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06/29/09--15:24: Obama to Approve Indefinite Detentions (chan 2227535)

NEW YORK, Jun 29 (IPS) - As President Barack Obama struggles with the political backlash from a Congress determined to keep Guantanamo terrorism suspects out of the U.S., his administration is reportedly preparing an executive order that would give him authority to hold prisoners indefinitely without trial, according to weekend media reports. News of the order was reported by and ProPublica, an independent investigative newsroom, and published Saturday by and later by . It would involve some 90 Guantanamo detainees who are regarded as "too dangerous to release" but who cannot be tried in U.S. criminal courts because evidence against them was gathered by cooperating foreign...


07/05/09--06:37: Justice demands release of 55 Guantanamo prisoners (chan 2227535)

The plight of Guantanamo detainees grows only more distressing. President Obama’s encouraging quick promise to close Gitmo has given way to the threat — particularly shocking from a constitutional law professor — of “prolonged detention.” Most of the detainees were turned in by Afghanis seven years ago for the large rewards we carelessly bestowed. The 775 incarcerated have dwindled to some 245, with only 10 tried (plus one currently...


07/10/09--15:30: Deborah's Articles (chan 2227535)

Showing: Most recent articles Cynthia McKinney media blackout predictable: Roseanne Barr interview and Cointelpro (Part 1) Friday, July 10th, 2009 Part I of III: Roseanne Barr interviews Cynthia McKinney about discrediting Many Americans have recently expressed... Keep Reading » CA Senate to vote on multi-million dollar youth cannon fodder program: fast-tracking JROTC AB1569 Thursday, July 9th, 2009  Desperate to recruit cannon fodder any way possible, Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (JROTC)......


08/06/09--05:00: Six months of Immunity (chan 2227535)

Drafted in preparation for panel discussion at Veterans for Peace national convention August 7, 2009, on topic of "Holding the Architects of Illegal Wars and War Crimes Accountable." Seven years to the day after the Downing Street Minutes meeting at which top British officials famously discussed U.S. President George W. Bush's intent to launch a war against Iraq whether or not any means could be found to legalize it, on July 23rd, the United Nations hosted a discussion of ways in which wars of aggression are given pseudo-legal cover. Included were remarks by Jean Bricmont and Noam Chomsky. It is not hard to imagine how different such discussions would be were the architects of the Iraq War...


09/27/09--18:23: Supreme Court faces decisions on two key terror cases (chan 2227535)

WASHINGTON — Graphic photos of U.S. troops abusing Iraqi prisoners present the Supreme Court with its latest, but not its last, national-security legal dilemma. On Tuesday, justices will meet privately to consider the incendiary photos, as well as a case involving Chinese Muslim men who've been held without charges at the military detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba . Both legal disputes could become the highest-profile national security conflicts of the Supreme Court term that starts Oct. 5 . These cases, and others like them, also demonstrate how the Obama administration is defending some of the Bush administration's most controversial anti-terrorism policies. Fundamental...


11/22/09--09:29: Father Roy SOA Watch Nobel Peace Prize nomination announced at annual vigil (chan 2227535)

Photo: Father Roy Bourgeois/SOAW Father Roy Bourgeois, MM, and School of the Americas Watch (SOA Watch) have been nominated for one of the most prestigious awards in the world - the Nobel Peace Prize - for their sustained, faithful, nonviolent witness against disappearances, torture, and murder of hundreds of thousands of civilians (peasants, community and union organizers, clerics, missionaries, educators, and health workers) by foreign military personnel trained by the U.S. military at U.S. taxpayer expense at School of the Americas at Fort Benning, Georgia. The candidacy of Father Roy and SOA Watch for the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize has been officially submitted to the Nobel Committee in...


11/23/09--00:41: Human Rights defenders cross line. Celebs and thousands others gathered to shut School Of Assassins (chan 2227535)

Thousands call to shut SOA terror training school at Fort Benning (Photo by Linda Panetta, SOAW, 2009) Thousands including dozens of celebrities gathered at the gates of Fort Benning, Georgia this weekend, standing against oppressive U.S. foreign policy and speaking in defense of real and direct democracy, for life, justice, liberty, dignity and peace reports School of the Americas Watch (SOAW, Thousands are calling for the closure of  SOA and for Justice in the Americas, November 22, 2009) Human Rights workers jailed, torturers and assassins still free Following the announcement of 'Father Roy' and SOAW's nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize and the procession, several hundred...


