By Ivan Eland
June 8, 2010
Details of Israel’s attack on the flotilla carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza remain in dispute as Israel and other nations negotiate over who will conduct an investigation. But even if Israel’s spin about its attack on the flotilla is accepted, the situation is still fairly damning for Israel.
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Monday, June 07, 2010
Bush's Torture Experiments Criticized
By Jason Leopold
June 7, 2010
Physicians for Human Rights has accused the Bush administration of using “war on terror” detainees as human “guinea pigs” to gauge the effectiveness of various torture techniques, a practice that has raised troubling comparisons to Nazi-era human experimentation.
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June 7, 2010
Physicians for Human Rights has accused the Bush administration of using “war on terror” detainees as human “guinea pigs” to gauge the effectiveness of various torture techniques, a practice that has raised troubling comparisons to Nazi-era human experimentation.
Read on.
Wall Street Reform Under Siege
By Danny Schechter
June 7, 2010
June 7, 2010
We have less than a month to go before the Congress votes on financial reform.
Sunday, June 06, 2010
Obama's 'Drone' Attacks Criticized
By Sherwood Ross
June 6, 2010
The United Nations independent investigator on extrajudicial killings wants countries that employ lethal drone attacks to first prove they have attempted to capture or incapacitate suspects.
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June 6, 2010
The United Nations independent investigator on extrajudicial killings wants countries that employ lethal drone attacks to first prove they have attempted to capture or incapacitate suspects.
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Saturday, June 05, 2010
Israeli Navy Seizes 'Rachel Corrie'
By Dennis Bernstein and Jesse Strauss
June 5, 2010
Much to the dismay of the Israeli government, Rachel Corrie remains determined to protect the rights of Palestinians crowded into the Gaza Strip.
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June 5, 2010
Much to the dismay of the Israeli government, Rachel Corrie remains determined to protect the rights of Palestinians crowded into the Gaza Strip.
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Friday, June 04, 2010
How 'Power' Christians Ignore Jesus
By the Rev. Howard Bess
June 4, 2010
Are Christians destined to be rulers? Over the past 2,000 years, the vast majority of the followers of Jesus have answered that question with a resounding “yes.” With that answer, we have deserted the very leader we claim to follow.
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June 4, 2010
Are Christians destined to be rulers? Over the past 2,000 years, the vast majority of the followers of Jesus have answered that question with a resounding “yes.” With that answer, we have deserted the very leader we claim to follow.
Read on.
Salvador's Funes Find 'Change' Hard
By Don North
June 4, 2010
Like U.S. President Barack Obama, Salvadoran President Mauricio Funes won on a platform of “hope and change,” but he has since discovered that hard economic times and old political divisions can make accomplishing new policies difficult.
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June 4, 2010
Like U.S. President Barack Obama, Salvadoran President Mauricio Funes won on a platform of “hope and change,” but he has since discovered that hard economic times and old political divisions can make accomplishing new policies difficult.
Read on.
Gaza Boat Activists Deny Israeli Story
By Dennis Bernstein and Jesse Strauss
June 4, 2010
With a bloody raid on the “Freedom Flotilla,” Israel has demonstrated, once again, its willingness to kill innocents in order to sustain its punishing blockade on the Gaza strip, even when doing so raises more and more questions about nuclear-armed Israel’s national sanity.
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June 4, 2010
With a bloody raid on the “Freedom Flotilla,” Israel has demonstrated, once again, its willingness to kill innocents in order to sustain its punishing blockade on the Gaza strip, even when doing so raises more and more questions about nuclear-armed Israel’s national sanity.
Read on.
Thursday, June 03, 2010
Israel Attacked a NATO Member's Ship
By Craig Murray
June 3, 2010
NATO HQ in Brussels is a very unhappy place. There is a strong understanding among the various national militaries that an attack by Israel on a NATO member flagged ship in international waters is an event to which NATO is obliged - legally obliged, as a matter of treaty - to react.
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June 3, 2010
NATO HQ in Brussels is a very unhappy place. There is a strong understanding among the various national militaries that an attack by Israel on a NATO member flagged ship in international waters is an event to which NATO is obliged - legally obliged, as a matter of treaty - to react.
Read on.
First-hand Account of Israeli Assault
By Dennis Bernstein and Jesse Strauss
June 3, 2010
Dennis Bernstein: First of all, how are you doing? How are you feeling?
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June 3, 2010
Dennis Bernstein: First of all, how are you doing? How are you feeling?
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Wednesday, June 02, 2010
UN Human Rights Adviser Blasts Israel
By Dennis Bernstein and Jesse Strauss
June 2, 2010
Dennis Bernstein: We don’t have a lot of detail, but Israel itself is clearly admitting they carried out this raid. … Based on what you know and what you’ve seen, what can we say about what happened here in terms of human rights violations and international law?
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June 2, 2010
Dennis Bernstein: We don’t have a lot of detail, but Israel itself is clearly admitting they carried out this raid. … Based on what you know and what you’ve seen, what can we say about what happened here in terms of human rights violations and international law?
Read on.
Why US Intelligence Reform Failed
By Ivan Eland
June 2, 2010
The sacking of Dennis Blair, the third director of national intelligence in the position’s short five-year history, is one important indicator that the Intelligence Reform and Terrorist Prevention Act of 2004 has failed.
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June 2, 2010
The sacking of Dennis Blair, the third director of national intelligence in the position’s short five-year history, is one important indicator that the Intelligence Reform and Terrorist Prevention Act of 2004 has failed.
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Tuesday, June 01, 2010
Israel's Dangerous Turn
By Robert Parry
June 2, 2010
After Israel’s lethal attack in international waters on a civilian flotilla carrying relief supplies to Gaza, a troubling question arises: Have Israeli authorities, who possess a major nuclear arsenal, become dangerously erratic?
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June 2, 2010
After Israel’s lethal attack in international waters on a civilian flotilla carrying relief supplies to Gaza, a troubling question arises: Have Israeli authorities, who possess a major nuclear arsenal, become dangerously erratic?
Read on.
America's False Measure of Success
By Danny Schechter
June 1, 2010
It was hard to resist an invite to my high school reunion because it came from guys who worked with me on the student newspaper at DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx, New York; my gateway to a career in journalism.
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June 1, 2010
It was hard to resist an invite to my high school reunion because it came from guys who worked with me on the student newspaper at DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx, New York; my gateway to a career in journalism.
Read on.
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