Stop Canadian Complicity in Torture

Unsuitable "monarchs": Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake

2011-04-28T18:58:00.000-07:00

(Billy's Elliot (the 2000 movie) ends with Billy finnally taking the stage to perform the lead in Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake).

The Torture Doctors - PLoS Medicine journal Report by psychiatrist and retired Brig. Gen. Stephen Xenakis and Vincent Iacopino (Medical adviser)

2011-04-26T12:50:00.000-07:00

Neglect of Medical Evidence of Torture in Guantánamo Bay: A Case Series

Citation: Iacopino V, Xenakis SN (2011) Neglect of Medical Evidence of Torture in Guantánamo Bay: A Case Series. PLoS Med 8(4): e1001027. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001027

Extract:
... " In reality, the implementation of EITs included “unauthorized” acts of torture, were inflicted over prolonged periods of time, and resulted in severe and prolonged physical and mental pain. The abuses reported in this case series could not be practiced without the interrogators and medical monitors being aware of the severe and prolonged physical and mental pain that they caused." ...

Full Report at:
http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.1001027

More at:

Gitmo Doctors Hid Evidence of Torture - by Spencer Ackerman - April 26, 2011

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/04/gitmo-docs-torture/

TORTURE PROGRAM - US

2011-04-26T11:43:00.000-07:00

No Wonder Congress Wants to Hide the Gitmo Detainees - The Atlantic, April 26, 2011 - by Andrew Cohen

Whatever else the latest Wikileaks dump says about our nation's inapt (and inept) handling of the terror-law detainees at Guantanamo Bay, the newly-revealed documents remind us again of the wide gulf between what Bush administration officials consistently told us about the prisoners and what was actually happening on the ground in Cuba.

President Bush called the men "the worst of the worst" when he knew they weren't. An attorney general of the United States, Alberto Gonzales, called the detainees "killers" when the clear and compelling evidence indicated otherwise. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld went even further. He called the men "among the most dangerous, best-trained, vicious killers on the face of the earth." That we've known about these and many other risible contradictions for at least the past five years makes them no more acceptable today.

We were told these lies so that we would support the political and ideological priorities of the men who told them. We were told these lies so that we would not sooner start asking good questions about the legal justification for the way the Gitmo prisoners were being treated. In the words of Andy Worthington of The Guardian, "it was important to dehumanise the men held at Guantanamo, to give life to the myth that the prison held 'the worst of the worst.'"

The truth about Gitmo is that it was always a messy concept in theory and an unwieldy proposition in practice. It was (and obviously continues to be) full of ambiguities and contradictions itself. That's what the new Gitmo revelations say to me. It all makes you wonder where we'd be today -- how much lighter the stain would be -- if our elected officials and their subordinates had simply leveled with the American people right from the start.

As part of its comprehensive coverage of the leaked documents, The New York Times offered up a great piece Monday from Scott Shane and Benjamin Weiser. They wrote:

Read the rest at:

No Wonder Congress Wants to Hide the Gitmo Detainees - The Atlantic

Old news from the south come North: criminals for hire

2011-04-14T16:53:00.000-07:00

"You Are an Idiot" - Familiar faces

2011-04-14T15:54:00.000-07:00

"Preachers of the world", just a piece of the story

2011-03-29T10:08:00.000-07:00

Why I called Bradley Manning's treatment 'stupid

by PJ Crowley - Guardian UK - March 29, 2011

Full piece at:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/mar/29/bradley-manning-wikileaks

"As a public diplomat and (until recently) spokesman of the departmente od state, I was responsible for explaining the national security policy of the United States to the American people and populations abroad. I am also a retired military officer who has long believed that our civilian power must balance our military power."....

"Based on 30 years of government experience, if you have to explain why a guy is standing naked in the middle of a jail cell, you have a policy in need of urgent review. The Pentagon was quick to point out that no women were present when he did so, which is completely beside the point. "

Andy Worthington and the connections: James Mitchel, Bruce James, CIA architects of the torture program, propaganda and more

2011-03-28T22:55:00.000-07:00

The Dark Desires of Bruce Jessen, the Architect of Bush’s Torture Program, As Revealed by His Former Friend and Colleague

by Andy Worthington - March 28, 2010

"Jessen’s template for the “full exploitation” of prisoners, rather than just their interrogation, was designed to be used for propaganda purposes, “or other needs [of] the detaining power, such as the recruitment of informers and double agents.” As he added, “Those aspects of the US detainee program have not generally been discussed as part of the torture story in the American press.”

Full article at:

http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2011/03/28/the-dark-desires-of-bruce-jessen-the-architect-of-bushs-torture-program-as-revealed-by-his-former-friend-and-colleague/

Former SERE Instructor Capt. Michael Kearns on the rush rush doing torture, Bruce Jessen, Air Force psyc ( CIA contractor) and more

2011-03-28T22:32:00.000-07:00

Former SERE Instructor Capt. Michael Kearns About The Bush Administration’s Torture Program

By The Public Record
The Public Record
Mar 24th, 2011

Image of John Bruce Jessen's handwritten notes outlining the torture program are available at Jason Leopold and Jeff Kaye Truthout Investigative Report published March 22, 2011 at:
(full article)
http://www.truth-out.org/cia-psychologists-notes-reveal-bushs-torture-program68542

James Mitchel and Brice James are both psychologists who, under contract to the CIA, are credited as being the architects of the government's top-secret torture

Jason Leopold is the Deputy Managing Editor at Truthout. He is the author of the Los Angeles Times bestseller, "News Junkie," a memoir. Visit jasonleopold.com for a preview.

Jeffrey Kaye, a psychologist living in Northern California, writes regularly on torture and other subjects for Firedoglake. He also maintains a personal blog, Invictus. His email address is sfpsych gmail dot com.

The Motto: Agonizing over probability of getting caught...not over commiting the crime

2011-03-28T16:31:00.000-07:00

The Kill Team

by Mark Boal - March 27, 2011

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-kill-team-20110327?

At the link bellow the photos Pentagon went to extraordinary measures to suppress and the full story of this specific American Kill Team:

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/photos/the-kill-team-photos -20110327/0602176

Photo #2:
Mudin was about 15 years old killed by two American soldiers – Cpl. Jeremy Morlock and Pfc. Andrew Holmes – who staged the killing to make it look like they had been
under attack

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/photos/the-kill-team-photos-20110327/0543781

The Images were first published by Der Spiegel on March 24, 2011

http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/fotostrecke-65981.html

Der Spiegel article at

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,752918,00.html

March 24, 1980 - Conservative Archbishop Romero assassination

2011-03-24T06:16:00.000-07:00

1977: Oscar Romero, a conservative priest, appointed Archbishop of San Salvador

1979: Bloodless coup by reformist army officers backed by the United States. Military-civilian junta installed in El Salvador. Torture, assassinations, kidnappings intensify.

Feb 1980: Romero visited Rome and argued that it was problematic to support the Salvadoran government because it legitimized terror and assassinations.
He urged US President Jimmy Carter to reconsider American support and aid to the junta. Carter refused.

23 Mar 1980: Romero tells soldiers they are killing their own people

24 Mar 1980: Romero shot dead as he celebrated Mass. The assassins were members of a death squad trained and funded by the United States.

No-one has ever been convicted in connection with Archbishop Romero's murder.

"Specials" and "ALL SCIENTISTS, ALL SCIENTISTS !!!"

2011-03-23T12:03:00.000-07:00

About the "Torture Program", a very interesting post at Invictus Blog - March 22, 2011

"Means and Ends: Newly Published Notes of Bruce Jessen Reveal Real Purpose of Bush’s Torture Program"

http://valtinsblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/means-and-ends-newly-published-notes-of.html

Extracts:

"One of the primary reasons exploitation is used on prisoners is to produce false confessions. Indeed, it was the torture of Ibn al-Sheikh al-Libi that was used to provide the false intelligence about Saddam Hussein seeking nuclear materials that was to provide a major casus belli for the United States for their war with Iraq. "

"Up until now, the primary narrative surrounding the torture scandal has been about the purported efficacy of using torture to produce intelligence in the "war on terror." But the new Jessen material demonstrates that the program used as the basis for the "reverse-engineering" of the SERE torture techniques was a full-blown exploitation program, whose aims went far beyond the mere elicitation of information, but included the physical and psychological pressures to produce absolute compliance in prisoners for the purpose of false confessions, show trials, recruitment of spies, and medical experimentation."

"My end of the bargain was that I had to verbally repeat my story, agreeing with anything they added, even when they dictated my thoughts, beliefs and actions incorrectly. They also fed me things to say about other detainees as well. I did so obediently, even though I knew they were all lies."

POST AT:

http://valtinsblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/means-and-ends-newly-published-notes-of.html

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By the way, where are the so brave, non ordinary, "special" "compliance scientists" who proudly embraced "interrogations" and who knows whatever else?
Shouldn't these powerful and righteous "all professionals" , all "scientists" be speaking about their achievements with pride?

George Bush did...

And since they are , or believe to be , "special" , non ordinary people and above all "having more power than Bush", they should step up to their "values" and proudly take responsibility for their "scientific achievements". Isn't that how it should be?

Or are they, men and women, soooooo brave in the shadows but cowards in the light ?

"...choose you this day whom ye will serve.." Joshua 24:15

Andy Worthington’s YouTube Channel Now Available

2011-03-18T11:13:00.000-07:00

Youtube Channel:

http://www.youtube.com/user/AndyWorthington1?feature=mhum

Andy Worthington, author of The Guantánamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America’s Illegal Prison (published by Pluto Press, distributed by Macmillan in the US, and available from Amazom)

Nine Years of Guantanamo. What Now? Jan 12, 2011

US spy operation that manipulates social media -

2011-03-17T22:59:00.000-07:00

Military's 'sock puppet' software creates fake online identities to spread pro-American propaganda

guardian.co.uk, Thursday 17 March 2011
by Nick Fielding and Ian Cobain

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/mar/17/us-spy-operation-social-networks

Related Post:
U.S. Chamber of Commerce plots against "opponents"

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, has been working with “private security” and lobbying firms to attack and undermine "opponents".

The companies involved are, among others, Hunton and Williams, whose attorneys solicited private security firms HB Gary Federal, Palantir, and Berico Technologies (Team Themis collectively) to develop a sabotage campaign against certain "opponents".

The private spy company investigated members of the family, including children, of the so called U.S. Chamber of Commerce "opponents".

Aaron Barr, an executive at HB Gary Federal circulated emails and documents with personal lives details and even photos of the opponents' family including their children.

Details were revealed by one of the targets of the action - ThinkProgress.org.

In an email from Aaron Barr to Hunton & Williams attorney John Woods, he points out to the need of reducing exposure so that he won't be identified and shows how Woods and another fellow Hunton attorney Richard Wyatt are "vulnerable" in social media.

The three security companies - Palantir Technologies, HBGary Federal and Berico Technologies - were also implicated in a plot to target the online whistleblower WikiLeaks and some of its prominent supporters

Full Article at ThinkProgress.org

http://thinkprogress.org/2011/02/10/chamberleaks-target-families/

UK House of Commons’ Foreign Affairs Committeee - Foreign Secretary William Hague on the case of Bradley Manning

2011-03-16T15:35:00.000-07:00

Full hearing at:
http://www.parliamentlive.tv/Main/Player.aspx?meetingId=7966&player=silverlight

Bradley Manning - at at 16:46:43 min

On YouTube:

Transcript :

Clwyd: I want to raise with you the question of Bradley Manning, the US marine, who at present is in a military prison – untried and unconvicted – and the treatment that has been given him. He has been kept in solitary confinement over the past ten months, he is denied access to the normal things that one has every day. He is made to stand naked outside his cell every morning and so on and so forth. And as you know, Hilary Clinton’s press spokesman has been forced to resign over the comments that he made over the treatment of Bradley Manning, calling it “counterproductive and stupid.”

Bradley Manning’s mother in Welsh, from Pembrokeshire. She has visited him recently and everyone is very concerned about his treatment. I wonder if you can raise it, or have raised it, because there is a lot of public interest in the treatment of Bradley Manning.