12/13/09--13:58: Web of FBI, DOJ criminal racket targeting individual whistleblowers hits the skies (chan 2227535)

DHS-TSA greatest security breach since 911 says Airline Whistleblower Hit-listed Targeted Individuals call for Senate Judiciary Committee investigation TI David Kelly's murder requires inquest that would highlight Iraq WMD myth and UK-US war crimes Ban Ki-moon pledges to fight discrimination that targets individuals vulnerable to attack Celebrity Sherry Jackson slow-kill target pleads for help Punitive actions against these honest public servants send chilling signals to other would-be whistleblowers… - Captain Dan Hanley Self-identified targeted individuals’ claims of persecution and widespread, systemic Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Department of Justice (DOJ)...


12/13/09--15:25: Top-level nationwide criminal racket targeting individual whistleblowers hits the skies (chan 2227535)

DHS-TSA greatest security breach since 911 says Airline Whistleblower Hit-listed Targeted Individuals call for Senate Judiciary Committee investigation TI David Kelly's murder requires inquest that would highlight Iraq WMD myth and UK-US war crimes Ban Ki-moon pledges to fight discrimination that targets individuals vulnerable to attack Celebrity Sherry Jackson slow-kill target pleads for help Punitive actions against these honest public servants send chilling signals to other would-be whistleblowers… - Captain Dan Hanley Nationwide criminal racket involving top-level government agencies such as DHS and DOJ threatens national security and targets whistleblowers Self-identified...


12/13/09--22:04: Human Rights Day 2009 in US was a day to weep (video) (chan 2227535)

Human Rights Day 2009 in the US was no cause to celebrate.  Conscious Americans know HR Day in the US was a day to weep. The decision to escalate Afghanistan War should put the final nail in the coffin of "change" and "hope" that Americans crawled into when they supported Obama is what many Americans knew this Human Rights day, perhaps none summarizing this better than founder of Citizens for Ligitimate  Government, Michael Rectenwald.  Rectenwald wrote about continued human rights violations committed in the name of Americans in 2009: Democrats are no less the corporate bailers and militarists than the Republicans. They hand trillions to the banks and...


12/16/09--16:29: Closing Guantanamo: an assessment (chan 2227535)

Balakrishnan Rajagopal By now, it is clear that the Obama administration will miss its self-imposed deadline of January 22, 2010 to close down the Guantanamo prison, as President Obama himself has admitted. With this, the United States could begin to look like it is sliding back to its bad old days of lawlessness when seen as part of a troubling trend of worsening human rights commitments. Its own fault The Obama administration's failure to close down Guantanamo is entirely due to its own fault as it was caught in an impossible maze of contradictions from the start. First, while the Obama administration promised to close down Guantanamo, it continued to assert its right to hold some...


12/18/09--18:45: Guantanamo North, and East (chan 2227535)

President Obama's scramble to close Guantanamo is picking up speed as his arbitrary one-year deadline approaches, with Yemen and Illinois as the latest detainee destinations. Neither decision will enhance U.S. security. The government of Yemen announced yesterday that it will take six detainees, and more could follow if this transfer goes smoothly. Yemenis account for 97 of the 210 men still left at Gitmo, and 34 have been cleared for release. The problem is that Yemen is emerging as one of the world's sanctuaries for al Qaeda, and its government has essentially run a nonaggression pact with the terrorists. View Full Image Associated Press Terrorist Said Ali al-Shihri The U.S. says it will...


01/06/10--08:00: New Year shadowed by tragic execution of Akmal Shaikh (chan 2227535)

Related articles Firing squad Christmas execution prevention   Vigil to halt China's firing squad execution of mentally ill Akmal   U.S. hiding 27,000 kidnapped people in hell-hole ships and prisons   More than embarrassing scandal: torture a war crime Part II   We will not be silent. Dupré interviews Torture Judge Bybee protester Sharon Tipton             Akmal Shaikh by Paul Newberry/Reprieve The New Year began for Reprieve shadowed by the tragic execution of Akmal Shaikh in China, on 29th December. Clive Stafford Smith, Reprieve's director, said, "Despite having flown to China to be with him, Akmal...


