World-News

By Reuters

The list, obtained by Reuters, bears the endorsement of seven senior provincial and central government officials, including an Afghan two-star general who headed a task force dispatched by the government to investigate the incident.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22603.htm



"We Are Helping The Taliban"

By Ron Paul

We are inciting the very terrorism and extremism we are trying to stop.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22600.htm



McChrystal Choice Suggests Special Ops Strikes Will Continue

By Gareth Porter

McChrystal's background sends a very different message from the one claimed by Gates and the news media. His long specialisation in counter-terrorism operations suggests an officer who is likely to have more interest in targeted killings than in the kind of politically sensitive counterinsurgency programmes that the Obama administration has said it intends to carry out.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22601.htm



Did Newly Announced Top Afghan General Run Cheney's Assassination Wing?

By Muriel Kane

Speaking to a University of Minnesota audience in March, Hersh called JSOC "a special wing of our special operations community that is set up independently. ... They do not report to anybody, except in the Bush-Cheney days, they reported directly to the Cheney office. ... Congress has no oversight of it. ... It's an executive assassination ring essentially, and it's been going on and on and on."

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22606.htm



The Hidden Hand of Dick Cheney

By Juan Cole

Out of office, he continues to push his tortured version of reality -- and his vision of an imperial presidency -- and there are signs he is succeeding.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22609.htm



Pelosi The Enabler

By Robert Scheer

Should the members of the 9/11 Presidential Commission not have been informed that two of the "key witnesses" upon whom their report was based had provided the information critical to the report's conclusions only after being waterboarded a total of 266 times?

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22608.htm

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Human Rights Groups: General Allowed Abuses
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/05/18



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