Watching Obama Morph Into Dick Cheney

Watching Obama Morph Into Dick Cheney
By Paul Craig Roberts
May 21, 2009 “Information Clearing House” — – America has lost her soul, and so has her president.
A despairing country elected a president who promised change. Americans arrived from every state to witness in bitter cold Obama’s swearing-in ceremony. The mall was packed in a way that [...]

U.S. Officials Admitted that Boys Weere Sodomized In Iraq Prison

U.S. Officials Admitted that Boys Were Sodomized In Iraq Prison
By Washington’s Blog
May 21, 2009 “Washington’s Blog” –  Many people have heard Pulitzer prize winning reporter Seymour Hersh’s claim that boys were sodomized at Abu Ghraib and that the Pentagon has video of the rapes.
Many people think that they’ll believe it when and if they ever [...]

Obama: From Anti-war Law Professor to Warmonger in 100 Days

Obama: From Anti-war Law Professor to Warmonger in 100 Days
It didn’t take long for President Barack Obama to swing behind targeted assassinations and bombing raids, says Alexander Cockburn
By Alexander Cockburn
May 21, 2009 “First Post” — How long does it take a mild-mannered, anti-war, black professor of constitutional law, trained as a community organiser on the [...]

Obama’s Middle East Imperialism

 By Shamus Cooke
Global Research, May 10, 2009
http://www.globalre search.ca/ index.php? context=va&aid=13556
The velvet gloves are off and the reality of Obama’s Middle East plans are being revealed: a bare-fisted pummeling of Afghanistan and Pakistan — with Iraq’s fate yet to be determined.
The media have been preparing this for months, with incessant talk about

the alleged “troop drawdown” in [...]

Depok told to open dialogue over church

Following his decision to revoke a building permit for a church in Cinere, Depok Mayor Nurmahmudi Ismail is told to open room for dialogue to prevent potential conflicts, a noted Muslim scholar says.
“Nurmahmudi has to be open about the reason behind his decision [to revoke the building], since the decision has so far created more [...]

Torture Was Taught By CIA Declassified manual details the methods used in Honduras; Agency denials refuted

By Gary Cohn, Ginger Thompson, and mark Matthews
The Baltimore Sun, Monday 27 January 1997, Final Edition
WASHINGTON — A newly declassified CIA training manual details torture methods used against suspected subversives in Central America during the 1980s, refuting claims by the agency that no such methods were taught there.
“Human Resource Exploitation Training Manual — 1983″ [...]

Tortured To Death? US Interrogators Have Killed Dozens

By John Byrne
May 07, 2009 “Raw Story” — -United States interrogators killed nearly four dozen detainees during or after their interrogations, according a report published by a human rights researcher based on a Human Rights First report and followup investigations.
In all, 98 detainees have died while in US hands. Thirty-four homicides have been identified, with [...]