THIS month, the headlines were about a Muslim man in Boston who was accused of threatening police officers with a knife. Last month, two Muslims attacked an anti-Islamic conference in Garland, Tex. The month before, ...
Leading group of psychologists faces a reckoning following repeated denials that its members were complicit in Bush administration-era torture APA ethics independent review: medical professionals and torture The largest association of psychologists in the United ...
Source: News 24, 2015-07-03 London – Judges at a Scottish court ruled that relatives of people killed in the 1988 bombing of a Pan Am jet over Lockerbie, Scotland, cannot launch an appeal on behalf ...
Although the incidents seem unrelated, the FBI is investigating if the arsons constitute hate crimes. The United States’ Federal Bureau of Investigation has launched an investigation on fires that occurred in five predominantly black churches ...
A new tally from New America think tank shows that some Americans are worried about the wrong thing when it comes to stateside attacks. In the nearly 14 years since September 11, 2011, when Al Qaeda operatives ...
“… US Defence Intelligence Agency documents … showed that, far from being an unpredictable ‘bolt from the blue’, as the mainstream media tends to imply, the rise of ISIS was in fact both predicted and desired ...
FBI Director James Comey determined that the mass murder of nine black people in their place of worship, including a Democratic state Senator who was working to get police to use body cameras after the ...
“… There are numerous instances in which SEAL Team 6 members have been accused of killing civilians during raids …” As the U.S. military focused heavily on the Iraq war in 2006, the general in ...
Watchdogs shocked at ‘disconnect’ between doctors who oversaw interrogation and guidelines that gave CIA director power over medical ethics Dr Steven Miles: The US paid torture doctors millions. Why is it last in the world ...
After Edward Snowden revealed the NSA’s secret mass surveillance scheme to the American people and the world, there have been those who consider what he did to be treasonous rather than patriotic. That adverse reaction ...
South American militaries have been sending soldiers to the U.S. for “ethics” and “human rights” training for years, but history shows that many of these alumni go on to become notorious torturers and murderers, not ...
Declassified documentation during historical trial Washington, D.C. – The National Security Archive has posted key documents on Operation Condor, presented by its Southern Cone analyst, Carlos Osorio, at a historic trial in Buenos Aires of former ...
CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou, who exposed the treatment of al Qaeda suspects held in secret prisons, told the Bureau today it was now down to journalists to “tell the full story” about the intelligence agency’s ...
000WASHINGTON — The American Psychological Association secretly collaborated with the administration of President George W. Bush to bolster a legal and ethical justification for the torture of prisoners swept up in the post-Sept. 11 war ...
For three days, wearing a kaleidoscope of camouflage patterns, they huddled together on a military base in Florida. They came from U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) and U.S. Army Special Operations Command, from France and ...
The Ivy League’s favorite war criminal: Why the atrocities of Henry Kissinger should be mandatory reading In an appearance at Yale last week, the Nixon official’s horrific record was casually glossed over. But why? Ex-government ...
Emails show discord in Blackwater investigation FBI agents thought some in Justice Dept. were undermining Iraqi civilian-deaths case As prosecutors put the finishing touches on the 2008 indictment of Blackwater security contractors for a deadly ...
Policy intellectuals put America at risk Policy intellectuals — eggheads presuming to instruct the mere mortals who actually run for office — are a blight on the republic. Like some invasive species, they infest present-day Washington, where their presence strangles ...
“… The 2002 National Intelligence Estimate provides further proof that the president and his aides purposefully mischaracterized and exaggerated the dangers posed by the Iraqi regime. …” Twelve years after the U.S. launched its invasion ...
“… He’s a sadistic torturer with a penchant for horsewhips and perversity. … ‘His hiring undermines our moral authority on both human rights and in the war on terror,’ said Chris Simmons, a former Defense ...
On February 11, 2015, the government of President Nicolas Maduro, along with a number of his senior officials, declared that Venezuela had faced an attempted coup. Contrarily, the mainstream media in the United States and ...
“… General William Westmoreland … expressed the vision most concisely in October, 1969: ‘On the battlefield of the future … enemy forces will be located, tracked and targeted almost instantaneueously through the use of data links, computer ...
See: “The SLA is CIA,” by Mae Brussell “1970s radical approved to return to U. of I. to teach in spring,” Chicago Tribune, Dec. 5, 2014 Kilgore follows in the footsteps of federal agents provocateur/terrorists Ward ...
You may have missed it, but last month two key members of Congress asked the military to move additional U.S. nuclear weapons and dual-capable aircraft into Eastern Europe. Reps. Mike Rogers, R-Ala., chairman of the House Armed ...
Venezuela says it has imposed travel bans on a list of known U.S. terrorists and human rights abusers. The Venezuelan government officially imposed new sanctions Tuesday on top officials linked to the U.S. regime, including ...
Also see: Fritz Kraemer – The Iron Mentor of the Pentagon – Mae Brussell: “Schlesinger: ‘But, gee, you are a mystic aren’t you?’ Kraemer: ‘Of course, Mr. Secretary, you do not use that term in a perjorative ...
The inside, untold story of CIA’s efforts to mislead Congress — and the people — about torture will horrify you On March 11, 2014, California Sen. Dianne Feinstein stepped to the well of the Senate ...
New video evidence has been added to the already-conclusive video evidence which shows that the U.S. Government was the controlling power behind the extremely violent and illegal 18-27 February 2014 Ukrainian coup, which overthrew the democratically elected and never legally removed-from-power Ukrainian President ...
ORLANDO, Fla. – Joseph Paffen died with a 9-mm Smith & Wesson pistol in his hand. His empty shoulder holster had two magazines holding 34 bullets. A pack on his belt held four more magazines with 68 ...
“… No foreign diplomat has been closer or had more access to President Bush, his family and his administration than the magnetic and fabulously wealthy Prince Bandar bin Sultan of Saudi Arabia. …” — NY ...
The Islamic militant group ISIS, formerly known as Al-Qaeda in Iraq, and recently rebranded as the so called Islamic State, is the stuff of nightmares. They are ruthless, fanatical, killers, on a mission, and that ...
February 9, 2015 WASHINGTON — John C. Kiriakou, the first C.I.A. officer to be imprisoned for leaking classified information to a reporter, has been released to home confinement after serving nearly two years in federal prison ...
Also see: Lockerbie Families In US And UK Clash Over ‘Disgraceful’ Campaign To Have Al-Megrahi Cleared, (HuffPo) Inconvenient Truths (London Review of Books): “… At least four US intelligence officers, including the CIA’s deputy station chief in ...
In 2008, Lebanese terrorist overlord Imad Mughniyeh was killed by a car bomb in Damascus, Syria. Twisted metal wreckage was all that remained of his Mitsubishi Pajero. And according to a report from the Washington ...
Replay: MLK: Why I Am Opposed to The War in Vietnam Martin Luther King Jr gave this sermon at the Ebenezer Baptist Church on April 30, 1967 The sermon which I am preaching this morning ...
