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Topic: Human Rights

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Crimes Against Humanity: “Arrest Me, I am a Terrorist” (VIDEO)
Posted by: IT
Nine aid workers were murdered by Israeli commandos, and more than fifty were wounded. By codepink \| ALternet Jun 11, 2010 Americans who supported, organized, or were on the flotilla headed to Gaza with humanitarian aid stormed the office of U.S. Congressmen Brad Sherman and turned themselves in for their “crimes.” The stunt was in response to Sherman’s call for Americans on the flotilla be arrested for helping “terrorists.”
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Rights & Liberties: Is the U.S. on the Brink of Fascism?
Posted by: IT
	There are dangerous currents running through America's politics and the way we confront them is crucial. By Sara Robinson \| Campaign for America's Future. August 7, 2009 All through the dark years of the Bush Administration, progressives watched in horror as Constitutional protections vanished, nativist rhetoric ratcheted up, hate speech turned into intimidation and violence, and the president of the United States seized for himself powers only demanded by history's worst dictators.
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Accountability: The “Spirit of Humanity"
Posted by: IT
The government of Israel committed an act of piracy. By Paul Craig Roberts \| ICH July 01, 2009 On June 30, the government of Israel committed an act of piracy when the Israeli Navy in international waters illegally boarded the “Spirit of Humanity,” kidnapped its 21-person crew from 11 countries, including former US Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney and Nobel Laureate Mairead MaGuire, and confiscated the cargo of medical supplies, olive trees, reconstruction materials, and children’s toys that were on the way to the Mediterranean coast of Gaza. The “Spirit of Humanity,” along with the kidnapped 21 persons, is being towed to Israel as I write.
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Rights & Liberties: The 13 Bush Officials Who Made Torture Possible
Posted by: IT
	The Bush administration's Torture 13. They authorized it, they decided how to implement it, and they crafted the legal fig leaf to justify it. By Marcy Wheeler \| Salon May 22, 2009 On April 16, the Obama administration released four memos that were used to authorize torture in interrogations during the Bush administration. When President Obama released the memos, he said, "It is our intention to assure those who carried out their duties relying in good faith upon legal advice from the Department of Justice that they will not be subject to prosecution."
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Crimes Against Humanity: We tortured to justify war
Posted by: IT
Dick Cheney keeps saying "enhanced interrogation" was used to stop imminent attacks, but evidence is mounting that the real reason was to invent evidence linking Saddam Hussein to al-Qaida. By Joe Conason \| Salon May, 14 2009 The single most pertinent question that Dick Cheney is never asked -- at least not by the admiring interviewers he has encountered so far -- is whether he, Donald Rumsfeld and George W. Bush used torture to justify the illegal invasion of Iraq.
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Rights & Liberties: 'These People Fear Prosecution': Why Bush's CIA Team Should Worry About Its Dark Embrace of Torture
Posted by: IT
	The New Yorker's Jane Mayer discusses the fallout from the Red Cross' shocking report on CIA torture and its serious legal implications. By Liliana Segura, AlterNet April 11, 2009. On the night of April 6, a long-secret document was published -- in its entirety for the first time -- that provided a clear, stark look at the CIA torture program carried out by the Bush administration.
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Crimes Against Humanity: We Cannot Allow Obama to Be the Torturer-Elect
Posted by: IT
Far from seeking to prosecute the criminals who authorized torture, Barack Obama has instead asked several to work for him. By Steve Hendricks \| AlterNet January 14, 2009 Two months ago we denied the presidency to a man who, for a few votes, forsook a long opposition to torture and pledged his America would continue the barbarity. This month we evict from the White House its resident torturer. These are victories worth celebrating, but they are tempered by having elevated to the White House, as we learn weekly that we have, another torturer.
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Crimes Against Humanity: Gitmo Alert: Bin Laden's Driver Acquitted of Serious Charge, Found Guilty of Another
Posted by: IT
	Hamdan was acquitted on the more serious charge of conspiracy, which is a blow to the Bush Administration. By Christy Hardin Smith \| Firedoglake August 6, 2008 News has hit that Hamdan was just found guilty of the lesser charge of material support for terrorism by the military tribunal in Gitmo. Hamdan was acquitted on the more serious charge of conspiracy by the same jury, which is a blow to the Bush Administration's hopes for a full vindication of its methods.
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Crimes Against Humanity: Vermont Town Votes to Arrest and Indict Bush, Cheney
Posted by: IT
Their next job can be making sure that Bush and Cheney get something they've denied so many other people: a fair trial By David Swanson \| After Downing Street March 5, 2008 Brattleboro, Vt., voted today in support of a measure calling on the town's police force to arrest and indict Bush and Cheney. The vote was 2012-1795
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Crimes Against Humanity: Destruction of CIA Tapes Can't Hide Barbaric U.S. Torture Method
Posted by: IT
	The Bush administration reeks of war crimes. It's time to stop brutal forms of torture dating back to the Spanish Inquisition. By Ray McGovern \| Consortium News December 13, 2007 A boyish, inquisitive face with an innocent look peered out from the Washington Post's lead story Tuesday on torture. It was well-groomed, pink-shirted John Kiriakou, a CIA interrogator who could just as easily pass for the local youth minister.
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We prefer world law, in the age of self-determination, to world war in the age of mass extermination.
John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963, Thirty-fifth President of the USA