Hague: Well, on this particular case, Mr Manning’s lawyer apparently wrote on the 2nd February on his blog that “Mr. Manning does not hold a UK passport, nor does he consider himself a UK citizen.” Beyond that we can’t comment on an individual’s nationality without their consent. And in that situation, of course, our standing on this matter is limited. He is not asking for our help, nor considering himself British.

In general, conditions in US prisons do meet international standards. Solitary confinement is a procedure used in many countries. It is deemed to offer protection both to the inmate and those around them. It is for his legal representative to challenge his treatment, if they judge that his treatment fails to meet international standards.

The fact that it has been raised in this committee, of course, can be brought to the attention of the United States. So it can be, and will be. But our position, from a legal and a consular point of view is as I’ve just been describing.

Clwyd: Can I just say that his legal representative published an 11-page document a few days ago, which was a statement from Manning but also a complaint from his lawyer about his treatment. So as we are receiving letters from constituents on this particular subject, I will be coming back to you on this subject.

Hague: Well, do come back to me and of course I will write you a letter so you can correspond with your constituents.

Mathieu, "Torture Containers" and torturers who want to be funny... - "This is your break"

2011-03-16T13:48:00.000-07:00

Do your kids watch CSI ??? Do you?? The truth about "death in american soil"

2011-03-16T08:41:00.001-07:00

At:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/post-mortem/

Kokomo Arnold - Blues Guitar Legend (1937)

2011-03-11T21:26:00.000-08:00

State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley calls treatment of Bradley Manning “ridiculous and counterproductive and stupid.” | The Cable

2011-03-11T16:01:00.000-08:00

March 11, 2011 - by Josh Rogin

Article at:
http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/03/11/state_department_spokesman_calls_treatment_of_bradley_manning_ridiculous_and_counte

""I spent 26 years in the air force. What is happening to Manning is ridiculous, counterproductive and stupid, and I don't know why the DoD is doing it. Nevertheless, Manning is in the right place." There are leaks everywhere in Washington - it's a town that can't keep a secret. But the scale is different. It was a colossal failure by the DoD to allow this mass of documents to be transported outside the network. Historically, someone has picked up a file of papers and passed it around - the information exposed is on one country or one subject. But this is a scale we've never seen before. If Julian Assange is right and we're in an era where there are no secrets, do we expect that people will release Google's search engine algorithms? The formula for Coca Cola? Some things are best kept secret. If we're negotiating between the Israelis and the Palestinians, there will be compromises that are hard for each side to sell to their people - there's a need for secrets."

No more "shame" - SEXING TORTURE

2011-03-11T11:37:00.000-08:00

Sexing in the "slow torture", "no-touch": The torturer’s psyche and "protected umpunity"

"… But stripping is also sexually laden. It transposes sexual gestures, acts and innuendo from a strip club to the torture chamber. Thus sex is always present in the torture chamber whether the victim is a man or a woman. The sexing of torture is deeply grounded in the recesses of the torturer’s psyche.

Marnia Lazreg, Torture and the Twilight of Empire: From Algeria to Baghdad

"From 1950 to 1962, the CIA became involved in torture through a massive mind-control effort, with psychological warfare and secret research into human consciousness that reached a cost of a billion dollars annually – a veritable Manhattan Project of the mind.” This research produced “a new approach to torture that was psychological, not physical, perhaps best described as ‘no-touch torture.’“ It has also been referred to as “slow torture".

Alfred McCoy - "A Question Of Torture: CIA Interrogation, From the Cold War To the War On Terror"

Sexing torture in the "stealth, "slow", "non touch" American Torture" hits the news and "SO WHAT?"

As torture, event after event, seems to be an integral part of American standard operating procedures and obviously goes unpunished in the United States, except for cases involving "few bad apples", an article on the "slow torture" of 22 year-old man accused of leaking documents:

The National Shame of the US Military's 'Slow Torture' of Bradley Manning

by John Grant - March 5 2011

http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/node/494

"... All right! Enough of the PR-flak Orwellian crap. Everyone with a modicum of sense knows why the Quantico jailers are stripping Bradley Manning. They are stripping him because they have the power to strip him and they want to strip him. And they know that the majority of Americans and the mainstream press don’t give a damn what happens to this young man.

A friend asked me, “Why don’t they just water-board him?” It’s simple: They would if they could, but they can’t. Manning is an American and he has advocates. They can’t get away with the sorts of torture we used in the past in places like the Philippines and Vietnam and that the French used during their war in Algeria. The French experience is broken down and analyzed by Marna Lazreg in her book cited above based on archival research, diaries and interviews with torturers.

But do not fear: Our very resourceful and secret CIA learned from the French and, over the years with your tax dollars, added their own research on the topic. Here’s Alfred McCoy from his great book A Question Of Torture: CIA Interrogation, From the Cold War To the War On Terror:..."

FULL ARTICLE AT:

http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/node/494

Egyptian Activists Expose Torture Tools and Files, Tied to US Renditions

2011-03-07T16:02:00.000-08:00

Article by Siun , March 5, 2011 at:

http://firedoglake.com/2011/03/05/egyptian-activists-expose-torture-tools-and-files-tied-to-us-renditions/

On YouTube - Activists storm Egypt torture chambers

"Destroying the Evidence" ...in Egypt

2011-03-07T10:55:00.000-08:00

Egyptian Protesters Seize Evidence of Torture after storming secret police office

Hundreds of Egyptians stormed the headquarters of the nation’s secret police, seizing secret documents and evidence of torture.

Activists say documents found inside the building contain evidence of phone tapping, election rigging and torture.

A full report by McClatchy newspaper:

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/03/05/109887/egyptian-protesters-storm-state.html

Obscenity and Sadism Galore : CIA's formula to "learned helplessness"

2011-03-06T10:01:00.000-08:00

In a 19-page document, entitled “Background Paper on CIA’s Combined Use of Interrogation Techniques ” and dated Dec. 30, 2004, the CIA describes the process they refer to as providing an "effective interrogation" methodology. It includes repeated references to keeping captives naked as part of the strategy for" breaking down their resistance."

Below, link to an article by Robert Parry published on March 4, 2011 (originally published September 12, 2009)

(Robert Parry broke many of the Iran-Contra stories in the 1980s for the Associated Press and Newsweek. He founded Consortiumnews.com in 1995 as the Internet's first investigative magazine.)

Bush's Interrogators Stressed Nudity

"The CIA shared with George W. Bush’s Justice Department the details of how an interrogation strategy – with an emphasis on forced nudity and physical abuse – could train prisoners in “learned helplessness” and demonstrate “the complete control of Americans.”

Full article HERE:
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2011/030411b.html

Interview with Birgitta Jonsdottir, Icelandic member of parliament and ex-WikiLeaks

2011-03-03T21:22:00.001-08:00

Original post at CRYPTOME - March 2, 2011
http://cryptome.org/0003/jonsdottir-wl.htm

"Birgitta Jonsdottir, ex-WikiLeaks, Crusades for Freedom of Information"

De Standaard Online [Belgian news outlet] - March 2, 2011 - by Dominique Deckmyn in Ghent, Belgium

OSC Translated Text [OSC is the CIA's Open Source Center.]

Icelander Birgitta Jonsdottir - poet, author, activist, and member of parliament - has now broken with WikiLeaks, but she is continuing to devote herself to making her country a haven for information, a Switzerland of the bytes. In the meantime, the American judicial authorities are trying to reach Julian Assange through her Twitter details.

Last week, Birgitta Jonsdottir was in our country for a while at Deburen's invitation in order to take part in an evening of debate on the state of the media today, partly organized by the Pascal Decroos Fund and the Investigative Journalists' Association. We met with her at the Vooruit (arts center) in Ghent. She immediately wrong-footed us: Instead of the eccentric Goth about whom we had read, we were welcomed by an elegant person with a captivating laugh. She talked in a soft voice but with a very great deal of passion about the importance of freedom of information. Although her "Movement" is not a real party and she surfed to parliament in 2009 on a wave of popular anger about the banking crisis, she has turned out to be a born politician who knows what she wants and how she is to achieve it.

Birgitta Jonsdottir is the driving force behind the Iceland Modern Media Initiative; the plan to provide Iceland with model laws on freedom of information. The laws are supposed to protect journalists and their sources and offer special protection for whistleblowers. It would also become much more difficult in Iceland to prevent the publication of articles or pursue media with claims for damages. Last June, Jonsdottir got a resolution through the Icelandic parliament, which now has to be translated into bills. "IMMI is much more important than WikiLeaks," she herself says. "We are trying to ensure that WikiLeaks is no longer needed."

But it was precisely her role in WikiLeaks which made the 43-year-old Jonsdottir a media figure and the subject of an investigation by the American Justice Department. She was one of the makers of the video showing how American servicemen fired on defenseless civilians. The video put WikiLeaks on the map in April 2010.

(Deckmyn) Are you still in touch with the WikiLeaks people?

(Jonsdottir) No, only with former WikiLeaks people. I am in touch with Daniel (Domscheit-Berg) and some others, although it is hard to define who does and does not belong to WikiLeaks now. Some people are semi-active or not at all active, and some people want never to talk to Julian Assange again.

(Deckmyn) The organization is identified with Assange personally in the media. Do you regret that?

(Jonsdottir) What is a pity is that the messenger has turned into the message. That means that the documents have not been paid the attention which they deserve. I no longer know how often I have refused to collaborate on yet another portrait of Julian Assange. It has come to revolve too much around one person, one hero, one messiah, even: That is what he is called on the fan page on Facebook. It is almost a new religion, but that is certainly partly the media's fault. They have decided to create this Icarus; they have blown a great deal of wind under his wings instead of focusing their attention on the real story - the contents of WikiLeaks. That has a great deal to do with the situation in which the media currently find themselves. They are seeking as many clicks as possible, and the stories which get the most clicks on websites are usually about sex scandals."

Misunderstandings

(Deckmyn) Do you believe in Daniel Domscheit-Berg's idea that there should be masses of WikiLeaks-like websites, such as his own new OpenLeaks?

(Jonsdottir) Well, WikiLeaks was originally supposed to go in that direction, but then it transformed itself into "MegaLeaks." I believe that it is a valuable experiment. I do not know whether it will be successful, but it should certainly be tried. We live in a world where secrecy is the norm, and no longer has to be justified. Secrecy around big companies, around politicians, and so forth. I am not in favor of complete openness; that is impossible, but I believe that what will remain secret should be decided on in a transparent manner.

(Deckmyn) Then what about the diplomatic cables which WikiLeaks published? Is there room for secrecy in diplomacy?

(Jonsdottir) Yes, of course. And also if an agreement is being drawn up: Drafts which leak out, that can create many misunderstandings. It is OK if a document is made public only when it is finished. Privacy is also important, but in every country there should be a debate on what should remain secret and what should not. Today, there are far too many secrets. If somebody in Iceland had leaked information from the banks before the banking system collapsed, maybe that collapse would not have been so serious.

(Deckmyn) The fact that the cables are being released only in dribs and drabs seems to be prompted more by the desire to achieve maximum media impact rather than the passion for openness.

(Jonsdottir) Precisely. And I do not necessarily agree with that, but that is just my personal opinion, and that is worth no more than anybody else's opinion.

Minefield

(Deckmyn) The American judicial authorities have demanded your Twitter use details. Are you surprised that you personally are in conflict with America - surely a free country with a progressive president?

(Jonsdottir) Yes and no. No, because I know how desperately they want to lay hands on Julian Assange. Nobody has embarrassed diplomats' entire bureaucratic machine more than WikiLeaks, and so they are seeking ways to pursue him. But they are entering an extremely dangerous minefield. I am a member of parliament, I sit on the Foreign Affairs Committee, and I have a seat in the NATO parliament. Suppose they lay hands on my Google accounts and Facebook information; channels through which I am in touch with other members of parliament! How can they then be critical if China, for instance, tries to lay hands on similar information about American senators who are working for Tibet? But I am not surprised. However, it is quite tiresome that I can no longer travel to the United States. I already could not go to China, so now I cannot go to the United States, either.

(Deckmyn) Then do you run a risk there?

(Jonsdottir) They could subject me to a very unpleasant interrogation. They are known for that. They accept soft torture, like they are now torturing Bradley Manning.

(Deckmyn) Do you believe that Bradley Manning - the serviceman who gave WikiLeaks the war documents - is being tortured?

