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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. Don’t for a second think that any of it was torture! Those acts committed on prisoners captured in the Global War on Terror and...
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Twenty years since the appalling images of detainees in Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq emerged, a civil lawsuit filed by some of those former prisoners will finally proceed. CACI, a Virginia-based contractor, is being sued for supplying the interrogators...
by C0RI0LANUS
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on Fri Apr 12, 2024 at 04:42 AM PDT
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According to Mint Press News, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) have been waging a systematic and brutal campaign of maiming or imprisoning Palestinian soccer players over the past ten to twelve years. Warning: Some readers will find the testimonials at...
by C0RI0LANUS
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on Sun Mar 31, 2024 at 07:36 AM PDT
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After IDF raided the Zaytoun quarter of Gaza City in Dec 2023, Hadeel al-Dahdouh, a mother of two, was abducted by Israeli soldiers and thrown into the back of the truck pictured above. Hadeel al-Dahdouh was separated from her breastfeeding son for...
by C0RI0LANUS
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on Thu Mar 28, 2024 at 01:38 PM PDT
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. How strange to be living through it a second time, however different the form. I’m thinking, of course, about a devastating set of...
by TomDispatch
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on Tue Jan 09, 2024 at 07:09 AM PST
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While only one acknowledged war criminal died this week, Henry Kissinger impacted Americans to a rather minor extent compared to the consequences of the career of the most recent dead Republican. Ignore 99% of her decisions, opinions, & any...
by JTP42
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on Sat Dec 02, 2023 at 12:54 PM PST
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. In September 2007, Karen Greenberg ominously titled her third report for TomDispatch “Guantanamo Forever.” Give her credit. So...
by TomDispatch
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on Thu Oct 05, 2023 at 07:23 AM PDT
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The vast majority of police officers are decent people, doing a dirty and thankless job that most people would never consider. However, there is a sufficient number of people who become cops because they are power hungry and love brutality. The level...
by danarheaelliott
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on Wed Aug 16, 2023 at 03:25 PM PDT
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A bit dramatic of a title, but bear with me. My second diary, because I have a lot of thoughts and opinions. It starts with a story, and I forewarn will be a bit of a rant at times. In my thirties and painfully underemployed (There’s a good record for...
by Angry Pidgeon
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on Sun Jul 30, 2023 at 03:43 AM PDT
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. It could be the greatest crime in history and that, believe me, is saying a lot. I’m talking, of course, about the broiling of a...
by TomDispatch
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on Tue Jul 25, 2023 at 07:42 AM PDT
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is hoping to win the presidency by positioning himself as Donald Trump without the feral, off-putting personality. Or any personality, really. Does a subtly pained facial expression brought on by six days without a bowel...
by Aldous J Pennyfarthing
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on Thu Jul 20, 2023 at 11:37 AM PDT
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I first posted an abbreviated version of this essay on Independence Day in 2007. As the years go by, it seems to me that we should be paying more attention to the writings of brilliant authors like George Orwell and Howard Zinn. They force us to...
by JekyllnHyde
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on Tue Jul 04, 2023 at 03:13 PM PDT
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. In January 2005, I began my introduction to the first piece Karen Greenberg ever wrote for TomDispatch this way: “Pick a week, any...
by TomDispatch
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on Thu May 25, 2023 at 07:34 AM PDT
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Condoleezza Rice has a long and distinguished resume. She has a doctorate in International Studies from the University of Denver and was provost at Stanford University during the 1990s. During the Bush administration (2001-2009), Rice was National...
by Alan Singer
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on Wed May 03, 2023 at 04:12 PM PDT
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Also: 20th anniv. of U.S. invasion of Iraq (still no accountability) DeSantis was instrumental in torture at Gitmo Callers ring in on all of the above... I have no idea what this week is going to bring. As noted on today's BradCast, nobody, save for...
by TheBradBlog
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on Mon Mar 20, 2023 at 06:22 PM PDT
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The March issue of Harper’s prints the transcript of a podcast containing a dialogue between Mike Prysner, an Iraqi war veteran, and Mansur Ahmad Saad al-Dayfi, a former detainee at Guantanamo, “probably a low-level fighter,” first detained in 2002,...
by kay dub
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on Thu Feb 23, 2023 at 12:31 PM PST
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Well, it was a hell of a State of the Union speech, probably the best I’ve seen in my lifetime. Throughout it, though, multiple Republicans rudely interrupted the president by shouting, “Secure the border!” It’s important to remember what happened when...
by thomhartmann
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on Wed Feb 08, 2023 at 08:15 AM PST
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One of the most persistent right-wing memes is that “the media” is left-wing, or at least liberal. Donald Trump’s constant slagging of the media as “fake news” and “enemies of America” with a “liberal agenda” is reinforced by far-right politicians and...
by CarolEllison
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on Thu Jan 05, 2023 at 09:01 AM PST
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www.tt.com/… www.abc.net.au/… thewest.com.au/… Investigators in Ukraine's recently liberated southern Kherson region have uncovered 63 bodies with signs of torture after Russian forces left the area. "We must understand that the search has only just...
by ca cokz
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on Thu Nov 17, 2022 at 02:00 AM PST
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The times are not changing...Gay Afghan student murdered by Taliban as violence against LGBTQ+ rises Many of us in the gay community are not shocked by such news. For a small bit of time slaughter and torture of our brothers and sisters in Saudi Arabia, Iran, Afghanistan looked like it might be slowing down as the war against the Taliban brought about...
by CameronProf
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on Tue Oct 18, 2022 at 04:10 AM PDT
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