World-News

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/04/16-5

America s Guilty Secret about Convicting Innocents
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/04/19-1

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United States Engaged in the Practice of Torture: Report

By Jesselyn Radack

The Justice Department has declined to prosecute any of the government officials who ordered torture, the doctors who supervised it, the lawyers who justified it, or the agents who actually tortured people. Shame on the Obama administration.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34640.htm



US Torture 'Indisputable', CNN s Humiliation, and Iran Sanctions

By Glenn Greenwald

The disgrace of the American torture regime falls on Bush officials and secondarily the media and political institutions that acquiesced to it, but the full-scale protection of those war crimes (and the denial of justice to their victims) falls squarely on the Obama administration.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34669.htm



Did Muslims Attack America on 9/11?

By Ibn e Abdul Haq

The stage has been set for a massive ploy of psychological and media war to be unleashed on the unsuspecting minds of the masses.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34775.htm

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Bipartisan Panel Finds ''Indisputable'' Evidence US Tortured Under Bush

Nermeen Shaikh and Amy Goodman, Democracy NOW!: The 11-member Task Force on Detainee Treatment was convened by The Constitution Project after President Obama chose not to support a national commission to investigate the counterterrorism programs.

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/15820-after-obama-shuns-probe-bipartisan-panel-finds-indisputable-evidence-us-tortured-under-bush

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The high crime of torture

CounterPunch
by Rob Urie

04/20/13

Confirmation by the Constitution Project nearly a decade late that the George W. Bush administration and the U.S. military and ?intelligence? services committed acts of torture in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere appears a Rorschach test for the ?sentiments? of the American people. However, sentiments aside, formal indictments of culpable officials on war crimes charges and the start of impeachment proceedings against current President Barack Obama are the only relevant responses to the report. Torture is a crime under laws to which the U.S. is signatory. And with his war on Iraq George W. Bush and his administration murdered, or caused the premature deaths of, more than a million people and substantially destroyed a modern nation state...

http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/04/19/the-crime-of-torture/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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