April 2012
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To fight al-Qaida, Yemen needs aid not more... →
The US should counter al-Qaida gains by tackling poverty, not increasing drone attacks
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The C.I.A.’s Misuse of Secrecy →
By JAMEEL JAFFER and NATHAN FREED WESSLER
Published: April 29, 2012
IN Yemen, Pakistan and elsewhere the C.I.A. has used drones to kill thousands of people — including several Americans. Officials have aggressively defended the controversial program, telling journalists that it is effective, lawful and closely supervised.
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A Must Watch Piece from Democracy Now →
DEMOCRACY NOW: (please, please watch) Obama expands policy of drone violence. Hear from those protesting it and representing the victims. They are heroes.
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GREENWALD: DRONE SICKNESS →
mohandasgandhi:
“[O]ne can never emphasize enough how the U.S., through the policies undertaken in the name of the Terorrist Threat, is principally responsible for sustaining and continuously increasing that threat[…]”
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Bayan (political party): US in Philippines →
“…In addition to violating Philippine national sovereignty, Aquino’s compliance in accommodating US saber-rattling seeks to undo the 1991 landmark decision of the Philippine Senate to reject the US bases treaty that essentially shutdown permanent US military bases Subic Naval and Clark Air Field, by once again opening these ports for indefinite and “rotational” basing of US troops and...
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Ilagan Seeks Probe Into Reported Use Of US... →
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The NDAA: a clear and present danger to American... →
The US is sleepwalking into becoming a police state, where, like a pre-Magna Carta monarch, the president can lock up anyone
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Why Do Liberals Keep Sanitizing the Obama Story? →
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Human Rights in the Emerging World Order →
The article is a reflection on the importance and some of the problems involved with the practice of human rights in international relations in the age of globalization. Beginning with rights in general to claim that their justification is in protecting and advancing individual interest, and distributing power to individuals. This is the main distinctive contribution of human rights in the...
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MUST WATCH: The US media's 'Iranian threat' →
We examine US coverage of Iran and ask if a culture of journalism has emerged that ignores the dangers of conjecture.
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Repulsive progressive hypocrisy →
“”Indeed: is there even a single liberal pundit, blogger or commentator who would have defended George Bush and Dick Cheney if they (rather than Obama) had been secretly targeting American citizens for execution without due process, or slaughtering children, rescuers and funeral attendees with drones, or continuing indefinite detention even a full decade after 9/11? Please. How any...
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Glenn Greenwald: Leon Panetta’s explicitly... →
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Glenn Greenwald: ACLU sues Obama administration... →
From a certain perspective, there’s really only one point worth making about all of this: if you think about it, it is warped beyond belief that the ACLU has to sue the U.S. Government in order to force it to disclose its claimed legal and factual bases for assassinating U.S. citizens without charges, trial or due process of any kind. It’s extraordinary enough that the Obama administration is...
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Glenn Greenwald: U.S. drones targeting rescuers... →
What made [the reports] so amazing was that it basically amounts to a report that the U.S. first kills people with drones, then fires on the rescuers and others who arrive at the scene where the new corpses and injured victims lie.
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Deadly drones come to the Muslims of the... →
Early last month, Tausug villagers on the Southern Philippine island of Jolo heard a buzzing sound not heard before. It is a sound familiar to the people of Waziristan who live along Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan, where the United States fights the Taliban. It was the dreaded drone, which arrives from distant and unknown destinations to cause death and destruction. Within minutes, 15...
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U.S. Said to Target Rescuers at Drone Strike Sites →
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Obama is Getting Sued →
”What he has done is unforgivable, unconstitutional and exceedingly dangerous… Why do U.S. citizens now need to be specifically singled out for military detention and denial of due process when…the president can apparently find the legal cover to serve as judge, jury and executioner to assassinate U.S. citizens, as he did in the killing of the cleric Anwar...
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Why America's Death Penalty Just Got Us Sanctioned... →
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10 reasons the U.S. is no longer the land of the... →
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ObamaThreatens To Cut Off Intelligence To England →
…the Obama Administration reportedly threatened to cut off Britain from access to intelligence if the country told the truth about the torture of Binyam Mohamed.
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JONATHAN TURLEY →
President Barack Obama rang in the New Year by signing the NDAA law with its provision allowing him to indefinitely detain citizens. It was a symbolic moment to say the least. With Americans distracted with drinking and celebrating, Obama signed one of the greatest rollbacks of civil liberties in the history of our country … and citizens partied only blissfully into the New Year…
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CAN HUMAN RIGHTS BE SAVED? →
This is a piece I never thought I’d be writing. A unique moment is about to begin in American history.
