That’s it! The United States has gone terminally FUBAR. Pregnant women who lose babies are actually being charged with murder. This is madness, Christofascist lunacy.Rennie Gibbs is accused of murder, but the crime she is allege…
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Things Are Good: Better Primary Health Care
Health care is expensive no matter where you are and places like Uganda and the USA health care is even more expensive because they don’t have universal health care for their citizens. A company in California, MedLion, is looking to bring effective primary health care to the masses because some governments can’t afford (or refuse) […]
Continue readingDriving The Porcelain Bus: US Congress to Palestinians – You do not exist
Congress to Palestinians: Drop dead – Opinion – Al Jazeera English
by MJ Rosenberg, Senior Foreign Policy Fellow at Media Matters Action Network.
If anyone had any doubt about whether the Palestinians would declare a state in September, they can’t hav…
Continue readingDriving The Porcelain Bus: When Pro-Life is not Pro Life
The right’s mirror-image view of life – Opinion – Al Jazeera English
This article applies to the Conservatives in Canada too:
Excerpt:
Yesterday, I pulled up to a drive-through ATM, and sitting in front of me in the line was a car with a license plate…
Driving The Porcelain Bus: Lax labour laws in the US turning it into a sweatshop for European manufacturers
Olive: America, the world’s sweatshop – thestar.comAnd similar anti-worker/anti-union movements (promoted by corporations and conservative governments) are happening here too in Canada.Excerpt:Sweden’s Ikea was revealed in April to be operating a m…
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Financial meltdown 2007: Big Banks in the crosshairs
It’s about time somebody decided to find out what role the big banks played in the disasterous subprime mortgage market that lead to the financial meltdown in2007, and caused so much damage to so many.
Eric Schneiderman
Keep your eye on the new Attor…
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AMERICAN POLITICS:ANOTHER SORT OF FIRST OF JULY:Well now that the great raison d’être for America’s far flung wars is safely swimming with the fishies it might just be time for that country to question why they continue to fight. A peace coalition cal…
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: Egypt’s Shifting Geopolitical Policies: A Consequence of Democracy
The recent democratization of Egypt has resulted in a series of distinct policy changes with regards to Israel, Palestine and Iran. These changes ultimately represent a shift in Egyptian policy towards the popular opinion of many Egyptians that are bec…
Continue readingStop Canadian Complicity in Torture: TORTURE PROGRAM – US
No Wonder Congress Wants to Hide the Gitmo Detainees – The Atlantic, April 26, 2011 – by Andrew Cohen Whatever else the latest Wikileaks dump says about our nation’s inapt (and inept) handling of the terror-law detainees at Guantanamo Bay, the newly-revealed documents remind us again of the wide gulf
Continue readingStop Canadian Complicity in Torture: TORTURE PROGRAM – US
No Wonder Congress Wants to Hide the Gitmo Detainees – The Atlantic, April 26, 2011 – by Andrew CohenWhatever else the latest Wikileaks dump says about our nation’s inapt (and inept) handling of the terror-law detainees at Guantanamo Bay, the newly-rev…
Continue readingStop Canadian Complicity in Torture: TORTURE PROGRAM – US
No Wonder Congress Wants to Hide the Gitmo Detainees – The Atlantic, April 26, 2011 – by Andrew Cohen Whatever else the latest Wikileaks dump says about our nation’s inapt (and inept) handling of the terror-law detainees at Guantanamo Bay, the newly-revealed documents remind us again of the wide gulf
Continue readingStop Canadian Complicity in Torture: "Preachers of the world", just a piece of the story
Why I called Bradley Manning’s treatment ‘stupid by PJ Crowley – Guardian UK – March 29, 2011 Full piece at:http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/mar/29/bradley-manning-wikileaks “As a public diplomat and (until recently) spokesman of the departmente od state, I was responsible for explaining the national security policy of the United States to the American people
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Why I called Bradley Manning’s treatment ‘stupidby PJ Crowley – Guardian UK – March 29, 2011Full piece at:http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/mar/29/bradley-manning-wikileaks”As a public diplomat and (until recently) spokesman of th…
