June 2011

Will Obama once again cover up Bush’s crimes?

by Paul Woodward 06.16.2011

The New York Times reports: A former senior C.I.A. official says that officials in the Bush White House sought damaging personal information on a prominent American critic of the Iraq war in order to discredit him. Glenn L. Carle, a former Central Intelligence Agency officer who was a top counterterrorism official during the administration of [...]

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WikiLeaks: UK government ‘spying’ on Julian Assange during house arrest

by News Sources 06.16.2011

In a video, titled “House Arrest”, and released by WikiLeaks, they claim that three cameras have been erected to watch who enters and leaves his temporary home. The video, published today on Telegraph.co.uk, marks his six months on bail. It shows one of the cameras outside the entrance to Ellingham Hall, Norfolk. Mr Assange has [...]

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WikiLeaks grand jury witness refuses to testify

by News Sources 06.15.2011

The Associated Press reports: A supporter of the Army private suspected of supplying classified documents to the WikiLeaks website on Wednesday refused to testify to a federal grand jury, accusing the U.S. justice department of using Nixon-like fear tactics to intimidate advocates of transparency in government. David House, a founding member of the Bradley Manning [...]

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Israeli thugs beat up non-violent Palestinian protesters in Nabi Saleh

by News Sources 06.15.2011

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War Powers Act does not apply to Libya, Obama argues

by News Sources 06.15.2011

The New York Times reports: The White House, pushing hard against criticism in Congress over the deepening air war in Libya, asserted Wednesday that President Obama had the authority to continue the military campaign without Congressional approval because American involvement fell short of full-blown hostilities. In a 38-page report sent to lawmakers describing and defending [...]

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U.S. lists ally Bahrain with human rights violators Iran, Syria

by News Sources 06.15.2011

Bloomberg reports: The United States put Bahrain, a Persian Gulf ally, in the company of Iran, North Korea, Syria and Zimbabwe on its list of human rights violators presented to the UN Human Rights Council. Bahrain, home to the U.S. Navy’s Fifth Fleet, has tried to crush protests that have wracked the country since February, [...]

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Saudi Arabia’s silent battle to halt history

by News Sources 06.15.2011

Der Spiegel reports: Saudi Arabia feels like a realm that has come to a standstill in a rapidly changing world. Its leaders, most notably the 86-year-old King Abdullah bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, are pinning their hopes on the old principle of stability, as if Ben Ali had not been [...]

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Secret US and Afghanistan talks could see troops stay for decades

by News Sources 06.15.2011

The Guardian reports: American and Afghan officials are locked in increasingly acrimonious secret talks about a long-term security agreement which is likely to see US troops, spies and air power based in the troubled country for decades. Though not publicised, negotiations have been under way for more than a month to secure a strategic partnership [...]

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Pakistan arrests CIA informants in Bin Laden raid

by News Sources 06.15.2011

The New York Times reports: Pakistan’s top military spy agency has arrested some of the Pakistani informants who fed information to the Central Intelligence Agency in the months leading up to the raid that led to the death of Osama bin Laden, according to American officials. Pakistan’s detention of five C.I.A. informants, including a Pakistani [...]

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Federal grand jury investigates war crimes and torture in death of ‘the Iceman’ at Abu Ghraib, plus other alleged CIA abuses

by News Sources 06.15.2011

Adam Zagorin reports: It has been nearly a decade since Manadel al-Jamadi, an Iraqi prisoner known as “the Iceman” — for the bungled attempt to cool his body and make him look less dead — perished in CIA custody at Abu Ghraib. But now there are rumbles in Washington that the notorious case, as well [...]

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Who tried to kill Ali Abdullah Saleh?

by News Sources 06.15.2011

Sarah Phillips writes: There aren’t many foreigners traveling to Sanaa these days, but one group of outsiders is getting a lot of attention: an FBI forensics team, which reportedly arrived last week to investigate the attempted assassination of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who is now convalescing in Saudi Arabia. Evidence from the scene indicates [...]

