This all happened by accident. This isn’t who we are. We didn’t mean it. Honest. By Kit Knightly | OffGuardian | May 9, 2018 Gina Haspel is almost certainly going to be the next director of the CIA. This shouldn’t happen, but it will. For those unfamiliar: Haspel was deputy head of the Agency under […]
MEMO | May 8, 2018 In its latest bid to impound Palestinian tax money, the Israeli government is going after funds Palestinians use to pay people who are killed, injured or imprisoned by Israeli forces. The Knesset approved yesterday the first reading of a bill to deduct the amount of money the Palestinian Authority pays […]
By Sam Husseini | May 8, 2018 With the nomination of Gina Haspel to be director of the CIA, there’s rightfully some interest in her record regarding torture. Of course, there are questions of legality and ethics and with respect to torture and it’s possible as some have argued that the motivation of Haspel and others […]
Water and rack in the torture museum at Castle of the Counts, Ghent, Belgium: The victim is forced water and then stretched out. Useful knowledge for the CIA (Photo: Wikipedia) By Thomas L. Knapp | The Garrison Center | May 7, 2018 US president Donald Trump should never have nominated Gina Haspel to head the […]
By Eliot Gabriel | Mint Press News | May 4, 2018 GAZA CITY, PALESTINE — Israeli officials have deemed peaceful protests by Palestinian refugees in the Gaza Strip to be tantamount to a “state of war,” arguing that soldiers were well within their rights firing live ammunition at unarmed protesters participating in ongoing mass mobilizations […]
MEMO | May 4, 2018 Israeli settlers attacked Palestinians in the West Bank village of ‘Einabus with the assistance of Israeli soldiers, according to a new report by human rights NGO B’Tselem. On the morning of 6 March, two Palestinians – ‘Ahed Hamad and Yasser Hamad – went to the northern part of the village […]
By James Bovard | Mises Wire | May 1, 2018 “Here I stand, I can do no other,” James Comey told President George W. Bush in 2004 when Bush pressured Comey – who was then Deputy Attorney General – to approve an unlawful antiterrorist policy. Comey, who was FBI chief from 2013 to 2017, was quoting […]
Press TV – May 1, 2018 Bahrain’s main Shia opposition group, al-Wefaq National Islamic Society, says authorities have made thousands of citizens jobless over the past few years due to their political and religious beliefs as the ruling Al Khalifah regime presses ahead with its heavy-handed crackdown in the tiny Persian Gulf kingdom. The dissolved […]
Press TV – April 26, 2018 A former Qatari detainee, accused by the US government of being involved in the planning of the September 11 attacks in 2001, says he had been tortured and abused during 13 years of incarceration on American soil. Speaking for the first time after his release three years ago, Ali […]
RT | April 25, 2018 A detainee was forced to endure an almost three-week journey between Virginia and Texas in a privately-owned prisoner transport van. A lawsuit alleges he was denied medication, inadequately fed, and forced to sit in human waste. Edward Kovari was arrested in Winchester, Virginia, in 2016 on suspicion of stealing a […]