(Jonsdottir) Of course that is happening. It is not a matter of belief; they admit what means they are using. Waking up somebody every five minutes, making him sleep on a kind of sheet which gives you burns if you move in your sleep, not allowing him any movement: That is torture. They are probably trying to break him in order to reach Julian Assange, while WikiLeaks is just an intermediary. It is crazy that they are going only after Julian Assange, because he worked together with a whole set of media, but he is an easy target.

(Deckmyn) You mean that they want to attack him as a symbol?

(Jonsdottir) Yes. I assume so. We will see what happens. Well, what is currently happening around Assange, that case in Britain; that has nothing to do with the United States.

Sexual Offenses Case

(Deckmyn) Assange himself is convinced that America is behind the attempts to have him extradited to Sweden in a sexual offenses case.

(Jonsdottir) Then what evidence is there for that?

(Deckmyn) You are working to make Iceland a kind of haven for freedom of information and freedom of expression. Where did that idea come from?

(Jonsdottir) It began with John Perry Barlow - one of the founders of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. He was in Iceland in 2008, and he talked at th e Digital Freedom Society conference about that idea of a "Switzerland of the bytes." The following year, that idea also formed the nub of the speeches which Julian Assange and Daniel Domscheit-Berg delivered at the DFS conference. When I heard them say that Iceland could make a difference in this sphere, I immediately thought: Yes! I know that in times of crisis very bad laws are often made, but I thought: Let us seize upon this time of crisis in order to make something good. So I brought together a number of people - Assange, Daniel, Rop Gonggrijp, and a number of others. We brainstormed and researched intensively for a month, and then we wrote the proposal. WikiLeaks's contribution was that it had practical experience as regards the question of which laws work and which laws do not work in order to keep information online, keep sources secret, and repel all judicial attacks.

(Deckmyn) What are the most important threats to freedom of information today?

(Jonsdottir) The first one is that all the media are in a very fragile state. More and more people are finding their news online and no longer buying newspapers, but the media have not yet found a way to make money online, so they are badly off financially. And who is then the first casualty? Investigative journalism, because it is expensive, while somebody who makes cut and paste reports about Britney Spears does not cost much and generates many clicks.

At the same time, the media are also exposed to another threat. Lawyers have found ways to block reports. Our historical archives are being changed and falsified every day. As BP chief, I can have a report of 10 years ago which I do not like removed from the historical archives.

There are also the super-injunctions which have developed in Britain, with which reports can be blocked. And then you have attempts to turn off the internet, as in Egypt and Libya. There is a bill in the American Senate nicknamed the internet kill switch which gives them the power to turn off the internet.

And the greatest danger for freedom of information is for people to be asleep. They do not understand that when telecom companies filter your internet, they filter out more than you want. In Iceland, the internet companies offer a filter to block porno, but it also blocks shareware websites. Australia has a very controversial filter. China has filters. But in that threat also lies an enormous opportunity, because, as we have seen in Egypt, Tunisia, and other countries; they tried to turn off the internet, but it backfired. The information which leaked out was paid extra attention.

(Deckmyn) How will history look back on WikiLeaks?

(Jonsdottir) Hard to say. I believe that they have changed the debate on freedom of information, lack of transparency, the need for stronger laws to protect sources, and so forth. They are the icebreaker. If you look at real icebreakers, they all look very dented, and you never know when they will be holed, but they have created space for others.

(Deckmyn) And how will history view Julian Assange?

(Jonsdottir) I do not know.

(Description of Source: Groot Bijgaarden De Standaard Online in Dutch -- Website of right-of-center daily; URL: http://www.standaard.be)

2011-03-03T20:49:00.000-08:00

Former Head of MI6, the British Secret Intelligence Service, off-the-record speech ends up on YouTube - March 2, 2011

RAWREPLAY - March 3, 2011 - By Stephen C. Webster

http://www.rawstory.com/rawreplay/2011/03/former-mi6-chief-credits-wikileaks-with-revolutions/

Former Reagan official talks about Assange's assassination by the CIA team in case they can't get him "legally"

2011-02-27T19:50:00.000-08:00

My People - by Yusuf (Cat Stevens)

2011-02-25T18:56:00.000-08:00

The song was recorded in a studio close to the Berlin Wall which fell in 1989 paving the way for the unification of Germany and the collapse of communism in Europe.

Yusuf interview with Riz Khan on Al Jazeera, Feb 24, 2011:

1976 - Live

Secret Intelligence Services - "The Desintegration Directive"

2011-02-25T12:31:00.000-08:00

"The Desintegration Directive" or Measures for Desintegrating Someone - Stasi Methods

"STASI" part 3/6 of the documentary by Christian Gierke - 60 min

Film Europa - Released January 18, 2008
Ref: ASIN :B0012S6396

The documentary
"STASI" was the largest secret police in those days. One in 50 adults in East Germany were collaborators of the Stasi.
Notorius for torture of dissents, disguised isolation camps, hidden bunkers, reconnaissance planes, eavesdropping stations and East Germany's secret execution site.

Stasi - East Germany's Secret Police

2011-02-25T07:07:00.000-08:00

Trailer of the documentary by Christian Gierke - 60 min
Film Europa - Released January 18, 2008
Ref: ASIN :B0012S6396

The documentary
"STASI" was the largest secret police in those days. One in 50 adults in East Germany were collaborators of the Stasi.
Notorius for torture of dissents, disguised isolation camps, hidden bunkers, reconnaissance planes, eavesdropping stations and East Germany's secret execution site.

Elected Officials - a target for the "Owners of the Weather"

2011-02-24T11:06:00.000-08:00

Report: U.S. Army Ordered Psy-Ops to Sway Lawmakers on Backing Afghan War

First Published by

Rolling Stone Magazine -By Michael Hastings - February 23, 2011
"Another Runaway General: Army Deploys Psy-Ops on U.S. Senators"

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/another-runaway-general-army-deploys-psy-ops-on-u-s-senators-20110223?page=2

Vigilants vs. Vigilants

2011-02-24T04:30:00.000-08:00

Who were the men killed by Raymond?

Getting Used to it?

2011-02-22T09:07:00.000-08:00

CIA Spy (contractor) from Colorado goes abroad, lies, deceits and even kills civilians and "so what?"

Raymond A. Davis' story is apparently very unique since it would be abhorrent, to say the least , that CIA spies (and contractors) are authorized and even protected to do anything they feel like doing to, for and in these "weak countries".

On January 27, 2011, Raymond A. Davis , US national, shot dead two Pakistani civilians, Mohammad Faheem and Faizan Haider, on a busy Lahore thoroughfare, whom he claims were were about to rob him.

(The Guardian UK - by Declan Walsh - Feb 20 2011
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/20/cia-agent-lahore-civilian-deaths?intcmp=239 )

As a vehicle from the US consulate in Lahore tried to rescue Davis, it hit and killed a third person, Ebadur Rehman.

Davis shot the two men through his windshield with his 9mm Glock pistol and he even admitted that he fired at Faizan from the back.

After the shooting, Davis is alleged to have exited his car to take pictures and videos of his victims with his cell phone.

Davis attempted to escape the scene of the shooting in his vehicle but was apprehended by two traffic wardens and handed over to police.

On February 6, 2011, Shumaila, the widow of Muhammad Faheem, committed suicide after taking poisonous pills. According to hospital sources, Shumaila said: - "I was under shock". And she stated that she took poison because she was not expecting justice in Raymond Davis case and she feared Davis could be released without trial. After taking the poison pills she was rushed to the hospital but died on the same day.

On February 6, CNN reported her death and Raymond was cited as "a U.S. diplomat in Pakistan".

On February 20, The Guardian UK broke the news that Raymond is a CIA spy.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/20/us-raymond-davis-lahore-cia?INTCMP=SRCH

Raymond is not being charged with espionage. He has been charged with two counts of murder and one of illegal weapon possession.

At the end of the day, Raymond is a very fortunate man, a non ordinary one, for sure.

He has diplomatic immunity - American Diplomatic Immunity. And in these "weak countries" , it looks like that acts like his are just "international embarrassments" to overcome.

Fortunately, Canada, besides being no small mice, is not Pakistan! They would NEVER, EVER do such brutal unsophisticated kind of things here !

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American Raymond Davis' police interview after shooting two Pakistanis dead - The Telegraph - UK -Feb 10, 2011

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/8316093/American-Raymond-Davis-police-interview-after-shooting-two-Pakistanis-dead.html

" Kids For Cash " - Pennsylvania Judicial kickbacks

2011-02-21T09:50:00.000-08:00

February 2010 - One Year Ago

2011-02-20T13:57:00.000-08:00

Rapists and murderer Russel Willians interviewed by OPP Detective Sergeant Jim Smyth on February 7, 2010:

Requiem For a Dream - The music - Frodo's Journey

2011-02-20T12:47:00.000-08:00

"...choose you this day whom ye will serve.." Joshua 24:15

LORD of THE RINGS - The Movie

LOrd

Requiem For a Dream - The music - The journey as presented

2011-02-20T12:16:00.000-08:00

"REQUIEM FOR A DREAM"- The Movie

Torture and destruction in a delusional sadistic context , as presented.
Performers, sadism, delusion, threats, death and more...all in one!

2011-02-19T23:24:00.000-08:00

Playing with Rape and walking away with it

2011-02-16T11:27:00.000-08:00

"We are not in the business of rape !!" Really?

U.S. Chamber of Commerce plots against "opponents"

2011-02-11T12:28:00.000-08:00

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, has been working with “private security” and lobbying firms to attack and undermine "opponents".

The companies involved are, among others, Hunton and Williams, whose attorneys solicited private security firms HB Gary Federal, Palantir, and Berico Technologies (Team Themis collectively) to develop a sabotage campaign against certain "opponents".

The private spy company investigated members of the family, including children, of the so called U.S. Chamber of Commerce "opponents".

Aaron Barr, an executive at HB Gary Federal circulated emails and documents with personal lives details and even photos of the opponents' family including their children.

Details were revealed by one of the targets of the action - ThinkProgress.org.

In an email from Aaron Barr to Hunton & Williams attorney John Woods, he points out to the need of reducing exposure so that he won't be identified and shows how Woods and another fellow Hunton attorney Richard Wyatt are "vulnerable" in social media.

The three security companies - Palantir Technologies, HBGary Federal and Berico Technologies - were also implicated in a plot to target the online whistleblower WikiLeaks and some of its prominent supporters

Full Article at ThinkProgress.org

http://thinkprogress.org/2011/02/10/chamberleaks-target-families/

Omar Suleiman the torturer and friend of torture regimes

2011-02-11T09:54:00.000-08:00

(Omar Suleiman was appointed vice president by recently resigned Egypt Dictator Hosni Mubarak)

In his memoir, My Story: The Tale of a Terrorist Who Wasn’t, Egyptian-born Australian citizen Mamdouh Habib tells about his torture by Omar Suleiman himself.

More on the Topic:

Suleiman: The CIA's man in Cairo - Opinion - Al Jazeera English

Feb 7, 2011 - Al Jazeera English

http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/02/201127114827382865.ht

Torture Confessions: "Tell Me What the Thruth Is !"

2011-02-11T02:32:00.000-08:00

GOYA - 1746-1828

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828)

Guillotine
Goya - 1824-1828

Los Caprichos
Goya - 1799

Cannibals - From the series "Disasters of War"
Goya - 1800-1805

"Qué hai que hacer mas? " (English: "What more can one do?" )
From the series "Disasters of War"
Goya - 1800-1805

Goya's Ghosts - The Movie

"TELL ME WHAT THE TRUTH IS! "

The Spanish Inquisition, the rape and torture of Ines, Goya's view on Torture: "People will confess to anything under torture"

Trailer

House of Commons Hearing: Briefing on the Royal Canadian Mounted Police

2011-02-09T09:18:00.001-08:00

Canada - House of Commons

Hearing on Feb 8, 2011 - Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security (SECU) - Meeting 52

Briefing on the Royal Canadian Mounted Police

WATCH/LISTEN AT PARL VU:

Click on the title above or visit:

http://www2.parl.gc.ca/CommitteeBusiness/CommitteeMeetings.aspx?Language=E&Mode=1&Parl=40&Ses=3&Cmte=SECU#DT20110208SECUMEE52

"YOU ARE JUST A FLY!!!!!"

