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« Previous EntriesMiami Five’s defense exposes errors and jury intimidation during trial
Friday, August 24th, 2007Granma International flamesong 21st August 2007 On August 20, the 11th Circuit Appeals Court in Atlanta heard convincing allegations by the legal team defending the five Cuban anti-terrorist fighters imprisoned in the United States. The defense lawyers submitted that the prosecution committed serious procedural errors and used intimidation to pressure the jury of the initial trial, which took place in Miami in a climate of apparent hostility toward the five heroes. For the ...
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Castro: Cuba not cashing U.S. Guantanamo rent checks
Friday, August 24th, 2007Yahoo [via Granma International] flamesong 20th August 2007 The United States pays Cuba $4,085 a month in rent for the controversial Guantanamo naval base, but Cuba has only once cashed a check in almost half a century and then only by mistake, Fidel Castro wrote in an essay published on Friday. The ailing Cuban leader, who has not appeared in public for more than a year, said he had refused to ...
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Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army
Sunday, August 19th, 2007By Jeremy Scahill Blackwater is a private company that does the dirty work for America in various wars, both covert and those we know about all too well. It began only 10 years ago as a sort of cheerful paintball and shooting range in the Great Dismal Swamp of North Carolina, but these days it has some 20,000 mercenaries on its books (the “whores of war”), not to mention ...
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Army suicides highest in 26 years
Thursday, August 16th, 2007By PAULINE JELINEK Army soldiers committed suicide last year at the highest rate in 26 years, and more than a quarter did so while serving in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to a new military report. The report, obtained by The Associated Press ahead of its scheduled release Thursday, found there were 99 confirmed suicides among active duty soldiers during 2006, up from 88 the previous year and the highest ...
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Troops denied special Afghan medal
Tuesday, August 14th, 2007The Ministry of Defence was facing severe criticism last night for refusing to award a special honour to soldiers fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan. By Stephen Adams, Martin Beckford and Duncan Gardham British troops serving in Helmand province are being denied ...
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Chávez condemns U.S. protection of terrorist Posada Carriles
Saturday, August 11th, 2007Chávez condemns U.S. protection of terrorist Posada Carriles Granma International flamesong The United States’ harboring of terrorist Luis Posada Carriles is one more example of how U.S. rulers are threatening the world, said Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez. The leader recalled, “It has been more than two years since we applied for the extradition of one of the worst terrorists in the history of the continent.” The U.S. has yet to agree despite ...
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UK orders new gag on armed forces
Friday, August 10th, 2007Agencies New rules barring military personnel from talking about their service publicly have been quietly introduced by the UK Ministry of Defense. Soldiers, sailors and airforce personnel will not be able to blog, take part in surveys, speak in public, post on bulletin boards, play in multi-player computer games or send text messages or photographs without the permission of a superior ...
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CIA techniques cause serious mental damage
Saturday, August 4th, 2007Granma International flamesong Interrogation techniques used by the CIA on alleged terrorists can cause serious mental damage and are illegal in the United States, according to a report released Thursday by two non-governmental organizations, Physicians for Human Rights and Human Rights First. The report, titled "Leave No Marks, ‘Enhanced’ Interrogation Techniques and the Risk of Criminality," was drafted by medical and legal investigators from both groups and based its conclusions on ...
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US sergeant guilty of Iraq murder
Friday, August 3rd, 2007
A US marine squad leader charged over the kidnap and killing of a grandfather in Iraq last year has been found guilty of murder.
A military jury at Camp Pendleton base, near San Diego, found on Thursday that Sergeant Lawrence Hutchins committed unpremeditated murder and larceny.
Hutchins, 23, was also convicted of making false official statements and participating in a conspiracy to murder.
Witnesses said ...
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The Miami Five - Victims of American Justice
Thursday, August 2nd, 2007flamesong On 8th June 2001 in a federal court in Miami five Cuban men, Gerardo Hernández, Ramón Labañino, Antonio Guerrero, Fernando González and René González were convicted of charges of false identification, espionage and conspiracy to commit murder. Their sentences ranged from 75 years to life. Cuba has been the bogey man for the American people since the Castro-led revolution resulted in the ousting of US puppet Fulgencio Batista in January ...
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The CIA proposed that I assassinate Fidel in Chile, Veciana confesses
Wednesday, August 1st, 2007Founder of Alpha 66, identified as an accomplice in the conspiracy to assassinate Kennedy Granma International It was the CIA that informed Antonio Veciana Blanch, 10 months ahead of time, of a visit to Chile by the president of Cuba; it proposed he should organize Fidel’s assassination, directed him to carry it out in a press conference and provided his transportation with weapons to Santiago in a U.S. ...
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2 U.S. Soldiers Charged With Murder
Friday, July 20th, 2007By ROBERT H. REID Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) - Two U.S. Army soldiers have been charged with the premeditated murder of an Iraqi, and a lieutenant colonel has been relieved of command in connection with the case, the U.S. military announced Thursday. Sgt. 1st Class Trey A. Corrales, of San Antonio and Spc. Christopher P. Shore of Winder, Ga., were charged with one count of murder in the ...
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Pentagon’s Psychic Vision Revisited
Sunday, July 1st, 2007By Sharon Weinberger Some people believe he’s part of an elaborate government plot that abducts and harasses innocent civilians. Some view him as a military visionary. With his interest in parapsychology and near death experience, some think he watched one too many episodes of the X-Files. To me, he’s the sort of person I most enjoy speaking with: out ...
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US armed forces used torture ’systematically’
Wednesday, June 27th, 2007UPI The US armed forces have been using torture indiscriminately, a human rights group charged Monday. "Moreover, more than 100,000 pages of government documents released in response to [an] American Civil Liberties Union [ACLU] Freedom of Information Act request reveal that a pervasive and systemic pattern of harsh interrogation techniques have been used by military personnel indiscriminately in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay," the ACLU said in a ...
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Lies, Damn Lies, and Lies that Unleash Hell
Monday, June 11th, 2007By Jason Miller RINF Alternative News Each day untold millions of US Americans unwittingly immerse themselves in an intellectual, social, cultural, economic, political and spiritual cesspool so rancid and toxic that even microbes with the most voracious appetites for human waste, vomit, and inanimate flesh would shun this infinitely repulsive sewer. Many highly qualified and intelligent researchers, analysts, and authors have written ...
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