worse, when they talk about the American love for freedom and basic human rights, because people understand that the US government practices those values in the breach, not in the observance of them.

2. It gives every foreign government which is hostile to the US carte blanche to torture any American civilian or military member. And to those who have family or friends in the military, please chew on that for a while.

Apr 27 17:04

Torture Cheerleaders Back In the News Trying to Defend the Indefensible

We will quote the top American military and intelligence interrogation experts to debunk the following 9 common myths about torture:

1. Torture is a partisan issue

2. Waterboarding isn’t torture

3. Torture is necessary to break hardened terrorists

4. Torture is necessary in a “ticking time bomb” situation

5. The “enhanced” interrogation techniques were aimed at producing actionable intelligence

6. Torture helped to get Bin Laden

7. Torture provided valuable details regarding 9/11

8. Only bad guys were tortured

9. America doesn’t torture any more

Apr 27 07:48

Enhanced Interrogation Techniques: Little Evidence That Harsh Treatment Used By CIA Produced Any Counter-Terrorism Breakthroughs

A nearly three-year-long investigation by Senate Intelligence Committee Democrats is expected to find there is little evidence the harsh "enhanced interrogation techniques" the CIA used on high-value prisoners produced counter-terrorism breakthroughs.

Webmaster's Commentary: 

A spokes-slug for the CIA is on CNN right now insisting that waterboarding produced useful data, but of course since that data is classified, he cannot tell us what it is.

Apr 26 08:30

AP: US Soldiers Promised Massacre, Including Children, Days Before Bales' Alleged Rampage

In a striking omission to mainstream coverage of the Afghan massacre which took the lives of 17 Afghans including many children, one as young as two, the AP has reported that US soldiers came to their villages after a roadside bombing two days before and promised retaliation. The Pentagon has denied that any bombing took place, putting it in direct contradiction to the attorney for Sgt. Robert Bales, who alone is being accused of the rampage.

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Collective punishment as revenge is a war crime.

Apr 26 08:18

Obama Clears The Military To Kill Almost Anyone By Drone In Yemen

The President is now allowing the CIA and the military to launch drone strikes against targets in Yemen without actually knowing who will be killed in the attack.

Apr 25 10:27

The boy, 16, sitting with me in these photos was protesting against deadly US drone strikes... Three days later he was killed – by a US drone, says Jemima Khan

He was there to join a protest about the plague of American ‘drones’ – the remote-controlled aircraft that have left a bloody trail of death and fury among the innocent villagers who struggle to earn a living in the unforgiving mountainous region.

I was there to distribute digital cameras so that the people from Waziristan could record the damage and death caused by the drones, as part of a campaign to prove that innocent civilians are dying.

Tariq, a keen amateur photographer, was given one of the cameras before he left to return home.

Three days later he was dead. Like his cousin, who had died in April 2010 and whose identity card he clutched when we met, he was blown to pieces by a drone strike. The appalling irony of how his young life ended will stay with me for ever.

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Apr 25 07:30

Robert Fisk: The Children of Fallujah - Sayef's story

Many of the Fallujah families whose children have been born with what doctors call "congenital birth anomalies" prefer to keep their doors closed to strangers, regarding their children as a mark of personal shame rather than possible proof that something terrible took place here after the two great American battles against insurgents in the city in 2004, and another conflict in 2007.

After at first denying the use of phosphorous shells during the second battle of Fallujah, US forces later admitted that they had fired the munitions against buildings in the city. Independent reports have spoken of a birth-defect rate in Fallujah far higher than other areas of Iraq, let alone other Arab countries.

Apr 24 07:07

Unplugging Americans From the Matrix

China is often a country about which Washington’s moralists get on their high horse. However, China’s “authoritarian” government is actually more responsive to its people than America’s “elected democratic” government. Moreover, however incomplete on paper the civil liberties of China’s people, the Chinese government has not declared that it can violate with impunity whatever rights Chinese citizens have. And it is not China that is running torture prisons all over the globe.

Apr 23 10:09

FINDING SOME COMIC RELIEF IN ISRAELI SOLDIER’S VIOLENCE

Looking back at the actions of the terrorist Israeli soldier, his supposed broken pinky and the limp as he walks makes one wonder if the IDF hands out awards for ‘Best actor of the year’. If so, it’s Eisner, hands down.

Apr 19 09:56

Supreme Court: Organizations Can't Be Sued for Torture

oreign political organizations like the Palestinian Liberation Organization and multinational corporations cannot be sued for the torture or murder of persons abroad, including Americans, under the terms of a 1991 U.S. anti-torture law, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously Wednesday.

Only individual perpetrators of such crimes can be held liable, the court said.