01/06/10--17:01: Human rights anti-torturers to hunger fast (chan 2227535)

More than embarrassing scandal: torture a war crime requiring accountability We will not be silent. Dupré interviews Torture Judge Bybee protester Sharon Tipton Whistleblow justice: 9 torturers jailed due to 1 tortured woman's 33 years of courage U.S. hiding 27,000 kidnapped people in hell-hole ships and prisons Who was tortured among 1st of 4 generations of secret soldier assassins? Human Rights info 101 View all »...


01/11/10--14:29: At eight, Guantanamo allows little hope (chan 2227535)

By Andy Worthington Commentary by Tuesday, January 12, 2010 - Powered by One year ago, as President George W. Bush prepared to leave office, there were high hopes that Barack Obama would move swiftly to undo his administration’s ruinous legacy of torture, “extraordinary rendition” and indefinite detention without charge or trial. The most potent icon of the Bush administration’s overreaction to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, was the “war on terror” prison in the US naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, which opened on January 11, 2002. The new president started well, freezing the much-criticized Military Commission trial system on his...


01/18/10--12:38: Obama's Gitmo (chan 2227535)

On his second day on the job, President Barack Obama promised to shut down Guantánamo by January 22, 2010. As we near the deadline, the U.S. detention center remains open, and nearly 200 detainees are still being held at the prison, including dozens already cleared for release. To mark the ninth year of detaining prisoners without charge or trial, human rights activists are protesting in Washington, D.C. On Monday, January 11, Witness Against Torture and the Center for Constitutional Rights collaborated on a vigil in front of the White House and a briefing at the National Press Club, where two former detainees at Gitmo addressed the audience via phone and video link. “Nothing’s...


01/22/10--17:23: Guantanamo detainee fate rests with US judges: analysts (chan 2227535)

A US military guard walks past an inmate at the maximum security prison of ... Members of Witness Against Torture wear orange jumpsuits as they protest in... A US Army guard opens the gate at Camp Delta at Guantanamo Naval Base in Gu... A year after President Barack Obama ordered Guantanamo closed, the prison remains intact and some 50 detainees appear set to be locked up indefinitely. But civilian judges still have the final say over their detention, analysts say. A Justice Department-led task force has recommended that the 50 prisoners be held indefinitely because they are too dangerous to release and evidence against them is insufficient for a criminal trial, the Washington Post reported...


01/22/10--17:46: Over 54 anti-torture Americans arrested: ACLU and AI call for mass citizen action (chan 2227535)

Related articles Human rights anti-torturers plan hunger fast   Whistleblow justice: 9 torturers jailed due to 1 tortured woman's 33 years of courage   Judge releases innocent 7-yr Guantanamo torture survivor   IndictBushNow launching ad campaign: 'Torture wrong, illegal and no one is above the law'   Announce Torture Commission in State Address Pres Obama: Counter Terror with Justice More than fifty-four Americans against torture were arrested in Washington D.S. yesterday. Today marks the eight-year anniversary of the opening of the Guantanamo prison and one year since President Obama ordered the closing of the Guantánamo Bay detention facility within the year. (...


01/28/10--15:40: Review finds most Guantanamo detainees should be released or transferred (chan 2227535)

MIAMI -- A yearlong review of evidence against men who are being held as terrorism suspects at Guantanamo has concluded that most of them should be released or transferred to third countries. The review has angered human rights advocates, however, by concluding that "roughly" 50 of the detainees should be held indefinitely, even though there isn't enough valid evidence to prosecute them. Only 35 of the men should face trial, either in civilian or military courts, the review concluded. That's far fewer than the 60 or 70 cases that the Pentagon's chief prosecutor has said his unit is preparing to try before military commissions. The review, whose results have been divulged to a handful of...


