Ein unabhängiger Historiker und ein Journalist, Andy Worthington hat einige Jahre verbracht, welche die Unterströmungen der britischen Sozialnachkriegsgeschichte - insbesondere das Zusammentreffen zwischen dem Zustand und einigen seiner freimütigsten Kritiker betrachten (Protestbewegungen, Reisende und Alternativgemeinschaften).
2006 drehte er seine Aufmerksamkeit zum „Krieg auf Terror“. Wie viele kümmerte sich […]

ED O' Loughlin
DIE israelische Armee hat, entschieden eine disziplinäre Prüfspitze nicht in die Tötung von 21 palästinensischen Zivilisten im November 2006 zu bestellen.
Die toten Männer, die Frauen und die Kinder schlossen mindestens 13 Mitglieder der Athamneh Familie, unter ihnen ein ein-Jahr-altes Mädchen ein. Andere 35 Leute wurden verletzt, während 12 155-Millimeter-schwere Artillerieoberteile das Nord anschlugen […]

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 […]

By Nigel Morris
The mothers of two teenage soldiers killed in Iraq accused Tony Blair’s government of going to war “on a lie” as they took their fight for a public inquiry into the conflict to the House of Lords.
Beverly Clarke and Rose Gentle argue that ministers breached their duty to Britain’s armed forces by failing […]

The US has ordered diplomats abroad to justify seeking death penalty for 6 Gitmo detainees by recalling the executions of Nazi war criminals.
The unclassified cable is written in a question-and-answer format in anticipation of inquiries that diplomats may get from foreigners about the Pentagon’s Monday announcement of the trial and charges.
In the four-page cable […]