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CIA Rendition Plane Spotted In Birmingham UK

The Guardian | Robert Booth | Posted 11.01.2009 | World

Read More: Egypt, Glasgow, EU Parliament, Rendition, Germany, Gulfstream, Torture, Cia, Sas, British Special Forces, Boeing 757 Comco, Shannon Airport, Dauphin 2, Eu, Helicopters, Glasgow Prestwick, Dauphin 2 Helicopters, Gulfstream Jet, Ireland, Stuttgart Airport, Romania, Bucharest, L-3 Integrated Systems, n478gs, Hereford, World News

An American plane named in an inquiry by the European parliament into alleged CIA torture flights landed at Birmingham airport last month and was met ...

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Source: 6 Gitmo Detainees Resettle In Palau

AP | JONATHAN KAMINSKY | Posted 11.01.2009 | World

Read More: White House, Cia, Gitmo Detainees, Afghanistan, Palau, Gitmo, Uighur, Obama, Chinese Muslims, Uighurs, Enemy Combatants, Guantanamo Bay, Iraq, Terrorism, China, Torture, World News

KOROR, Palau — Six Chinese Muslims released from Guantanamo Bay but still wanted at home as separatists arrived Sunday on their new tropical isl...

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The 'Bright Line Rule': New Papers Detail FBI, CIA Wrangle Over Torture

AP | DEVLIN BARRETT and PAMELA HESS | Posted 10.31.2009 | Politics

Read More: Detainee FOIA, Harsh Interrogations, FBI CIA, Fbi, Ramzi Binalshibh, Torture Foia, CIA FOIA, Detainees, Cia Harsh Interrogation Techniques, Cia, Waterboarding, FOIA Requests, Torture, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Newly released documents show the FBI interviewed a naked, chained terror suspect back in 2002 as the bureau struggled with the CIA ove...

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Stephen Colbert Signs Campaign Letter to Close Guantanamo Now (Video)

Tom Andrews | Posted 10.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Metallica, Stephen Colbert, Trent Reznor, Nine Inch Nails, Guantanamo Detainees, Rosanne Cash, Guantanamo, Guantanamo Bay, Music, Close Gitmo Now, Barack Obama, Torture, Politics News
Tom Andrews

Rosanne Cash appeared on the Colbert Report last night on the use of music to torture at Guantanamo, and she made it clear: using music as torture is wrong and there's no gray area.

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No Toilets or Air For "Forgotten Prisoners"

Betwa Sharma | Posted 10.29.2009 | World

Read More: Egypt, Syria, Uruguay, Jordan, Torture, Tunisia, Morocco, Toilets, United Nations, Corporal Punishment, United States, Special Rapporteur, Equitorial Guinea, China, Human Rights Violations, Montevideo, Iran, Amman, Alien Deportation, Russia, Israel, Falun Gong Camps, Togo, India, Saudia Arabia, Cuba, Algeria, Nigeria, Manfred Nowak, Immigration Laws, Toga, World News
Betwa Sharma

Prison conditions worldwide are worse than the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture could have imagined. Jails without air, toilets and food are not rare.

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"Friending" Binyam Mohamed

Naomi Wolf | Posted 11.04.2009 | World

Read More: Bill Kristol, Daily Mail, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Guantanamo Bay, Waterboarding, Binyam Mohamed, Barack Obama, Abu Ghraib, Dick Cheney, Torture, World News
Naomi Wolf

Recently I have been in touch with Binyam Mohamed, who was released from Guantánamo in February -- after seven years' captivity without charges.

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The Lawyers Who Would Torture

David A. Love | Posted 10.29.2009 | Books

Read More: Geneva Conventions, Tarp, George Bush, U.S. Economy, Law, Elizabeth Warren, Judges, David Cole, Economy, Books, Foreign Affairs, Economic Crisis, Rule of Law, George W. Bush, Ponzi Scheme, CIA Torture, Credit Crisis, Credit Cards, John Yoo, Foreign Policy, John Yoo Memo, Politics, Human Rights, Cia, Torture Memos, Torture, Books News
David A. Love

Throughout history we have witnessed the ways in which societies compromise their legal systems to oppress the many, benefit the few, and sanction the unconscionable.

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Daniel Weston, Mary Ann Parmelee: Los Angeles Couple Allegedly Beat, Torture Loan-Modification Agents

Reuters | Steve Gorman | Posted 10.27.2009 | Business

Read More: Financial Crisis, Loan Modifications, Subprime Mortgages, Los Angeles, Housing Crisis, Torture, Business News

As Los Angeles housing advocates launched a campaign warning of mortgage rescue scams, a couple hit by foreclosure are charged with torturing two loan...