Apr 19 08:29

US trains terrorists in Kuwait camps

The United States military has been training terrorists in a military base in Kuwait, preparing them for attacks in the Middle Eastern countries.

The recruits are sent to the “Arifjan” base where they receive military training and learn methods of bombing and terror operations within a three month period, according to reports.

The US military then sends the trained terrorists as ringleaders to countries such as Iran, Iraq and Syria to set up terror networks inside these countries and embark on terrorist activities and carry out acts of sabotage with the support of Saudi Arabia and Qatar.

Apr 18 07:37

Department of Waco Justice

This website is dedicated to the good people who tragically lost their lives at Mount Carmel 19 years ago in Waco, Texas - February 28th through April 19th, 1993.

Webmaster's Commentary: 

Tomorrow is Patriot's Day, and the 19th anniversary of the day the US Government gassed a church full of women and children to death with a poison gas that is illegal to use on enemy soldiers, burned the place to the ground, bulldozed the remains, then blamed the victims for it all. See also, "Waco - Who Fired First?"

Apr 17 10:45

Leaked CIA memo exposes US terror suspect torture as 'war crimes'

The US is refraining from defining waterboarding and other questionable interrogation methods it used to apply to terrorist suspects as torture, possibly with a view to using them once again someday.

Years after the Bush administration left office, many feel President Obama is not doing enough to make up for America's past mistakes. This includes torture treatment of terrorist suspects by the US investigators.

Such torture techniques include waterboarding, stress positions and other methods of interrogation welcomed into American secret service after 9/11 paved the way for the War on Terror.

wo weeks before taking office, US President Barack Obama steered clear of citing America’s historic commitments to international justice.

Webmaster's Commentary: 

As we have known from the time of the Catholic Inquisition, torture is not about getting the truth: torture is about getting a suspect to confess to a crime or crimes they most likely have never committed.

Apr 17 07:31

American Muslim Alleges FBI Had A Hand In His Torture Overseas

Fikre had been visiting family in Khartoum, Sudan, when, in April 2010, the officials got in touch with him. He agreed to meet with them, but ultimately balked at cooperating with FBI questioning without a lawyer present and he rebuffed a request to become an informant. Pressing him to cooperate, the agents told him he was on the no-fly list and could not return home unless he aided the bureau, Fikre says.

Apr 16 07:30

No plan to end drone strikes in Pakistan: US officials

The White House has no intention to end CIA drone strikes against terrorists targets on Pakistani soil, US officials say, possibly setting the two countries up for diplomatic tensions after Pakistan’s parliament unanimously approved new guidelines for the country’s troubled relationship with the United States.

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Apr 15 10:20

Obama’s Guantanamo “war court” in session

The lawyers argued that, thus shackled, Nashiri was unable to participate in preparing his defense because it revived the trauma of being similarly shackled during the years of torture to which he was subjected while in CIA custody.

The motive for preventing the airing of these issues is clear. A heavily redacted 2004 CIA inspector general’s report provides an indication of the criminal methods to which Nashiri was subjected. The report acknowledges that Nashiri was waterboarded 83 times, a form of induced drowning which was prosecuted as a war crime after the Second World War.

Webmaster's Commentary: 

As the world has known from the time of the Spanish inquisition, torture is not used to reveal the truth, but to exact confessions to a pre-ordained set of charges.

In this country, before it became a post-Constitutional republic, we had a way of dealing with the alleged "worst of the worst"; it was a trial by jury, in a court of law, where evidence was presented by prosecution and defense council, and a verdict was ultimately rendered by a jury.

Torture is inhumane, despicable, reprehensible, and ultimately unnecessary, in any country where the rule of law applies.

Unfortunately, we no longer live in a country ruled by law, but a country ruled by very well dressed, and very wealthy, despots.

But when the US government tortures, anywhere, it completely destroys the credibility of any US spokesperson talking about the American love for justice, human rights, and the rule of law, because you don't even have to be cynical to understand that the leadership of this country practices the absolute opposite of these values.

And also, when the US government tortures, (or "outsources" torture), it gives other countries carte blanche to do precisely the same to any US military member or any US civilian.

Please think about that for a while, particularly if you have family or friends serving overseas.

And if you don't think that the US government isn't still using torture, because President Obama claimed the US government is not torturing people, you had better think again.