Continue readingStop Canadian Complicity in Torture: "Preachers of the world", just a piece of the story
Why I called Bradley Manning’s treatment ‘stupid by PJ Crowley – Guardian UK – March 29, 2011 Full piece at:http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/mar/29/bradley-manning-wikileaks “As a public diplomat and (until recently) spokesman of the departmente od state, I was responsible for explaining the national security policy of the United States to the American people
Continue readingStop Canadian Complicity in Torture: Andy Worthington and the connections: James Mitchel, Bruce James, CIA architects of the torture program, propaganda and more
The Dark Desires of Bruce Jessen, the Architect of Bush’s Torture Program, As Revealed by His Former Friend and Colleague by Andy Worthington – March 28, 2010 “Jessen’s template for the “full exploitation” of prisoners, rather than just their interrogation, was designed to be used for propaganda purposes, “or other
Continue readingStop Canadian Complicity in Torture: Andy Worthington and the connections: James Mitchel, Bruce James, CIA architects of the torture program, propaganda and more
The Dark Desires of Bruce Jessen, the Architect of Bush’s Torture Program, As Revealed by His Former Friend and Colleague
by Andy Worthington – March 28, 2010
“Jessen’s template for the “full exploitation” of prisoners, rather than just their interrogation, was designed to be used for propaganda purposes, “or other needs [of] the detaining power, such as the recruitment of informers and double agents.” As he added, “Those aspects of the US detainee program have not generally been discussed as part of the torture story in the American press.”
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Continue readingStop Canadian Complicity in Torture: Andy Worthington and the connections: James Mitchel, Bruce James, CIA architects of the torture program, propaganda and more
The Dark Desires of Bruce Jessen, the Architect of Bush’s Torture Program, As Revealed by His Former Friend and Colleague by Andy Worthington – March 28, 2010 “Jessen’s template for the “full exploitation” of prisoners, rather than just their interrogation, was designed to be used for propaganda purposes, “or other
Continue readingStop Canadian Complicity in Torture: Former SERE Instructor Capt. Michael Kearns on the rush rush doing torture, Bruce Jessen, Air Force psyc ( CIA contractor) and more
Former SERE Instructor Capt. Michael Kearns About The Bush Administration’s Torture Program By The Public Record The Public RecordMar 24th, 2011 Image of John Bruce Jessen’s handwritten notes outlining the torture program are available at Jason Leopold and Jeff Kaye Truthout Investigative Report published March 22, 2011 at:(full article)http://www.truth-out.org/cia-psychologists-notes-reveal-bushs-torture-program68542 James
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Former SERE Instructor Capt. Michael Kearns About The Bush Administration’s Torture Program
The Public Record
Mar 24th, 2011
Youtube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ReP1MLeVD78
OR
Image of John Bruce Jessen’s handwritten notes outlining the torture program are available at Jason Leopold and Jeff Kaye Truthout Investigative Report published March 22, 2011 at:
(full article)
http://www.truth-out.org/cia-psychologists-notes-reveal-bushs-torture-program68542
James Mitchel and Brice James are both psychologists who, under contract to the CIA, are credited as being the architects of the government’s top-secret torture
Jason Leopold is the Deputy Managing Editor at Truthout. He is the author of the Los Angeles Times bestseller, “News Junkie,” a memoir. Visit jasonleopold.com for a preview.
Stop Canadian Complicity in Torture: Former SERE Instructor Capt. Michael Kearns on the rush rush doing torture, Bruce Jessen, Air Force psyc ( CIA contractor) and more
Former SERE Instructor Capt. Michael Kearns About The Bush Administration’s Torture Program By The Public Record The Public RecordMar 24th, 2011 Youtube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ReP1MLeVD78 OR http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/205:exclusive-cia-psychologists-notes-reveal-true-purpose-behind-bushs-torture-program Image of John Bruce Jessen’s handwritten notes outlining the torture program are available at Jason Leopold and Jeff Kaye Truthout Investigative Report published March
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