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CIA Secrecy on Drone Attacks Data Hides Abuses
The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency’s refusal to share with other agencies even the most basic data on the bombing attacks...
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Gitmo suicide had been prisoners’ representative
Almost five months before he was found dead at Guantanamo Bay, a detainee volunteered to represent prisoners in talks with...
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Afghan Violence Hit ‘All Time High’ Last Week
By Jason Ditz | General David Petraeus today announced that violence in Afghanistan had hit its highest level since the 2001...
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New US commander in Afghanistan assembles team of assassins
By Bill Van Auken | Confirmed Wednesday as President Barack Obama’s new commander for the widening war in Afghanistan...
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CIA Director’s claims reinforce torture reality
It’s no secret that during the Bush administration, the Central Intelligence Agency “rendered” suspected...
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KBR, Halliburton Accused in Investor Suit of ‘Reign of Terror’
By Cary O’Reilly | KBR Inc. and Halliburton Co., two of the largest contractors to the U.S. military, were accused by...
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Human Rights Watch accuses DRC troops of war crimes
By Frank Nyakairu | NAIROBI (Reuters) – Human Rights Watch (HRW) accused Democratic Republic of Congo’s army...
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Soldiers protected by human rights laws
British troops are protected by human rights laws even while fighting overseas, according to a landmark judgment Monday centred...
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CIA Refuses to Turn Over Torture Tape Documents
The CIA claims the integrity of a special prosecutor’s criminal investigation into the destruction of 92 interrogation...
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Suspected war criminal to lead U.S. forces in Afghanistan
On July 22 2006, Human Rights Watch issued a report titled “No blood, no foul” about American torture practices at three...
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Congress Resists Guantánamo Releases
As lawmakers amped up the outcry against releasing Guantánamo “terrorists in our neighborhoods,” France agreed...
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Memos shed light on CIA use of sleep deprivation torture
By Greg Miller | Reporting from Washington — As President Obama prepared last month to release secret memos on the...
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War crime in Sri Lanka: Civilians slaughtered by army shelling
By Bill Van Auken | In what constitutes a blatant war crime by the Sri Lankan government, the army’s merciless bombardment...
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Psychologists’ E-Mails Stir Interrogation Issue
By Farah Stockman | WASHINGTON – Newly public e-mails between psychologists involved in the Bush administration’s...
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Pentagon’s Black Budget Grows to More Than $50 Billion
By Noah Shachtman | The Pentagon wants to spend just over $50 billion on classified programs next year, newly-released Defense...
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Pentagon eyes new anti-missile technology
WASHINGTON: The Pentagon is redirecting its missile defence efforts by winding down multibillion-dollar programmes aimed...
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Pelosi caught in lie over CIA torture report
By Bob Turner | Washington – A report by the Central Intelligence Agency revealed that now Speaker of the House, Rep....
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Government Could Destroy Records in Hundreds of Guantanamo Cases
A stockpile of documents about hundreds of Guantanamo Bay detainees, some authored by the prisoners themselves, could be...
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Informants Say Blackwater Guards Tried to Unload Arms
By Bill Sizemore | Shortly after a 2007 shooting incident in a Baghdad traffic square that left 17 Iraqi civilians dead,...
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US airstrikes kill scores of civilians in Afghanistan
By Bill Van Auken | On the eve of a tripartite summit in Washington which the Obama administration has organized with the...
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Officials: Gitmo court system likely to stay open
By LARA JAKES | The Obama administration may revamp and restart the Bush-era military trial system for suspected terrorists...
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US accused of violating its amnesty in Iraq
US-allied anti-Qaeda militia leader says his arrest violates amnesty deal with Americans. BALAD, Iraq – A senior anti-Qaeda...
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Torture Was Used to Try to Link Saddam with 9/11
By Marjorie Cohn | When I testified last year before the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Constitution,...
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Jordan’s human-rights watchdog reports torture
Amman- The 2008 report released Saturday by Jordan’s state- funded National Centre for Human Rights (NCHR) found continued...
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The CIA’s $1,000 a Day Specialists on Waterboarding, Interrogations
As the secrets about the CIA’s interrogation techniques continue to come out, there’s new information about the...




