The report summary is a very disturbing read. Will the full 6,000-page committee report be declassified? Will it push the Obama administration to prosecute those responsible for torture as international law requires? Unless criminal acts carry criminal penalties, there is little to prevent a future president from using torture again.
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Analysis Bulatlat.com Progressive analysts are raising the alarm over the rise of fascism. And they are not referring to neo-nazi groups in Europe, although these are on the rise too especially after the 2008 crisis, and governments in Europe began shifting the blame for the lack in jobs to immigrants. They are…
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
“The general profiling of people as ‘friend’ or ‘enemy’ on the basis of their tweets and email is definitely dangerous and must be stopped.” – Bayan Muna Rep. Neri Colmenares
The economic blockade on Cuba, which has been in effect for 50 years, is the longest that has been imposed on any nation. This violates Cuba’s sovereignty and the Cuban people’s right to self-determination. It is a unilateral, flagrant act of aggression by the US. By BENJIE OLIVEROS Analysis Bulatlat.com Fifty one years ago, on…
By JEREMY SCAHILL The Nation / Alternet International Posted by Bulatlat.com One of the most incendiary details in the documents is that Blackwater sought to become the “intel arm” of Monsanto, offering to provide operatives to infiltrate activist groups. Over the past several years, entities closely linked to the private security firm Blackwater have provided…
By JANE MAYER CommonDreams.org/The New Yorker International Posted by Bulatlat.com On September 11, 2006, the fifth anniversary of Al Qaeda’s attacks on America, another devastating terrorist plot was meant to unfold. Radical Islamists had set in motion a conspiracy to hijack seven passenger planes departing from Heathrow Airport, in London, and blow them up in…
By TOM ENGELHARDT & NICK TURSE Common Dreams.org International Posted by Bulatlat It was a Christmas and New Year’s from hell for American intelligence, that $75 billion labyrinth of at least 16 major agencies and a handful of minor ones. As the old year was preparing to be rung out, so were our intelligence agencies,…
By MELVIN A. GOODMAN Truthout International Logistics will be the key to introducing 30,000 soldiers and Marines into Afghanistan in the next six to seven months and to confronting the Taliban over the next 18 months. This reflects an old saying in the military – amateurs study strategy and professionals study logistics. Nevertheless, no one…
By ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO
The Asia Foundation, a “charity group” founded and funded by the CIA that represents American political and economic interests in Asia, is now part of a group that would help facilitate the peace process between the Philippine government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front.
Jay Bybee, in thanks for his being the loyal soldier to the Bush administration’s policies of torture, was nominated and confirmed by the US Senate as a judge on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, where he sits to this day in his lifetime appointment. Jay Bybee, an author of torture, reportedly has a placard…
Obama’s intent to immunize those who broke the law violates his constitutional duty to “take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed.” BY MARJORIE COHN AlterNet INTERNATIONAL Posted by Bulatlat When I testified last year before the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties about Bush interrogation policies, Congressman Trent…