2011-02-08T16:36:00.001-08:00

Canadian News from Egypt - 1957

2011-02-05T12:26:00.000-08:00

History:
Canadian Diplomat John Watkins Death under RCMP/CIA Interrogation - 1964
In 1964, under pressure from the chief of the American Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) counter-intelligence (CI) staff James Jesus Angleton, John Watkins, formerly Canadian Ambassador to the USSR, was secretly detained in a hotel in Montréal, Quebec by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the CIA under accusations of being an "agent of influence".
Watkins died during the interrogation but his official obituary, signed by an RCMP officer, claimed he suffered a heart attack during celebrations with friends.
It was only in 1980 that the RCMP, after continuous refusal to hand over the full report about Watkins death claiming "national security" reasons, finally admitted that Watkins had died under police interrogation in the Montréal hotel room. He was not an "agent of influence" and he was not a traitor.
Canadian Diplomat Herbert Norman Death in Egypt - 1957
Previously, it was Watkins' fellow Canadian diplomat Herbert Norman who was accused by Americans of being a Communist and possibly a Soviet agent.

In 1957, while serving as Canada's ambassador to Egypt and under pressure by the accusations against him, Norman is said to have committed suicide.

The following CBC clip is the announcement of his death:

Canadian ambassador jumps to his death in Egypt

CBC Broadcast Date: April 4, 1957 - Canadian Diplomat Herbert Norman
http://archives.cbc.ca/on_this_day/04/04/

Woman Abuser gets "National Security" Tools to Play with

2011-02-04T07:19:00.000-08:00

A woman got stranded in Pakistan for three years after a man decided to rid himself of her by simply placing her, his wife, on a terrorist watch list.

As an agent at an UK Border Agency’s headquarter, he had top security clearance and access to the terrorist watch list.

His act was only detected, looks like, because he could not secure the complicity necessary to keep it protected from scrutiny and his personal vendetta came to light accidentaly after he applied for a promotion and a background check revealed that his wife was on the terrorist watch list.

More at:

WIRED - Threat Level - by Kim Zetter - Feb 3, 2011
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/02/uk-border-fired/

Mail Online - by Steve Doughty - January 30, 2011
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1351937/Immigration-officer-fired-putting-wife-list-terrorists-stop-flying-home.html#ixzz1CuSYu8eM

UK Immigration Matters - by Charles Kelly - February 1, 2011
http://www.immigrationmatters.co.uk/immigration-officer-sacked-after-abusing-his-position-by-putting-wife-on-terrorist-list-to-stop-her-entering-uk.html

Jewish prayers for Egypt's uprising

2011-02-03T00:54:00.000-08:00

Jewish prayers for Egypt's uprising

Many Jews from around the world support Egyptian self-determination because of Judaism's own historic past with Egypt.

Rabbi Michael Lerner - Tikkun Synagogue in Berkeley, California

Full text:
http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/02/2011218490882163.html

Egypt Updates from Al Jazeera English: Live Stream

http://english.aljazeera.net/watch_now/

Accomplices to Criminal activities Infiltrated in the Police Force .. in Texas

2011-02-02T13:43:00.000-08:00

Crime Stoppers Coordinator: getting the calls, getting the tips, getting the money

Dallas Police Officer Charged With Stealing From Crime Stoppers « CBS Dallas / Fort Worth

"...choose you this day whom ye will serve.." Joshua 24:15

2011-01-30T11:03:00.000-08:00

Egypt's intelligence chief Omar Suleiman is being reported as the possible next president of Egypt.

It also looks like that he is respected by US officials for his cooperation with the Torture Program, as Jane Mayer explains in her book "The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals"

"Each rendition was authorized at the very top levels of both governments….The long-serving chief of the Egyptian central intelligence agency, Omar Suleiman, negotiated directly with top Agency officials. [Former U.S. Ambassador to Egypt] Walker described the Egyptian counterpart, Suleiman, as “very bright, very realistic,” adding that he was cognizant that there was a downside to “some of the negative things that the Egyptians engaged in, of torture and so on. But he was not squeamish, by the way” (pp. 113).

Aljazeera commentators described him as a distinguished and respected man and also reported that in October 1981, his brother Khalid Ahmed Showqi al-Islambouli arranged and carried out the assassination of president Mubarak's predecessor, Anwar Sadat, during a military parade.
http://english.aljazeera.net/Services/Search/?q=Omar%20Suleiman

No wonder "the dark cloud" persists.

A 2006 documentary: "American Inquisition"

"On September 11 terrorists tried to change America forever. Well, they succeeded."

Torture, Sadism, Suicide Orders, Impunity in Ancient Rome: Julian - Claudian's Ancestry

2011-01-28T09:47:00.000-08:00

"Power over Life and Death - Don't be proud of it. Whatever they fear from you, you'll be threatened with." Seneca (the Younger)

Torture Program - Australian Official (s) Participation

2011-01-22T12:32:00.000-08:00

Australia joined Britain, Germany, Poland, Spain, and Italy in conducting formal investigations into American renditions to Torture Program operations on their soil or involving their government personnel

Published on Jan Jan 18, 2011 - Harper's Magazine : No Comment - by Scott Horton

Australia Opens Probe of CIA Rendition

http://harpers.org/archive/2011/01/hbc-90007921

Jan 11, 2011-Some still against Torture

2011-01-12T02:40:00.000-08:00

www.witnesstorture.org

" The Game" (but watch out for the assassins after playing)

2011-01-02T07:06:00.000-08:00

Via Jeux

The War You Don't See - Full Documentary

2010-12-30T03:13:00.000-08:00

By John Pilger - UK release Dec 12, 2010
YouTube introduction:

From the award-winning director of The War on Democracy comes John Pilger's latest wor, The War You Don't See. This hard-hitting exposé and scrutinizes the effects of the media during wartime, asking what is the role of the media in rapacious wars.
When symbols are separated from facts and the facts don't matter, could the media be accused of conspiring to play down the carnage and of using 'embedded journalism' to amplify the lies? This documentary unveils the war you don't see and allows you to make up your own mind.

United Nations Statement on Wikileaks

2010-12-22T22:47:00.000-08:00

Joint Statement:

UN Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection
the Right to Freedom of Opinion and Expression

Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression

December 21, 2010

http://www.cidh.oas.org/relatoria/showarticle.asp?artID=829&lID=1

Life in Prison for torture and murder for former Argentina leader

2010-12-22T21:33:00.000-08:00

December 22, 2010

Jorge Videla, 85, was Argentina's president from 1976 to 1981 and was considered the architect of the so called "Dirty War" , the war the regime said to be against subversive terrorism .

He was found guilty of torture and murder among other crimes. The 31 prisoners he was convicted of killing were pulled from civilian jail cells and "shot while trying to escape".

During Videla's regime, an estimated 5,000 prisoners were held incomunicado, most of them were tortured and their bodies "disappeared" . It was later revealed that they were dumped , dead or drugged, into the River Plate from aircraft.

After the sentence Videla remained unrepentant and told the court that Argentine society had demanded the crackdown on dissents.

As judge Maria Elba Martinez handed down the sentence she said:

"Videla ... is a manifestation of state terrorism."

Another leader in Argentina's 1976-1983 military junta, Emilio Massera, died on Monday at age 85.

Massera was head of the Navy and operated one of Argentina's most notorious political prison and torture centre, the Naval Mechanics School in Buenos Aires, or ESMA.

Germany, Spain, Italy and France sought Massera over the killings of their citizens during the torture regime in Argentina. They had suspended arrest orders after Argentine courts had declared him unfit to stand trial on health grounds.

MORE AT:

MACLEANS:
Ex-Argentine dictator Jorge Videla gets life sentence for torture, murder of prisoners in 1976
December 22, 2010 - Michael Warren, The Associated Press
http://www.macleans.ca/article.jsp?content=w5477444

The New York Times:
Ex-Dictator Sentenced in Murders
December 23, 2010 - By ALexei Barrionuevo
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/23/world/americas/23briefs-EXDICTATORSE_BRF.html?src=twrhp

The Telegraph UK
Former Argentine dictator Jorge Videla sentenced to life in prison
December 23, 2010 - By Robin Yapp
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/argentina/8220713/Former-Argentine-dictator-Jorge-Videla-sentenced-to-life-in-prison.html

CNN
Former Argentine dictator sentenced to life
December 22, 2010
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/12/22/argentina.human.rights.trial/

WikiLeaks Cables: Pfizer non consentual drug tests on Nigerian children

2010-12-18T00:19:00.000-08:00

"Diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks show the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer hired investigators to find evidence of corruption against the Nigerian attorney general to pressure him to drop a $6 billion lawsuit over fraudulent drug tests on Nigerian children."

"Eleven children died, and others suffered disabling injuries including deafness, muteness, paralysis, brain damage, loss of sight, slurred speech."

Enhanced torturers, Enhanced deals

2010-12-17T22:05:00.000-08:00

The USA Justice Department prosecutor is still investigating whether any CIA "enhanced interrogation expert", including Torture psychologists James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen, should face criminal charges.

But just in case the last two ones are not above the Law, the CIA has agreed to cover at least $5 million in legal fees for the architects of the agency’s "interrogation" program.

The full article at :
http://psychoanalystsopposewar.org/blog/2010/12/17/cia-paying-5-million-to-defend-torture-psychologists/

Extract:

Officials: CIA gave Waterboarders $5M Legal Shield

By Adam Goldman and Matt Apuzzo

WASHINGTON (AP) – The CIA agreed to cover at least $5 million in legal fees for two contractors who were the architects of the agency’s interrogation program and personally conducted dozens of waterboarding sessions on terror detainees, former U.S. officials said.

The secret agreement means taxpayers are paying to defend the men in a federal investigation over an interrogation tactic the U.S. now says is torture. The deal is even more generous than the protections the agency typically provides its own officers, giving the two men access to more money to finance their defense.

It has long been known that psychologists Jim Mitchell and Bruce Jessen created the CIA’s interrogation program. But former U.S. intelligence officials said Mitchell and Jessen also repeatedly subjected terror suspects inside CIA-run secret prisons to waterboarding, a simulated drowning tactic.

The revelation of the contractors’ involvement is the first known confirmation of any individuals who conducted waterboarding at the so-called black sites, underscoring just how much the agency relied on outside help in its most sensitive interrogations.

More about these guys at PHYSICIANS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS BLOG:
Psychologists Who Devised US Torture Program Had No Interrogation Experience, Were Paid $1000/Day by CIA
http://phrblog.org/blog/2009/05/01/psychologists-who-devised-us-torture-program-had-no-interrogation-experience-were-paid-1000day-by-cia/

The War You Don't See - Documentary

2010-12-15T14:16:00.000-08:00

The Movie was released in UK on December 12, 2010 - trailer

2010-12-14T10:47:00.000-08:00

Saeculum Obscurum Antidote

2010-12-11T18:36:00.000-08:00

Wikileaks - Its History and what has been made public:

"Wiki Rebels" documentary - 57 minutes

"SECRECY is a basic component of the Policy of Torture: It is essential to the structure of torture that everything takes place in secret, in the dark, beyond consideration of shame or account. When the torturer assures his victim ' no one will ever know' , he is at once working to break the victim's spirit and bolster his own".
From "Settling accounts with torturers"-Lawrence Welsher

Crush

2010-12-09T22:57:00.000-08:00

Shell's grip on Nigerian state revealed
GUARDI AN UK - by David Smith, 8 December 2010

"US embassy cables reveal top executive's claims that company 'knows everything' about key decisions in government ministries"

The company's top executive told US diplomats that it had seconded employees to every relevant department and so knew "everything that was being done in those ministries.

Article at:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/dec/08/wikileaks-cables-shell-nigeria-spying

Cable gate - Wiki revelation of the past 12 days - by Joe Sabia of Get Whirled

2010-12-09T22:13:00.000-08:00

New Standards on the making: Assassins and the deep hole of amorality

2010-12-05T07:44:00.000-08:00

On death threats: "We have hundreds of specific death threats from US military militants. That is not unusual, and we have become practiced from past experiences at ignoring such threats from Islamic extremists, African kleptocrats and so on. Recently the situation has changed with these threats now extending out to our lawyers and my children. However it is the specific calls from the elites of US society for our assassination, kidnapping and execution that is more concerning. These range from a US senate bill by John Ensign which seeks to declare us a "transnational threat" to assassination calls from former Bush speechwriters such as Marc Thiessen in The Washington Post and Bill O'Reilly of Fox News."

