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MoD faces Afghan civilian death pay-outs
The Ministry of Defence has paid out, or is considering, compensation in relation to at least 104 civilian deaths allegedly...
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Israel’s war crimes not “collateral damage”
Israel sought to defend itself Thursday against the latest accusations by a major international organization that it committed...
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Former CIA officer charged in Algiers rape
A former CIA station chief charged with raping an unconscious Algerian woman last year surrendered to federal agents outside...
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Bagram Detainees Treated “Worse Than Animals”
An investigation by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has revealed that former detainees at the U.S. Bagram airbase...
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Elite Iraqi troops in forefront after US pullback
As Iraqi security services prepare to take back their towns from the Americans on Tuesday, the sharpest arrow in their quiver...
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The kinder, gentler occupation?
Phil Aliff, a member of Iraq Veterans Against the War, analyzes new U.S. rules of engagement governing air power in Afghanistan. DESPITE...
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Dozens of Civilians Killed as US Attacks Funeral
Sources involved in the rescue operation following yesterday’s US attack on a South Waziristan funeral procession reported...
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US spy aircraft patrolling northern border
U.S. border officials are testing an unmanned surveillance aircraft to judge whether the drones can be used more widely along...
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All in a day’s work for the Israeli army: beating and torturing children
Jonathan Cook reports on how Israeli soldiers routinely, and as a matter of policy, practise torture against Palestinian...
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The True Story Behind Pyschology’s Role in Torture?
A seventeen-year-old boy is locked in an interrogation cell in Guantanamo. He breaks down crying and says he wants his...
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EU needs to tell the truth about renditions
It is welcome that EU governments have at last agreed to heed the call issued by the European parliament five months ago...
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Empty Evidence: The Stories Of The Saudis Released From Guantanamo
At the end of a hectic week at Guantánamo, which saw the Obama administration overcome its previous inability to release...
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Sri Lankan government threatens Tamil parliamentarians
The Sri Lankan government last week threatened to strip four Tamil parliamentarians of their seats by turning down their...
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New Evidence Of CIA Torture Program
NEW YORK – The CIA today released still-highly redacted documents in which Guantánamo Bay prisoners describe abuse and...
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Pentagon May Keep Afghan Death Probe Secret
In early May, a series of US air strikes in multiple villages in the Farah Province of Afghanistan killed 140 civilians,...
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Guantánamo’s Uighurs In Bermuda: Interviews And New Photos
As representatives of the world’s media descended on Bermuda to meet the four Uighurs (Muslims from China’s oppressed...
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The truth behind Depleted Uranium (DU) Contamination and its usage
There has been significant publicity about the use of Depleted Uranium (DU) munitions, its ability to travel very long distances...
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Obama smoothes passage of war spending bill by pledging to suppress torture photos
Negotiators in the US House and Senate on Friday reached a tentative agreement on a $105.9 billion “emergency” war-funding...
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Soldier Refuses Deployment to Afghanistan
Agosto, a soldier based at Fort Hood in Texas, is publicly refusing orders to deploy to Afghanistan. He recently wrote on...
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US military spending hit $607 billion in 2008
The global arms madness continues. A new report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (one of my favorite...
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The Rise of Private Armies
Journalist Jeremy Scahill warns against the growing power of corporate private armies and the “disintegration of the...
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The Long Ordeal of Guantánamo’s Youngest Prisoner
The long ordeal of Mohammed El-Gharani, Guantánamo’s youngest prisoner, has finally come to an end. Reprieve, the legal...
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Israeli War Crimes Against Children
Following Israel’s Operation Cast Lead, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) documented the toll on Gaza’s...
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Sri Lankan government interrogate doctors who witnessed war crimes
The Sri Lankan government is continuing to detain and interrogate three doctors—Dr Thurairajah Varatharajah, Dr Thangamuttu...
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Feds ask court to reconsider CIA renditions suit
The U.S. Department of Justice is asking a federal appeals court to reconsider its decision to allow a Boeing Co. subsidiary...




