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  • Torture Worked for the Bush Cabal
    14 May 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Bush’s ’Smoking Gun’ Witness Found Dead
    The cover-up of Bush-era crimes is taking a shocking but not unexpected turn. A fateful move has been made and it is certain to backfire.
    A prisoner who was horribly tortured in 2002 until he agreed - at the demand of Bush torturers - to say that al-Qaeda was linked to Saddam Hussein is suddenly dead. Several weeks ago, Human Rights Watch investigators discovered the missing inmate and talked to him. He had been secretly transferred by the (…)

  • Far Beyond Torture: The Long Dark History
    8 May 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    The intrepid David Swanson digs up another damning memo written by that factotum of evil, Jay Bybee. This particular sinister scribbling did not involve the brutal torture of gulag captives, however. No, in this case, Jay had bigger fish to fry for his masters: the murder of more than a million people in a Hitlerian act of military aggression...
    And so we come back full-circle in the filthy, bloodsoaked, incestuous nest of American power politics. Bill Clinton is now regarded as a Bush (…)

  • UN demands access to secret Israeli ’torture’ jail
    5 May 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    The United Nations anti-torture committee has demanded access to an Israeli secret prison where torture is allegedly being practiced.
    The UN Committee Against Torture in Geneva prepared a document on Israel’s record on torture on Tuesday and called on Tel Aviv to release information on the alleged "Facility 1391" which is situated in an "undetermined location within Israel and which is not accessible to the International Committee of the Red Cross or detainees’ lawyers or relatives." (…)

  • ABC news: Torture Tape Implicates UAE Royal Sheikh
    24 April 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    A video tape smuggled out of the United Arab Emirates shows a member of the country’s royal family mercilessly torturing a man with whips, electric cattle prods and wooden planks with protruding nails.
    An investigation into a savage torture by a royal family member of a close ally.
    A man in a UAE police uniform is seen on the tape tying the victim’s arms and legs, and later holding him down as the Sheikh pours salt on the man’s wounds and then drives over him with his Mercedes SUV.
    In a (…)

  • Impeach all those who authorized Torture
    23 April 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Habib Siddiqui
    "When a nation is complacent about its own crimes that are committed by top ranking government officials, it shows its moral bankruptcy and cannot demand respect or trust from the civilized world."
    The subject of an old report by the International Committee of Red Cross and a newly released memo from the Department of Justice has recently become a hot political topic across America. These reports showed how the Bush-Cheney Administration had authorized brutal torture (…)

  • Stephen Harper Wants Canadians to Spend Billions Implementing a Failed and Costly U.S. Prison System
    5 March 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    A warning to Canada, Dr Jekyll has turned into Mr. Hyde again, and it didn’t take long.
    Stephen Harper has on numerous occasions promised to work with every party in parliament for the betterment of Canadians, but don’t you believe him. He is back to his old ways at the first opportunity that has presented itself, promising to send Canadians back to the dark ages.
    On Friday 27 February 2009, the Conservative government revived a bill to impose automatic jail terms for drug-related (…)

  • Torture Tapes Destroyed
    3 March 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    New Bush Crimes Revealed: 92 Torture Tapes Destroyed
    Yesterday, it was revealed that under Bush the CIA destroyed 92 tapes of illegal interrogation tactics — in other words, tapes showing the Bush administration’s record of torture. The CIA destroyed the tapes in response to, and in direct violation of, a Congressional investigation.
    Destroying tapes is not small potatoes. For many months, former President Richard Nixon refused to turn over tapes that Congress believed showed criminal (…)

  • US Judges involved in human trafficking
    19 February 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    At this point in my life I am against the death penalty, mainly because I know the system is corrupt, however I have been a supporter of the death penalty in the past and may become one in the future, so I have a question for those who support the death penalty in the United States of America, or anywhere else for that matter. Would you execute the members of a criminal syndicate responsible for child trafficking?
    Specific Example
    On Thursday, 12 February 2009, “judge, Mark A. (…)

  • The Guantánamo Testimonials Project
    18 February 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    Pursuant to its mission, the UC Davis Center for the Study of Human Rights in the Americas (CSHRA) launched, in Fall 2005, a long term research project to assess the effects of the U.S. war on terror on human rights in the Americas.
    Whether invoked as the rationale for the "extraordinary rendition" of Canadian citizen Maher Arar to Syria or as the basis for the suppression of indigenous movements in South America, the war on terror has had significant effects on human rights in the (…)

  • Torture: GUANTANAMO Guidebook (video Channel 4)
    9 February 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    CHANNEL 4 PRESENTS TORTURE: GUANTANAMO GUIDEBOOK PART 2 OF 3
    "What you are about to see is both shocking and upsetting." And so it was.
    Channel 4’s torturers were a squad of former US army guards and interrogators, and definitely not to be messed with. These men seemed to know what they were doing. They had all the moves, the taunts, the carefully targeted sadism.
    Source: antiwar.com
    They knew about short shackling, about stress positions, about subjecting detainees to white noise (…)