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US state terrorism
(Case studies)
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Intervention in Chile:
Chile Declassification Press Releases/Statements
06/30/1999 State
Department Press Release
10/08/1999 State Department Press
Release 11/13/2000 State Department Press Statement
06/30/1999 White House
Press Statement
10/08/1999 White House
Press Statement
11/13/2000 White
House Press Statement
Other Agency Chile Declassification Documents
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Church
Report
(Covert Action in Chile, 1963-1973) |
Hinchey
Report
(CIA Activities in Chile) |
NARA
National Archives and Records Administration |
CIA
Central Intelligence Agency |
DOD
Department of Defense |
FBI
Federal Bureau of Investigation |
DOJ
Department of Justice |
NSC
National Security Council |
| CIA, State, NSC
documents declassified on Chile (June 1999) |
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| FBI Report on Directorate
of National Intelligence (DINA) |
| Report of CIA Chilean Task
Force Activities, 15 Sept/3 Nov 1970 |
| P. Kornbluh: Declassified
documents relating to the military coup,
September 11, 1973. |
| P. Kornbluh: The Chile Coup - The U.S.
Hand |
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Róbinson Rojas:
The Murder of Allende and the end of the Chilean Way to
Socialism
"...Begining on the day of the coup with Allende's murder
and the military's artful staging of his "suicide", the book goes on to reveal
the background of intrigue and counterintrigue; the participation of the CIA, the
Pentagon, and U.S. business interests, as well as that of the Brazilian government; the
sinister roles of the Chilean armed forces, police forces, and political parties...
(full text)
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Intervention in Guatemala:
CIA documents
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Intervention in Cuba:
CIA documents on Bay of
Pigs
CIA: Report on Plots to
Assassinate Fidel Castro
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Intervention in Indonesia:
CIA compiled Indonesian
Death Lists in 1965
State Department
Documents from Indonesia
Ford Country:
Building an Elite for Indonesia
The United States and the
Overthrow of Sukarno
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Nerve gassing the northvietnamese
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Kissinger and G. Ford Lied to the American Public about East Timor
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Brazil and CIA
------Jane Franklin on Cuba, Vietnam and United States
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All documents released by the CIA
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Terrorismo de Estado
estadounidense
(Casos)
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Intervención en Chile:
Declaraciones de prensa/declaraciones oficiales sobre Chile Declassification Press
Releases/Statements
06/30/1999 State
Department Press Release
10/08/1999 State Department Press
Release 11/13/2000 State Department Press Statement
06/30/1999 White House
Press Statement
10/08/1999 White House
Press Statement
11/13/2000 White
House Press Statement
Other Agency Chile Declassification Documents
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Róbinson Rojas:
Estos Mataron a Allende. Reportaje a la masacre de un
pueblo
"...el documento definitivo sobre el golpe militar
antidemocratico en complicidad con el imperialismo estadounidense...
(full text)
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Intervención en Guatemala:
CIA documents
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Intervención en Cuba:
CIA documents on Bay of
Pigs
CIA: Report on Plots to
Assassinate Fidel Castro
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Intervención en Indonesia:
CIA compiled Indonesian
Death Lists in 1965
State Department
Documents from Indonesia
Ford Country:
Building an Elite for Indonesia
The United States and the
Overthrow of Sukarno
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Nerve gassing the northvietnamese
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Brasil y la CIA
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All documents released by the CIA
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| Terrorism d'etat Américaine |
From countercurrents.org - 25 August 2006
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Amnesty International Details Israeli War Crimes In Lebanon
By Peter Symonds
http://www.countercurrents.org/leb-symonds250806.htm
An Amnesty International (AI) report published on Tuesday provides a chilling
account of the death and destruction inflicted on the civilian population of
Lebanon by the Israeli military during its month-long, US-backed offensive
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Castro's Health And US Meddling
By Mavis Anderson
http://www.countercurrents.org/cuba-anderson250806.htm
Now is the time for all of us to work together to make our voices heard in
Washington to ensure that the Bush administration respects Cuba's sovereignty
and international law, and promotes peace by refraining from interference in
Cuba's internal political process
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Finally, Fired Up Over Global Warming
By Bill McKibben
http://www.countercurrents.org/cc-mckibben250806.htm
You've seen or heard of Al Gore's movie. The pictures of Hurricane Katrina
remain in the back of your mind. You've sweated through this record summer. You
sense -- with just a bit of panic -- that there's really no problem more
important in the long run than global warming. So what do you do?
