The Torture Archive, an ongoing project of
the National Security Archive, is assembling at a single location documents from wide-ranging sources on United States government policy toward rendition, detainees, interrogation, and torture. In the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks, and the George W. Bush administration's subsequent launching of its "Global War on… Continue
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Josh Stieber served in the company shown in the video from Iraq
recently released by Wikileaks. He and Ethan McCord have published an
apology to the Iraqi people: http://bit.ly/dkWP4o
And the widow of an Iraqi killed in the video has accepted the apology: http://bit.ly/cBVtZc
Steiber will…Continue
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Today’s Senate hearings, carried on CNBC, Bloomberg, and C-SPAN, represent the first major exposure of the American people to the scandalous frauds of the derivatives casino, including synthetic collateralized debt obligations (synthetic CDOs or CDO²). These are things most people have heard very little about. They begin to open up the shocking reality behind such shopworn euphemisms like “toxic assets,” “exotic instruments,” and “troubled assets.” Reactionaries in general and Republicans in… Continue
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State Representatives John Fritchey and LaShawn Ford (from left) at a press conference today at the Thompson Center, where they asked Gov. Pat Quinn to send the Illinois National Guard to Chicago.
At right is Willie Williams, who lost his son to gun violence.
(Nancy Stone/Chicago Tribune)
Two state representatives called on Gov. Pat Quinn Sunday to deploy the Illinois National Guard to safeguard Chicago's streets.
Athens will have to adhere strictly to stability program or restructure its debt
Another Greek tragedy? The worst-case scenario with Greece’s acceptance of the EU-IMF support mechanism could see tragic results for the country in both the socioeconomic and political aspects of public life.
The inquests into the deaths of 56 people who died in the 2005 London bombings should be a public investigation into whether police and security services could have done more to prevent them, a court heard on Monday.
Christopher Coltart, representing seven of the victims' families, told a pre-inquest hearing that the inquests should consider whether the state had breached its obligation under the European Convention of…
Abe Denmark directs the Asia-Pacific Security Program at the Center for a New American Security. This is his first post for Danger Room.
China’s decades-long military modernization effort is paying off. After assembling a revamped arsenal of new ships, subs, planes, and missiles, the People’s…
The Pentagon’s plan
to fire ballistic missiles at terrorists isn’t just a nuclear
Armageddon risk. It’s a ludicrously expensive way to accidentally
start World War III: each weapon could cost anywhere from a few hundred
million to $1 billion.
While on a speaking engagement in Malaysia organized by "Success Resources Company", former British Prime Minister Tony Blair was the object of an articulate protest movement demanding his indictment for war crimes.
This was no ordinary protest. Tony Blair has been accused of war crimes in a legal initiative led by the country's former Prime Minister, Dr. Mahathir Mohamad.
A War Crimes Tribunal as well as a War Crimes Commission were set up integrated by renowned jurists.… Continue
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In Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S. military has long been wise to a problem: Weapons designed for Cold War combat are often too powerful — and too lethal — for low-intensity conflict and counterinsurgency. Now it seems the CIA is catching on to the concept as well.
In today’s Washington Post, Joby Warrick and Peter Finn report that the… Continue
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The collapse of the financial system is under way, a giant debt that will never be repaid, deliberate destruction of the economy, bailouts a part of the manipulation of the markets, More creative forms of destruction for the economy, Wall street a criminal enterprise, Goldman CEO visits the White House, often, another giant Ponzi in Florida...
As the world faces an ongoing sovereign debt debacle we see an… Continue
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No matter how well a terrorist covers their tracks, or how cool they are under pressure, the Pentagon wants to be able to detect, track, and even positively identify them from a distance. And they want to do it using nothing more than the heat and sweat that emanate from a person’s
pores.
By Robert Skelton, Socialist Equality Party candidate for Manchester Central 24 April 2010
SEP candidate Robert Skelton campaigns at North City Shopping Centre
The Socialist Equality Party, in its campaign in Manchester Central, has repeatedly encountered workers who are by no means racist, but who argue that with jobs and public services under…
A long time ago, in an America now far, far away, the majority of the American people owned the land that they live on. The term "my land" actually meant something back then. But today that has fundamentally changed. Now the majority of the American people owe on the land that they live on. In fact, most of them owe big money to the giant corporate banking interests that control the mortgage industry. So how did the American people come to be debtors and paupers in the land that our… Continue
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The line up goes down the block and around the corner for prosecutions against Goldman Sachs, Sovereign debt looms
large, 8 more banks close, scandals in the financial sector continue to
erupt everywhere, the public picks up the bills, we face a staggering
depression, anger… Continue
DW Description: Chris Langan is known to have the highest IQ in the world, somewhere between 195 and 210. To give you an idea of what this means, the average...