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„Vorige IngangenAmy Goodman: Te Groot om te ontbreken, te Groot aan Gevangenis
Woensdag, 28 Januari, 2009Onlangs beschreven George W. van Karl Rove Bush als schrijft boekminnaar, die? Er is een mythe die door de critici van Bush wordt bestendigd die hij eerder brandwond een boek dan gelezen.? Er zal vele geschiedenissen zijn die over het beleid van Bush worden geschreven. Wat zij voor bronmateriaal zullen gebruiken? Het witte Huis van Bush werd vervolgd voor het verliezen van e-mail, en voor het begrenzen van wetten om openbare verslagen te beschermen. Een federale rechter…
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De ambtenaar van de V.N.: Genoeg bewijsmateriaal om Rumsfeld voor oorlogsmisdaden te vervolgen
Dinsdag, 27 Januari, 2009Door David Edwards en Stephen C. Maandag van Webster, vertelde de Speciale Rapporteur van de Verenigde Naties voor Marteling Manfred Nowak Rick Sanchez van CNN dat de V.S. een „verplichting“ hebben te onderzoeken of bevolen het beleids de ambtenaren van Bush martelen, toevoegend dat hij gelooft dat er reeds genoeg bewijsmateriaal is om vroegere Secretaresse van Defensie Donald Rumsfeld te vervolgen. „Wij hebben duidelijk bewijsmateriaal,“ hij zei. „In ons rapport dat wij naar de Verenigde Naties, wij… verzonden
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Zijn wij Beschaafd Genoeg Greep Onze Leiders Verantwoordelijk voor de Misdaden van de Oorlog?
Maandag, 26 Januari, 2009De wereld let op door John W. Dean? Opmerkelijk, wordt de bevestiging van de Algemene benoemde van de Procureur van President Obama's, Eric Holder, gesteund door Republikeinse Senator John Cornyn van Texas, die blijkbaar ongelukkig is dat de Houder de ambtenaren van het Beleid van Bush onderzoeken en eigenlijk zou kunnen vervolgen die in marteling in dienst namen. Ongeacht dit weerzinwekkende nieuwe Republikeins omhels van marteling (die een winnende kwestie voor zou kunnen zijn…
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Obama keurt raketstakingen in Pakistan goed
Maandag, 26 Januari, 2009Op de vierde dag van Barack Obama? s voorzitterschap, keurde hij rakettenstakingen in Pakistan goed. D? j? vu helemaal opnieuw, als Yogi Berra zou zeggen, bedelend de vraag waarom meer stakingen als Amerika voor verandering stemde? Maar dit was het nieuws in het UK? s Beschermer, de stakingen van de de ordenlucht van de Voorzitter op dorpen op stammengebied. ? Barak Obama gaf het startsein gisteren voor zijn eerste militaire actie, raketstakingen tegen verdacht…
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Obama aan ordeoverzicht van de emissiesbod van de staat
Maandag, 26 Januari, 2009By Zachary Coile, Robert Selna President Obama, in his first major environmental act since taking office, will order the Environmental Protection Agency today to move swiftly on a request by California and other states to set the nation's toughest vehicle emissions standards. Obama plans to make the announcement at a White House ceremony, according to congressional sources briefed on the plan. The move signals a sharp break with the Bush administration, ...
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Score Another for Obama: He Lifts Global Gag Order
Monday, January 26th, 2009By Matthew Rothschild Barack Obama on Friday made good on his promise to lift the heinous global gag rule that George Bush had imposed on his own first day in office. The global gag rule deprived many overseas health clinics of crucial U.S. funding because they provided reproductive services or engaged in health care advocacy that the Bush Administration and its rabid rightwing base objected to. As a result, these clinics?which serve ...
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President Obama should call off the medical marijuana raids
Sunday, January 25th, 2009By J.D. Tuccille Asked about medical marijuana on the campaign trail in New Hampshire just a year and a half ago, then-Senator Barack Obama said, "I would not have the Justice Department prosecuting and raiding medical marijuana users. It's not a good use of our resources." Admittedly, he's been on the job just a few days, but now-President Obama's administration has just overseen its first medical marijuana raid. It's ...
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Noam Chomsky Speaks About President Obama
Sunday, January 25th, 2009The following is a Press TV interview with respected American author, political analyst and world-renowned linguist, Professor Noam Chomsky. By Press TV January 24, 2009? -- -Press TV: Professor Chomsky, we better start with Pakistan. The White House not commenting on the killings of people [in cross-border drone attacks from Afghanistan into Pakistan]. Richard Holbrooke, someone whom you've written about in the context of Yugoslavia, is the man [President Barack] Obama has ...
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Banning Torture is Not Enough
Sunday, January 25th, 2009By Jordan Paust |?JURIST? JURIST Contributing Editor Jordan Paust of the University of Houston Law Center says that President Barack Obama should follow up his executive order banning torture and inhumane interrogation by fulfilling treaty-based and customary international legal obligations to either initiate prosecution of or to extradite all persons - including high US officials - reasonably accused of having previously authorized, ordered, abetted, or perpetrated torture and other ...
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Holder OK with FBI Searches of Bookstore, Library Records
Wednesday, January 21st, 2009By Phil Leggiere??At confirmation hearing attorney general nominee voices support for Patriot Act provision authorizing secret FBI searches of reading records. President-elect Barack Obama's nominee for attorney general has endorsed an extension of the law that allows federal agents to demand Americans' library and bookstore records as part of terrorism probes, dismaying a national group of independent booksellers. ? Eric Holder said at his confirmation hearing Thursday before the Senate ...
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Time to Get to Work
Wednesday, January 21st, 2009By Robert Scheer? So, let?s now heed the words of our new president and set aside childish things. Presumably that includes the $450 worth of designer Obama T-shirts that I got in return for a campaign contribution made two days before the election in a sudden panic that he yet might lose. That battle has been won, and the sight of the disgraced Dick Cheney being wheeled ...
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Alleged 9/11 planners declare their guilt
Tuesday, January 20th, 2009? Two alleged orchestrators of the 2001 attacks on America casually declared their guilt yesterday in a messy and perhaps final session of the Guantanamo war crimes court. ? ? This week's military hearings could be the last at Guantanamo - President-elect Barack Obama has said he would close the offshore prison and many expect him to suspend the military tribunals and order new trials in the United States. Ramzi Binalshibh ...
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After the Party, Obama Has One Long To-Do List
Tuesday, January 20th, 2009NEW YORK - As an estimated two million celebrants converge on the U.S. capital for the inauguration festivities of President-elect Barack Obama Tuesday, the mood among human rights groups and some religious leaders is somewhat more sombre. They are calling on Obama to use his first hundred days in office to close the military prison at Guantanamo Bay and repudiate the policies of President George W. Bush on an array of ...
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Impeachment investigation ahead for Bush and Cheney?
Monday, January 19th, 2009by Martha R Gore | Examiner.com It came as no surprise that House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers began talking about impeachement hearing against President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney on January 14, 2009. If such hearings come about, according to Conyers, it would be a means of reaffirming constitutional principals. Many Bush critics think that Conyers put off an impeachment battle during the last two years ...
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Pentagon cleared of propaganda violations
Monday, January 19th, 2009An internal investigation has cleared the Pentagon of violating a ban on domestic propaganda by using retired military officers to comment positively about the war in Iraq in the US media. In a report posted on its website, the Pentagon's inspector general said "we found the evidence insufficient to conclude that RMA (retired military analysts) outreach activities were improper". The report said the controversy, which erupted in April following an expose in ...
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