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Never In History Have So Many Been Cowed By So Few
By David Truskoff
http://www.countercurrents.org/us-truskoff250806.htm
How can so few cower so many? One of the reasons is that a large portion of the
American population still believes that God gave the Jews the land Of Israel.
The other reason is that the guilt of the Christian church's anti-Semitism of
the twenties and thirties seems to be passed down generation to generation
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A Little Poverty Never Hurt Anybody
By Jason Miller
http://www.countercurrents.org/miller250806.htm
A collective populist movement is slowly evolving. It is only a matter of time
before humanity's oppressed put aside their religious, racial, and nationalist
differences to unite against their common enemy. When six billion people act in
unison against a few million, there will indeed be a new world order
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I Can't Go To Iraq. I Can't Kill Those Children
By Cahal Milmo
http://www.countercurrents.org/iraq-milmo250806.htm
Jason Chelsea,the 19-year-old infantryman, from Wigan had even told his parents
that he had been warned by his commanders that he could be ordered to fire on
child suicide bombers.It was a fear that he never confronted. Within 48 hours of
confessing his concerns to his family, Pte Chelsea was dead after taking an
overdose of painkillers and slashing his wrists
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15 August 2006
Geopolitical Intelligence Report from www.stratfor.com
Cease-Fire: Shaking Core Beliefs in the Middle East
By George Friedman
An extraordinary thing happened in the Middle East this month. An Israeli army
faced an Arab army and did not defeat it -- did not render it incapable of
continued resistance. That was the outcome in 1948, 1956, 1967, 1973 and 1982.
But it did not happen in 2006. Should this outcome stand, it will represent a
geopolitical earthquake in the region -- one that fundamentally shifts
expectations and behaviors on all sides.
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15 August 2006
Islam's Two Faces?
By John Feffer, co-director, Foreign
Policy In Focus
The United States, when it looks at Islam, suffers from a
peculiar disorder of the eyes that perhaps only the great
neurologist Oliver Sacks can properly diagnose. Where there
is a great multiplicity of sects, beliefs, and approaches in
Islam, the U.S. government has a stubborn double vision.
It sees threat. And it sees “moderate Islam.”
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From countercurrent.org - 14 August 2006
As The 6am Ceasefire Takes Effect... The Real War Begins
By Robert Fisk
http://www.countercurrents.org/leb-fisk140806.htm
The real war in Lebanon begins today. The Israeli army, reeling under the
Hizbollah's onslaught of the past 24 hours, is now facing the harshest
guerrilla war in its history. And it is a war they may well lose
--
Bush
'Viewed War In Lebanon As A Curtain-Raiser For Attack On Iran'
By Andrew
Buncombe
http://www.countercurrents.org/leb-buncombe140806.htm
The Bush administration was informed in advance and gave the "green
light" to Israel's military strikes against Hizbollah with plans
drawn up months before two Israeli soldiers were seized it has been
claimed. The US reportedly considered Israel's actions as a necessary
prerequisite for a possible strike against Iran
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Washington's
Interests In Israel's War
By Seymour M Hersh
http://www.countercurrents.org/leb-hersh140806.htm
The Bush Administration, however, was closely involved in the planning of
Israel's retaliatory attacks. President Bush and Vice-President Dick
Cheney were convinced, current and former intelligence and diplomatic
officials told me, that a successful Israeli Air Force bombing campaign
against Hezbollah's heavily fortified underground-missile and
command-and-control complexes in Lebanon could ease Israel's security
concerns and also serve as a prelude to a potential American pre-emptive
attack to destroy Iran's nuclear installations, some of which are
also buried deep underground
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Sham UN Resolution Guarantees No End To
Israel's War Of Illegal Aggression
By Stephen Lendman
http://www.countercurrents.org/leb-lendman140806.htm
UN Resolution 1701 is little more than an outrageous and illegal expression
of victor's justice. It allows Israel the right to resume hostilities any
time it wishes and for any reason so long as the Israelis claim an imminent
threat exists regardless of whether or not it's true
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Tea And Rockets: Café
Society, Beirut-Style
By Robert Fisk
http://www.countercurrents.org/leb-fisk140806A.htm
Too many journos are wearing flak jackets and helmets, little spacemen who
want to show they are "in combat" on television. I notice how
their drivers and interpreters are usually not given flak jackets. These are
reserved for us, the Westerners, the Protected Ones, Those Who Must Live
--
Venezuela's Revolution Of Hope
By Joshua Frank, Kim Peterson &
Sunil K. Sharma
http://www.countercurrents.org/ven-frank140806.htm
We were fast waking up to something we hadn't felt before as we
battled Bush day in and day out in North America: revolutionary hope,
Bolivarian style. And we hadn't even had our first sips of Venezuelan
coffee yet
--
Terror Nation: Lies, Injustice, And The American Empire's
Way
By Jason Miller
http://www.countercurrents.org/us-miller140806.htm
We live in a fascist state that inflicts terror on billions of human beings.