01/29/10--23:28: Video: 3-city action to impeach 'Torture Judge' Bybee (chan 2227535)

Related articles LA Human Rights defenders to take on Torture Judge Bybee at Court   We will not be silent. Dupré interviews Torture Judge Bybee protester Sharon Tipton   Bye-bye Bybee movement mounting, protesting 'torture judge' healthy   What did Arianna Huffington say about torture? Human Rights info 101   UN International Day in Support of Victims of Torture marked by two US victories Any act complicit in torture is a felony under US law. Thursday, February 4 at 9:00 a.m., human rights defenders in three cities plan to simultaneously participate in an action to demand the impeachment of  'Torture Judge' Jay Bybee, primary author of "legal" memos...


02/21/10--00:36: (Video) Tortue memo author John Yoo speech disrupted at Johns Hopkins Univ (chan 2227535)

Related articles We will not be silent. Dupré interviews Torture Judge Bybee protester Sharon Tipton   LA Human Rights defenders to take on Torture Judge Bybee at Court   Bye-bye Bybee movement mounting, protesting 'torture judge' healthy   IndictBushNow launching ad campaign: 'Torture wrong, illegal and no one is above the law'   UK Gov attempts to hide torture evidence will fail says Reprieve Wednesday evening, Feb. 17, 2010, John Yoo, torture memo author, gave a talk on the campus of the Johns Hopkins University in...


03/06/10--11:20: Redemption from 'Gift from Christ' given to Guantanamo detainee while being tortured (chan 2227535)

“Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo,” the new documentary film, directed by Polly Nash and Andy Worthington (and inspired by Andy’s book, The Guantánamo Files), highlights how the film provides an opportunity for redemption of Christians with blood on their hands by supporting giving a "gift from Christ' while torturing people, as the film documents was done, and being unspportive of detaines' fair trials and holding perpetrators accountable. (See trailer in 2nd video below). Widespread viewing and learning from this film could mean that those God-fearing people misguided by wolves in sheeps clothing could escape the fear-based propaganda and other...


03/11/10--15:53: False reporting on LA's falsely imprisoned political prisoner Richard Fine (chan 2227535)

Related articles by this ExaminerExtreme human rights deprivation in LA due to DOJ fraud allegations: FIP Complaints urged  Dept of 'Justice' traitors protect liars and sinners - no one else safe says PsySR's Soldz  Sheriff hospitalizing 2 attorneys questioned  Human target: Petition to free Atty R Fine kidnapped-tortured in LA  Peace Platica TI Gang Peacemaker Alex Sanchez 1 of est 30,000 LA FIPs  (Video) Sun. school teacher faces TX execution unless global pressure to Supreme Ct stops scandal New Year shadowed by tragic execution of Akmal Shaikh Tribute to Akmal Shaikh: Create your own rabbit song Film about American award-winning journalist on death row, Mumia...


03/31/10--18:02: Judge rebukes Bush/Obama state secrets and rules spying on group violated fed'l law (chan 2227535)

(video) Pentagon targets Wiki Whistblowers for exposing its dirty secrets Expose and Expunge Targeted Individuals of domestic spying racket Shocking state secret: PATRIOT ACT illegal spy domestic terror campaign against Whistleblowing TIs (video) 'Guilty for Life': New bill for military to lock up Americans indefinitely without trial Directed Energy Weapons aimed at American targets: Learning opportunity View all »...


05/23/10--05:00: Guantanamo forever? (chan 2227535)

Since January 2002, almost 800 prisoners of the US "war on terror" have passed through Guantanamo's gates, arriving on flights from the Middle East and other secret sites. Once there, they are held in harsh conditions and interrogated using techniques that have greatly damaged the US' reputation around the globe. Lieutenant Colonel Darrel Vandeveld was a prosecutor at Guantanamo in 2007 and 2008 for the office of military commissions. He arrived in Guantanamo after serving in Iraq. "I was a true believer. I, like a lot of people, assumed that everyone at Guantanamo was a terrorist. Everyone was guilty," he says. One of Vandefeld's first assignments was to prosecute Mohammed Jawad, an...