A new report reveals that US forces continue to send detainees to prisons where torture is practiced, despite NATO's promise to suspend prison transfers last September. ­The report carried out by the Afghan Independent Rights Commission and the Open Society Foundation documents numerous cases of torture in Afghan detention facilities between February 2011 and January 2012. The document has credible evidence in 11 recent cases where practices such as “beatings, suspension from the ceiling, electric shocks, threatened or actual sexual abuse, and other forms of mental and physical abuse” were commonplace. Researchers also discovered widespread violations of prisoners’ rights were in evidence, “including the right to counsel and family notification.” According to the study, these techniques are “routinely used to obtain confessions or other information.” Abuses were found to be committed both in Afghan National Police facilities (ANP) and the National Directorate of Security facilities (NDS).

Apr 13 09:02

The war on terror is corrupting all it touches

On Monday the BBC Panorama programme substantiated an extraordinary allegation that suggested how far the war on terror has descended into legal abyss. The claim was that MI6 rolled the pitch for Tony Blair's bizarre 2004 hug-in with Libya's Colonel Gaddafi by apparently arranging for the CIA to kidnap Gaddafi's opponent in exile, Abdel Hakim Belhaj. He was seized in Bangkok, where he and his wife were en route to Britain. It's been suggested they were "rendered" via the British colony of Diego Garcia to Tajoura jail in Tripoli. Belhaj spent six years, and his wife four and a half months, at the tender mercies of Gaddafi's security boss, Moussa Koussa. Belhaj's pregnant wife was taped like a mummy on a stretcher, and he was systematically tortured.

Apr 10 09:33

Perverts in Power: The Torture-Lovers Who Rule Us

As we noted here recently, these torture-renditions are by no means at an end. They thrive under the leadership of Barack Obama and David Cameron just as vigorously as they did under Bush and Blair.

So why does it happen? Why are innocent pregnant women wrapped in tape, why are children abducted, why are innocent people strung up in "stress positions," why are captives beaten, bombarded with brain-scrambling noise, stripped naked and sexually humiliated, drugged, deprived of sleep, threatened with murder -- and sometimes murdered in fact? Why is this being done by official representatives of the governments of the United States and the United Kingdom?

Webmaster's Commentary: 

It is more than a little unnerving to understand, with absolute clarity, that the last several US Presidents have been unindicted war criminals.

And that absolutely doesn't augur well for the future of this country.

Apr 10 06:57

MI6 and a £1m 'bribe' to silence torture victim: Spies gave up dissident to Gaddafi thugs

MI6 chiefs plan to offer more than £1million hush money to a Libyan who claims British spies sent him to be tortured by the Gaddafi regime.

The Secret Intelligence Service is ‘scrambling’ to prevent Abdel Hakim Belhadj releasing details of his case following the revelation that a Labour minister sanctioned his extraordinary rendition – contravening UK policy on torture.

Senior Whitehall sources say SIS bosses are willing to pay ‘whatever it takes’ to silence Mr Belhadj, who is now a senior official in the Libyan transitional government.

Webmaster's Commentary: 

Stay out of small planes, Abdul!

Apr 10 06:51

DRONE WARFARE: MURDER BY JOYSTICK

Apr 05 09:47

DEA Busts US Soldiers Smuggling To Weapons, Drugs To Mexico Cartels

One of the most bizarre DEA stings to date and one which may have links to government protected overseas drug-running operations.

Apr 05 07:45

CIA Committed 'War Crimes,' Bush Official Says

A top adviser to former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice warned the Bush administration that its use of “cruel, inhuman or degrading” interrogation techniques like waterboarding were “a felony war crime.”

What’s more, newly obtained documents reveal that State Department counselor Philip Zelikow told the Bush team in 2006 that using the controversial interrogation techniques were “prohibited” under U.S. law — “even if there is a compelling state interest asserted to justify them.”

Webmaster's Commentary: 

The US Federal Government will never have to demonstrate one shred of moral conscience again in its existence, thanks for the "unholy trinity" of Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld who defiled some the highest offices in this country with their justification of the use of torture, and their worship at the altar of corporate gain above all else.

And of course, President Obama, who is cut from precisely the same sociopathic cloth as are these men, declared that we, as a nation, had to look "forward, not backward" and away from the ruinous damage they had inflicted, not only to countries like Iraq and Afghanistan, but also, to the moral fiber of this country.

After his inauguration, Obama became not only the country's Commander in Chief, but also assumed the position of a new kind of commander, the "Enabler in Chief", soothingly assuring US citizens that "everything was quite all right, and there was nothing to really worry about" concerning the crimes perpetrated under Bush's watch.

Unfortunately, on this issue, President Obama has been utterly, shamefully, and deeply morally wrong.

The reality that there have been no prosecutions of any of the members of the Bush administration for torture and crimes against humanity, demonstrates, clearly, that we are no longer a nation of laws, but a nation of "national postures" to be justified and rationalized, whenever convenient, no matter the cost to our deeply-enshrined and respectful understanding of American justice and due process.