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Friday Talking Points [99] -- Misdirection

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: White House, Pentagon, Troops, Medicare for All, Rumor Mongering, Guantanamo, Monopoly, Reform, Alan Grayson, Dscc, Pentagon Budget, Roger Ailes, Nixonian, Charles Schumer, President, Magic, Military, Bailout, Emanuel, Midotw, Nancy Pelosi, Ailes, Most Impressive Democrat of the Week, Health Care, Reid, Public Option, Olympia Snowe, Democrat, Congress, Playing the Victim, Close Gitmo Now, Rumor, Stage Magic, Democrats, Barack Obama, Rage Against the Machine, Executive Compensation, Calls, Schumer, Mddotw, Rahm Emanuel, Wasted, Health, Weiner, Harry Reid, Nixon, Healthcare, Senate, Orchestra Pit Theory, President Obama, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Fox, Obama, Democratic, Media, Grayson, Friday Talking Points, Republican, Pelosi, Snowe, Enemy, Organizing for America, Misdirect, Guantanamo Bay, Most Disappointing Democrat of the Week, Orchestra Pit, Victim, Robust Public Option, Anthony Weiner, Trigger, Trust Busting, House, Tom Morello, Victim Card, War, Ad, Opt Out, 1000 Hours, Defense Appropriations, Enemy of America, Misdirection, Wall Street, Chris Weigant, Health Insurance, Health Insurers, 300000, Fox News, Medicare, Chuck Schumer, Executive Pay, Torture, Morello, Politics News
Chris Weigant

The real head-scratcher for serious media-watchers right now is what the "war" between the White House and Fox News was meant to distract us from this week. The "war" itself is laughable, for a number of reasons.

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Stop Using America's Top 40 for Torture

Eric Dezenhall | Posted 10.23.2009 | Media

Read More: Guantanamo, Pop Music, David Letterman Extortion, Torture Popular Music, Music for Torture, Pearl Jam, R.E.M., Torture, Media News
Eric Dezenhall

Call me a socialist, but I have believed for decades that the Department of Justice should actively monitor Top 40 Hits because certain songs could lead upstanding citizens to confess to crimes that they did not commit.

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Why Musicians Are Right, Liz Cheney Is Wrong

Jon Soltz | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Billy Bragg, Pearl Jam, Trent Reznor, Keep-America-Safe, Liz Cheney, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, The Roots, Jackson Browne, Matthew Alexander, Votevets, Roseanne-Cash, R.E.M., Rise Against, Torture, Politics News
Jon Soltz

By lobbying to keep Guantanamo Bay open, Liz Cheney's group is helping keep alive one of the greatest recruiting posters that al Qaeda ever had.

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Music Matters

Matthew Alexander | Posted 10.24.2009 | Impact

Read More: Guantanamo, Bush, Cheney, Music, Torture, Rem, Eddie Vedder, War in Iraq, The Doors, New Security Action, New Security Action Blog, Impact News
Matthew Alexander

Music is perhaps the freest expression of art in an open society. In my travels to more than 50 countries, a sense of pride has always emerged for American culture abroad in the form of music.

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Stop the Music...and the Torture

Harry Shearer | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Ascap, Bagram Air Base, Guantanamo Detainees, Torture, Politics News
Harry Shearer

Those who focus solely on the closing of Gitmo merely invite the US government to move any detainees still in need of further 'care' to Bagram, which is in a similarly lawless situation, if not more so.

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When to Hunt for Witches

Stephen Baldwin | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bill Clinton, Torture Investigation, Obama Torture Prosecutions, Stephen Baldwin, CIA Torture, Kenneth Starr, Ken Starr, Barack Obama, Eric Holder, Torture, Politics News
Stephen Baldwin

Why, after his boss, President Obama, has publicly expressed a position to the contrary, would Attorney General Eric Holder continue on a rogue course of "seeking truth"?

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Torture Accountability at Last - for Peru

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bush Administration Torture, Torture Investigation, Peru, Corporations, Monterrico Metals, Guantanamo, Bush Torture, Torture Memos, Eric Holder, Bush Torture Memos, Torture, Abu Ghraib, Politics News
Allison Kilkenny

It is not cliche or radical to demand the U.S. hold our own torturers (at all levels) to the same level of accountability as British mining corporations.

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Monterrico Torture: Mining Company Accused Of Torture In Peru

The Guardian | Ian Cobain | Posted 10.20.2009 | World

Read More: Human Rights, Monterrico Torture, Attacks, Rape, Corporation, Corporate, Indigenous People, Copper Mine, Peru, Monterrico Metals, Monterrico Mining Company, Protests, Environment, Copper, Monterrico Mine, Indigenous, Torture, Corporate Torture, World News

A British mining corporation is facing a multimillion-pound claim for damages after protesters were detained and allegedly tortured at an opencast cop...

