Saturday, January 24, 2009

The Torture Ban that Doesn't Ban Torture: Obama's Rules Keep It Intact, and Could Even Accord With an Increase in US-Sponsored Torture Worldwide.

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If you're lying on the slab still breathing, with your torturer hanging over you, you don't much care if he is an American or a mere...
Thursday, January 22, 2009

Breaking News: US Intel Nominee Lied About '99 Massacre. US, Church Documents Show Adm. Dennis Blair Knew of Church Killings Before Crucial Meeting.

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By Allan Nairn On the eve of his Senate confirmation hearing (due for 10am, Thurs. Jan. 22), new information has emerged showing that Adm. D...
Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Killer in Chief. Obama's Choice: Will this President Murder Civilians?

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Barack Obama said during this campaign -- speaking of a notional US president -- that he should be able to do more than one thing at a time,...
Friday, January 9, 2009

The Blair Church Massacre, Continued. A Chronology of the Timor Killings.

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It is now reported that Admiral Dennis Blair is due to be nominated later today as President-elect Obama's new US Director of National I...
Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Admiral Dennis Blair. Prospective Obama Appointee Aided Perpetrators of 1999 Church Killings.

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Reports say that President-elect Obama wants to nominate retired Admiral Dennis Blair as the new United States Director of National Intellig...
Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Drawing Your Last Breath Hungry. Burma, Food Crisis, Wall Street, and the World Economy.

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In parts of Burma before the cyclone hit the heat was so severe that you could walk around on a hazy day and run the risk of sunstroke. On T...
Thursday, February 21, 2008

And Satan Said: 'Recite the Names of the People You Killed.'

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The other day a Chilean journalist asked whether the Spanish Guatemala genocide prosecution was mainly "symbolic," but I said that...
Sunday, February 17, 2008

"Dying for a Second Round." Israel Said to Plan Attack on Lebanon.

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On Friday I asked a top-level Israeli, a former IDF (Israel Defense Forces) elite unit man and prime-ministerial confidante, whether the ass...
Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Big Killer Takes Out Smaller One. "Wipe Out a Neighborhood." Life By Mafia Rules in the Israeli - US Domain.

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I happened to learn about the car-bomb assassination of Imad Mughniyeh, the Hezbollah commander, while talking to a Palestinian Fatah man wh...
Monday, February 11, 2008

The Guantanamo Gambit. A Smart But Vulnerable Establishment. Tactical Options in US Politics.

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Though they never said it, it now appears that Bush, or at least his Pentagon, did not, for whatever reason, want Rudy Giuliani to be US pre...

The Shooting of Jose Ramos Horta.

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Some news reports are now claiming that Jose Ramos Horta, Timor-Leste's president, is or was in a coma. If he goes, his soul will get a...
Saturday, February 9, 2008

Murder Watch. Note to Readers Re. Even-Handed Enforcement of the Murder Laws.

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News and Comment is looking for public and private documents and first-hand information that could develop into evidence regarding war crime...