So welcome, my friends, to a Post-Constitutional Republic; where those freedoms and guarantees which used to be secured by the Constitution and Bill of Rights no longer exist; where indefinite detention without due process, and extrajudicial assassinations of American citizens, and yes - even torture - have been institutionalized and "sanitized" - for our alleged protection.

There now: doesn't that make you feel more safe already?!?

Apr 05 07:33

CIA Committed ‘War Crimes,’ Bush Official Says

A top adviser to former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice warned the Bush administration that its use of “cruel, inhuman or degrading” interrogation techniques like waterboarding were “a felony war crime.”

What’s more, newly obtained documents reveal that State Department counselor Philip Zelikow told the Bush team in 2006 that using the controversial interrogation techniques were “prohibited” under U.S. law — “even if there is a compelling state interest asserted to justify them.”

Apr 05 07:03

FLASHBACK - WACO - Who Shot First?

Contrary to the image of a dangerous gun nut put out in the media in an effort to justify the burning of the church, official BATF records prove that David Koresch was rather harmless, so much so that the BATF agents invited him to go shooting with them just 9 days before they raided the church. Koresch supplied the ammunition. The BATF agents allowed Koresch to try out their weapons.

Webmaster's Commentary: 

The US Government justifies interventions in countries like Syria with the claim "They are murdering innocent people." Yet the US Government does not have a blemish-free history, having tried to stage a publicity-seeking raid then when that turned into a PR disaster, gassing a church full of innocent women and children to death with a poison gas that is illegal to use on enemy troops, then tried to cover it up by claiming mass suicide, then bulldozing the remains and burying the remains in a secret location. Thus, the US Government lacks the moral right to point fingers at anyone.

Apr 04 19:36

Britain’s Mad-House Foreign Policy

The best and cheapest way of protecting our national security is simply to eject the madmen from the Foreign Office and stop pimping for the US and its mad-dog protegé.

Let’s see how quickly the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), with Mr Bellingham’s help, can get their skates on and straighten out the simple matter of Palestine’s status so that Israel’s strutting psychopaths can finally be brought to book.

Apr 04 15:50

9/11 Terror Suspects To Stand Trial In Guantanamo

Five men accused of planning and executing the 9/11 terrorist attacks face the death penalty in a Guantanamo war crimes tribunal.

Apr 04 15:39

Man Who Was Waterboarded 183 Times, Confesses Complete Responsibility for 9/11 and Will Be Executed.

It was reported on BBC News tonight that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others will be charged with orchestrating the September 11 attacks.

What the report omitted to say was that many sources, including the New York Times (could any institution be less anti-establishment?), reported in April 2009 that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed had been waterboarded 183 times in Guantanano Bay.

The BBC report went on to say, rather comically in the circumstances, was that "Khalid Sheikh Mohammed admits everything relating to the 9/11 attacks from A to Z."

I like to think that this blog specialises in stating the obvious but here is something SO obvious that it does not need stating.

How long will we and our useless, zombified representatives continue to put up with this stuff?

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"Evidence linking these Israelis to 9/11 is classified. I cannot tell you about evidence that has been gathered. It's classified information." -- US official quoted in Carl Cameron's Fox News report on the Israeli spy ring and its connections to 9-11.

Apr 04 14:49

Israel set to uproot 30,000 of its own Bedouin citizens

Neve Gordon explains why Israel's plans to move entire communities of its own Bedouin citizens from their ancestral lands in the Negev and put them in townships will deprive them of their livelihood and land rights.

”I asked Abu Afash what he thinks will happen if they do not reach an agreement with the government. He paused for a moment and then replied that … ‘they will not put us on buses and move us, they will simply shut down the schools and wait. When we see we cannot send our children to school we will “willingly" move’.

“This is how forced relocation becomes voluntary and how Israel will likely represent it to the world.” (Neve Gordon)

Apr 04 14:44

Today is April 4th . . . Happy George Orwell Day!

"In small clumsy letters he wrote: April 4th, 1984."

"His pen had slid voluptuously over the smooth paper, printing in large neat capitals -

DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER

DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER

DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER

DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER

DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER

over and over again, filling half a page." ~ 1984

Apr 04 13:56

Al Jazeera Smuggled Satellite Communication Tools To Syria Rebel

A former Al Jazeera correspondent reveals the news outlet smuggled Satellite internet and phone communication tools to the Syria rebels through Lebanon.

