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http://www.regenwald.org/aktion/869?mt=1338
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Future of Freedom Foundation
by Andy Worthington

04/19/12

[N]ot only is the use of torture illegal, but information derived through its use cannot be used in U.S. courts. To get around the first inconvenience, Bush s lawyers arranged for torture to be redefined, and, to overcome the second, the Bush administration initially brought the military commissions out of retirement with the intention that the prohibition on torture could be ignored. ... The Obama administration?s revival of the commissions faced profound criticism from those who had served in Bush s military commissions, from Lt. Col. Darrel Vandeveld and Maj. David Frakt, for example, but the administration pressed on regardless...

http://www.fff.org/comment/com1204l.asp



Obama, Bush testimony sought in 9/11 case at Gitmo

Biloxi Sun Herald

05/23/12

Defense lawyers in the Sept. 11 case at Guantanamo are seeking the testimony of former President George W. Bush and President Barack Obama in a motion to dismiss charges, according to a legal motion released Wednesday. Lawyers for three of the five defendants charged with planning and helping carry out the attacks say the charges should be dismissed because Bush, Obama and other top officials have made many statements that could influence potential jurors in their eventual trial before a special tribunal known as a military commission, according to the motion...

http://tinyurl.com/6ok3ghw


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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9/11 defense attorneys denounce Guantanamo court system as 'rigged,' 'unjust'

''These men have endured years of inhumane treatment and torture'' that will ''infect every aspect of this military commission tribunal,'' attorney James Connell III warned. The Navy s top lawyer on Sept. 11, 2001, declared Sunday, ''I am convinced more than ever that this belongs in federal court.''

http://bit.ly/KdhxwS



UK lawyer criticises Guantanamo trial of 9/11 defendants

Video

Steven Kay, an international criminal lawyer, has criticised the legal process along with other defence lawyers and human rights groups.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNqVlfjugaE


From Information Clearing House

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What Constitutes a Fair Trial?
http://lewrockwell.com/napolitano/napolitano53.1.html

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Guantanamo Scandal: The 40 Prisoners Still Held, but Cleared for Release at Least Five Years Ago

Andy Worthington, Andy Worthington's Blog: ''One of the greatest injustices at Guantanamo is that, of the 169 prisoners still held, over half, 87 in total, were cleared for release by President Obama s interagency Guantanamo Review Task Force. The Task Force involved around 60 career officials from various government departments and the intelligence agencies, who spent the first year of the Obama Presidency reviewing the cases of all the remaining prisoners in Guantanamo, to decide whether they should be tried, released, or, in some cases, held indefinitely without charge or trial.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/9668-guantanamo-scandal-the-forty-prisoners-still-held-but-cleared-for-release-at-least-five-years-ago



Guantanamo Attorney: Supreme Court s Refusal to Hear Habeas Cases Invalidates Landmark 2008 Ruling

Jason Leopold, Truthout: ''Now what? That s the question attorneys who represent Guantanamo detainees are asking after the Supreme Court on Monday refused to consider the appeals of seven prisoners, who petitioned the justices to review decisions in their habeas cases made by a conservative appeals court. The decision flies in the face of the court s 2008 landmark ruling in Boumediene v. Bush, which granted detainees a 'meaningful opportunity' to challenge their detentions.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/9736-guantanamo-attorney-landmark-supreme-court-habeas-ruling-now-no-more-effective-than-a-law-review-article



Hope Dies at Guantanamo

Marjorie Cohn, The Jurist: ''Of the 800 men and boys held at Guantanamo since 2002, 169 remain. Of those prisoners, 87 have had their release approved by military review boards established during the Bush administration, and later by the Guantanamo Review Task Force established by President Obama in 2009. Yet they continue to languish in the prison camp.''

