Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, speaking to the Association of the United States Army in Washington DC Oct. 10, said the US Army of the future will need to concentrate more on training foreign militaries, mastering other languages and customs,… Read moreRobert Gates: insurgent wars wave of future
From Amnesty International, Sept. 25: The authorities in Germany have decided not to seek the extradition of 13 US citizens suspected of being involved in the abduction and rendition of German citizen Khaled el-Masri. The 13 includes at least 10… Read moreGermany drops extradition request of CIA agents
Well, it seems that James B. Comey, the man who threatened to subpoena WW4 Report, was actually the progressive within the context of the Bush Justice Department. From the front page of the New York Times, Oct. 4 (links added):… Read moreSecret Justice Department torture approval revealed
From the Center for Constitutional Rights, Sept. 24: On September 24, 2007, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) submitted a petition to the Supreme Court asking it to intervene in the case of Libyan Guantánamo client Abdul Ra’ouf Al Qassim… Read moreGitmo detainee fears “disappearance” to Libya
From the Los Angeles Times, Sept. 25 (links added): WASHINGTON — A decision Monday night by a military court of review will pave the way for the Pentagon to restart its terrorism tribunals for detainees held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba…. Read moreRuling paves way for Gitmo tribunals
From the New York Times, Sept. 19: Settlements Do Not Deter 9/11 Plaintiffs Seeking Trials Families of 14 of the people killed in the planes hijacked on Sept. 11, 2001, have settled their lawsuits, but relatives of other victims said… Read more9-11 survivors play into hands of police state?
From the front page of the New York Times, Sept. 22: At State Deptartment, Blog Team Joins Muslim Debate WASHINGTON — Walid Jawad was tired of all the chatter on Middle Eastern blogs and Internet forums in praise of gory… Read moreState Department goes bloggo
Donald Trump signed an executive order to continue operations at the Guantánamo detention center—not only allowing those currently detained to remain detained, but also permitting the US to bring new persons to the facility. The order comes the same day Trump pledged "to keep open the detention facilities at Guantánamo Bay" in his State of the Union address—to applause from Republican lawmakers. It also comes nearly nine years to the day after Obama's executive order to begin the process of closing the facility. (Photo: Wikimedia)
The anarchist blog Three-Way Fight wants to know (despite leaving the question marks off their questions): Why does the media – CNN, MSNBC, FOX, BBC, Harretz, etc – spend today going over and over again, with lots of video footage,… Read moreRussian and Israeli neo-Nazis: media double standard?
Everyone is talking about Robert Fisk‘s Sept. 11 column in The Independent, but nobody is noting what a cynical, disingenuous piece of self-serving propaganda it is. The most sickening thing about it is that he feels obliged to start out… Read moreRobert Fisk joins 9-11 conspiracy vampires
Osama bin Laden’s last communique of January 2006 attempted to exploit the writings of leftist icon William Blum—but, as we noted, rather garbled it. Now The Guardian calls him out on similarly exploiting—and garbling—the work of one of their reporters… Read moreOsama does it again
This Sept. 6 report from Computer World hails a victory for the privacy rights of cyberscenti, but as we have noted, this also concerns us old-school types who go to libraries and read books. (We know, how quaint.) Judge: Court… Read morePatriot Act provision ruled unconstitutional
