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A Camp Delta sergeant blows the whistle

By Scott Horton

General Al-Zahrani grieves for his son, but at the end of a lengthy interview he paused and his thoughts turned elsewhere. "The truth is what matters," he said. "They practiced every form of torture on my son and on many others as well. What was the result? What facts did they find? They found nothing. They learned nothing. They accomplished nothing."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24431.htm



Astonishing Report: We're Executing Gitmo Prisoners and Calling It Suicide

The three "suicides" in June 2006 were not suicides at all. The men were killed during interrogations in a secret prison block and the murders were disguised to look like suicides.

http://snipurl.com/u4zpj



What Would Jesus Shoot?

U.S. Guns in Afghanistan and Iraq Bear Biblical Inscriptions Praising Christ.

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2010/01/19/crimesider/entry6116032.shtml



Murders at Gitmo?

By Conor Friedersdorf

The official report issued by the U.S. Naval Criminal Investigative Service called the deaths suicides, implausibly claiming that the trio simultaneously hung themselves in separate, non-adjacent cells after binding their own hands and shoving rags down their own throats.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24460.htm


From Information Clearing House

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Guantánamo 'Suicides' Were at Secret 'Black' Site
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/01/19-2

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Too terrible to be true?

Slate
by Dahlia Lithwick

01/20/10

Some torture stories are just too horrible to contemplate, while others are too complicated to understand. But Scott Horton’s devastating new expose of the possible murders of three prisoners at Guantanamo in 2006 is neither: It’s simply too terrible to allow to be true. Which is why it has been mostly ignored this week in the mainstream American media and paid little attention by the usual crew of torture apologists on the right...

http://www.slate.com/id/2241948/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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By Chris Hedges

Martin Luther King Day has become a yearly ritual to turn a black radical into a red-white-and-blue icon. It has become a day to celebrate ourselves for "overcoming" racism and "fulfilling" King's dream. It is a day filled with old sound bites about little black children and little white children that, given the state of America, would enrage King.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24429.htm

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How Obama is like King

The Nation
by Melissa Harris-Lacewell

01/18/10

Barack Obama accepted the Democratic nomination for the presidency on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr’s historic ‘I have a dream’ speech. He was inaugurated the day after our national holiday celebrating the life and accomplishments of Dr. King. Many asked if Obama’s presidency was the realization of King’s dream. Cultural products, from t-shirts to YouTube videos, linked Obama’s election to King’s legacy. Some observers have made far less complimentary comparisons between the men...

http://tinyurl.com/yeo475n


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Killing the dream
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/89.html

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Hard Lessons of a Rookie Year

Eugene Robinson: "President Obama begins his second year in the White House with such anemic approval ratings, you'd think he was another Ronald Reagan: Among recent presidents, only the Gipper had fallen so low in the esteem of voters at this stage of his presidency."

http://www.truthout.org/hard-lessons-a-rookie-year56171



Tough Minds and Tender Hearts

Kathy Kelly, Truthout: "I spent Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday in Washington, DC, as part of the Witness Against Torture fast, which campaigns to end all forms of torture, and has worked steadily for an end to indefinite detention of people imprisoned in Guantanamo, Bagram, and other secret sites where the US has held and tortured prisoners."

http://www.truthout.org/tough-minds-and-tender-hearts56259

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Private Corporation Building Detention Camps Across America

Sprawling jail facilities sit empty in anticipation of the federal government's "ENDGAME" internment plan

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Thursday, May 27, 2010

The shadowy design firm that was behind the infamous Hardin Montana jail is pushing to build detention camps across America, with the latest proposal centering around a fifty acre, five hundred bed facility in Italy, Texas, part of a program that many Americans fear is based around a plan to intern political dissidents in the event of a national emergency.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/private-corporation-building-detention-camps-across-america.html



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The American Conservative
by Patrick J. Buchanan

The Wall Street titans thus conceded they did not foresee the housing bubble ever bursting and they did not consider the possibility of a collapse in value of the sub-prime mortgage securities piled up on their books. Backing up Blankfein’s plea of ignorance and incomprehension is this: The crisis killed Lehman Brothers and would have killed every one of them had not the Treasury and Fed, neither of which saw it coming, either, intervened with hundreds of billions in bailout cash. Yet there were those who warned a housing bubble was being created like the dot-com bubble; others who predicted the Empire of Debt was coming down. As, today, there are those warning that the United States, with consecutive deficits running 10 percent of gross domestic product, is risking an eventual default on its national debt...

http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2010/01/15/is-a-u-s-default-inevitable/



A crash course on the financial meltdown

Mother Jones
by Andy Kroll

01/15/10

One outstanding question about the financial meltdown has been how the subprime collapse spread to the broader economy. Back in 2007, Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke didn’t expect any spillover from the housing crisis at all. Yet as the four Wall Street execs explained at the hearing, the mortgage securitization process — which took people’s actual mortgages and tried to make them behave like fungible assets you could trade just like stocks and bonds — led to vast amounts of Lehman Brothers-like speculation and leverage. The evaluators of these mortgage-backed securities, the credit rating agencies, only fueled the gambling by stamping their highest imprimatur on these shoddy loans. And when people stopped making their mortgage payments and the securities backed by those mortgages went sour, all these overleveraged institutions suffered huge losses that caused some to fail and others to survive only with government help...

http://motherjones.com/mojo/2010/01/work-begins-pecora-pt-ii


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig5/thoreau1.1.1.html



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By Peter Phillips

A new report (9/2/08) from The World Bank admits that in 2005 three billion one hundred and forty million people live on less that $2.50 a day and about 44% of these people survive on less than $1.25. Complete and total wretchedness can be the only description for the circumstances faced by so many.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24424.htm

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Starvation used as a political weapon
http://yahstruthseeker.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/starvation-used-as-a-political-weapon/


Informant: Dorothee Krien



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