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/9914-hope-dies-at-guantanamo



Truthout FOIA Exposes Forceful Drugging of Detainees

Alyona Minkovski, The Alyona Show: ''For years, current and former detainees from Guantanamo and other US military sites, as well as their attorneys, have argued that they were forcibly given pills and injected with unknown medications.... And now, thanks to a Freedom of Information Act Request filed by Truthout, a report from the DOD s deputy inspector general has confirmed much of it. Alyona Minkovsky talks to Jason Leopold, lead investigative reporter for Truthout.org about what the FOIA exposed.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/10311-truthout-foia-exposes-forceful-drugging-of-detainees

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Rights Group Urges Release of Gitmo Prisoners Detained Without Charge
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2012/07/11-7

ACLU Asks Guantánamo Tribunal Not to Censor 9/11 Defendants? Accounts of Torture
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2012/05/03-3

The Obama Gitmo Myth
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/07/23-6



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Tony Blair could be next to face a legal claim for damages from the Libyan man who alleges MI6 sent him to be tortured by Gaddafi s regime, after he announced he was suing Jack Straw.

http://bit.ly/HTqbT3



'Blair Is A War Criminal!'

Video

A protester burst in on former British Prime Minister Tony Blair as he testified at a UK inquiry into media ethics at London s Royal Courts of Justice on Monday.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31448.htm



Tony Blair Avoids Attempted Citizen s Arrest in Hong Kong

By Peter Walker

British activist interrupts former prime minister s speech with accusations of war crimes.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31587.htm



Blair blocked Cabinet from hearing legal advice on Iraq

MPs demanded an emergency recall of the Chilcot inquiry last night after new revelations that Tony Blair blocked the Government s most senior lawyer from explaining to Cabinet the legality of the war in Iraq.

http://is.gd/IWIIxg



Hiding evidence of war crimes

Tony Blair s Iraq meetings to remain secret after government veto: Attorney general overrides calls from freedom of information watchdog to release cabinet minutes from before 2003 invasion.

http://is.gd/Vjww16



George Galloway On British War Criminals

Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye15T_FeQBU&feature=plcp



We Are One Crucial Step Closer to Seeing Tony Blair At The Hague

By George Monbiot

Blair will now find himself shut out of places where he was once welcome. One day he may find himself shut in.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32355.htm



Archbishop Tutu dodges event over war criminal Tony Blair

''Ultimately, the Archbishop is of the view that Mr Blair s decision to support the United States' military invasion of Iraq, on the basis of unproven allegations of the existence in Iraq of weapons of mass destruction, was morally indefensible'', said a statement from his office.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2012/08/28/258685/event/



Tony Blair Should Face Trial Over Iraq War, Says Desmond Tutu

By Toby Helm

Archbishop Desmond Tutu has called for Tony Blair and George Bush to be hauled before the international criminal court in The Hague and delivered a damning critique of the physical and moral devastation caused by the Iraq war.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32342.htm



Why Desmond Tutu is Right About Bush and Blair

Inside the CIA Dossier on Iraq

By Vijay Prashad s

Amnesia over Iraq has already set in.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32371.htm



Blair government s role in Iraq war 'undermined democracy'

The Blair government s role in the war against Iraq ''absolutely undermines the basis of our democracy'' according to Lord Falconer, one of the ex-prime minister s closest allies during the build up to war in 2003.

http://is.gd/4Fm0BY



Blair could have stopped Iraq invasion, says Kofi Annan

Tony Blair was the only man with the power to stop President Bush from invading Iraq in 2003, former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has claimed.

http://is.gd/gCa8lq



Why it is Tony Blair and not me who should be in the dock

On 27 May 2012, anti-war protester David Lawley-Wakelin interrupted Tony Blair, as he was giving evidence at Leveson Inquiry into the British press and the phone-hacking scandal, shouting, ''Excuse me, this man should be arrested for war crimes.'' Lord Leveson duly apologised to the war criminal and truth-teller Lawley-Wakelin was taken away by the police.

http://is.gd/1RxxdT



How Tony Blair and friends help arms dealers get into bed with Britain s universities

Mike Higgs describes how the arms industry is embedded in Britain s universities, with the help of Tony Blair and his acolytes, such as former UK defence minister John Reid.

http://is.gd/egsSX8



Keeping secret Tony Blair s war crimes is blocking the Iraq Inquiry

The Iraq Inquiry will not report before Autumn 2013, two years behind schedule, because the government won t release papers showing Tony Blair s Iraq war pact with George W Bush.

http://is.gd/keECJd



Where is Chilcot s Iraq inquiry report?