Apr 04 13:27

Flashback: John Yoo Says President Bush Can Legally Torture Children : Crushing Child’s Testicles Part of War on Terror

John Yoo – Presidential Powers Extend to Ordering Torture of Suspect's Child

Apr 04 12:03

US Mercenaries Intervening In Syria - Leaked Emails

Leaked emails show that US Mercenaries are working with armed terrorists in Syria to overthrow Assad at the request of and under air cover of US officials.

Apr 04 10:44

Guidebook To False Confessions: US Torture Manual Released

The timeline of how we went from a nation of liberty to one of forced false confessions revealed in release of the key document the US used to justify torture.

Apr 04 10:39

"Guidebook to False Confessions": Key Document John Yoo Used to Draft Torture Memo Released

Air Force Col. Steven Kleinman, a career military intelligence officer recognized as one of the DOD's most effective interrogators as well a former SERE instructor and director of intelligence for JPRA's teaching academy, said he immediately knew the true value of the PREAL manual if employed as part of an interrogation program.

"This is the guidebook to getting false confessions, a system drawn specifically from the communist interrogation model that was used to generate propaganda rather than intelligence," Kleinman said in an interview. "If your goal is to obtain useful and reliable information this is not the source book you should be using."

Webmaster's Commentary: 

So, let me wrap my head around this: US agencies signed off on torture methods in order to gain false confessions which were of absolutely no use to them in discerning where clear and present danger existed, to create confessions to adhere to a pre-determined outcome?!?

The reason many of our prisoners of war( forgive me, the terminology almost slipped my mind; "enemy combatants", currently warehoused at Guantanamo without due process)will never be released is that water-boarding wasn't the worst thing done to them in order to extract these false confessions.

Apr 04 08:47

Memo shows US official disagreed with Bush administration's view on torture

A memo about harsh interrogation techniques shows that a former US state department official strongly dissented from the Bush administration's secret legal view in 2005 that an international treaty against torture did not apply to CIA interrogations in foreign countries.

Until now, the February 2006 analysis by Philip Zelikow has been a high-level, classified internal critique of the Bush administration's controversial interrogation policies. At the time he wrote his criticism, Zelikow was secretary of state Condoleezza Rice's representative on terrorism issues to the national security council's deputies committee.

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"We agree that torture is bad ... unless we decide otherwise!" -- Official White Horse Souse

Apr 04 07:32

Hafiz Saeed dares US to take him out like Osama

A combative Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, Jamaat-ud-Dawah chief, on Wednesday dared the US to carry out a military raid against him like the one that killed Osama bin Laden, saying he was not hiding and would inform the Americans himself about his whereabouts.

Saeed made the remarks while addressing a news conference with other leaders of the Defa-e-Pakistan Council (DPC) at Flashman Hotel in the garrison city of Rawalpindi, located a short distance from the Pakistan Army's General Headquarters.

This is his first press conference after American administration offered a reward of 10 million dollars for him on Monday.

Apr 02 08:04

Survivors of Kandahar villages massacre speak to western journalist

Yalda Hakim of Australia’s SBS network is the first western journalist to visit the villages of Kandahar, Afghanistan, where 17 people were killed in a massacre this month.

Survivors of the attack allege that there was not simply one “rogue soldier”, US Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, the story the mainstream media is peddling; instead, the survivors, some of whom are children, claim there were more soldiers present that bloody morning

“Do you know where your father is?” a voice off-screen asks.
“He died”, replies the small Afghan child.

“How did he die?”
“The Americans.”

Apr 01 08:08

CIA Secret Prison: Polish Leaders Break Silence About Black Site

For years, the notion that Poland could allow the CIA to operate a secret prison in a remote lake region was treated as a crackpot idea by the country's politicians, journalists and the public.

A heated political debate this week reveals how dramatically the narrative has changed.

In a string of revelations and political statements, Polish leaders have come closer than ever to acknowledging that the United States ran a secret interrogation facility for terror suspects in 2002 and 2003 in the Eastern European country.

Mar 31 07:58

Afghan killings inquiries 'hampered'

The lawyer for Staff Sergeant Robert Bales, the U.S. soldier accused of killing 17 Afghan civilians, is accusing U.S. authorities of blocking his investigations into the incident. John Henry Browne says his team has been prevented from interviewing wounded civilian witnesses at a Kandahar hospital.

Mar 30 22:54

Child witnesses to Afghan massacre say Robert Bales was not alone

In the video, the children told Hakim that other Americans were present during the rampage, holding flashlights in the yard.

Noorbinak, 8, told Hakim that the shooter first shot her father’s dog. Then, Noorbinak said in the video, he shot her father in the foot and dragged her mother by the hair. When her father started screaming, he shot her father, the child says. Then he turned the gun on Noorbinak and shot her in the leg.

“One man entered the room and the others were standing in the yard, holding lights,” Noorbinak said in the video.