'Terror Nation.Notes from the Perimeter', the latest book by Mike
Palecek, offers us a glimpse of the future potentially awaiting those of us
in the United States who pose a threat to corporate and plutocratic hegemony
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Penis Politics
By Lucinda Marshall
http://www.countercurrents.org/gen-marshall140806.htm
In Israel, in Iran, in Afghanistan, when women speak out about the global
ramifications (word used intentionally) of penis politics, they are screamed
at, shot at, arrested. But this is a truth that must be spoken and we dare
not be silent
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After Heathrow: What Accounts For The Threat Of Terrorism?
By
Chris Marsden & Julie Hyland
http://www.countercurrents.org/hyland140806.htm
There is still little substantive information on the alleged plot to explode
transatlantic flights from Britain to the US in mid-air. To date, the
British government has provided no facts to substantiate its claims of a
conspiracy to commit mass murder in the air
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How London's Terror Scare Looks
From Beirut
By Robert Fisk
http://www.countercurrents.org/leb-fisk140806B.htm
I think Paul Stephenson huffs and he puffs but I do not think he stands for
law and order. He works for the Ministry of Fear which, by its very nature,
is not interested in motives or injustice. And I have to say, watching his
performance before the next power cut last night, I thought he was doing a
pretty good job for his masters
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War Spreads To The North Of Sri Lanka
By
Sarath Kumara
http://www.countercurrents.org/sl-kumara140806.htm
Fighting between the Sri Lankan military and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil
Eelam (LTTE) intensified and expanded over the weekend to the northern
Jaffna peninsula, claiming as many as 200 lives. While neither side has
formally withdrawn from the 2002 ceasefire, the agreement is effectively a
dead letter. The island is rapidly sliding back into full-scale civil war
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12 August 2006
The Moment of Confrontation
By Dan Lieberman - Editor Alternative Insight
Somewhere in the history of Israel, there occurred a moment of confrontation that could not be resolved. Hezbollah is not a result of this moment, but the unresolved situation has fueled Hezbollah’s anger and paved the road to the war between Israel and Lebanon. The anger is derived from perceptions of:
· A Zionist expansionist philosophy that started with a colony in 1878 and within 100 years occupied almost all of earlier Palestine.
· Brutal methods to create a Jewish state although population concentrations in 1947 allowed Israel to be only a bi-national state with a majority of Jews.
· Continued attempts to create a Jewish state, an unclear definition, which fails to recognize that the large percentage of Palestinians indicates the state is bi-national today.
· Israel's attempt to incorporate all Jerusalem into its territory, although Christians and Moslems have well-identified and centuries-old institutions in the Holy City, while major Hebrew institutions from Biblical times are not evident.
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The Christian Science Monitor - 8 August 2006
US troop scandals: Is Iraq different?
A military tribunal this week is hearing charges that troops
killed an Iraqi family in March.
By Brad
Knickerbocker - Staff writer of The Christian
Science Monitor
In Baghdad this week, a
military tribunal is deciding whether five American soldiers must stand trial
for the rape and murder of an Iraqi girl and the killing of her parents and
sister in March.
The alleged events, which are among several
atrocities tied to US forces now in their fourth year of fighting insurgents in
Iraq, raise important questions for military officials: How do the numbers and
types of incidents compare with earlier wars? Is there something about this
conflict that makes such incidents more likely? Could they have been anticipated
and prevented
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9 August 2006
The "visible hand" of US state terrorism in action
What Do You Say To A Man
Whose Family Is Buried Under The Rubble?