06/11/10--05:40: Anti-Guantanamo Activists Face Trial (chan 2227535)

WAT protest http://www.witnesstorture.org If you like this ... The Audacity of Imperial Hubris: Obama in Oslo How Big Oil Bought the Interior Department Obama’s State of the Union: Year One of a Corporate Presidency When it Comes to War, Obama Delivers Anti-war Movement Pushes Forward in DC View all »...


06/23/10--05:00: Witness Against Torture: Why We Must Act (chan 2227535)

Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. U.S. Constitution Amendment I An old cliché says that anyone who has herself for a lawyer has a fool for a client. Nevertheless, going to trial in Washington, D.C., this past June 14, I and twenty-three other defendants prepared a pro se defense. Acting as our own lawyers in court, we aimed to defend a population that finds little voice in our society at all, and to bring a sort of prosecution against their persecutors. Months earlier, on January 21st, we had held a memorial vigil for three...


08/08/10--17:25: Exclusive: Caught in America's legal black hole (chan 2227535)

Have a nice flight with Country Airlines," said the smiling stewardess, "and enjoy your trip." Standing on the gangway of the Sun Country 737, she could have been welcoming us aboard a jet bound for any one of America's favourite holiday destinations. But the US military-chartered aircraft taking off from the Andrews Air Force Base in Washington this weekend was heading for somewhere not altogether known for its leisure facilities. As we approached the US naval base of Guantanamo Bay on the edge of Cuba's south-east coast, I wondered about the legality of the ominously wide terms of the liability waiver form I had to sign on condition of entry. Under these agreements, journalists are warned...


08/09/10--02:26: Caught in America's legal black hole (chan 2227535)

Have a nice flight with Country Airlines," said the smiling stewardess, "and enjoy your trip." Standing on the gangway of the Sun Country 737, she could have been welcoming us aboard a jet bound for any one of America's favourite holiday destinations. But the US military-chartered aircraft taking off from the Andrews Air Force Base in Washington this weekend was heading for somewhere not altogether known for its leisure facilities. As we approached the US naval base of Guantanamo Bay on the edge of Cuba's south-east coast, I wondered about the legality of the ominously wide terms of the liability waiver form I had to sign on condition of entry. Under these agreements, journalists are warned...


11/21/10--02:06: Four targeted journalists arrested (video) (chan 2227535)

"It is truer today, than ever before, that although they jail the resisters, they have not, and cannot, jail the resistance." ~ Father Roy Bourgeois, ____________________________________________________________________________ Four targeted journalists were among twenty-six people arrested today as thousands of human rights defenders converged at Fort Benning gates for the 20th Anniversary of the November Vigil to Close the School of the Americas, the U.S. military training school dedicated to teaching new terrorists to commit war crimes: torture, disappearing and assassinating. SOA trains participants to commit war crimes that human rights defenders oppose as a patriotic, moral duty. The...


12/21/10--20:55: Obama weighs review process for Guantanamo detainees (chan 2227535)

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration is considering the creation of a review process for Guantanamo Bay detainees who are deemed too dangerous to be released but who cannot be tried in either civilian or military courts. Detainees participate in an early morning prayer session at Camp IV at the detention facility in Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base August 5, 2009. (REUTERS/Deborah Gembara/Files) An administration official confirmed that an executive order had been drafted that would establish "periodic reviews" for prolonged detentions. But the official...


01/10/11--12:57: US: Act on Pledge to Close Guantanamo (chan 2227535)

(Washington, DC) - US President Barack Obama should ramp up efforts to prosecute in federal court or otherwise return and resettle detainees at the military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, now entering its tenth year, Human Rights Watch said today. Congressional obstacles to closing Guantanamo should invigorate, not dampen, Obama administration efforts to ensure US compliance with international law, Human Rights Watch said. "Closing Guantanamo is as essential today as it was when President Obama took office in 2009," said Andrea Prasow, senior counterterrorism counsel at Human Rights Watch. "But Obama can't keep hoping that a political consensus will form and Congress...