A brother of one victim told Hakim that his brother’s children mentioned more than one soldier wearing a headlamp. They also had lights at the end of their guns, he said.

Mar 25 10:49

Afghanistan Crimes: Absolving Higher-Ups

Murder anywhere is bad enough. Nuremberg chief prosecutor Robert Jackson called preemptive aggressive war killing "the supreme international crime against peace."

Convicted Nazi war criminals were hanged. American ones keep killing with impunity.

On March 11, up to 20 US Special Forces (trained killers) murdered 16 Afghan civilians, including nine children aged 2 - 12 while they slept. Two women were also raped before soldiers killed them. Bodies of all victims were then burned to conceal evidence.

It wasn't an isolated incident. It happens regularly in all US wars. Rarely is anyone held accountable, especially responsible parties up the chain of command to the top.

Mar 19 09:19

US forces raped two women in Kandahar carnage: Probe mission

The Afghan parliamentary mission investigating the recent massacre of 16 civilians by US forces in Afghanistan says two women were raped during the deadly incident, Press TV reports.

Two members of the fact-finding mission, Hamidzi Lali and Shakila Hashemi, told the general meeting of Afghanistan’s parliament on Saturday that the American troopers raped two Afghan women before starting the massacre.

They said between 15 to 20 US soldiers were involved in the carnage.

Mar 19 07:52

Up to 20 US Troops Behind Kandahar Bloodbath – Afghan Probe

The team of Afghan lawmakers has spent two days collating reports from witnesses, survivors and inhabitants of the villages where the tragedy took place.

“We are convinced that one soldier cannot kill so many people in two villages within one hour at the same time, and the 16 civilians, most of them children and women, have been killed by the two groups,” investigator Hamizai Lali told Afghan News.

Lali also said their investigations led them to believe 15 to 20 US soldiers had been involved in the killings. He appealed to the international community to ensure that the responsible parties were brought to justice, stressing the Afghan parliament would not rest until the killers were prosecuted.

Mar 17 15:36

Reader Photos - Military Base Entry/Exit Gates

Attached are pictures from when I/we were deployed to Kuwait at Camp Navistar. Not "good" ones, but it should give an idea of how gates
hard it would be to walk off a post. Those on guard duty should also be held accountable.

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More reasons to doubt the official "lone nut" story of the massacre in Afghanistan.

Mar 17 09:39

White House Says Child Soldiers Are Ok, if They Fight Terrorists

The administration stunned human rights groups last month by sidestepping a commitment to help countries curb the military exploitation of children. Josh Rogin at Foreign Policy reported that President Obama issued a presidential memorandum granting waivers from the Child Soldiers Prevention Act to four countries: Chad, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan and Yemen. The memo instructed Secretary of State Hilary Clinton that it is in our “national interest” to continue extending military aid to those countries, despite their failure to comply with the rules Congress passed and George W. Bush signed in 2008.

Mar 17 08:41

Up to 20 US troops executed Panjwai massacre: probe

A parliamentary probe team on Thursday said up to 20 American troops were involved in Sunday’s killing of 16 civilians in southern Kandahar province.

Mar 16 12:26

Aiding Terrorism Redefined To Include Bradley Manning, Wikileaks

Point of no return: The US government broadens the NDAA definition of people and organizations that support terrorism to include Bradley Manning and Wikileaks

Mar 16 12:23

CIA: We Do Not “Concede or Not Concede” that Waterboarding is Illegal

Even though Obama has declared it illegal and the US has even prosecuted it as a war crime, the CIA argues that waterboarding is a classified intelligence gathering method not subject to FOIA

Mar 14 07:47

Video confirms lone shooter in Afghan civilian massacre

The U.S. soldier who allegedly shot 16 Afghan villagers was caught on surveillance video that showed him walking up to his base, laying down his weapon and raising his arms in surrender, according to an Afghan official who viewed the footage.

The official said late Tuesday that U.S. authorities showed Afghan authorities the surveillance video to prove that only one perpetrator was involved in the Sunday shootings, which have further strained already shaky relations between the U.S. and Afghanistan.

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All the video shows is one guy surrendering. That proves nothing.

Mar 14 07:04

CIA: We Do Not "Concede or Not Concede" that Waterboarding is Illegal

On Friday, the ACLU appeared before the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals in New York to argue that the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requires the CIA to release documents describing its use of waterboarding. The simple question at the heart of the hearing was this: is waterboarding an "intelligence method" that can be protected from disclosure under FOIA? We argued that the answer — of course not — is easy because even the president himself has declared that waterboarding is illegal. Exposing official misconduct to public scrutiny is the chief purpose of FOIA. But it cannot serve that purpose if even officially confirmed illegality is protectable.

