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US TORTURE DURING THE VIET NAM WAR
A statement by Anthony J. Russo, an employee of the RAND Corporation who was dispatched to Viet Nam to interrogate prisoners there during the US war in that country in the late 60’s, could have been...
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Nuclear Weapons
This being the 70th anniversary of the nuclear bombing of Japan, the issue of nuclear weapons is in the news. Since the bombing was only a few months before I was born, I have lived my life in the...
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RELEASE SHAKER AAMER
Shaker Aamer, the last British subject held by the US in its torture camp at Guantnamo, is very ill. Long since cleared for release, he remains there for reasons never explained. There have been...
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BLACK SITE TRANSLATOR AT GUANTANAMO TRIALS
I am fortunate to speak a number of languages and I have never been where I do not speak the language. I would not like having to depend on a translator. There are, even in the best of...
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GREENWALD: OBAMA “WANTED TO INDEFINITELY IMPRISON THEM SOMEWHERE ELSE”
Glenn Greenwald, the constitutional lawyer turned journalist, reminds readers at the online site The Intercept that “Obama repeatedly and eloquently railed against the core, defining evil of...
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NOT UNRELATED
Though this post is not about war and torture, it is not unrelated to the depredations of the US and can be seen even to have some influence on the military in this country. I read today about US...
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NEWS OF SHAKER
I have just had work that Shaker Aamer, the last remaining British subject in the prison at Guantanamo, may have been released. Pope Francis is currently in the United States and may have had...
View ArticleMORE ABOUT SHAKER’S POSSIBLE RELEASE
Below is the press release of World Can’t Wait about Shaker. World Can’t Wait Calls for Immediate Release of Shaker Aamer Not One More Day of Torture for Last British Resident of Guantanamo Bay Prison...
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US Torture Confirmed Again
An article titled Why Bush, Cheney, and CIA Leaders Should Be Charged With War Crimes was published today. It brings forward more information about the torture of Guantanamo prisoners. The authors...
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Brutality of US Treatment of Prisoners Exposed
“One of the most severely tortured men in the history of Guantánamo Bay presented his case for freedom on Thursday.” is the opening sentence of an article in the Guardian about Mohamedou Ould Slahi,...
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Suleiman Abdullah Salim speaks of The Darkness
Released by the CIA without having ever had any charges against him and no explanations, Suleiman Abdullah Salim is trying to move on. He suffers from depression and post-traumatic stress, not...
View ArticleResponse to 2016 Predidential Election
Below is the text of a letter I mailed to Donald Trump about his choices at this time. “That more Americans voted for Hillary Clinton is not disputed and the actual number of votes for her will be even...
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OBAMA DOES NOT CLOSE GUANTANAMO PRISON
Despite saying that he would since early in his term, President Obama is not going to close the prison at Guantanamo where forty-five prisoners still languish. Below are remarks by Jeremy Varon, a long...
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PROTESTING TRUMP IN NYC
Yesterday, George and I joined a huge number of people protesting Donald Trump here in New York at the Trump tower where he lives. He, of course, was in DC at the time where there was also massive...
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SOME REFLECTIONS ON TRUMP
Below is a link to an article about Trump barring a number of news outlets from a White House briefing with Trump’s press secretary Sean Spicer. The Real ‘Enemy of the American People’ Sits in the...
View ArticleNYC Department Stores That Sell Trump Products
NYC Department Stores X marks stores that sell Trump products X Bed Bath & Beyond (not really department store, but sells Trump products) 1932 Broadway, 10023 several other stores in NYC Bergdorf...
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TRUMP, HITLER, AND IMMIGRANTS
Below is part of a chilling article by Heather Digby Parton which appeared today on Alternet (www.alterner.org). In response to talk in the Trump regime about immigrants, especially Muslim and Latino...
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TRUMP POLICIES LEAD US TO LOOK MORE AND MORE LIKE A THIRD WORLD COUNTRY
Poor and Hungry Children in the US According to an article published today on alternet.org, Robert Reich says that Trump’s plans for “huge leaps in military spending plus tax cuts will mean big cuts to...
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US HEALTH CARE
France has universal health care paid for with tax money. They also have what is regarded as the best health care in the world (the country of Louis Pasteur and Marie Curie is carrying on the...
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BERNIE SANDERS CALLS FOR UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE
Bernie Sanders has called for healthcare for all in the United States, saying that “We have got to end the international disgrace of being the only major country on earth not to guarantee healthcare...
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