Saturday, September 12, 2009

Bush's Interrogators Stressed Nudity

By Robert Parry
September 12, 2009

The CIA shared with George W. Bush’s Justice Department the details of how an interrogation strategy – with an emphasis on forced nudity and physical abuse – could train prisoners in “learned helplessness” and demonstrate “the complete control of Americans.”

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Obama Faces Tough Afghan Choice

By Michael Winship
September 12, 2009

There was a certain ironic and painful symmetry at work last month. As one iconic image of war was called into doubt, another was being created, a new photograph of combat's grim reality that already has generated controversy and anger.

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Friday, September 11, 2009

Old Hands Picked for CIA Oversight

By Melvin A. Goodman
September 11, 2009

The appointment of former Central Intelligence Agency director Michael Hayden to the Public Interest Declassification Board(PIDB) and former Sen. Warren Rudman to the CIA’s External Advisory Board (EAB) will ensure less openness in the intelligence community and more obduracy in the CIA.

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The Real Lessons of 9/11

By Robert Parry
September 11, 2009

On this eighth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, it’s worth reflecting on how even a mildly competent U.S. President might have prevented the terror attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people and drove the United States into a spasm of revenge that has wasted untold blood and treasure.

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Tuesday, September 08, 2009

Careerists Pull Obama to Afghan Mess

By Melvin A. Goodman
September 8, 2009

President Barack Obama is currently facing the most two important decisions of his young presidency.

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The Speech that Obama Should Give

By Ray McGovern
September 8, 2009

Good evening, both to you members of Congress assembled here, and fellow Americans in our wider TV and radio audience.

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Ronald Reagan's Torture

By Robert Parry
September 8, 2009

Lost amid the attention given George W. Bush’s “war on terror” torture policies was the CIA’s cryptic admission that it also engaged in interrogation abuses during Ronald Reagan’s anti-leftist wars in Central America, another era of torture and extra-judicial killings.

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Monday, September 07, 2009

At Glenn Beck's Call

By David Swanson
September 7, 2009

Fox News screaming head Glenn Beck now tells President Obama to fire White House employees, and Obama obeys.

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Obama Must Respect Afghan Humanity

By Sherwood Ross
September 7, 2009

The war in Afghanistan hangs like some cloud of poison gas over Washington that won’t blow away.

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