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Iran postulates first nuclear test

by News Sources 06.15.2011

Jamsheed K. Choksy writes: Media outlets and blogs in Israel, England, and the U.S. have responded with considerable incredulity to claims by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) of sanguine reactions if Iran tests an atom bomb. The IRGC’s scenario underscores an unfortunate reality, however. After years of hollow threats, politicians and generals in the [...]

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Syrians vent rage in tent camps on border with Turkey

by News Sources 06.15.2011

The Los Angeles Times reports: They were once ordinary Syrians: farmers with fields to tend, doctors with patients to treat, students with exams to take and homemakers with children to nurture. But after longtime Syrian President Bashar Assad’s security forces stormed their towns and villages in an attempt to crush a largely peaceful pro-democracy movement, [...]

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Missing $6.6 billion Iraq money may have been stolen, auditors say

by News Sources 06.15.2011

The Los Angeles Times reports: After the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in March 2003, the George W. Bush administration flooded the conquered country with so much cash to pay for reconstruction and other projects in the first year that a new unit of measurement was born. Pentagon officials determined that one giant C-130 Hercules cargo [...]

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WikiLeaks: Pentagon Papers injustice deja vu

by News Sources 06.15.2011

James C. Goodale writes: Just in time to spoil the celebration of the 40th anniversary of the publication of the Pentagon Papers, the Obama Justice Department is trying to do what Richard Nixon couldn’t: indict a media organization. A grand jury investigation into WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange under the Espionage Act and the Computer Fraud [...]

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Activists cry foul over FBI probe

by News Sources 06.15.2011

The Washington Post reports: FBI agents took box after box of address books, family calendars, artwork and personal letters in their 10-hour raid in September of the century-old house shared by Stephanie Weiner and her husband. The agents seemed keenly interested in Weiner’s home-based business, the Revolutionary Lemonade Stand, which sells silkscreened baby outfits and [...]

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Syrian elite and army continue support for Assad

by News Sources 06.15.2011

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Inside Story – A hollow victory for Turkey’s Erdogan?

by News Sources 06.15.2011

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CIA expanding its global assassination program

by Paul Woodward 06.14.2011

In the United States, “profiling” is a dirty word — and rightly so. It is one way in which state power transgresses civil rights with the consequence that individuals can be subject to unjustified questioning or detention. But when the US employs profiling overseas, the targets don’t just get arrested, they get killed — killed [...]

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Drinking cappuccino as the bombs fall in Tripoli

by News Sources 06.14.2011

Der Spiegel reports: No one was paying much attention to the time, but it was probably a few minutes before 11 a.m. on Tuesday of last week when the action began in Tripoli, clearly visible from the windows of the Rixos hotel. The morning hours are usually calm in Tripoli, and this too was a [...]

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The revolution business

by News Sources 06.14.2011

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William Astore: American militarism is not a fairy tale

by TomDispatch 06.14.2011

Reprinted with permission of TomDispatch.com President Obama recently reshuffled his top Washington warriors, sending CIA Director Leon Panetta, a man who knows Congress well, on to the Pentagon to replace retiring Secretary of Defense Robert Gates.  In turn, the president is bringing in General David Petraeus, present Afghan War Commander, former Centcom commander, and former [...]

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Israeli entrepreneurs, fearing BDS and UN recognition of Palestine, announce new peace initiative

by News Sources 06.14.2011

Richard Silverstein writes: In a sign of the rising specter of BDS and its potential impact on Israel’s export driven economy (50% of its value is in exports), a group of 80 of the nation’s most important business leaders, met in closed session (Hebrew) sponsored by a peace group called Israel Initiates (website), to address [...]

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Syria widens army action in crackdown on restive region

by News Sources 06.14.2011

The New York Times reports: The Syrian military expanded its deployment of forces to restive regions in the north and east of Syria on Tuesday, as hundreds of civilians displaced by the crackdown huddled in muddy olive groves near the Turkish border, where some lacked shelter and food, residents said. The scenes on both sides [...]

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