By Robert Fisk
http://www.countercurrents.org/leb-fisk090806.htm
What do you say to a man whose family is buried under the rubble? The last
corpse had been a man whose face appeared etched in dust before the muck was
removed and he turned out to be paper-thin - so perfectly had the falling
concrete crushed him
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Israel's Promise Of Humanitarian Corridors Is Exposed
As A Sham
By Robert Fisk
http://www.countercurrents.org/leb-fisk090806A.htm
So much for Ehud Olmert's "humanitarian corridors". Two weeks
after the Israeli Prime Minister's comforting assertion - which no one in
Lebanon believed - the Israeli air force has blown up the last bridge across
the Litani river, in effect ending all humanitarian convoys between Beirut
and southern Lebanon
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Israeli War Crimes Aimed At "Cleansing"
South Lebanon
By Bill Van Auken
http://www.countercurrents.org/leb-auken090806.htm
What the US-Israeli offensive aims to accomplish as its immediate goal is
the thorough ethnic cleansing of southern Lebanon.This is a term that never
appears in the mainstream media in relation to the present war in Lebanon
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Extraordinary Precision: The Logic Of Israel's War On Civilians
By Ramzy
Baroud
http://www.countercurrents.org/leb-baroud090806.htm
The Israeli tactics are reaping a conflicting outcome, as both Hezbollah and
Hamas are emerging more powerful than ever before, widely viewed as the only
defenders of Lebanon and Palestine
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"Positive Conditions" - The
Water Crisis In Gaza
By Alice Gray
http://www.countercurrents.org/pa-gray090806.htm
The political rhetoric and frequent violence of the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict often serve to mask underlying environmental issues which, if not
resolved, may pose an even greater threat to the well-being of the
Palestinian population than the guns and bombs of the military occupation
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From the BBC London - 7 August 2006
US state terrorism in action:
US troops 'took turns' to rape Iraqi
The case is the latest in a series of scandals for the US
army.
A US
military hearing has examined testimony of how three soldiers took it in turns
to try to rape an Iraqi girl aged 14 in Mahmudiya in March.
The girl and three family members were allegedly killed by four US soldiers.
Graphic details of the attack at the family's home came in a sworn statement
by one of the accused, James P. Barker.
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State terrorism Israeli in action:
Hizbullah's attacks stem from Israeli incursions into Lebanon
By Anders Strindberg
01/08/06 Christian Science Monitor
NEW YORK - As pundits and policymakers scramble to explain events in Lebanon, their conclusions are virtually unanimous: Hizbullah created this crisis. Israel is defending itself. The underlying problem is Arab extremism.
Sadly, this is pure analytical nonsense. Hizbullah's capture of two Israeli soldiers on July 12 was a direct result of Israel's silent but unrelenting aggression against Lebanon, which in turn is part of a six-decades long Arab-Israeli conflict.
Since its withdrawal of occupation forces from southern Lebanon in May 2000, Israel has violated the United Nations-monitored "blue line" on an almost daily basis, according to UN reports.
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25 july 2006
U.S. state terrorism in action:
Lebanon massacre.
Genocide in the name of self-defense.
The U.S. imperialist policy to "reshape" the Middle East utilizing the army of the neo-nazi state of Israel.
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Intelligence report from STRATFOR
23 july 2006
Special Report: Why Hezbollah Fights
To understand Hezbollah, it is important to begin with this point: Almost all
Muslim Arabs opposed the creation of the state of Israel. Not all of them
supported, or support today, the creation of an independent Palestinian state or
recognize the Palestinian people as a distinct nation. This is a vital and
usually overlooked distinction that is the starting point in our thinking.
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See also Project for the First People's Century - News
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From countercurrents.org - 23 March 2006
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US Nuclear Hypocrisy
By Doug
Lorimer
http://www.countercurrents.org/us-lorimer230306.htm
While pushing for international sanctions against Iran for pursuing
its legal right under the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty to
research the production of nuclear fuel (low-enriched uranium), US
President George Bush has agreed to provide India with access to US
civilian nuclear technology, even though India has nuclear weapons
and is not a signatory to the NPT
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Against The Indo-US Nuclear Deal
By Sharbani Banerji
http://www.countercurrents.org/banerji230306.htm
If India goes the US way, we would soon see Indian Universities
actively participating in the research and production of nukes, just
like the Universities in US, and in the near future, we would be
teaching students from other countries who would come to study here,
to do the same. Can that be our goal?
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US Media Bias: Covering
Israel/Palestine
By Remi Kanazi
http://www.countercurrents.org/pa-kanazi230306.htm
I understand why The New York Times and CNN reports the way it does.
They are media hacks run by the corporate dollar. Injustice is
injustice. Murder is murder. While Palestinian suffering goes on
unreported children like Ragheb Al-Masri remain dead and forgotten,
and the American press remains biased and forgiven
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The Power Of
Saying No
By Jeff Halper
http://www.countercurrents.org/pa-halper230306.htm
The vote for Hamas was not a closing of the door at all, but a
rational, intentional and powerful statement of non-cooperation in a
political process that is only leading to Palestinian imprisonment.
