In America, Speaking the Truth Is a Career-Ending Event
By Paul Craig Roberts Truth cannot be spoken in America. It cannot be spoken in universities. It cannot be spoken in the media. It cannot be spoken in courts, which is why defendants and defense attorneys have given up on trials and cop pleas to lesser offenses that never occurred. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21847.htm === Obama: Regime Rotation By Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed The arrival of the Obama administration will not fundamentally alter the course of military expansion accelerated during the Bush era. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21848.htm === Banned By The BBC Gaza Aid Appeal Video Watch the Gaza aid appeal by the Disasters Emergency Committee to be broadcast by ITV, Channel 4 and Five but rejected by the BBC and Sky. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21846.htm === Legal Jeopardy For American Torturers Here and Abroad? By By John W. Dean One would think that people like Cheney, Rumsfeld, Addington, Gonzales, Yoo, Haynes and others, who claim to have done nothing wrong, would call for investigations to clear themselves if they really believed that to be the case. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21843.htm === The Torture Ban that Doesn't Ban Torture: By Allan Nairn If you're lying on the slab still breathing, with your torturer hanging over you, you don't much care if he is an American or a mere United States - sponsored trainee. When President Obama declared flatly this week that "the United States will not torture" many people wrongly believed that he'd shut the practice down, when in fact he'd merely repositioned it. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21844.htm === Us Army Field Manual (Still) Sanctions Torture By Jeffrey S. Kaye The new manual includes one restricted technique that will only be used on so-called unlawful combatants - such as Al Qaeda suspects -- not traditional prisoners of war. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21841.htm --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ShadowGovernment" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ShadowGovernment -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