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Unflipping believable!!

Mar 14 05:30

KONY 2012 Psy-Op Collapsing

Invisible Children disables comments on viral propaganda video + meet the real Joseph Kony.

Tony Cartalucci, Contributing Writer
Activist Post

As the US State Department, USAID-centric Invisible Children psy-op KONY 2012 collapses, Invisible Children has disabled comments on their viral YouTube video.

When last checked, negative comments were voted to the top and a cascading effect of skepticism as well as damning facts began drowning out the initial confusion, sympathy, and emotional knee-jerk support the propaganda video purposefully created and preyed upon...

Mar 13 16:05

'Presidential Secrets'--Former Operative Chip Tatum Speaks

LATEST UPDATE: Chip's tortured body was reported to have washed up on a beach in Panama in early 2007.

Mar 13 09:19

See a Fox News Reporter Get Zapped by Military’s Wild New ‘Heat Ray’ - Vehicle-Mounted Active Denial System (V-MADS)

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Mar 13 08:11

White House: US Won’t Change Strategy in Occupation of Afghanistan

With the weekend massacre of Afghan civilians bringing yet more anger at the US-led occupation forces, the White House today announced that it will not change any of its policies or objectives related to the conflict.

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Mar 12 17:55

Here's another report citing "American soldiers" killing civilians if Afghanistan.

Lalai also rejected US officials' claims that the killings was executed by a single mentally unstable soldier since it was carried out five kilometers away from the US military base and he later returned to his base after the incident.

Another MP from Kandahar, Mullah Syed Mohammad Akhund, said that US troops intentionally carried out the attack.

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This is starting to feel like a deliberate propaganda operation!

The nature of the murders, including 9 children, seems almost designed to provoke the maximum shock and anger among the Afghan people.

There are two possible reasons for doing this.

The first is to provoke violence among the Afghan people as a justification to renege on the promise to get American troops out of Afghanistan by 2014. But to be honest, this seems weak.

So, that leaves "Plan B". The US and Israel want war with Iran but cannot get public support. Clearly a false flag of some kind is needed, but as always, the first question people will ask when something goes "Bang" is why the nation being framed for the false-flag would do something that will bring on the very war they wish to avoid. This massacre in Afghanistan may be a manufactured event so when the false-flag happens, the media can claim it is retaliation for the murder of 9 children, then condemn the "over-reaction" to the death of 9 children (meaning the false-flag will be something really major) and launch a "retaliatory" strike.

Mar 12 09:37

US military unveils non-lethal heat ray weapon

A sensation of unbearable, sudden heat seems to come out of nowhere -- this wave, a strong electromagnetic beam, is the latest non-lethal weapon unveiled by the US military this week.

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There is another name for intentionally causing excruciating pain without killing the subject.

It's called "torture."

Mar 12 08:24

BREAKING: Vice President Joe Biden Moves with Walter Jones to Impeach President Obama!

Mar 12 07:14

Afghans doubt US lone assassin claim

Afghans expressed doubt on Monday that a single US Army soldier could have shot and killed 16 civilians in houses over 2km apart and burned the bodies afterward. The killings in southern Afghanistan have reignited fury at the US presence following a wave of deadly protests over Americans burning Qurans.

The US military has said there is no indication that more than one soldier carried out the attacks in two villages in Kandahar province before dawn Sunday. The soldier blamed for the shootings is in custody. But villagers told Afghan officials they heard shots being fired from several directions.

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The official US story keeps changing on this. Personally, I trust the Afghans more than I do Washington DC on this, given the Afghans never fibbed to us about Saddam's nuclear weapons.

Mar 11 16:54

Story creep - now saying multiple soldiers killed Afghani civilians!

Western forces shot dead 16 Afghan civilians, including nine children in southern Kandahar province on Sunday appeared to be drunk.

Mar 11 10:07

Evidence of War Lies Public Pre-War This Time

When President George W. Bush was pretending to want to avoid a war on Iraq while constantly pushing laughably bad propaganda to get that war going, we had a feeling he was lying. After all, he was a Republican. But it was after the war was raging away that we came upon things like the Downing Street Minutes and the White House Memo.

Mar 10 08:00

IOF attacks kill 12 Palestinians, wound 21

Israeli occupation forces (IOF) launched a series of air raids on the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours killing 12 Palestinians and wounding 21 others.

The IOF warplanes bombed a civilian car in Deir Al-Balah in central Gaza at dawn Saturday killing a 26-yerar-old man and injuring four others.

Medical sources earlier said that Ahmed Hajjaj died of his wounds suffered in Friday’s raids.

