Barack Obama has continued virtually all of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney’s once-controversial terrorism and civil liberties policies. Even the right wing acknowledges these polices have continued under the Obama presidency. The first area where we see this is in indefinite detention—the idea that human beings can be caged for years without an opportunity [...]
Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp has been a subject of controversy ever since it was established in 2002 by the Bush Administration as a detainment and interrogation facility for prisoners of war. On June 10th, 2006, three Guantanamo prisoners were found dead in their cells, hanging from what had appeared to be a makeshift noose. With [...]
A former NYPD narcotics detective, Stephen Anderson, testified in October that he regularly saw police plant drugs on innocent people as a way to meet arrest quotas. He was testifying, under cooperation with prosecuters, in the trial of a fellow detective charged with falsifying public documents and business documents. Anderson says he frequently [...]
A controversial provision in the National Defense Authorization Bill that would “affirm” the President’s supposed power to wage perpetual war anywhere on Earth against undefined enemies — including Americans in the United States — is attracting fierce criticism from across the political spectrum. The language was inserted into the bill by Rep. Howard McKeon [...]
On US military bases in Iraq and Afghanistan burn pits are being used as a main resource for disposing of garbage, military waste, and human waste. Journalist J. Malcolm Garcia writes that, “The pits incinerate discarded human body parts, plastics, hazardous medical material, lithium batteries, tires, hydraulic fluids, and vehicles. Jet fuel keeps pits burning [...]
In 2009 the pentagon simulated an economic warfare. This was no traditional battle game, but rather the Pentagon’s first economic war game. The military are worried about the market. China owns much of the debt, the US’s most powerful rival and threat. That makes America vulnerable to a new kind of bloodless but ruthless war. [...]
The United States Air Force has been training its young missile officers on the ethics and morals of launching nuclear weapons through the process of citing various parts of the New Testament, as well as commentary from a former member of the Nazi Party. Led by Air Force Chaplains, this mandatory Nuclear Ethics and Nuclear [...]
FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 7:30PM First Congregational Church 2345 Channing, Berkeley Movie - PLUS Peter Phillips & Mickey Huff of Project Censored talking with John Pilger via Skype
As Saturday March 19t, 2011 Operation “Odyssey Dawn” commenced, it followed with the firing of more than 100 Tomahawk missiles along the coast of Libya—collectively between the U.S., Britain, and France. The operation was crafted by NATO to level the battlefield for Libyan rebels to overthrow the present military regime led by Libya’s president Muammar [...]
President Obama’s undeclared and Congressionally unauthorized war against Libya may be compounded by the crime of spreading toxic uranium oxide in populated areas of that country. Concern is being voiced by groups such as the International Coalition to Ban Uranium Weapons, which monitor the military use of so-called depleted-uranium (DU) anti-tank and bunker-penetrating shells. As [...]
