Showing posts with label torture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label torture. Show all posts
Saturday, February 12, 2011

VIDEO: How Omar Suleiman made a mickey of the United States

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The Americans and Israelis are very close to Egypt's long serving intelligence chief and recently appointed Vice President Omar Suleiman...
Saturday, November 13, 2010

VIDEO: Bush continues to defend torture ...

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Wednesday, November 03, 2010

OPINION: Artful dodger does himself no favours on David Hicks ...

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A recent episode of the ABC's Q&A almost became a battle of the memoirs. John Howard was the sole guest, his appearance fitting v...
Sunday, October 24, 2010

VIDEO/IRAQ: Lengthy report on the Secret Iraq files ...

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Tuesday, September 08, 2009

OPINION: Mad monk no more: Abbott's battle cry for Liberal supremacy

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It's amazing how much spare time federal Opposition MPs have. In Tony Abbott's case, the time was put to good use by his pennin...
Wednesday, August 12, 2009

VIDEO: Rabiye Kadeer's call to settle remaining Uighur Guantanamo detainees ...

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Exiled World Uighur Congress leader Rabiye Kadeer told the National Press Club in Canberra yesterday: All of the Uighurs in Albania, Bermuda...
Tuesday, July 07, 2009

OPINION: Values blur in good and evil ...

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Uncle Sam stands at the top of a flight of stairs, looking more than slightly perplexed. Below him is a windowless chamber its sparse furnis...
Monday, May 25, 2009

VIDEO: Jesse Ventura on waterboarding ...

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Friday, May 22, 2009

COMMENT: Pollyanna dimwits?

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The Daily Show With Jon Stewart M - Th 11p / 10c Torture Memo - Balzheimers Disease thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Economic Crisi...
Thursday, May 07, 2009

VIDEO: Just how serious is Obama about ending torture?

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The Obama Administration has repeated the mantra of the Bush Administration - that America does not torture. But just how serious is Obama a...

VIDEO: A victim of extraordinary rendition speaks out ...

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Here is the text accompanying the video from AlJazeera English concerning the extraordinary rendition of Canadian citizen Maher Arar. Maher ...
Tuesday, May 05, 2009

VIDEO/TORTURE: Condi Rice's tortured reasoning on waterboarding ...

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Condoleezza Rice's attempts to clarify her expressed views on the legality of torture are about as clear as mud, as the following video ...
Saturday, May 02, 2009

VIDEO: Uighurs from Guantanamo settled in Albania ...

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Here is the text accompanying this DW European Journal video: Two years ago, four Uighurs were released from the US detention center in G...
Monday, April 20, 2009

COMMENT: The tortured reality that clouds Obama's message ...

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President Barack Obama has many messages to deliver to that nebulous blob called “the Muslim world”. He wanted to move relations between Ame...

COMMENT: On CIA doctors and Hippocratic hypocrisy ...

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There are medical practitioners. And then there are medico-legal mercenaries. I came across a few of the latter during my brief stint as a p...
Monday, February 09, 2009

CRIKEY: When will anti-war conservatives condemn the so-called war on terror?

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The former opinion editor of The Australian (and no doubt author of numerous editorials in The Oz at the time) has made his position on the...
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Tuesday, September 09, 2008

CRIKEY: Downer laughs at water-boarding and other "pretty fascinating" stuff ...

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Well, it's great to see Alexander Downer having a good laugh in his retirement: *Laughing at the use of waterboarding and other to...
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Thursday, August 07, 2008

CRIKEY: Karadzic v Guantanamo Bay detainees: two very different trials...

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Salim Hamdan, Osama bin Laden's driver, has just been found guilty of war crimes at a military tribunal held at Guantanamo Bay. He could...