Archive for the Category ‘World’

Human Rights Group Says Army Rulers “Worse Than Mubarak”

Human Rights Group Says Army Rulers “Worse Than Mubarak”

Nassary Hassan is an Egyptian citizen living in Germany. Last March, he was in Egypt and, during a visit to Hurghada – a resort town on the Red Sea — he saw piles of garbage in the streets. He carried a banner reading, “The people want to clean Hurghada,” heading towards the City Council. He [...]

Egypt: Demonstrators Push to Reverse Army’s Power Grab

Egypt: Demonstrators Push to Reverse Army’s Power Grab

As the date approaches for Egypt’s first “free” elections in thirty years, tens of thousands of protesters gathered in the iconic Tahrir Square Friday to demand that the Army back off its proposal to give itself perpetual veto power over a new constitution and continued freedom from public scrutiny. Egyptians will go to the polls [...]

Pentagon’s Guantanamo “Propaganda” Video Stirs Outrage

Pentagon’s Guantanamo “Propaganda” Video Stirs Outrage

This story was written by Jason Leopold and originally published on Truthout. A video released by the Pentagon showing several Guantanamo detainees praying, exercising and playing soccer has angered Kuwaitis, who believe one of the prisoners is a citizen of the country and is being used by the US government as a “propaganda” tool in [...]

The Shameful Mistreatment Of Omar Khadr Continues

The Shameful Mistreatment Of Omar Khadr Continues

Last week, Omar Khadr, the Canadian citizen and former child prisoner, was supposed to leave Guantánamo after nine years and three months in US custody. No one thought that Khadr would return to Canada as a free man, as he has another seven years to serve in a Canadian jail as part of a plea [...]

Egypt’s Democracy: A Sometime Thing

Egypt’s Democracy: A Sometime Thing

As Egypt’s military rulers were pardoning 334 of the thousands being held for military trials, the generals may be preparing to administer the coup de grâce to Egypt’s nascent democracy. The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) has drafted a set of “supra-constitutional” principles that would grant the military outsized influence in writing a [...]

WikiLeaks Reveals U.S. Ties To Honduran Drug Dealer

WikiLeaks Reveals U.S. Ties To Honduran Drug Dealer

U.S. “drug war” funds and training are being used to support a known drug trafficker’s war against campesinos, a Honduran expert at the University of California at Santa Cruz charged today. Campesinos are Latin American peasants, usually farmers. Prof. Dana Frank said today, “New Wikileaks cables reveal that the U.S. embassy in Honduras — and [...]

New Documents Reveal Previously Undisclosed Rendition Flights

New Documents Reveal Previously Undisclosed Rendition Flights

If you thought you were finished reading about CIA “black sites” and “extraordinary renditions,” you were just a tad premature. Turns out that after all the investigations in a raft of countries, a virtual treasure trove of never-seen-before documents has reached the major European legal charity, Reprieve. As a result, Reprieve is calling on Lithuanian [...]

“Confess Or Be Ready To Die”: UN Report Pummels US Ally Afghanistan On Torture

“Confess Or Be Ready To Die”: UN Report Pummels US Ally Afghanistan On Torture

The UN Assistance Mission to Afghanistan (UNAMA) has released its October 2011 report on “Treatment of Conflict-Related Detainees in Afghanistan” (PDF). Ten years after the US invaded Afghanistan to oust the Taliban regime, and ostensibly dismantle the Al Qaeda forces linked to the 9/11 attacks, the regime in place is not only hopelessly corrupt and [...]

Death From Afar: The Unaccountable Killing Of Anwar Al-Awlaki

Death From Afar: The Unaccountable Killing Of Anwar Al-Awlaki

What a strange and alarming place we’re in, when the US government, under a Democratic President, kills two US citizens it dislikes for their thoughts and their words, without formally charging them with any crime, or trying or convicting them, using an unmanned drone directed by US personnel many thousands of miles away. And yet, [...]

Awlaki’s Dead, But Was His Assassination Legal?

Awlaki’s Dead, But Was His Assassination Legal?

Now that U.S.-born Islamist cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, a member of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, has been killed by a drone strike in Yemen, human rights groups and legal experts are again debating the central question: Was it legal? And today, as was the case in previous discussions of this question, the answer seems [...]

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