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Chris Hedges  Truthdig

A tiny tip of the vast subterranean network of governmental and intelligence agencies from around the world dedicated to destroying WikiLeaks and arresting its founder, Julian Assange, appears outside the red-brick building on Hans Crescent Street that houses the Ecuadorean Embassy. Assange, the world’s best-known political refugee, has been in the embassy since he was offered sanctuary there last June. (more…)

Guardian U.K.

It is time for members of Congress who truly care about rule of law, oversight and the financial security of this country to speak up. (more…)

Democracy Now!

The Obama administration’s assassination of two U.S. citizens in 2011, Anwar al-Awlaki and his 16-year-old Denver-born son Abdulrahman, is a central part of Jeremy Scahill’s new book, “Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield.” (more…) and Part Two.

Hans Von Sponeck BRussels Tribunal

Since the years of war, sanctions and occupation, Iraq’s once state-of-the-art medical system has all but  collapsed.  Malnutrition and diseases, almost forgotten in Iraq, such as respiratory infections; measles; typhoid fever and tuberculosis have re-emerged on a large scale. The planned  destruction of water and sanitation facilities , especially in the 1991 war,  and recurrent drug shortages, throughout the period of sanctions and after the 2003 invasion, promoted significantly  ill-being, morbidity and mortality in the country (WHO). (more…)

In the US, due process – one of the defining features of a democratic judicial process – continues to be badly bludgeoned: Obama fights tooth and nail to push through NDAA, which would allow indefinite detention of US citizens, and the definition of terrorism has expanded its unwieldy scope, casting a widening net that ensures more and more people are captured in its snare. (more…)

Death Squads, Disappearances, and Torture–from Latin America to Iraq (more…)

By Greg Grandin

How a Washington Global Torture Gulag Was Turned Into the Only Gulag-Free Zone on Earth (more)

Sierra Adamson interviews Chris Hedges at the hearing for the second court of appeals in the Hedges v Obama NDAA lawsuit. Hedges explains what has happened in the lawsuit to date, the next steps and what he sees in America’s upcoming future. (more…)