Sep 23 2012
The persecution of John Kiriakou By Peter Van Buren, 23 Sep 2012 12:35 Here is what military briefers like to call BLUF, the Bottom Line Up Front: no one except John Kiriakou is being held accountable for America’s torture policy. And John Kiriakou didn’t torture anyone, he just blew the whistle on it. A …
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Sep 16 2012
Guantanamo prisoner’s tragic letter By John Knefel, Sunday, Sep 16, 2012 09:00 AM CDT Adnan Latif was found dead in his cell on September 10, 2012, just a day before the eleventh anniversary of 9/11. He was 32. Latif, a Yemeni citizen, had been detained at Guantanamo Bay for over a decade, despite a …
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Sep 03 2012
The day a Cockburn set the White House aflame By Patrick Cockburn, Sunday 02 September 2012 As a correspondent in Washington 20 years ago, I received occasional calls from local television stations on the anniversary of the burning of the White House by a British force in August 1814. The reason they wanted a …
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Sep 03 2012
Why I had no choice but to spurn Tony Blair By Desmond Tutu, Saturday 1 September 2012 The immorality of the United States and Great Britain’s decision to invade Iraq in 2003, premised on the lie that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction, has destabilised and polarised the world to a greater extent than …
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Sep 02 2012
Last edited by Monsieur d’Nalgar on September 9, 2012 at 4:18 pm. 1965 was an interesting year. The first American combat troops were sent to South Vietnam, Dylan went electric, Muhammad Ali knocked out Sonny Liston, MLK marched from Selma to Montgomery, and the first Charlie Brown Christmas aired on CBS. And by the …
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Aug 27 2012
The Syrian army would like to appear squeaky clean. It isn’t By Robert Fisk, Monday 27 August 2012 Every day, a new massacre is reported in Syria. Yesterday, it was Daraya. Slaughter by Syrian troops, according to those opposed to Bashar al-Assad. Slaughter by Bashar’s “terrorist” opponents, the Syrian army said, producing the wife …
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Aug 08 2012
Batman, Neo-Nazis and the Good News of Jesus By Lee C. Camp, 08/08/2012 9:18 am I am a conservative Christian. But I would be a fool to say that in public these days (though I suppose I have just made myself a fool), because that label has been so co-opted by those, so it …
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