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Canadians Seek to Arrest George W. Bush Oct. 20

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An upcoming planned speaking engagement in Canada by former President George W. Bush is again generating a wave of protest. Bush is reportedly scheduled to speak on October 20th at a gathering in Surrey, British Columbia hosted by Surrey Mayor Diane Watts.

Gaddafi Secret Rape and Abortion Den Uncovered

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Secret sex den found hidden under university including gynecological clinic for abortions or sterilizations.

Tin Foil Hat Award: Reporters Claim Gaddafi Wins – Torture...

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David Welch, personal envoy of a former US president, George W. Bush, was directing efforts for Gaddafi, on the part Bechtel Corporation, Exxon, Chevron and arms giant, the Carlysle Group, we had conclusive proof that phony news supporting Gaddafi was pure New World Order.

More Corroboration, Gaddafi Nanny Torture

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When Shwygar Mullah, nanny to the children of Hannibal and Aline Gaddafi, was found burned over 70% of her body, bloggers claimed she was faking her injuries part of a conspiracy to discredit the Gaddafi family.

Dick Cheney Follows The Yellowcake Fantasy Road “In My Time”

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Former Vice-President of the United States Dick Cheney attempts to sell his new book "In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir" as he tries to revise history just one more time before he goes into the long dark night of history.

FLASHBACK: Remembering Aafia Siddiqui in 2011

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Justice is a delicacy best served cold, preferably in cold blood, in full service to the Hectoring Hegemons!

Guardian: Bush Torture Prosecution Recommended

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US authorities were legally obliged to investigate the top echelons of the Bush administration over crimes such as torture, abduction and other mistreatment of prisoners.

Are “Stooge” Reporters Complicit in Gaddafi Human Right Violations?

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Gaddafi, as with Saddam and the other police state monsters, is known for rounding up citizens, threat of beatings and arrests, threats of firings or worse, forcing them to take part in public demonstrations. This is a violation of human rights, a crime. It is a crime when Gaddafi does it and it is also a crime when others, the "guests" of Gaddafi, betray the people of Libya and take part in supporting these human rights abuses.

Resistance: No Warrant No Entry No Knock No Mercy

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America is a violent country. It was founded in violence, in revolution against a violent England. It expanded to its present size in just over a century by violent conquest.

Legal Scholar Compares Gitmo Court to Stalinist Show Trials

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The future trials planned for prisoners in Guantanamo Bay detention camp will be “Stalinist show trials” as their preliminary proceedings “have already proven them to be Travesties of Justice,” a distinguished international law authority warns.

Blowing Smoke: Obama Is Morally High

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On his second day in office Obama promised to close the Guantanamo Bay “detention” center (if it was called a prison camp it would connote that the inmates are prisoners, and prisoners are entitled to rights, detainees aren’t.) Guantanamo remains open for business and continues to be a national embarrassment to this day.

Davis Case Has Thrown Overboard America’s Rules On Terrorism

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As per Paul Craig Robert, hypocrisy in America is now so commonplace it is no longer noticed. While it enjoys torturing other peoples for American sins, it objects to human rights abuses of countries it despises such as Burma, Pakistan, Iran, Syria. In USA if a person tortures a dog he is sent to jail, but a government functionary indulging in torture against fellow beings is ignored.

VT Joins with U.S. Groups to Encourage Spain Prosecute Bush Officials

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Dozens of U.S. human rights groups will present an open letter to the Spanish public to consulates and Madrid officials on Valentine's Day. They will encourage support of Spanish courts in prosecuting U.S. officials who authorized torture.

GORDON DUFF: Bush “Blood Money” Tour Cancelled

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FORMER PRESIDENT FACES "WIKI-ARREST" By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor Former President George "W" Bush has been forced to cancel a highly paid speaking engagement to...

Meet Omar Suleiman: Diplomat, Torturer, Renditionist, and Manager of the...

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Omar Suleiman was born July 2, 1936.  He is an Egyptian politician and military figure who was appointed Vice President of Egypt on January 29,...

GORDON DUFF: America’s Dirty Secret

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HOW A PSYCHO-SEXUAL CULT HOLDS AMERICA PRISONER By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor On 9/11, the United States Air Force failed to respond to multiple hijacking...

GORDON DUFF: MONSTERS AMONG US (Videos)

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To Live or Die for a Real America.. By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor I talked with one of my good friends last night.  He was...

SPY MACHINE, LIE MACHINE: How We Let Ourselves Be Brainwashed Into...