El Pais interview with Julian Assange in the December 5, 2010 - Full interview HERE

http://www.elpais.com/articulo/internacional/Julian/Assange/Geopolitics/will/be/separated/into/pre/and/post/Cablegate/elpepuint/20101205elpepuint_3/Tes

US Republican Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) on WikiLeaks:

2010-12-03T18:00:00.000-08:00

Ron Paul, writing to his 19,000 followers on Twitter:

"Re: Wikileaks - In a free society, we are supposed to know the truth. In a society where truth becomes treason, we are in big trouble."

The New York Times - Nov 3, 2010
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/03/latest-updates-on-leak-of-u-s-cables-day-6/?src=twt&twt=thelede#ron-paul-defends-wikileaks

Judges, Law, Criminal Investigations - Spain

2010-12-03T01:03:00.000-08:00

"The Madrid Cables"
By Scott Horton - HARPER'S Magazine - No Comment
December 1, 2010

http://harpers.org/subjects/NoComment

In Spain, the revelations that U.S. diplomats sought out and communicated directly with judges and prosecutors , in a large-scale coordinated effort by the State Department to obstruct the criminal investigations in several cases in that country have dominated the news in Spain for the last three days now.

Spain Newspapers:
El País - http://www.elpais.com/global/
Público - http://www.publico.es/

Scott Horton is an adjunct professor at Columbia Law School and New York attorney known for his work in human rights law and the law of armed conflict.

WikiWorld by Mark Fiore

2010-12-02T22:45:00.000-08:00

Watch WikiWorld at:

http://www.markfiore.com/political-cartoons/watch-wikileaks-julian-assange-state-department-un-spying-animated-video-mark-fiore-an#comment-7285

FRIENDLY - by Mark Fiore

Blogging the WikiLeaks Releases - Greg Mitchell - The Nation

2010-11-30T16:41:00.000-08:00

Greg Mitchell, author of the Media Fix blog for the TheNation.com has been publishing an updated catalogue of information and reactions to the leaked cables at:
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/media-fix

Or click below:
Blogging the WikiLeaks Release: Day 1 | The Nation

CSIS ex-chief slams Courts, Canadians and uses "harassment" as a tool

2010-11-29T18:06:00.000-08:00

Read CBC News article published November 29, 2010 at:

CBC News - Canada - CSIS ex-chief slams courts, Canadians: WikiLeaks

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The CABLE:

Sent From: US Ottawa Embassy (FM AMEMBASSY OTTAWA)
To: CIA, Secretary of State Washington, Joint Staff, Homeland Security and others

can be read at:

http://cablegate.wikileaks.org/cable/2008/07/08OTTAWA918.html

"In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act." George Orwell.

2010-11-27T15:08:00.001-08:00

WIKILEAKS
http://wikileaks.org/

Iraq War Logs

WarLogs.Wikileaks.org (HERE) is a website which provides an easy way to search through the Iraq and Afghan War Logs, which were made public by Wikileaks on 22nd October 2010. The documents are a set of over 391,000 reports which cover the war in Iraq from 2004 to 2009 and Afghanistan from 2004 to 2009.

VIDEO : Spanish Newspaper El País - "Julian Assange, el incordio del Pentágono"by Joseba Elola - October 22, 2010
http://www.elpais.com/videos/sociedad/Julian/Assange/incordio/Pentagono/elpvidsoc/20101022elpepusoc_1/Ves/

CBC Poll : WikiLeaks release of U.S. files

2010-11-27T14:12:00.000-08:00

CBC POLL - November 27, 2010

You can vote and read the article at :

Poll: Should WikiLeaks publish sensitive U.S. diplomatic files?

The Poll in the news:

All Voices - from Stockholm Sweden:
Almost 85 per cent in CBC poll approve Wikileaks release of diplomatic documents
http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/7455713-almost-85-per-cent-in-cbc-poll-approve-wikileaks-release-of-diplomatic-documents

ABOUT WIKILEAKS - Interview
Julian Assange: Why the World Needs WikiLeaks
Published by The Huffington Post - July 19, 2010
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tedtalks/julian-assange-why-the-wo_b_651329.html

"TED- Ideas Worth Spreading"

Salam Pax (Peace) - A Peace Anthem honoring the connections between people of different origins, by Don Arbor

2010-11-25T16:46:00.000-08:00

Salam Pax (aka Salam al-Janabi, Arabic: سلام الجنابي‎) is a pseudonymous blogger from Iraq whose site "Where is Raed?", gave a gripping account of the Iraq conflict During (and after) the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

The pseudonym consists of the word "peace" in Arabic (Salām) and Latin (Pāx).

Don Arbor (www.donarbor.com ) was a reader of the Blog and wrote the song "Salam Pax (Peace)", honoring the connections between people of different origins, and the possibility of a more peaceful world.

Salam's story
He became known as the Baghdad Blogger. But no one knew his identity - or even if he existed.

His full story can be read HERE:
Guardian UK - by Rory McCarthy - May 30, 2003
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/may/30/iraq.digitalmedia

On the CIA "disruption policy", foreign countries role, a condo in Vancouver as solution and more

2010-11-24T10:05:00.000-08:00

by Chalmers Ashby Johnson (August 6, 1931 - November 20, 2010)
extracted from Chalmers Johnson's (1931-2010) book: "BLOWBACK" (first edition 2000).

..."The CIA term for this policy is "disruption", by which it means the harassment of terrorists around the world.. .According to John Diamond of the Associated Press, "the CIA keeps its role secret, and the foreign countries that actually crack down on the suspects, carefully hide the U.S. role, lest they stir up trouble for themselves.". There are no safeguards at all against misidentifying "suspects" and "the CIA sends no formal notice to Congress". Disruption is said to be a preemptive, offensive form of counterterrorism. Richard Clarke, President Bill Clinton's antiterrorism czar, likes it because he can avoid "the cumbersome Congressional reporting requirements that go with CIA-directed covert operations" and because "human rights organizations would have no way of identifying a CIA role". ...

Interview with Chalmers Johnson (August 6, 1931 - November 20, 2010)
Johnson was a professor emeritus of the University of California, San Diego. He served in the Korean war, was a consultant for the CIA and chaired the Center for Chinese Studies at the University of California, Berkeley from 1967 to 1972.

Conversations with History: The Last Days of the American Republic with Chalmers Johnson
First Aired: 5/14/2007 - (59 minutes)
http://www.uctv.tv/search-details.aspx?showID=12489

More:
Military Bases and the "Blowback"
Chalmers Johnson - January 29, 2004 - Conversations with History

Thanksgiving

2010-11-24T08:23:00.000-08:00

Do Turkeys Enjoy Thanksgiving?

By Arundhati Roy, author of " The God of Small Things" - Booker Prize winner 1997

Speech at the opening Plenary of the World Social Forum in Mumbai on January 16, 2004 - "Another World is Possible"

"Last January thousands of us from across the world gathered in Porto Allegre in Brazil and declared — reiterated — that "Another World is Possible". A few thousand miles north, in Washington, George Bush and his aides were thinking the same thing.

Our project was the World Social Forum. Theirs — to further what many call The Project for the New American Century.

In the great cities of Europe and America, where a few years ago these things would only have been whispered, now people are openly talking about the good side of Imperialism and the need for a strong Empire to police an unruly world. The new missionaries want order at the cost of justice. Discipline at the cost of dignity. And ascendancy at any price. Occasionally some of us are invited to `debate' the issue on `neutral' platforms provided by the corporate media. Debating Imperialism is a bit like debating the pros and cons of rape. What can we say? That we really miss it?

In any case, New Imperialism is already upon us. It's a remodelled, streamlined version of what we once knew. For the first time in history, a single Empire with an arsenal of weapons that could obliterate the world in an afternoon has complete, unipolar, economic and military hegemony. It uses different weapons to break open different markets. There isn't a country on God's earth that is not caught in the cross hairs of the American cruise missile and the IMF chequebook. Argentina's the model if you want to be the poster-boy of neoliberal capitalism, Iraq if you're the black sheep.

Poor countries that are geo-politically of strategic value to Empire, or have a `market' of any size, or infrastructure that can be privatized, or, god forbid, natural resources of value — oil, gold, diamonds, cobalt, coal — must do as they're told, or become military targets. Those with the greatest reserves of natural wealth are most at risk. Unless they surrender their resources willingly to the corporate machine, civil unrest will be fomented, or war will be waged. In this new age of Empire, when nothing is as it appears to be, executives of concerned companies are allowed to influence foreign policy decisions. The Centre for Public Integrity in Washington found that nine out of the 30 members of the Defence Policy Board of the U.S. Government were connected to companies that were awarded defence contracts for $ 76 billion between 2001 and 2002. George Shultz, former U.S. Secretary of State, was Chairman of the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq. He is also on the Board of Directors of the Bechtel Group. When asked about a conflict of interest, in the case of a war in Iraq he said, " I don't know that Bechtel would particularly benefit from it. But if there's work to be done, Bechtel is the type of company that could do it. But nobody looks at it as something you benefit from." After the war, Bechtel signed a $680 million contract for reconstruction in Iraq.

This brutal blueprint has been used over and over again, across Latin America, Africa, Central and South-East Asia. It has cost millions of lives. It goes without saying that every war Empire wages becomes a Just War. This, in large part, is due to the role of the corporate media. It's important to understand that the corporate media doesn't just support the neo-liberal project. It is the neo-liberal project. This is not a moral position it has chosen to take, it's structural. It's intrinsic to the economics of how the mass media works.

Most nations have adequately hideous family secrets. So it isn't often necessary for the media to lie. It's what's emphasised and what's ignored. Say for example India was chosen as the target for a righteous war. The fact that about 80,000 people have been killed in Kashmir since 1989, most of them Muslim, most of them by Indian Security Forces (making the average death toll about 6000 a year); the fact that less than a year ago, in March of 2003, more than two thousand Muslims were murdered on the streets of Gujarat, that women were gang-raped and children were burned alive and a 150,000 people driven from their homes while the police and administration watched, and sometimes actively participated; the fact that no one has been punished for these crimes and the Government that oversaw them was re-elected ... all of this would make perfect headlines in international newspapers in the run-up to war.

Next we know, our cities will be levelled by cruise missiles, our villages fenced in with razor wire, U.S. soldiers will patrol our streets and, Narendra Modi, Pravin Togadia or any of our popular bigots could, like Saddam Hussein, be in U.S. custody, having their hair checked for lice and the fillings in their teeth examined on prime-time TV.

But as long as our `markets' are open, as long as corporations like Enron, Bechtel, Halliburton, Arthur Andersen are given a free hand, our `democratically elected' leaders can fearlessly blur the lines between democracy, majoritarianism and fascism.

Our government's craven willingness to abandon India's proud tradition of being Non-Aligned, its rush to fight its way to the head of the queue of the Completely Aligned (the fashionable phrase is `natural ally' — India, Israel and the U.S. are `natural allies'), has given it the leg room to turn into a repressive regime without compromising its legitimacy.

A government's victims are not only those that it kills and imprisons. Those who are displaced and dispossessed and sentenced to a lifetime of starvation and deprivation must count among them too. Millions of people have been dispossessed by `development' projects. In the past 55 years, Big Dams alone have displaced between 33 million and 55 million people in India. They have no recourse to justice.

In the last two years there has been a series of incidents when police have opened fire on peaceful protestors, most of them Adivasi and Dalit. When it comes to the poor, and in particular Dalit and Adivasi communities, they get killed for encroaching on forest land, and killed when they're trying to protect forest land from encroachments — by dams, mines, steel plants and other `development' projects. In almost every instance in which the police opened fire, the government's strategy has been to say the firing was provoked by an act of violence. Those who have been fired upon are immediately called militants.

Across the country, thousands of innocent people including minors have been arrested under POTA (Prevention of Terrorism Act) and are being held in jail indefinitely and without trial. In the era of the War against Terror, poverty is being slyly conflated with terrorism. In the era of corporate globalisation, poverty is a crime. Protesting against further impoverishment is terrorism. And now, our Supreme Court says that going on strike is a crime. Criticising the court of course is a crime, too. They're sealing the exits.