The resistance to its completion and publication are reportedly the political classes who supported and led the war effort, the very people most likely to be targeted by the inquiry findings.

http://is.gd/SIcR0j



The People v. Tony Blair: How Mass Murderers Get Away With War Crimes and How to Stop Them

By Chris Nineham

We need to remind ourselves of the sheer criminality of George W Bush and Tony Blair, to try and explain what was behind it and how they got away with it.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33832.htm


From Information Clearing House



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US military officials are crafting possible new strategies to 'protect the Syrian people' from the Assad regime, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Thursday on Capitol Hill. NATO s Libya intervention may be a model.

http://bit.ly/J612EY



Pentagon: America will be ready if needed in Syria

Dempsey said if called upon, the military would be ready to act and the services are working on ways to try to halt the violence.

http://www.omaha.com/article/20120419/AP13/304199905


From Information Clearing House



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By Mike Whitney

Mounting troubles at Japan s hobbled Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant now pose a real threat to human survival.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31123.htm



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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/04/19-11

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Report on Iran s Nuclear Fatwa Distorts Its History

By Gareth Porter

Senior Obama administration officials have decided to cite the fatwa as an Iranian claim to be tested in negotiations, posing a new challenge to the news media to report accurately on the background to the issue.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31129.htm



The Great Islamophobic Crusade
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32432.htm



Inside the Islamophobic-Religious Right Alliance Whose Film Sparked a Crisis in the Middle East

An alliance of Egyptian Coptic Christians, right-wing American Christians and anti-Muslim activists is behind the "Innocence of Muslims" film.

http://is.gd/rLed1s


From Information Clearing House



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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/04/19

FAA Docs Show Clamor for Domestic Drones
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/04/20-2

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Petraeus and the Signature of U.S. Terror

By Jefferson Morley

The CIA is seeking authority to expand its covert drone campaign in Yemen by launching strikes against terrorism suspects even when it does not know the identities of those who could be killed, U.S. officials said.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31124.htm



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Solar-Pleiten: Röttgen spielt das Unschuldslamm

Sachsen-Anhalt und Thüringen rebellieren. Aber kann der Bundesrat den Kahlschlag noch aufhalten?

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/151832

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First Solar schließt Werk in Frankfurt/Oder

Die Bundesregierung, allen voran Rösler und Röttgen, fahren die deutsche Solarwirtschaft an die Wand.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416814884ms315



SolarWorld-Chef Frank Asbeck kritisiert Förderkürzung scharf

Süddeutsche Zeitung: Frank Asbeck ''Man will uns kaputtmachen''.
http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416814891ms315



Weise Politiker fördern die Sonnenenergie

Eicke R. Weber kritisiert die Energiepolitik der Regierung und fordert günstige Kredite für hiesige Solarfirmen.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416814848ms315



Investitionsklima in der Erneuerbare-Energien-Branche hat sich verschlechtert

Dies ergibt eine aktuelle Studie, die der Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energie (BEE) zusammen mit der HANNOVER MESSE beauftragt hatte.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416814868ms315



EUROSOLAR-Anzeigenaktion ''Ohne Erneuerbare Energien keine Energiewende''

Während die Photovoltaik weltweit kurz vor dem endgültigen Durchbruch steht, droht in Deutschland nun das Aus.

http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416814876ms315



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http://lewrockwell.com/douglas/douglas53.1.html

U.S. Building a Domestic Population-Control Grid Based on Military Ops
http://lewrockwell.com/spl4/population-control-grid.html

Ditching the Dollar
http://lewrockwell.com/orig13/katusa2.1.1.html



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