Ο φόρος θανάτου της ισραηλινής επίθεσης στη Γάζα ανέρχεται σε 60 ανθρώπους το Σάββατο, που χαρακτηρίζουν τους η πιό deadliest ημέρα της πάλης στην παράκτια περιοχή.
Ο παλαιστινιακός ιστοχώρος ειδήσεων IMEMC ανέφερε τον προϊστάμενο των υπηρεσιών έκτακτης ανάγκης της Γάζας, ο Δρ Muawiya Hassanein καθώς λέγοντας που ήταν εκεί τουλάχιστον 26 πολίτες μεταξύ εκείνων σκότωσαν.
Απολύτως συμπεριλαμβανόμενη 5 παιδιά, […]

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Ο Υπουργός Matan Vilnai αναπληρωτή Άμυνας του Ισραήλ έχει προκαλέσει την προσβολή μετά από να απειλήσει τους Παλαιστίνιους με ένα «ολοκαύτωμα,» αλλά τα ίδια μέσα που βασάνισαν για το Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's «σκουπίζουν το Ισραήλ από το χάρτη» παραποιούν σπεύδουν για να υπερασπίσουν τα ατιμωτικά σχόλια Vilnai.
«Η περισσότερη πυρκαγιά Qassam (πυραύλων) εντείνεται και οι πύραυλοι φθάνουν σε μια πιό μακροχρόνια σειρά, αυτοί […]

A freelance historian and journalist, Andy Worthington has spent several years looking at the undercurrents of post-war British social history - in particular the clash between the state and some of its most outspoken critics (protest movements, travelers and alternative communities).
In 2006, he turned his attention to the “War on Terror”. Like many decent-minded […]

Ed O’Loughlin
THE Israeli army has decided not to order a disciplinary probe into the killing of 21 Palestinian civilians in November 2006.
The dead men, women and children included at least 13 members of the Athamneh family, among them a one-year-old girl. Another 35 people were injured as 12 155-millimetre heavy artillery shells struck the north […]

BBC
Panorama asks why the British Army in Iraq used interrogation techniques that were banned over 30 years ago.

Panorama: On Whose Orders? BBC One 8.30pm on Monday 25 February 2008

In 1972 the techniques - hooding, stress positions, constant noise, sleep deprivation and being starved of food and water - were banned by the Heath government […]

Up to 10,000 Turkish troops launch an incursion which threatens to destabilise the country’s only peaceful region
By Patrick Cockburn
A new crisis has exploded in Iraq after Turkish troops, supported by attack planes and Cobra helicopters, yesterday launched a major ground offensive into Iraqi Kurdistan.
The invading Turkish soldiers are in pursuit of Kurdish guerrillas hiding in […]

The New Statesman 
In July 2003, in the week following the death of David Kelly, a reader contacted the New Statesman and suggested that the media were missing the obvious. The Commons foreign affairs committee had just cleared the government of “sexing up” the September 2002 dossier on Iraqi weapons of mass destruction - a claim, […]

Bush White House Maintains Waterboarding Was Legal When Used
The Justice Department has opened an internal investigation into whether its top officials improperly authorized or reviewed the CIA’s use of waterboarding when interrogating terror suspects, according to documents released Friday.
The investigation was revealed at the request of Democratic Sens. Dick Durbin of Illinois and Sheldon Whitehouse […]

By Ross Tuttle
A damning new interview reveals that the Gitmo trials are only for show.
Secret evidence. Denial of habeas corpus. Evidence obtained by waterboarding. Indefinite detention. The litany of complaints about the legal treatment of prisoners at Guantánamo Bay is long, disturbing and by now familiar. Nonetheless, a new wave of shock and criticism greeted […]

Up to 20 Iraqi civilians may have been executed by British troops in southern Iraq, it has been claimed.
Lawyers published a dossier of evidence from men taken captive after a gun battle near the southern Iraqi town of Majat-al-Kabir in May 2004, which also suggested prisoners were tortured and mutilated by UK military.
The allegations were […]

Stop the War: a mass movement to celebrate and defend
Socialist Worker
The 15 February 2003 demonstration reminds us of the strength of the anti-war movement and shows the importance of the upcoming 15 March protest, writes Andrew Burgin
The fifth anniversary of the great anti-war march of 15 February 2003 was celebrated by the anti-war movement last […]

Independent Online
An early draft of a pre-war British weapons dossier on Iraq included concerns over Israel’s nuclear capability, but the government fought to suppress the reference before publication, The Guardian reported on Thursday.
The newspaper said the Foreign Office convinced a tribunal to keep secret the handwritten mention of Israel in the margin of the dossier, […]

The Irish Times
Four million Iraqis are struggling to feed themselves, and 40 per cent of the country’s 27 million people have no safe water, the UN said today.
Iraq has annual economic growth of around 7 per cent, according to UN estimates, and a national budget of €33 billion, buoyed by oil exports of 1.6 million […]

Can a DOJ lawyer be held accountable for advocating the inhumane?
By Doug Cassel
When on Jan. 22 a federal court judge sentenced Jose Padilla to 17 years in prison for conspiracy to commit terrorism, it was a one-day story. But, in fact, the Padilla case goes on.
Padilla, a U.S. citizen and former Chicago gang member, alleges […]

Jim Bronskill
An investigation by the watchdog over the Canadian Security Intelligence Service concludes the spy agency “uses information obtained by torture” - perhaps its bluntest assessment of CSIS’s intelligence-gathering practices to date.
The Security Intelligence Review Committee, which began looking into the issue two years ago, stops short of accepting Toronto lawyer Paul Copeland’s assertion that […]