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Torture and Accountability
McClatchy reports today: “The Bush administration applied relentless pressure on interrogators to use harsh methods on detainees in part to find evidence of cooperation between al Qaida and the late Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein’s regime, according to a former senior U.S. intelligence official and a former Army psychiatrist. Such information would’ve provided a foundation for…
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Obama Administration and Cuba
In the aftermath of the Summit of the Americas, which ended Sunday in Port of Spain, Trinidad, the relationship between Washington and Cuba has become one of the major bones of contention between the U.S. government and almost all Latin American and Caribbean leaders. REESE ERLICH Erlich, foreign correspondent and author of Dateline Havana: The…
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Obama in Latin America
President Obama is scheduled to be in Trinidad and Tobago today for the Summit of the Americas. MARIA LUISA MENDONÇA Mendonça, based in São Paulo, Brazil, is director of the Social Network for Justice and Human Rights. She said today: “The expectation of grassroots movements in Latin America is to change the focus of the…
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Taxes Going to Military Spending
CAROL KIGER ALLEN Rev. ROBERT MOORE Allen is a retired economist and is on the board of the Coalition for Peace Action & Peace Action Education Fund in New Jersey. Moore is executive director for the group. Allen said today: “Tomorrow, we’ll be administering our ‘Penny Poll.’ People approaching the post office, many to mail…
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The Great Tax Burden Shift: From the Rich to the Rest?
The Institute for Policy Studies has just released a report titled “Reversing the Great Tax Shift: Seven Steps to Finance Our Economic Recovery Fairly.” Among the authors of the report available for interviews are: CHUCK COLLINS Collins, senior scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies, said today: “Now is the time to reverse three decades…
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Obama’s Afghanistan Plan Could Be His “Fatal Mistake”
RITA LASAR Lasar is a member of September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows. Her brother Abraham Zelmanowitz died in the World Trade Center attack while trying to save a coworker, Ed Bayea, a paraplegic in a wheelchair, who could not leave. She just wrote the piece “Dear President Obama: Get Us Out of Afghanistan.” More…
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* Obama in Iraq * Military Spending * Drone Attack Protests
ADAM KOKESH An Iraq war veteran and a member of the board of Iraq Veterans Against the War, Kokesh said today: “Obama’s plan is to continue the indefinite presence of 50,000 U.S. troops in Iraq and have an increased reliance on private contractors.” More Information More Information FRIDA BERRIGAN The military budget is being released…
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Did North Korea Break the Rules? Does the U.S.? Does Israel?
In Prague on Sunday, Obama addressed nuclear policy, saying that North Korea “broke the rules once again.” Today, speaking in Turkey, he said the U.S. does not seek conflict with Muslim countries. JOHN FEFFER Feffer just wrote the piece “What’s Up with North Korea?” — which states: “North Korea has signed the appropriate international protocols…
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NATO; Wall Street; Nevada Protests Against War
REINER BRAUN Braun is in Strasbourg, where NATO meetings are being held. He is with the International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms and is able to arrange media interviews with many others from various countries protesting against NATO. The group is a leading organization in a broad anti-NATO coalition, which recently put out a…
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G-20 Economics
PAT DEVINE Devine is an honorary research fellow in social science at the University of Manchester. His books include Democracy and Economic Planning: The Political Economy of a Self-Governing Society, An Introduction to Industrial Economics and the just-published Feel Bad Britain: How to Make It Better. He is able to assess the G-20 meeting, global…