Daily Archives: February 11, 2009 »

Top MI6 spy: Terrorism less serious than bird flu

Mick Meaney February 11, 2009 3

Secret global databases ‘unlikely’, threaten freedoms By Lewis Page Counter Terror Expo A former Assistant Chief of the UK’s shadowy Secret Intelligence Service (SIS, aka MI6) has played down the threat of jihadi terrorism,

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NSA’s meta-data email surveillance program exposed

Mick Meaney February 11, 2009 1

WMR has learned details of one of the most important components of the National Security Agency’s warrantless wiretapping program code named “STELLAR WIND.” The highly-classified STELLAR WIND program was initiated by the George W.

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Lendman: Obama’s ‘War on Terror’

Mick Meaney February 11, 2009 1

By Stephen Lendman  The language is softened and deceptive. The strategy and tactics are not. The “war on terror” continues. Promised change is talk, not policy. Just look at Obama’s “war cabinet,” discussed in

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A Call to End All Renditions

Mick Meaney February 11, 2009 0

By Marjorie Cohn, Jurist  Binyam Mohamed, an Ethiopian residing in Britain, said he was tortured after being sent to Morocco and Afghanistan in 2002 by the U.S. government. Mohamed was transferred to Guantánamo in

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More accuse Britain in torture of Guantanamo detainee

Mick Meaney February 11, 2009 0

By Julie Sell LONDON — Despite years of denials, new questions are being raised about Britain’s possible involvement in the torture of a detainee now on a prolonged hunger strike at the Guantanamo Bay

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UN moves to charge Israel with war crimes

Mick Meaney February 11, 2009 0

The United Nations moves to set up a commission to look into Israeli war crimes and respond to its human rights violations in Gaza. After the United Nations Works and Relief Agency (UNRWA) compound

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Lives Have Been Destroyed by the Federal Government

Mick Meaney February 11, 2009 0

Lew Rockwell — – One of the hardest things to deal with in the current economic depression is the disgusting hypocrisy of the U.S. congress, the new president, and the members of the Federal

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