Monday, June 07, 2010

Terrorism and Israel's Attack at Sea

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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Israel's Attack and the Cycle of Blame

By Michael Winship
June 7, 2010

“Where is the balance between wisdom and force?”

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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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Wall Street Reform Under Siege

By Danny Schechter
June 7, 2010

We have less than a month to go before the Congress votes on financial reform.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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