03/09/11--04:00: Obama Orders Resumption of Military Trials at Guantanamo (chan 2227535)

President Barack Obama on Monday announced the lifting of a 25-month stay on new military trials at the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba prison camp, effectively repudiating his post-inauguration pledge to close the infamous facility. In a White House announcement, Obama said he had ordered the Defense Department to lift the order, issued on the first full day of his administration over two years ago, suspending the filing of new charges in the military commissions at the camp. Obama at the time presented the order as the first step in shutting the facility within a year. Administration officials said new charges against some of the 172 detainees remaining at the prison would be filed...


04/11/11--10:16: Obama rebuked on Bradley Manning torture as Clinton condemns China rights abuses (chan 2227535)

As Hillary Clinton points her human rights violation finger at China, an outpouring of United States legal professors have signed a letter condemning the present human rights violations of alleged WikiLeaks source, Sgt. Bradley Manning, only one of an untold number of American prisoners reportedly tortured and suspected war criminal, Torture Judge Jay Bybee is protested for his continual serving on the bench in Pasadena, California. US human rights abuses spotlighted this week "The letter regarding humiliation of Manning, signed by 250, mostly law professors, and the previous letter signed by over 100 law professor, regarding ethics, or lack thereof, in conduct of the US Supreme Court...


04/20/11--07:34: Manning to move after UN censures US for human rights abuses (chan 2227535)

Only days after the United Nations issued an official and rare criticism of United States for its human rights violations of Army Private Bradley Manning, the American soldier accused of being the WikiLeaks source and held in a military prison is scheduled to be moved from the Marine Corps base at Quantico, Virginia where he has been allegedly tortured. Associate Press reported Tuesday afternoon, "U.S. officials say the Army private suspected of giving classified data to WikiLeaks is being moved to Fort Leavenworth in Kansas in the wake of international criticism about his treatment during his detention at the Marine Corps base at Quantico, Va." Officials speaking on condition of anonymity...


05/29/11--10:34: Explosive report reveals worse human rights violations of Bradley Manning(video) (chan 2227535)

Explosive report reveals worse human rights violations of Bradley Manning United States government human rights violations of Targeted Individual Bradley Manning, accused of giving thousands of documents revealing typically committed U.S. war crimes to Wikileaks, are even more grave than revealed over the past year in that he "should never have been sent to Iraq" due to a mental disability according to The Guardian investigative film released Friday. The new evidence is due to fuel more intensive Free Manning Protests planned for June 4th where Manning is now held indefinitely at Fort Leavenworth Prison, and protests planned throughout the nation in coming days. The Guardian newspaper (UK)...


07/14/11--14:50: Exclusive: ICC is worst justice say key US rights, justice leaders (chan 2227535)

"Until the greatest purveyors of violence are held accountable, credibility of the court will remain low and violence will continue." Kevin Zeese communique with Deborah Dupré, July 14, 2011 Leading American human rights, justice leaders say ICC is causing 'more harm than good' On Thursday, in preparation for International Justice Day 2011 on July 17, some of America's key human rights and justice leaders stated strong disagreement with the International Criminal Court (ICC) actions, calling it the worst form of justice, while William Pace, Convenor of the Coalition for the International Criminal Court (CICC) advised online conference...


07/20/11--08:52: Prisoners leak urgent call for American solidarity: Pelican Prison Strike Day 19 (chan 2227535)

"I thank Pelican Bay Inmates for standing up for their rights and I thank them because of the hunger strike they started. They are not only changing inhumane conditions for themselves, but are also helping change inhumane conditions within ALL California Prisons, including inhumane conditions at Calipatria State Prison." Anonymous Calipatria Prison inmate family member message to Deborah Dupré, Day 19, Pelican Bay Prison Hunger Strike Mass starvation, high heat prompt message for urgent support at Calipatria Prison On Tuesday, Day 19 of Pelican Bay Prison Hunger Strike, a message from 300 of California's Calipatria Prison inmates sent to the Examiner requested urgent support...


09/08/11--07:06: Cheney 'War Criminal' protest crowd at his book talk (chan 2227535)

Dick Cheney promoting his new book was met by approximately 75 human rights defenders wanting him indicted for war crimes, wearing orange jumpsuits and black hoods, chanting in megaphones outside Nixon Presidential Library & Museum in the conservative Yorba Linda, Orange County, CA. Wednesday night before the former Vice President's presentation there. “There is nothing more important than the right of people to express their opinions,” Cheney told the crowd who paid $75.00 to hear him. “Their freedom to speak is guaranteed by the Constitution,” he said, after police escorted two women out of the library for voicing their opposition to him according...