The PIC reporter said that IOF warplanes blasted a house in Beit Lahia, north of the Gaza Strip, in a pre-dawn raid that killed two members of the Quds Brigades, the armed wing of Islamic Jihad movement.

He said that the warplanes fired a missile at a house north of Gaza city wounding four people including a child.

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Netanyahu is throwing a tantrum that he can;t get the US to kill Iranians for him, so he takes it out on the Gazans.

Mar 09 10:04

CIA & Mossad Death Squads Exposed In Syria

Mar 07 10:31

Syria Uprising: Mossad, Blackwater And CIA 'Led Operations In Homs'

CIA, Mossad and Blackwater agents are involved in military violence in the Homs district, an Arab news agency exclusively reports.

According to Al-Manar, which is affiliated with Hezbollah, the Lebanon-based militant group and political party, a coordination office with agents from the three branches of intelligence is in operation in nearby Qatar.

Salim Harba, a Syrian expert in strategic affairs, told Al-Manar the office was established: “Under American-Gulf sponsorship. The office includes American, French, and Gulf – specifically from Qatar and Saudi Arabia – intelligence agents, as well as CIA, Mossad, and Blackwater agents and members of the Syrian Transitional Council.”

Mar 04 12:49

The Monsters at the Turning of the Age.

A monster walks among us with a clipboard and instruments of torment and oppression. This monster has been walking for a long time, planning for a long time. This monster works for the concentrated evil of the departing age. This monster wants war, mass murder, gulags and concentration camps. This monster wants unending screams, uninterrupted by rights and protections. This monster has all of it's rights of performance and practice guaranteed by laws brought into being by other monsters employed or compromised by it and who came into positions of power because too many people were dreaming about their own confinements that came disguised as the liberty and freedom to acquire and possess what they did not have and believed they needed and that their lives would not be complete without.

Mar 04 08:42

Protests grow as civilian toll of Obama’s drone war on terrorism is laid bare

Outcry from innocent victims’ families as figures show almost a third of strikes fail to hit targets.

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You are standing in the street of your home town when suddenly a small child nearby explodes into a bloody froth. Is it a suicide bomber? Is it a drone strike? And to that child's parents, does it really matter? It is a random explosion that kills an innocent, and if one is an act of terror then so is the other.

Mar 03 09:04

Buy-Bull Bangers:Regular, or Extra-Crispy?

So to all those who went along with these wars because you believed it when Bush and Robertson, et. al. said this was God's will, you are all damned. Damned, damned, damned! Damned to hell. And there can be no redemption while the warmongers are still in power. There is no absolution if you know a war of conquest against an innocent people is going on and you do nothing at all to stop it. There is no absolution if you know torture of innocent people is going on and you do nothing at all to stop it. The priests cannot forgive your sins if they share those sins, no matter how expensive those beads are. Having worked so hard to trick you into sin, would they really be eager to get you out? Just whose side are they on? Which God is it they really serve?

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Feb 25 11:26

18 YEARS SINCE THE HEBRON MASSACRE

The number 18 (Chai) also translates to life in Hebrew, yet today is the 18th anniversary of one of the worst massacres in Hebron.

Feb 25 11:09

Monsanto settles 'Agent Orange' case with US victims

As part of the settlement, the chemicals firm has set up a 30-year medical monitoring programme. Thousands of people who lived or worked in the Nitro area during the time period covered by the lawsuit will be eligible to apply for benefits. The company said that a $21m fund has been set up to pay for medical testing with a further $63m available over the 30-year life of the screening programme.

In addition Monsanto agreed to pay $9m for the professional cleaning of eligible homes in the Nitro area. The company also agreed to the Nitro residents' court-approved legal fees and litigation costs.

The settlement made no findings of wrongdoing against Monsanto.

Feb 21 11:25

Palestinian prisoner ends 66-day hunger strike after Israel guarantees his release

Palestinian prisoner Khader Adnan announced Tuesday that he will be ending his 66-day hunger strike after Israel agreed to release him.

The Islamic Jihad operative, who has been fighting a provision that allows Israel to hold detainees for months or even years without trial or formal charges, reached an agreement with the state prosecution less than an hour before his case was discussed at the Supreme Court.

Feb 17 07:19

Government 'may sanction nerve-agent use on rioters', scientists fear

Leading neuroscientists believe that the UK Government may be about to sanction the development of nerve agents for British police that would be banned in warfare under an international treaty on chemical weapons.

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There is ample precedent for this. Down in Waco Texas, the US Government gassed a church full of women and children to death using a chemical weapon that is illegal to use on enemy troops in war.

Feb 15 09:07

Dresden - The Real Holocaust