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} Elliot Hughes recounts allegations of torture while being detained in Ramsey County Jail. Hughes was detained during an RNC08 protest after reportedly colliding with a police bicycle on accident. He was sent to Regions Hospital for treatment and later released without charges. We are actively investigating these claims. Stay tuned for more.
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Danny Glover on post-Katrina New Orleans and the new film “Trouble the water”
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“Somali Islamic Groups Reject Peace Agreement,” Al Jazeera- Qatar
“Free Gaza Boat Departs with Sick Children,” Dubai TV- U.A.E
“Sharif Pulls Out Of Pakistan’s Ruling Coalition,” Al Arabiya- U.A.E
“Sudanese Rally Behind Al Bashir,” Sudan TV- Sudan
“Jordan Warms Up to Hamas,” IBA TV- Israel
“Floods Kill More Peole in India,” A
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August 13, 2008
Purple Heart Vietnam Veteran, Maryknoll Missionary Priest, Torture Survivor and SOA Watch Founder, Fr. Roy Bourgeois exposes torture as nothing new to US foreign policy and calls for Senator John McCain to put his words opposing torture into action.
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The Bush Administration’s mindless threats to use nuclear bunker busters against Iranian nuclear research facilities could, if implemented, wipe out 2.6 million people in Iran, Pakistan, and India, and expose another 10.5 million to nuclear fallout.
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Oil companies’ influence over govt
A handful of giant oil companies that met secretly with Vice President Dick Cheney in 2001 are poised to get
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Aijaz Ahmad: What would a rational US foreign policy look like? Pt 9
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by Nancy Welch
http://socialistworker.org/
July 30, 2008
Dr. Sami Al-Arian, one of the earliest victims of the “war on terror” within the U.S. itself, continues to languish in jail, where he has been since his February 2003 arrest for the “crime” of speaking out on behalf of the Palestinian struggle against Israel’s apartheid.
Al-Arian’s daughter, Laila Al-Arian, is the author, with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges, of Collateral Damage: AmericaR
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Palestinian MP Mustafa Barghouti: Palestinians have already compromised a compromise
“Palestine: The facts on the ground“, posted with vodpod
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By Simon Johnson
Telegraph
28 Jul 2008
MPs and peers have claimed that a senior Army general and a defence minister may have misled them over British troops’ use of banned interrogation techniques in Iraq.
Adam Ingram, the armed forces minister, and Lieutenant General Robin Brims, Commander Field Army in 2006, had told the Joint Committee on Human Rights that hooding and sleep depr
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20 min - Jul 21, 2008
Charles Jenks - www.socialistworker.org
“Over half the total population of the country are either refugees, in need of emergency aid or dead.” Dahr Jamail gave a riveting talk on the occupation of Iraq at Socialism 2008 in Chicago on June 20.
Dahr has spent a total of eight months in occupied Iraq as one of only a few independent US journalists in the country. In the Middle East, Dahr has also has reported from Syria, Lebanon and Jordan. He writes for the Inter Pr