09/08/11--10:00: US detention policy: Exposing the dark side (chan 2227535)

Days after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the Bush administration started making decisions that led to the official authorisation of torture tactics, indefinite incommunicado detention and the denial of habeas corpus for people who would be detained at Guantánamo, Bagram, or "black sites" (secret prisons) run by the CIA, kidnappings, forced disappearances and extraordinary rendition to foreign countries to exploit their torturing services. While some of those practices were canceled when Barack Obama took office in January 2009, others continue to characterise US detention policy in the "war on terror". Even the canceled policies continue to stain the record because...


09/10/11--10:19: Obama inherits and embraces a 'legal mess' (chan 2227535)

Days after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the Bush administration started making decisions that led to the official authorisation of torture tactics, indefinite incommunicado detention and the denial of habeas corpus for people who would be detained at Guantánamo, Bagram, or "black sites" (secret prisons) run by the CIA, kidnappings, forced disappearances and extraordinary rendition to foreign countries to exploit their torturing services. While some of those practices were canceled when Barack Obama took office in January 2009, others continue to characterise US detention policy in the "war on terror". Even the canceled policies continue to stain the record because...


09/16/11--07:13: Targeted 911 rights defenders Paul Krugman, Medea Benjamin need support (chan 2227535)

Human rights groups urge public to defend Targeted Individual 911 Whistleblowers After New York Times columnist Paul Krugman honored 9/11 victims in the paper's Op-Ed section, writing truth about killing and torture in their names, and CODEPINK cofounder Medea Benjamin defended his statement on Fox News, both of them are being targeted, prompting human rights groups Change.org and CODEPINK to call for the public to petition The New York Times' Arthur S. Brisbane, being pressured to fire Krugman. "How many of our professional pundits — people who should have understood very well what was happening — took the easy way out, turning a blind eye...


11/15/11--17:21: Leopold on U.S. costly Gitmo, torture, leaders' pushing human rights abuse (chan 2227535)

Miami Herald's Carol Rosenberg reported last week that Americans are paying $800.000 annually to house so-called terror suspects at Gitmo detainee facility, a report that Mother Jones highlights this week as Jason Leapold answers in a Russia Today Television interview why President Obama failed to keep his campaign promise to close the facility that human rights defenders condemn the U.S. for its human rights abuses committed there. "The Pentagon detention center that started out in January 2002 as a collection of crude open-air cells guarded by Marines in a muddy tent city is today arguably the most expensive prison on earth, costing taxpayers $800,000 annually for each of the 171...


11/22/11--08:39: U.S. human rights abuser using PSYOP against Iran: Shocking torture video proof (chan 2227535)

US manipulating Iranian human rights to justify committing worse violations against it Countries responsible for the most human rights accusations against Iran rank first in the list of human rights violators if their performances are examined in a fair and impartial manner said Iranian Foreign Minister spokesman Tuesday, citing United States crimes of American agents in Iraq and Afghanistan, crimes against Palestinians, and crimes of torture and inhumane behaviors that U.S. civil and human rights groups also condemn. The Obama administration is manipulating Iranian human rights record in a psychological operation against Americans and others to justify illegal aggression against Iran...


11/25/11--12:17: Rights workers to ICC: Investigate officials for 1000s Mexicans tortured, killed (chan 2227535)

Human rights defenders tell ICC to investigate Mexican officials' role in the 1000s of innocent people kidnapped, tortured, assassinated - even if this crime against humanity is related to U.S. Days after Occupy Fort Benning was launched to further awareness about and close the U.S. facility that trains Mexican and other Latin American soldiers to kidnap, torture and kill civilians, a Mexican human rights lawyer, filed a complaint with the ICC in The Hague on Friday, requesting that it investigate hundreds of civilian deaths at the hands of the military and drug traffickers in Mexico where over 45,000 have died in drug-related violence since 2006. The list of journalists reporting...