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US Navy Reserve Doctor on Gina Haspel Torture Victim: “One of the Most Severely Traumatized Individuals I Have Ever Seen”
An American Doctor and Naval reserve officer who has done extensive medical evaluation of a high-profile prisoner who was tortured under the supervision of Gina Haspel privately urged Sen. Mark Warner, the vice chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, to …
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Blackwater Founder Erik Prince Implicated in Murder
Featured image: Erik Prince
A former Blackwater employee and an ex-US Marine who has worked as a security operative for the company have made a series of explosive allegations in sworn statements filed on August 3 in federal court in
Seymour Hersh Blasts Media for Uncritically Promoting Russian Hacking Story
Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh said in an interview that he does not believe the U.S. intelligence community proved its case that President Vladimir Putin directed a hacking campaign aimed at securing the election of Donald Trump. He blasted news …
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US Led Wars Lead to the Enrichment of a Social Minority
“The only beneficiaries of any of these wars have been the elite, the rich! And in the current context: huge corporations.
They are the only people that want anything from these wars…
In America we are a bunch of sleeping …
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We Have Very Sophisticated Big Brothers in the World Now
Blackwater’s Black Ops
Over the past several years, entities closely linked to the private security firm Blackwater have provided intelligence, training and security services to US and foreign governments as well as several multinational corporations, including Monsanto, Chevron, the Walt Disney Company, Royal …
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We Need a Special Prosecutor for Blackwater and Other CIA “Contractors”
Some parts of Blackwater’s clandestine work for the CIA have begun to leak out from behind the iron curtain of secrecy. The company’s role in the secret assassination program and its continued involvement in the CIA drone attacks that occur …
Read MoreBlackwater: CIA Assassins?
In April 2002, the CIA paid Blackwater more than $5 million to deploy a small team of men inside Afghanistan during the early stages of US operations in the country. A month later, Erik Prince, the company’s owner and a …
Read MoreIs Obama Continuing the Bush/Cheney Assassination Program?
In June, CIA Director Leon Panetta allegedly informed members of the House Intelligence Committee of the existence of a secret Bush era program implemented in the days after 9-11 that, until last month, had been hidden from lawmakers. The concealment …
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U.S. War Privatization Results in Billions Lost in Fraud, Waste and Abuse–Report
At a hearing in Washington today, the federal Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan is releasing a 111-page report that represents its “initial investigations of the nation’s heavy reliance on contractors.” According to a release on the hearing:…
Read MoreBush-era US torture system: The Nuremberg Truth and Reconciliation Commission?
Representatives John Conyers and Jerrold Nadler are officially asking Attorney General Eric Holder to appoint an independent Special Prosecutor “to investigate and, where appropriate, prosecute” participants in the Bush-era US torture system. “A Special Counsel is the most appropriate way …
Read MoreThis is Change. 20 Hawks, Clintonites and Neocons to Watch for in Obama’s White House
U.S. policy is not about one individual, and no matter how much faith people place in President-elect Barack Obama, the policies he enacts will be fruit of a tree with many roots. Among them: his personal politics and views, the …
Read MoreBlackwater: Hired Guns, Above the Law
Pull the plug on the mercenary war
The Democratic leadership in Congress is once again gearing up for a great sell-out on the Iraq war.
While the wrangling over the $124 billion Iraq supplemental spending bill is being headlined in the media as a “showdown” or “war” …
Read MoreSgrena Sets the Record Straight “There was No Checkpoint; No Self-Defense”
Giuliana Sgrena would probably be the first to say that to focus on her case would be to miss the point on the extent of the daily, horrific violence Iraqis face at the hands of US soldiers. Sgrena is the …
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