World-News: USA

USA

Freedom's Phoenix
by Stephen Lendman

09/01/09

In response to two Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuits, ‘The government today handed over to the American Civil Liberties Union (one of dozens of documents comprising an unprecedented 130,000 previously secret pages, including) a detailed official description of the CIA’s interrogation program.’ Referring to a heavily redacted December 2004 report (originally commissioned by CIA director George Tenet) detailing torture of prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan, it ‘describes the use of abusive interrogation techniques including forced nudity, sleep deprivation, dietary manipulation and stress positions.’ Far worse ones were understated or redacted entirely...

https://tinyurl.com/mjyu9a

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=ACLU
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=George+Tenet
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=interrogat
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=abuse

https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Stephen+Lendman

rudkla - 1. Sep, 14:16

The angry Americans

Charlotte Observer
by Steven Thomma

08/28/09

Less than a year into Barack Obama’s presidency, the promise of hope has faded. America’s public square is an angry and bitter place. Untold numbers of Americans seethe with anger at Obama and his fellow Democrats, resentment coupled with fear even more intense than the rage other Americans expressed just a year ago at George W. Bush and the Republicans. One telling sign: The comparisons of the president to Hitler remain the same — only the face has changed from Bush to Obama...

https://www.charlotteobserver.com/408/story/916641.html

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bush+legacy
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=what+change
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Steven+Thomma

rudkla - 1. Sep, 14:07

Luster is Off Obama's `High Moral Ground'

By Leonard Pitts

Our moral authority is not restored when we hide behind the fig leaf of standard operating procedure.
https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23393.htm

Who Won The Ideology Wars?

By David Michael Green

Who could have imagined, six months ago, that the ideology of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney would be poised for a comeback, perhaps in an even more toxic form than what we suffered through these last eight years? But that is, indeed, precisely where we find ourselves.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23399.htm

https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bush+legacy
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Cheney
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=what+change
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Leonard+Pitts
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=David+Michael+Green

rudkla - 1. Sep, 11:17

Washington Post Weighs in on the Wonders of Torture

By Ray McGovern

EXTRA! Read all about it in the Washington Post: Torture worked; Cheney and torture practitioners vindicated; morale at CIA harmed.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23396.htm

https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Cheney
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ray+McGovern

rudkla - 1. Sep, 11:11

We Need a Special Prosecutor for Blackwater and Other CIA 'Contractors'

https://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/08/31-4

Steroids, Drink and Paranoia: The Murky World of the Private Security Contractor
https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/09/01-1

https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Blackwater
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=contractor
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jeremy+Scahill
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Terri+Judd

rudkla - 1. Sep, 10:58

Bill Moyers says Obama Must Fight, Not Finesse

https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/08/31-2

https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bill+Moyers
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Patrick+Gavin

rudkla - 1. Sep, 10:46

Irresponsibly Following the Congressional Budget Office

Dean Baker, Truthout: "Members of Congress are responsible for getting the policy right, not doing what the CBO tells them. This means that if they have reason to believe that a CBO projection in a specific area is wrong, they should act based on their judgment, not on the CBO projection. Constituents have every right to hold their representatives in contempt if they try to blame their mistaken judgments on the CBO projections. Members of Congress get paid for getting the policy right, not listening to the CBO."

https://www.truthout.org/083109J?n

https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Congressional+Budget+Office
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Dean+Baker

rudkla - 1. Sep, 10:02