Hamas, if anything, stands for steadfastness, sumud, the refusal to
submit
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Depleted Uranium For Dummies
By Irving Wesley Hall
http://www.countercurrents.org/hall230306.htm
More than 1,000 tons of Depleted Uranium have been used in
Afghanistan and more than 3,000 tons in Iraq, the results of which
will affect victims generations to come
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The Democratic Quandary -
War Opposition or Party Allegiance?
By Joshua Frank
http://www.countercurrents.org/frank230306.htm
Can you really oppose the occupation of Iraq and still call yourself
a Democrat? I’m not so sure. The majority of Washington Dems
continue to applaud Bush’s invasion of Iraq as well as his
debauched crusade against terror. A few antiwar voices have echoed
though Democratic corridors, but none have produced any genuine
shifts in ideology, let alone direction. Nor will they
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Nepal And
Venezuela
By Pratyush Chandra
http://www.countercurrents.org/chandra230306.htm
Chavez-led Bolivarian revolution in Venezuela apart, the Communist
Party (Maoist)-led movement in Nepal – popularly known as
People’s War – is undoubtedly the most significant popular
struggle for freedom and democracy in the world today
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The Oxycops
By
William Fisher
http://www.countercurrents.org/fisher230306.htm
Wheelchairbound multiple sclerosis patient Richard Paey is serving
25 years in a Florida prison for “trafficking” 1/2 gram of
OxyContin, even though the prosecutor concedes that Paey never sold
any of his medications. In prison, he now receives more pain-killing
drugs than he was convicted of having
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Punjab State Policy On Organic
Farming
By Umendra Dutt
http://www.countercurrents.org/en-dutt230306.htm
The Indian State of Punjab is going to have a state policy on
organic farming very soon. The Punjab Chief Minister Capt. Amarinder
Singh has announced this in current session of the assembely.Though
announcements made are always political but, policies always drafted
without any political vision.This lack of vision takes policies
always away from the very people on whose name and welfare the
policies were declared
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The Nation - 26
December 2005
"Never Before!" Our Amnesiac Torture Debate
By Naomi Klein
It was the "Mission Accomplished" of George W. Bush's second term, and an
announcement of that magnitude called for a suitably dramatic location. But what was the
right backdrop for the infamous "We do not torture" declaration? With
characteristic audacity, the Bush team settled on downtown Panama City.
It was certainly bold. An hour and a half's drive from where Bush stood, the US military
ran the notorious School of the Americas from 1946 to 1984, a sinister educational
institution that, if it had a motto, might have been "We do torture." It is here
in Panama and, later, at the school's new location in Fort Benning, Georgia, where the
roots of the current torture scandals can be found. According to declassified training
manuals, SOA students--military and police officers from across the hemisphere--were
instructed in many of the same "coercive interrogation" techniques that have
since migrated to Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib: early morning capture to maximize shock,
immediate hooding and blindfolding, forced nudity, sensory deprivation, sensory overload,
sleep and food "manipulation," humiliation, extreme temperatures, isolation,
stress positions--and worse. In 1996 President Clinton's Intelligence Oversight Board
admitted that US-produced training materials condoned "execution of guerrillas,
extortion, physical abuse, coercion and false imprisonment."
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From The Washington
Post - 28 October 2005
U.N. Panel Says
2,400 Firms Paid Bribes to Iraq
Oil-for-Food Program Report Alleges $1.8 Billion in Payments
By Colum Lynch - Washington Post Staff Writer
UNITED NATIONS, Oct. 27 -- More than 2,400 businesses, including scores of international
shell companies and major blue-chip European firms such as Siemens and DaimlerChrysler,
paid nearly $1.8 billion in illegal kickbacks to the former Iraqi government through the
U.N. oil-for-food program, according to a report by a U.N. committee investigating
misconduct. The 623-page report, which was presented Thursday by former Federal Reserve
chairman Paul A. Volcker, the head of the Independent Inquiry Committee, is the most
detailed account of how Iraq persuaded almost half of its 4,500 trading partners in more
than 60 countries to circumvent U.N. sanctions by secretly channeling kickbacks into
Baghdad-controlled Jordanian banks. |
From Human Rights Watch
April 2005
Impunity for Rumsfeld and other state terrorists,
Getting Away with Torture?
Command Responsibility for the U.S. Abuse of Detainees
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