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How Obama betrayed the rights of a tortured man
A New York Times editorial of necessary clarity: The Supreme Court’s refusal to consider the claims of Maher Arar, an innocent Canadian who was sent to Syria to be tortured in 2002, was a bitterly disappointing abdication of its duty to hold officials accountable for illegal acts. The Bush administration sent Mr. Arar to outsourced…
We can crush your balls and get away with it
The seemingly never-ending outrage of America’s “war on terror”, with the complicity continuing under the Obama administration. Democracy Now! reports: In a major setback for holding US officials accountable for rendition and torture, the Supreme Court has rejected Arar’s lawsuit against the US government. Arar was seized at New York’s Kennedy Airport in 2002 on…
The last thing Iran needs is American “assistance”
I write extensively about the web in repressive regimes but I remain skeptical (to put it mildly) when neo-conservatives talk about democracy promotion. Take Reuel Marc Gerecht in today’s New York Times: The democracy movement also needs a large supply of digital-video broadcasting cards, which function much like prepaid telephone cards and allow downloading and…
Being sprayed by Rahm’s water gun, a reporter’s breathless tale
Why are some of America’s biggest journalists attending a beach party with senior members of the Obama administration, including Joe Biden, then telling the world how much they love the down-time? Not hard to see why and Salon’s Glenn Greenwald is right: …All of this just helpfully reveals what our nation’s leading “journalists” really are:… … desperate…
Moving from watching Fox News to understanding Palestine
During my experience with the Gaza Freedom March in late 2009 in Cairo, I spent time with a remarkable American woman and mother, Debbie Mardon. She once was a right wing, Fox News watcher but is now a fiercely passionate activist for Palestine. Her transformation was documented in New York’s Indypendent newspaper last week and…
Bush wishes he used the water-board himself
Just in case anybody missed the former US President admitting his regime used torture and was proud of it: George Bush admitted yesterday that Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the self-proclaimed mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, was waterboarded by the US, and said he would do it again “to save lives”. “Yeah, we waterboarded Khalid Sheikh Mohammed,”…
Washington and the Muslim world, a testy relationship
Views from across the Arab world: We are now approaching the first anniversary of President Barack Obama’s June 4, 2009 speech in Cairo, which offered Arabs and Muslims around the world a new “engagement” with the United States. A year later, how do Arab publics see the results of that effort–and how much do their…
Obama’s America isn’t so inspiring after all
Salon’s Glenn Greenwald on America’s continuing policies to deny human beings the right of appeal to terrorism charges. Obama equals Bush: So congratulations to the United States and… Barack… Obama for winning the power to abduct people anywhere in the world and then imprison them for as long as they want with no judicial review of any…
Believing the Obama dream: torture techniques come for free
President Barack Obama has maintained a network of torture-prisons during his “war on terror”, including a secret prison in Afghanistan. President Bush and President Obama; different Presidents, same criminality.