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The Weakness of Liz Cheney

Jon Soltz | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Freedoms Watch, Keep-America-Safe, Liz Cheney, Terrorism, votevets.org, Guantanamo Supermax Prison, Guantanamo, Guantanamo Torture, Ari Fleischer, Waterboarding, Brad Blakeman, Votevets, Supermax, Torture, Dick Cheney, Politics News
Jon Soltz

In the end, Liz Cheney and Keep America Safe are just a re-run of what was already tried and failed in 2008. Namely, using the veil of fear to mask an un-informed, false, and weak position.

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ReThink Interview: Daniel Ellsberg -- the Most Dangerous Man in America Speaks, Part Two

Jonathan Kim | Posted 10.14.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: The Battle of Algiers, Nationalism, Henry Kissinger, Afghanistan, The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers, Rethink Reviews, Daniel Ellsberg, Film, Jonathan Kim, Movies, Paul Wolfowitz, Movie Reviews, Insurgency, Whistleblowers, Jonathan Kim Movie Reviews, Judith Ehrlich, Rick Goldsmith, Richard Nixon, Occupation, Vietnam War, Documentary, Movie Critic, Counterinsurgency, Pentagon Papers, Machiavelli, Torture, Entertainment News
Jonathan Kim

The second part of my interview with Daniel Ellsberg, the true American hero who leaked the Pentagon Papers in 1971.

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The Nobel Prize Wasn't for Obama -- It Was for the American People. Do We Deserve It?

Jonathan Kim | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bush, Nobel Peace Prize, Barack Obama, Liberals, Afghanistan, Progressives, Guantanamo, Torture, Don't Ask Don't Tell, Doma, Dadt, Defense of Marriage Act, Politics News
Jonathan Kim

That means it's our responsibility to force Obama and other electeds to recognize our priorities and pick up the pace. So call your representative and your senator, and let them know how you feel.

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Cornel West Comments On Obama's Nobel Peace Prize: Hard To Be War President With Peace Prize

The Huffington Post | Posted 10.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Tavis Smiley, Cornel West, Torture, Recession, Iraq, Obama, Cornel West on Obama's Nobel Peace Prize, Nobel Peace Prize, Obama Administration, Los Angeles, Eric Holder, Afghanistan War, Nobel Prize, Princeton, Iraq War, Military, Afghanistan, Torture Investigation, Economy, Politics News

Dr. Cornel West spoke at the Central Library in Los Angeles Friday, Oct. 9, and weighed in on what winning the Nobel Peace Prize will mean for Preside...

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Forever: A Letter to Obama

Ariel Dorfman | Posted 10.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Chile, Human Rights, Torture, CIA Torture, Bush Administration Torture, Barack Obama, Politics News
Ariel Dorfman

Amnesty USA asked me to write a letter to Obama asking him to prosecute all those responsible for torturing in the name of the USA during the previous administration. This is the letter I sent to him

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The Next Generation of American Interrogators

Matthew Alexander | Posted 10.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Enhanced Interrogations, Iraq, Interrogation, Torture, CIA Torture, Politics News
Matthew Alexander

There are two areas in particular where interrogators would benefit from improvement. The first is in adapting non-coercive criminal interrogation techniques. The second is the realm of cultural knowledge.

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Jason Linkins

Hollywood And Washington, D.C. Are Very Much Alike

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.02.2009 | Media

Read More: Media Criticism, Roman Polanski, Washington DC, Hollywood, Torture, Media News

In yesterday's Los Angeles Times, John Horn and Tina Daunt wrote about the extent to which the Hollywood community is terribly out of touch with the ...

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A Truly Shocking Guantanamo Story: Judge Confirms That an Innocent Man Was Tortured to Make False Confessions

Andy Worthington | Posted 11.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Ahmed Al-Darbi, World, Afghanistan, Terrorism, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Fbi, War on Terror, Survival Evasion Resistance Escape, World News, Al Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden, Habeas Corpus, Politics News, False Confessions, Cia, Sere, Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, Fouad Al-Rabiah, Habeas Corpus Guantanamo, Fouad Al-Rabia, Guantanamo Bay, US Torture, Guantanamo Torture, Korean War, Sleep Deprivation, Advocacy, Torture, Politics News
Andy Worthington

The U.S. government tortured an innocent man to extract false confessions and then threatened him until he obligingly repeated those lies as though they were the truth.

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American In Worldland: Have-It-Your-Way Truth

Mort Rosenblum | Posted 11.29.2009 | World

Read More: Associated Press, Obama, Hannah Arendt, Media, Al Jazeera, Press, Truth, Afghanistan War, Foreign Policy, Torture, World News
Mort Rosenblum

Our blindness is voluntary. In an overheating world, literally and figuratively, complacent citizens shape whatever reality suits them best.

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