Arundhati Roy challenges the Indian state

The stance of a brave human rights believer, writer and journalist: For her talk… on Kashmir, writer Arundhati Roy has come under the threat of “sedition” charges in India. These speeches… are currently being analyzed by… Delhi police. Her response to the threat is below and was issued from Srinagar: I write this from Srinagar, Kashmir. This morning’s…

Israel embraces corruption and yet the world embraces Israel

So Israel is racist and corrupt, that’s quite a combination. Must make so many Zionists very proud: Israel ranks among the most corrupt countries in the Western world, according to a study released by the International Transparency Organization on Tuesday. Out of 178 countries – 1 being least corrupt – Israel was listed at number…

Wikileaks revelations? Nothing to see here, says WPost

The US corporate press has spent years suppressing the crimes and excesses of the US military in Iraq and Afghanistan – the Washington Post’s former Baghdad bureau chief says that Wikileaks proves the US administration has been lying for years – and yet this Washington Post editorial says everybody should just calm down and move…

UK shows us civilised folk how to enforce nakedness

Iran tortures people and makes them suffer in detention. We in the West are nice and pure, believing in the rule of law. Oh, but wait a minute: The British military has been training interrogators in techniques that include threats, sensory deprivation and enforced nakedness in an apparent breach of the Geneva conventions, the Guardian…

Finding Serco staff involved in unaccountable abuse; all in a day’s work

The reach of private company Serco is global and its human rights record remains abysmal. Yet it continues receiving lucrative contracts. That should stop: Prison campaigners last night called for a review of a North-East secure unit after revelations that 21 children had suffered injuries while being restrained. The injuries were sustained by children at…

Almost funny hearing how the Pentagon does damage control

Danny Schechter adds some intriguing details behind the Wikileaks story: The Pentagon had been bracing for the release for months. Fearing more compromises of national security and more embarrassment for practices they wanted hidden, they had set up a WikiLeaks war room staffed with 120 operatives in anticipation. A special intelligence unit called the Red…

Let’s hope that Australia’s war aims are negatively affected by Wikileaks

So after all the bluster and threats against Wikileaks, the group’s greatest crime was revealing the sordid nature of the Afghan quagmire: A defence taskforce has concluded that leaked US military documents on Afghanistan said nothing about Australian forces that hadn’t already been disclosed. The investigation, launched in July after the whistleblower organisation Wikileaks released…

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