Like Old Imperialism, New Imperialism too relies for its success on a network of agents — corrupt, local elites who service Empire. We all know the sordid story of Enron in India. The then Maharashtra Government signed a power purchase agreement which gave Enron profits that amounted to sixty per cent of India's entire rural development budget. A single American company was guaranteed a profit equivalent to funds for infrastructural development for about 500 million people!

Unlike in the old days the New Imperialist doesn't need to trudge around the tropics risking malaria or diahorrea or early death. New Imperialism can be conducted on e-mail. The vulgar, hands-on racism of Old Imperialism is outdated. The cornerstone of New Imperialism is New Racism.

The tradition of `turkey pardoning' in the U.S. is a wonderful allegory for New Racism. Every year since 1947, the National Turkey Federation presents the U.S. President with a turkey for Thanksgiving. Every year, in a show of ceremonial magnanimity, the President spares that particular bird (and eats another one). After receiving the presidential pardon, the Chosen One is sent to Frying Pan Park in Virginia to live out its natural life. The rest of the 50 million turkeys raised for Thanksgiving are slaughtered and eaten on Thanksgiving Day. ConAgra Foods, the company that has won the Presidential Turkey contract, says it trains the lucky birds to be sociable, to interact with dignitaries, school children and the press. (Soon they'll even speak English!)

That's how New Racism in the corporate era works. A few carefully bred turkeys — the local elites of various countries, a community of wealthy immigrants, investment bankers, the occasional Colin Powell, or Condoleezza Rice, some singers, some writers (like myself) — are given absolution and a pass to Frying Pan Park. The remaining millions lose their jobs, are evicted from their homes, have their water and electricity connections cut, and die of AIDS. Basically they're for the pot. But the Fortunate Fowls in Frying Pan Park are doing fine. Some of them even work for the IMF and the WTO — so who can accuse those organisations of being anti-turkey? Some serve as board members on the Turkey Choosing Committee — so who can say that turkeys are against Thanksgiving? They participate in it! Who can say the poor are anti-corporate globalisation? There's a stampede to get into Frying Pan Park. So what if most perish on the way?

Part of the project of New Racism is New Genocide. In this new era of economic interdependence, New Genocide can be facilitated by economic sanctions. It means creating conditions that lead to mass death without actually going out and killing people. Dennis Halliday, the U.N. humanitarian coordinator in Iraq between '97 and '98 (after which he resigned in disgust), used the term genocide to describe the sanctions in Iraq. In Iraq the sanctions outdid Saddam Hussein's best efforts by claiming more than half a million children's lives.

In the new era, Apartheid as formal policy is antiquated and unnecessary. International instruments of trade and finance oversee a complex system of multilateral trade laws and financial agreements that keep the poor in their Bantustans anyway. Its whole purpose is to institutionalise inequity. Why else would it be that the U.S. taxes a garment made by a Bangladeshi manufacturer 20 times more than it taxes a garment made in the U.K.? Why else would it be that countries that grow 90 per cent of the world's cocoa bean produce only 5 per cent of the world's chocolate? Why else would it be that countries that grow cocoa bean, like the Ivory Coast and Ghana, are taxed out of the market if they try and turn it into chocolate? Why else would it be that rich countries that spend over a billion dollars a day on subsidies to farmers demand that poor countries like India withdraw all agricultural subsidies, including subsidised electricity? Why else would it be that after having been plundered by colonising regimes for more than half a century, former colonies are steeped in debt to those same regimes, and repay them some $ 382 billion a year?

For all these reasons, the derailing of trade agreements at Cancun was crucial for us. Though our governments try and take the credit, we know that it was the result of years of struggle by many millions of people in many, many countries. What Cancun taught us is that in order to inflict real damage and force radical change, it is vital for local resistance movements to make international alliances. From Cancun we learned the importance of globalising resistance.

No individual nation can stand up to the project of Corporate Globalisation on its own. Time and again we have seen that when it comes to the neo-liberal project, the heroes of our times are suddenly diminished. Extraordinary, charismatic men, giants in Opposition, when they seize power and become Heads of State, they become powerless on the global stage. I'm thinking here of President Lula of Brazil. Lula was the hero of the World Social Forum last year. This year he's busy implementing IMF guidelines, reducing pension benefits and purging radicals from the Workers' Party. I'm thinking also of ex-President of South Africa, Nelson Mandela. Within two years of taking office in 1994, his government genuflected with hardly a caveat to the Market God. It instituted a massive programme of privatisation and structural adjustment, which has left millions of people homeless, jobless and without water and electricity.

Why does this happen? There's little point in beating our breasts and feeling betrayed. Lula and Mandela are, by any reckoning, magnificent men. But the moment they cross the floor from the Opposition into Government they become hostage to a spectrum of threats — most malevolent among them the threat of capital flight, which can destroy any government overnight. To imagine that a leader's personal charisma and a c.v. of struggle will dent the Corporate Cartel is to have no understanding of how Capitalism works, or for that matter, how power works. Radical change will not be negotiated by governments; it can only be enforced by people.

This week at the World Social Forum, some of the best minds in the world will exchange ideas about what is happening around us. These conversations refine our vision of the kind of world we're fighting for. It is a vital process that must not be undermined. However, if all our energies are diverted into this process at the cost of real political action, then the WSF, which has played such a crucial role in the Movement for Global Justice, runs the risk of becoming an asset to our enemies. What we need to discuss urgently is strategies of resistance. We need to aim at real targets, wage real battles and inflict real damage. Gandhi's Salt March was not just political theatre. When, in a simple act of defiance, thousands of Indians marched to the sea and made their own salt, they broke the salt tax laws. It was a direct strike at the economic underpinning of the British Empire. It was real. While our movement has won some important victories, we must not allow non-violent resistance to atrophy into ineffectual, feel-good, political theatre. It is a very precious weapon that needs to be constantly honed and re-imagined. It cannot be allowed to become a mere spectacle, a photo opportunity for the media.

It was wonderful that on February 15th last year, in a spectacular display of public morality, 10 million people in five continents marched against the war on Iraq. It was wonderful, but it was not enough. February 15th was a weekend. Nobody had to so much as miss a day of work. Holiday protests don't stop wars. George Bush knows that. The confidence with which he disregarded overwhelming public opinion should be a lesson to us all. Bush believes that Iraq can be occupied and colonised — as Afghanistan has been, as Tibet has been, as Chechnya is being, as East Timor once was and Palestine still is. He thinks that all he has to do is hunker down and wait until a crisis-driven media, having picked this crisis to the bone, drops it and moves on. Soon the carcass will slip off the best-seller charts, and all of us outraged folks will lose interest. Or so he hopes.

This movement of ours needs a major, global victory. It's not good enough to be right. Sometimes, if only in order to test our resolve, it's important to win something. In order to win something, we — all of us gathered here and a little way away at Mumbai Resistance — need to agree on something. That something does not need to be an over-arching pre-ordained ideology into which we force-fit our delightfully factious, argumentative selves. It does not need to be an unquestioning allegiance to one or another form of resistance to the exclusion of everything else. It could be a minimum agenda.

If all of us are indeed against Imperialism and against the project of neo-liberalism, then let's turn our gaze on Iraq. Iraq is the inevitable culmination of both. Plenty of anti-war activists have retreated in confusion since the capture of Saddam Hussein. Isn't the world better off without Saddam Hussein? they ask timidly.

Let's look this thing in the eye once and for all. To applaud the U.S. army's capture of Saddam Hussein and therefore, in retrospect, justify its invasion and occupation of Iraq is like deifying Jack the Ripper for disembowelling the Boston Strangler. And that — after a quarter century partnership in which the Ripping and Strangling was a joint enterprise. It's an in-house quarrel. They're business partners who fell out over a dirty deal. Jack's the CEO.

So if we are against Imperialism, shall we agree that we are against the U.S. occupation and that we believe that the U.S. must withdraw from Iraq and pay reparations to the Iraqi people for the damage that the war has inflicted?

How do we begin to mount our resistance? Let's start with something really small. The issue is not about supporting the resistance in Iraq against the occupation or discussing who exactly constitutes the resistance. (Are they old Killer Ba'athists, are they Islamic Fundamentalists?)

We have to become the global resistance to the occupation.

Our resistance has to begin with a refusal to accept the legitimacy of the U.S. occupation of Iraq. It means acting to make it materially impossible for Empire to achieve its aims. It means soldiers should refuse to fight, reservists should refuse to serve, workers should refuse to load ships and aircraft with weapons. It certainly means that in countries like India and Pakistan we must block the U.S. government's plans to have Indian and Pakistani soldiers sent to Iraq to clean up after them.

I suggest that at a joint closing ceremony of the World Social Forum and Mumbai Resistance, we choose, by some means, two of the major corporations that are profiting from the destruction of Iraq. We could then list every project they are involved in. We could locate their offices in every city and every country across the world. We could go after them. We could shut them down. It's a question of bringing our collective wisdom and experience of past struggles to bear on a single target. It's a question of the desire to win.

The Project For The New American Century seeks to perpetuate inequity and establish American hegemony at any price, even if it's apocalyptic. The World Social Forum demands justice and survival.

For these reasons, we must consider ourselves at war. "

Arundhati Roy

"Anything goes"

2010-11-23T13:40:00.000-08:00

Great Resemblance ... "Pinocchio "

2010-11-22T15:53:00.000-08:00

15 Years Ago - CNN (Tokyo) - Nov 20, 1995

2010-11-22T01:06:00.000-08:00

US Admiral Richard C. Macke's comments about the rape of a 12 year-old girl by three American servicemen in Okinawa, Japan in September 1995:

" I think it was absolutely stupid. I have said several times: for the price they paid to rent the car used in the crime, they could have had a girl prostitute"

CNN (Tokyo) - November 20, 2010 - "Fired admiral gives public apology"

http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9511/macke_speaks/

More at:
The Impact Today and Tomorrow of Chalmers Johnson - Nov 21, 2010
by Steve Clemons - "The Washington Note"
http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/2010/11/the_impact_toda/

Only for Humans: "Smultronstället"

2010-11-21T21:11:00.000-08:00

" Wild Strawberries" ("Smultronstället") - Ingmar Bergman's Movie - 1957

"So it struck me - what if you could make a film about this; that you just walk up in a realistic way and open a door, and then you walk into your childhood, and then you open another door and come back to reality, and then you make a turn around a street corner and arrive in some other period of your existence, and everything goes on, lives." - Ingmar Bergman - 1957

(Part 1/15 to Part 15/15)

At the end of the day, the so called "extracted memories" , those gotten through torture, threats and rape of a human being, distorted and manipulated as they are, belong to the torturers and rapist themselves, to fuel their sadism and arrogance and to be used in their fabricated lies and delusions of power.

They don't belong to the human beings they victimize and are far away from the truth that is reserved to those who can recognize the holiness and Dignity of any human being, those to whom "dignity" is not just a bunch of letters in a billboard or script.

For those "image makers", torturers and rapists, the "dignity performers", goes what belongs to them: the fables they need to justify their brutality and shameless, promiscuous and corrupt mentality. “Damn right.”

20th Anniversary of November Vigil to Close the School of the Americas (renamed Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation)

2010-11-20T18:52:00.000-08:00

Thousands Converge at the gates of Fort Benning for 20th Anniversary of November Vigil to Close the School of the Americas (renamed Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation), also known as SOA - "The School of Assassins".

Thousands of torture survivors, veterans, faith-based communities, union workers, students, musicians, human rights activists and others from across the Americas are gathered today at the gates of the U.S. military base Fort Benning to call for the closure of the School of the Americas .

During the protest, the names of the torture, rape and murder victims of graduates of the school are read by the participants.

Many of the notorious human rights violators responsible for rape, torture, kidnapping, assassination and disappearance of thousands of people in Latin America and elsewhere were/are graduates of the School of the Americas.

Among them are generals Leopoldo Galtieri, Efraín Ríos Montt and Manuel Noriega, dictators such as Bolivia's Hugo Banzer and many of Augusto Pinochet's officers.

Members of the infamous Atlacatl Battalion of El Salvador who carried out the El Mozote massacre in El Salvador were also trained at SOA.

