DhafirTrial

Katherine Hughes will be speaking about Dr. Dhafir’s case to the Freethinkers of Upstate New York:

Saturday, February 21st, 2009, at 1 pm.
Betts Branch Library
4862 S. Salina Street
Syracuse NY (more…)

Denis Halliday will be speaking at Vassar College on Wednesday, February 18th, at 5.30 pm

Denis Halliday, former United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator in Iraq, will present a lecture “Exceptionalism Within the United Nations” on Wednesday, February 18, in room 200 of Rockefeller Hall. The lecture, presented by the Department of Political Science, will start at 5:30 pm, and is free and open to the public. (more…)

Thomas R. Eddlem New American 2/15/09

Just as President Bush publicly and repeatedly stated that “this nation does not torture,” but then secretly engaged in torture, President Obama’s public rhetoric against torture is increasingly at odds with his decisons to defend John Yoo (the former Justice Department official who authored the “torture memo” justifying Bush administration policy), keep in place policies that have protected torture, and even keep in office Bush-era appointees who helped establish torture policies. (more…)

By Eric Margolis ericmargolis.com 2/03/09

What used to be called “Cool London” looks more like “Crash London” these days. Of all the leading industrial nations, Britain has so far suffered more than any other nation, even the United States. (more…)

By Scott Horton Harpers 2/15/09

Army Private Brandon Neely served as a prison guard at Guantánamo in the first years the facility was in operation. With the Bush Administration, and thus the threat of retaliation against him, now gone, Neely decided to step forward and tell his story. (more…)

Iraq Solidarity Campaign UK

Press Release

As a result of conflict within the Middle East, the people of both Iraq and Palestine are living with the psychological wounds of war, which bare no visible scars and cannot be seen by either aid workers or the international media. These wounds are the direct results of conflict, where in Iraq alone, there are over five million traumatized child orphans as a result of the 2003 invasion (more…)

Rights Groups Release Documents Obtained in FOIA Case Relating to Secret Detention, Extraordinary Rendition, and Torture Program

February 12, 2009, New York and Washington, DC–Documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit confirm Department of Defense involvement in the CIA’s ghost detention program, revealed three prominent human rights groups today. The groups–Amnesty International USA (AIUSA), the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), and the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice (CHRGJ)–today released documents obtained from the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) and U.S. Department of State (DOS). (more…)

British police have seized three vans that were to form part of a 100 vehicle aid convoy headed for Gaza. (more…)

See also, “The maverick MP [George Galloway] knows how to get attention. This time, however, he is doing it by leading a mile-long convoy of aid trucks all the way from London to Gaza. (more…)