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  • Renditions in Greece -MI6 Spook’s Name Revealed
    28 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Proto Thema Newspaper, Sunday 25 December 2005, page 10
    “Guantanamo” nights took place during July, in Athens, according the details revealed by “Thema”, proving that the kidnapping and interrogations of Pakistanis living in Greece, didn’t just take place, but were a result of the total collaboration between the British secret services and the National Information Service of Greece (EYP). The ministers of Public Order, G. Voulgarakis and Foreign Issues, Petros Moliviatis, were fully (…)

  • A right to due process and presumption of innocence until proven guilty...
    28 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Mary MacElveen
    When I read Howard Kurtz’s article: Bush Presses Editors on Security it reminded me of a CBS movie "Hitler: The Rise of Evil." You may be asking why this movie came to mind. There are many Americans and those around the globe who have compared Bush with Adolph Hitler.
    One has only to look at the Patriot Act to know this to be true.
    When Hitler came to power, he pushed for an Enabling Act which, as I have stated before, is strikingly similar and during his reign (…)

  • Dishonest Brokers
    27 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Remi Kanazi
    The European Union (EU) should be ashamed of itself. It has thrown aside the principals of democracy for partisan politics and hypocrisy. In the run up to the Palestinian parliamentary elections, the EU has addressed Palestinian politics and made threats in the process.
    On December 19, the EU’s foreign policy chief Javier Solana stated, “All the political parties have the right to be part of the elections, but there is a certain code of conduct that has to be accepted by (…)

  • Language of the Heart
    25 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Cindy Sheehan
    I have been in Europe for 2 weeks now. I have been toasted by the Mayor of London, Ken Livingston, and greeted by Foreign Ministers, a Vice President and members of the various Parliaments. Those stories are for another article.
    My highest honor both here in the States and in Europe now is meeting with the families of children murdered in George Bush’s War of Terror against the world.
    No matter if we all speak differently accented English, Spanish, or the heavy (…)

  • Document proves European Union agreed to CIA rendition flights
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Chris Marsden
    Attempts by European governments to deny knowledge their airports were used by the CIA to fly detainees to facilities where they could be tortured has unravelled. A document obtained by the civil rights group Statewatch confirms that the European Union (EU) agreed to such flights as part of a wider programme of joint security operations with the Bush administration in 2003.
    Minutes of confidential talks held in Athens on January 22, 2003, prove that EU officials agreed (…)

  • America kidnapped me
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Khaled El-Masri
    KHALED EL-MASRI, a German citizen born in Lebanon, was a car salesman before he was detained in December 2003.
    THE U.S. POLICY of "extraordinary rendition" has a human face, and it is mine.
    I am still recovering from an experience that was completely beyond the pale, outside the bounds of any legal framework and unacceptable in any civilized society. Because I believe in the American system of justice, I sued George Tenet, the former CIA director, last week. What (…)

  • Another Step Towards Unity: The German Left
    21 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Victor Grossman, Berlin
    There was virtually untroubled joy in September, when the new "Left", consisting of two cooperating parties, received 4.2 million votes, 8.7 percent of the total, enabling it to send the unprecedented number of 54 representatives to the Bundestag. But the road to unity of the two had many bumps to overcome, and the weekend congress of the Left Party-PDS in Dresden aimed at overcoming many of them. The going was not always smooth, but a big step forward was taken (…)

  • (Lists) CIA Planes, Europe Joint Ventures/Agreements: Shows Europe Complicit
    21 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    CLIP AND SAVE THE LIST OF PLANES, BELOW. It will make following the news (lawsuits, prosecutions, investigations) a lot easier.
    At a meeting in Athens, Greece, on January 22, 2003, the European Union states gave the United States permission to kidnap Muslims off the street (renditions) and use European airports and airspace.
    The minutes of the meeting are at the above link. That’s all the proof you need. Here is the relevant part of the linked file:
    "Both sides [EU, US] agreed on (…)

  • Our Daily Dose of Hypocrisy
    21 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Regarding Kosovo and President Bill Clinton, 1999: "No goal, no objective, not until we have those things and a compelling case is made, then I say back out of it because innocent people are going to die for nothing. That’s why I’m against it." Sean Hannity, fox news 4/5/99 "American foreign policy is now one huge big mystery. Simply put, the administration is trying to lead the world with a feel-good foreign policy." Representative Tom Delay (R-TX) "If we are going to commit American (…)

  • Censored document reveals increased transit facilities for the USA to use EU airports to move people
    18 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    EU-USA: Rendition and removing refugees raise the same issue: Censored document reveals increased transit facilities for the USA to use EU airports to move people around the world
    There has been an informal agreement between the EU and the USA that flights to and from the USA can stop-over in transit at EU airports since around 1998 (see EU docs no: 13554/97 and 6541/1/98). The USA requested these "facilities" into order to send people back to Africa, the Middle East and Asia. No figures (…)