A database with graduates of both the SOA and WHINSEC who have been accused of human rights violations and other criminal activity is kept by The School of the Americas Watch, an advocacy organization founded by Father Roy Bourgeois and a small group of supporters in 1990 to protest the training of mainly Latin American military officers, by the United States Department of Defense at the School of the Americas (SOA).

SOA Watch conducts a vigil each November at the site of the academy, in protest over the murders, rapes and torture and contraventions of the Geneva Accord committed the graduates of the academy or under their leadership.

Today, November 20, 2010, is the 20th Anniversary of this November Vigil and regardless the well known abuses committed by some of the graduates of the School, it is kept open by the United States and in 2000 the United States Congress renamed the School of the Americas the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC).

Federal Court rejects government bid to keep spy document

2010-11-20T11:52:00.000-08:00

Federal Court rejects government bid to keep spy document

The Gazette - November 19, 2010 - by Andrew Duffy, Postmedia News
http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Federal+Court+rejects+government+keep+document/3858079/story.html

"Government agencies will not be able to hide information behind the veil of national security if the information offers evidence of complicity in torture, a Federal Court judge has ruled."

Tory Lord Mayor of London, UK, advises George W. Bush not to visit London as he may face arrest for torture

2010-11-18T23:18:00.000-08:00

The Telegraph - UK - November 19, 2010 - Boris Johnson
George W. Bush can’t fight for freedom and authorise torture
If the West’s aim is to spread the rule of law, it cannot be achieved by vile means, argues Boris Johnson.
It is not yet clear whether George W Bush is planning to cross the Atlantic to flog us his memoirs, but if I were his PR people I would urge caution. As book tours go, this one would be an absolute corker. It is not just that every European capital would be brought to a standstill, as book-signings turned into anti-war riots. The real trouble — from the Bush point of view — is that he might never see Texas again. One moment he might be holding forth to a great perspiring tent at Hay-on-Wye. The next moment, click, some embarrassed member of the Welsh constabulary could walk on stage, place some handcuffs on the former leader of the Free World, and take him away to be charged. Of course, we are told this scenario is unlikely. Dubya is the former leader of a friendly power, with whom this country is determined to have good relations. But that is what torture-authorising Augusto Pinochet thought. And unlike Pinochet, Mr Bush is making no bones about what he has done. Unless the 43rd president of the United States has been grievously misrepresented, he has admitted to authorising and sponsoring the use of torture. Asked whether he approved of “waterboarding” in three specific cases, he told his interviewer that “damn right” he did, and that this practice had saved lives in America and Britain. It is hard to overstate the enormity of this admission. “Waterboarding” is a disgusting practice by which the victim is deliberately made to think that he is drowning. It is not some cunning new psych-ops technique conceived by the CIA. It has been used in the dungeons of dictators for centuries. It is not compatible either with the US constitution or the UN convention against torture. It is deemed to be torture in this country, and above all there is no evidence whatever that it has ever succeeded in doing what Mr Bush claimed. It does not work. It does not produce much valuable information — and therefore it does not save lives. Of course we are all tempted, from time to time, by the utilitarian argument. We might become reluctant supporters of “extreme interrogation techniques” if we could really persuade ourselves that half an hour of waterboarding could really save a hundred lives — or indeed a single life. In reality, no such calculus is possible. When people are tortured, they will generally say anything to bring the agony to an end — which is why any such evidence is inadmissible in court. In the case of the three men waterboarded on Bush’s orders, British ministers are not aware of any valuable information they gave about plots against Heathrow, Canary Wharf or anywhere else. All the policy has achieved is to degrade America in the eyes of the world, and to allow America’s enemies to utter great whoops of vindication. It is not good enough for Dubya now to claim that what he did was OK, because “the lawyers said it was legal”. The lawyers in question were Assistant Attorney General Jay Bybee and his deputy, John Yoo, and after a good deal of political cattle-prodding from Rumsfeld et al, they produced a totally barmy attempt to redefine torture so as to allow waterboarding. Pain was only torture, they determined, when it was “equivalent in intensity to the pain accompanying serious physical injury, such as organ failure, impairment of bodily functions, or even death”. If that is right, it would seem that most of the techniques of the Spanish Inquisition would be acceptable to the American government. You could beat the soles of someone’s feet; you could pour molten candle wax on their extremities; you could even pull their finger nails out without infringing those conditions. How is some tired and frightened American officer supposed to make head or tail of this sophistry, late at night in some bleak Iraqi jail? How is he supposed to calibrate the pain that comes from an organ failure or death? It is no wonder, with orders like that coming from the top, that the troopers misbehaved so tragically in Abu Ghraib. They failed to see any moral difference between waterboarding their suspects and putting hoods over their heads. They failed to see any moral difference between waterboarding them and terrifying them with alsatian dogs or attaching electrodes to their genitals. They failed to see any moral difference, that is, because there isn’t any moral difference. That is the real disaster of the waterboarding policy — that we are left with the impression that the entire US military are skidding their heels on the slippery slope towards barbarism. And that is emphatically not the case. Yesterday at the Cenotaph we remembered the sacrifice of men and women not just in two world wars, but also in Iraq and Afghanistan. The purpose of these conflicts is not so much to defeat “the enemy”, but to defend things we believe to be inalienable goods — freedom, democracy and, above all, the rule of law. I believe that, of all nations, America still best upholds and guarantees those things. It would be ludicrous to suggest that the waterboarding disaster, or the evils of Abu Ghraib, have set up some kind of moral equivalence between America and – say – the murderous Taliban regime, let alone Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. If you want to appreciate the difference, remember that the perpetrators of Abu Ghraib were court-martialled, and we know about US interrogation techniques because of rules on freedom of information. But if your end is the spread of freedom and the rule of law, you cannot hope to achieve that end by means that are patently vile and illegal. How could America complain to the Burmese generals about the house arrest of Aung San Suu Kyi, when a president authorised torture? How can we talk about human rights in Beijing, when our number one ally and friend seems to be defending this kind of behaviour? I can’t think of any other American president, in my lifetime, who would have spoken in this way. Mr Bush should have remembered the words of the great Republican president, Abraham Lincoln, who said in 1863 that “military necessity does not admit of cruelty”. Damn right.

"CIA Must Disclose Records on Human Experiments " - November 17, 2010

2010-11-17T23:59:00.000-08:00

Judge orders CIA to Disclose Cold War Records on Human Experiments - experiments still hidden include the use of chemical, biological, and psychological weapons.
The plaintiffs stories are detailed in the complaint and go from loss of memory , disorientation and a series of disturbig symptons related to the experiments with devastating consequences to their lives and families.

Lawsuit document can be read at:( pdf file )
http://www.courthousenews.com/2010/08/27/CIAunderlying.pdf
Case4:09-cv-00037-CW Document1 Filed01/07/09

Plaintiffs:
Vietnam Veterans of America and six individual plantiffs

Defendants:
Central Intelligence Agency, General Michael V. Hayden, USAF, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency; United States Department of Defense; Dr. Robert M.Gates, Secretary of Defense; Peter Geren, United States Secretary of the Army; United States of America; and Michael B. Mukasey, Attorney General of the United States.

More at :

Courthouse News Service - November 17, 2010
USA Courthouse News Service: "CIA Must Disclose Records on Human Experiments " - November 17, 2010
http://www.courthousenews.com/2010/11/17/31924.htm

Inducing Terror, fear and vulnerability using threats, abuses and humiliation...

2010-11-14T21:40:00.000-08:00

As American torture Program goes unpunished and the CIA walks away with torture from waterboarding to “enhanced interrogation techniques”, illegal human experiments and whatever other atrocities they have been committing, British Courts go ahead and three of the interrogators have been “referred to the Director of Service Prosecutions, who has been asked to consider war crimes charges under the 2001 International Criminal Court Act.”.

UK Guardian released the clip below on November 5:
5 November 2010 - Guardian UK - by Ian Cobain and Richard Sprenger - guardian.co.uk

The Guardian warns that the video “contains material that viewers may find disturbing.”
"Secret British military video of interrogation techniques in Iraq"

Watch Videotape:
This clip was submitted during high court proceedings and shows a prisoner threatened, intimidated, subjected to sensory deprivation and complaining of starvation:

Article at:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2010/nov/04/secret-british-military-video-interrogation-iraq

Monday 8 November 2010 - Guardian UK article:
by Ian Cobain and Rachel Stevenson - guardian.co.uk

"I hope you die of cancer... I hope your kids die"

Article at:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2010/nov/08/iraq-middleeast1

Clip of videotape submitted during Court proceedings can be watched at:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2010/nov/08/iraq-middleeast1
The Guardian warns that the video “contains material that viewers may find disturbing.”

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The Public Record
Videotapes Of British Troops Torturing Iraqis Revealed
By Jeffrey Kaye - The Public Record - Nov 12th, 2010
http://pubrecord.org/torture/8534/videotapes-british-troops-torturing/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=videotapes-british-troops-torturing

BBC Channel 4 - American credibility and Torture

2010-11-10T01:44:00.000-08:00

Channel 4 News - BBC UK - November 9, 2010:

"As George W Bush defends the use of "waterboarding" for saving British lives, Channel 4's Job Rabkin looks at the former US president's defiance and regrets from his time in office. "

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The Clown is Everywhere - "Penny ... wise" Clown

2010-11-04T05:45:00.000-07:00

ONE YEAR AGO - Nov 4, 2009: Air Force: ‘Overwhelm Enemy Cognitive Abilities’ with Bioscience

2010-11-03T21:36:00.000-07:00

WIRED : http://www.wired.com/
By Katie Drummond - November 4, 2009 -Categories: Bizarro

USA Air Force Research Lab’s “Human Effectiveness Directorate,” gets $49 million dollars to work on military ideas to mess with adversaries’ minds.

USA Air Force is looking to harness advances in bio-science so they can “degrade enemy performance and artificially overwhelm enemy cognitive abilities.”

Read More:

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/11/air-force-wants-bioscience-to-overwhelm-enemy-cognitive-abilities/

ONE YEAR AGO - Nov 4, 2009: USA Air Force Col. Romano and 22 other CIA officers convicted of kidnapping

2010-11-03T21:28:00.000-07:00

Italy convicts Air Force O-6 in CIA kidnap case - Military News | News From Afghanistan, Iraq And Around The World - Military Times

Air Force Col. Joseph Romano was sentenced to five years in prison for kidnapping. Two Italian agents, who were also convicted as accomplices, were given three-year prison terms.
Former CIA station chief in Milan, Robert Seldon Lady, was given an eight-year term and
Former CIA officer Sabrina deSousa and twenty-two other CIA officers were all sentenced in absentia to five years in prison.

Full Article:

http://militarytimes.com/news/2009/11/airforce_italy_case_110409/

MORE ON THE CONVICTIONS:
BBC - Nov 4, 2009
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8343123.stm

ABC NEWS - Nov 4, 2009
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/exclusive-convicted-cia-spy-broke-law/story?id=8995107

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Romano - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_L._Romano
Sabrina deSousa - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabrina_DeSousa

USA Air Force Wants Neuroweapons to Overwhelm Enemy Minds

2010-11-02T23:58:00.000-07:00

During the Cold War, the CIA and the military experimented on unwitting human beings with dozens of psychoactive drugs, in a series of abusive and unlawful mind-control experiments.

More recently, the Pentagon’s National Research Council and Defense Intelligence Agency have been pushing for pharma-based tactics to weaken enemy forces.

In recent months, the Pentagon has funded several projects related to this and has been investing in projects aiming “remote control of brain activity using ultrasound.”

The Article published on WIRED - Danger Room:

Air Force Wants Neuroweapons to Overwhelm Enemy Minds

By Noah Shachtman, November 2, 2010

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/11/air-force-looks-to-artificially-overwhelm-enemy-cognitive-capabilities/

"Air Force Research Laboratory’s 711th Human Performance Wing revamped a call for research proposals examining “Advances in Bioscience for Airmen Performance.” It’s a six-year, $49 million effort to deploy extreme neuroscience and biotechnology in the service of warfare....That’s right: the American Air Force wants a way to fry foes’ minds — or at least make ‘em a little dumber.

FULL ARTICLE:

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/11/air-force-looks-to-artificially-overwhelm-enemy-cognitive-capabilities/

"I'm Evil" - John Shea as Lex Luthor

2010-11-01T21:47:00.000-07:00

Vincent Price : "Poison doesn't always come in bottles"

2010-10-30T02:43:00.000-07:00

From 1947 - 1951, Vicent Price portrayed the radio incarnation of Leslie Charteris' character Simon Templar. At the conclusion of a radio broadcast of 'The Saint', episode "Author Of Murder", Price delivered the following message:

WIKILEAKS 400,000 Iraq War documents C-SPAN coverage of press conference in London , UK, Oct 24, 2010

2010-10-28T00:03:00.000-07:00

C-SPAN coverage of WIKILEAKS press conference (London, on October 23, 2010) , can still be watched in its entirely at:

http://www.c-span.org/Watch/Media/2010/10/22/HP/R/39833/WikiLeaks+releases+nearly+400000+Iraq+War+documents.aspx

Inside the War Logs - More lies - MSNBC Countdown Oct 25 2010

2010-10-26T17:39:00.000-07:00

"Sucked into a process of complicity in torture" - The War Logs

2010-10-25T15:43:00.000-07:00

After the release of the War Logs, by Wikileaks, UK Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg shows the country's concerns and says on TV shows that this was such an issue of such serious concern that there should be an inquiry into it.
On October 24, 2010, Nick Clegg called for an inquiry into allegations that Allied troops in Iraq turned a blind eye to torture and murder

No “informed consent” necessary in any human experimentation by US Defense Department - Deputy Def Secretary Paul Wolfowitz's Dec 2001 memos show

2010-10-25T11:01:00.000-07:00

October 25, 2010
After over a year of research, Jason Leopold, Truthout’s Deputy Managing Editor, and psychologist Jeffrey Kaye, compiled a track record of the development of human experimentation in the Bush administration’s Torture Program.

The compiled documents point to the fact that the Bush-era torture program gave continuation to work in the field of human experimentation that the US took over from the Nazis, and also involved the complicity of senior officials, who pretended that the program was designed to prevent future terrorist attacks.

In interview with a former Pentagon official, who worked closely with the USA Department of Defence’s ex-general counsel William Haynes, the official said that in 2002, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz loosened rules against human experimentation, apparently in recognition of legal problems regarding strategies to be used for extracting and evaluating information in the "War on Terror".

Wolfowitz issued directives to provided legal cover for a top-secret Special Access Program which experimented on ways to glean information from unwilling subjects and to achieve “deception detection.”

The full article and documents can be read at:
October 14, 2010 by Truthout

"Wolfowitz Directive Gave Legal Cover to Detainee Experimentation Program"
By Jason Leopold and Jeffrey Kaye, Truthout, October 14, 2010

http://www.truth-out.org/wolfowitz-directive-legal-cover-human-experimentation-detainees64184

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"How Paul Wolfowitz Authorized Human Experimentation at Guantánamo"
24.10.10 - Andy Worthington
http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2010/10/24/how-paul-wolfowitz-authorized-human-experimentation-at-guantanamo/

Security Certificates: Past, Present and Future - PRISM TV

2010-10-24T22:53:00.000-07:00

prismmagazine on livestream.com. Broadcast Live Free

Wikileaks Iraq War Diary Press Conference - October 23, 2010 - London

2010-10-24T22:03:00.000-07:00

Wikileaks Iraq Files List Torture Electrocution and Executions of Detainees and children

2010-10-24T21:44:00.000-07:00

On Friday, 22nd October 2010 WikiLeaks released the largest classified military leak in history. Iraq War Documents reveal Torture, Civilian Deaths

WikiLeaks’ War Logs page includes a search engine that makes it easy to browse and search through the documents.

To search the documents visit:
http://warlogs.wikileaks.org/

More at:
The Guardian UK - Sunday 24 October 2010
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/oct/24/iraq-war-logs-us-iraqi-torture

WIRED - October 22, 2010
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/10/wikileaks-press/#ixzz13LKfVLnZ

The Confession of a rapist/torturer/ murderer and non ordinary man - Russell Williams

2010-10-23T11:27:00.000-07:00

Watch full episode - Aired October22, 2010 - CBC the fifth state

VIDEO
The Confession - the fifth estate

See also:

Above Suspicion - the fifth estate

http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/2010-2011/abovesuspicion/

Russell Williams confession: no "enhanced interrogation" (torture)

2010-10-20T11:04:00.000-07:00

Real Interrogators , not Torturers, extracted rapist/murderer Colonel Russel Williams' confession:

Watch extracts of the confession:
CBC News - October 20, 2010
http://www.cbc.ca/video/player.html?category=News&clipid=1620134323

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2010/10/20/russell-williams-day-3.html

It took professional interviewers with clean hands. There was no place for "enhanced interrogation" techniques, death threats, rape or whatsoever. Not even for the bit of "some torture" some still defend as "useful".

This is real life involving smart people in both sides. The results are shown in Court:

From The National Post Youtube channel, part of the video that was played during Williams' sentencing hearing in Belleville Oct. 20, 2010:
Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzh3adTWZOg

The confession at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ah51vPzcVEM

Russell Willliams Interview Part 3

From the court room - October 20, 2010
Live: Col. Russell Williams in court, Day 3 - thestar.com
http://www.thestar.com/news/article/876913?sms_ss=blogger&at_xt=4cbf332d73fbead6,0

More on the confession interview:
CBC - Oct 20, 2010
CBC News - Canada - Williams admitted to killing Comeau, Lloyd

The Star - October 20, 2010 - as Colonel Russel Williams's confession video is being shown at Court House in Belleville:

11:19 am - "Det. Sgt. Jim Smyth simply owns him..."

11:27 am - ""I raped her in her house and then I put her in my car and took her to Tweed," #ColRW says. Spent day there. [via Twitter]"

Spreading falsehoods - "The terrorists came from Canada", "They got a birth certificate in Montreal"...etc...

2010-10-19T10:05:00.000-07:00

“"What we know is that our northern border is where the terrorists came through. That's the most porous border that we have. We cannot allow terrorists, we cannot allow anyone to come across our border if we don't know why they're coming. So, we have to secure all of our borders and that's what that was about, is border security."

Comments by Sharron Angle , 2010 Republican nominee for the United States Senate seat in Nevada, on October 16, 2010

More at:
CBS News: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20019924-503544.html
WinnipegFreePress: http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/canada/breakingnews/ottawa-tells-tea-party-backed-candidate-911-hijackers-did-not-come-from-canada--105238458.html

Integrity of the judicial process - "Secrecy and Deception in a Detainee Ruling"

2010-10-18T13:14:00.000-07:00

Secrecy and Deception in a Detainee Ruling -October 11th, 2010
http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/category/secrecy

Published October 11th, 2010 - "Secrecy News" -
http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/category/secrecy

"Secrecy News, a publication of the Federation of American Scientists, reports on new developments in government secrecy and provides public access to documentary resources on secrecy, intelligence and national security policy. It is written by Steven Aftergood."

See also:
In Gitmo Opinion, Two Versions of Reality - by Dafna Linzer

ProPublica, Oct. 8, 2010,

http://www.propublica.org/article/in-gitmo-opinion-two-versions-of-reality

"ANYTHING GOES"

2010-10-17T23:52:00.000-07:00

The Ottawa Citizen - October 18, 2010 - By David Pugliese

Mental review was sought for ex-soldier after he criticized Veterans Affairs: Officials pre-determined likely outcome of psychiatric assessment, documents reveal

Read more:
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/health/Mental+review+sought+soldier+after+criticized+Veterans+Affairs+note/3685794/story.html

Stop Canadian Complicity in Torture

Unsuitable "monarchs": Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake

The Torture Doctors - PLoS Medicine journal Report by psychiatrist and retired Brig. Gen. Stephen Xenakis and Vincent Iacopino (Medical adviser)

Neglect of Medical Evidence of Torture in Guantánamo Bay: A Case Series

Gitmo Doctors Hid Evidence of Torture - by Spencer Ackerman - April 26, 2011

TORTURE PROGRAM - US

Old news from the south come North: criminals for hire

"You Are an Idiot" - Familiar faces

"Preachers of the world", just a piece of the story

Andy Worthington and the connections: James Mitchel, Bruce James, CIA architects of the torture program, propaganda and more

Former SERE Instructor Capt. Michael Kearns on the rush rush doing torture, Bruce Jessen, Air Force psyc ( CIA contractor) and more

Former SERE Instructor Capt. Michael Kearns About The Bush Administration’s Torture Program

The Motto: Agonizing over probability of getting caught...not over commiting the crime

March 24, 1980 - Conservative Archbishop Romero assassination

"Specials" and "ALL SCIENTISTS, ALL SCIENTISTS !!!"

Andy Worthington’s YouTube Channel Now Available

US spy operation that manipulates social media -

UK House of Commons’ Foreign Affairs Committeee - Foreign Secretary William Hague on the case of Bradley Manning

Mathieu, "Torture Containers" and torturers who want to be funny... - "This is your break"

Do your kids watch CSI ??? Do you?? The truth about "death in american soil"

Kokomo Arnold - Blues Guitar Legend (1937)

State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley calls treatment of Bradley Manning “ridiculous and counterproductive and stupid.” | The Cable

No more "shame" - SEXING TORTURE

Egyptian Activists Expose Torture Tools and Files, Tied to US Renditions

"Destroying the Evidence" ...in Egypt

Obscenity and Sadism Galore : CIA's formula to "learned helplessness"

Interview with Birgitta Jonsdottir, Icelandic member of parliament and ex-WikiLeaks

Former Reagan official talks about Assange's assassination by the CIA team in case they can't get him "legally"

My People - by Yusuf (Cat Stevens)

Secret Intelligence Services - "The Desintegration Directive"

Stasi - East Germany's Secret Police

Elected Officials - a target for the "Owners of the Weather"

Vigilants vs. Vigilants

Getting Used to it?

" Kids For Cash " - Pennsylvania Judicial kickbacks

February 2010 - One Year Ago

See also post October 20, 2010

Requiem For a Dream - The music - Frodo's Journey

Requiem For a Dream - The music - The journey as presented

Playing with Rape and walking away with it

U.S. Chamber of Commerce plots against "opponents"

Omar Suleiman the torturer and friend of torture regimes

Torture Confessions: "Tell Me What the Thruth Is !"

House of Commons Hearing: Briefing on the Royal Canadian Mounted Police

"YOU ARE JUST A FLY!!!!!"

Canadian News from Egypt - 1957

Woman Abuser gets "National Security" Tools to Play with

Jewish prayers for Egypt's uprising

Accomplices to Criminal activities Infiltrated in the Police Force .. in Texas

"...choose you this day whom ye will serve.." Joshua 24:15

Torture, Sadism, Suicide Orders, Impunity in Ancient Rome: Julian - Claudian's Ancestry

Torture Program - Australian Official (s) Participation

Jan 11, 2011-Some still against Torture

" The Game" (but watch out for the assassins after playing)

The War You Don't See - Full Documentary

United Nations Statement on Wikileaks

Life in Prison for torture and murder for former Argentina leader

WikiLeaks Cables: Pfizer non consentual drug tests on Nigerian children

Enhanced torturers, Enhanced deals

Psychologists Who Devised US Torture Program Had No Interrogation Experience, Were Paid $1000/Day by CIA

The War You Don't See - Documentary

Saeculum Obscurum Antidote

Crush

Cable gate - Wiki revelation of the past 12 days - by Joe Sabia of Get Whirled

New Standards on the making: Assassins and the deep hole of amorality

US Republican Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) on WikiLeaks:

Judges, Law, Criminal Investigations - Spain

WikiWorld by Mark Fiore

Blogging the WikiLeaks Releases - Greg Mitchell - The Nation

CSIS ex-chief slams Courts, Canadians and uses "harassment" as a tool

"In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act." George Orwell.

Iraq War Logs

CBC Poll : WikiLeaks release of U.S. files

Salam Pax (Peace) - A Peace Anthem honoring the connections between people of different origins, by Don Arbor

On the CIA "disruption policy", foreign countries role, a condo in Vancouver as solution and more

Thanksgiving

"Anything goes"

Great Resemblance ... "Pinocchio "

15 Years Ago - CNN (Tokyo) - Nov 20, 1995

Only for Humans: "Smultronstället"