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What we know, or have the means to know, is already in excess of any security threat that can be reasonably estimated from random groups of militant Islamicists. Not only that, the concentration of such huge information and spy networks in relatively few hands and the lack of oversight pose a domestic and global danger far greater than the sporadic actions of disenfranchised groups in the Middle East

GORDON DUFF: SELLING WIKILEAKS, SELLING HATE FOR AMERICA

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Wikileaks has divided the world into two camps, those who love Wikileaks as a slap in the face for the United States and those who recognize the stench of Wikileaks for what it is, simple Israeli propaganda. Millions around the world look at Wikleaks as poor, harried Julian Assange and his personal struggle against the evil empire of Bush/Obama America. Hate, envy, oh, there is lots of envy here, America stimulates that with its highways filled with gas guzzling cars, eating half the world's meat, all the best music, television and a military that scares the begeezus out of everyone. What's not to hate?

The Plot to Destroy the United States

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The plans are in place to bring that to an end.

In Book, Bush Defends Use of Waterboarding

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When then-President George W. Bush was asked to approve a tough interrogation technique known as waterboarding on September 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, he wasted little time in deciding. "Damn right," he said. Bush's approval of waterboarding, a form of simulated drowning condemned by human rights activists as torture, to try to wrench information from captured al Qaeda operatives was among the most controversial decisions he made during eight years in the White House.

GORDON DUFF: AMERICA’S ARMY, A TALE OF MISUSE AND ABUSE

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For nearly a decade, America has been, in the eyes of the world, the successor to Nazi Germany. Last week, nearly 77% of Australians polled (over 10,000 respondents) considered the 9/11 terror attacks an American "false flag" and that nation has troops in Afghanistan fighting alongside Americans. Imagine what nations that oppose American involvement think?

Military Orders FRAGO 242 and FRAGO 039 Known at Highest Levels...

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- Another reason to avoid war:  Good, dedicated people do awful things. All war is terror, generally WE OUGHT NOT wage it unless WE ABSOUTELY...

GORDON DUFF: WHY THE CONSTITUTION FAILED

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LISTEN?  ANYONE SAYING "NOT A PERFECT FORM OF GOVERNMENT BUT..." By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor In 2000, the United States Supreme Court, by a 5/4...

PRESS RELEASE: JUDGE SENTENCES RAPE VICTIM TO 86 YEARS IN...

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JFAC STATEMENT ON SENTENCING OF AAFIA SIDDIQUI Editor's note:  "The entire staff of VT and her sister publications are outraged at Judge Berman's abuses, not...

The Difference Between Mike Vick and George W. Bush is…

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George W. Bush admitted to torturing human beings while Mike Vick admitted to torturing dogs. Vick was indicted, found guilty, and paid his debt. George W. Bush has never been indicted, never found guilty, and has never paid his debt. What does this say about us?

GORDON DUFF: AMERICAN HATE; MILITARY “DEATH SQUAD” ARRESTED

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POLITICS, RELIGION AND THE MILITARY, A RECIPE FOR DISASTER By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor (Russian translation below) A dozen American soldiers are under arrest, five for...

Ex-CIA Officer Accused of Electric-Drill Torture Now Training CIA Operatives as...

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By Adam Goldman at Huffington WASHINGTON — A former CIA officer accused of revving an electric drill near the head of an imprisoned terror suspect...

GORDON DUFF: IMRAN KHAN DEMANDS FREEDOM FOR DR. AAFIA, ASHCROFT...

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(FOLLOW DIRECTIONS TO YOUTUBE)             By Gordon Duff for VT and Americans of Honor Last year, an Israeli-American Judge Richard Berman oversaw one of America's...

Ernest Canning on Robert Gibbs and the Obama Administration

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Perhaps most disturbing is that the President's zeal to please his true constituency --- corporate America, Wall Street and the military-industrial complex --- comes from the same Presidential candidate whose soaring and lofty, yet deceptive campaign rhetoric gave rise to hope in so many that Election Day 2008 would mark a return economic fairness, transparency, a restoration of the rule of law, an end to the fear-driven perpetual "war on terror," and a restoration of nature's ecological balance.

Book by Innocent Victim Suggests Torture by U.S. Was Widespread

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 - "We don't torture," squawked George W. Bush time and again; he was lying. Murat Kurnaz in  Five Years of My Life: An Innocent Man...

No Day in Court for Innocent Torture-Rendition Victim, Maher Arar

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From the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR): CCR Calls on President, Congress to Apologize and Compensate Arar for Rendition to Torture in Syria June 14, 2010,...

Bush, Cheney May Face Prosecution For Medical Experiments On Detainees

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Evidence Indicates that the Bush Administration Conducted Experiments and Research on Detainees to Design Torture Techniques and Create Legal Cover Illegal Activity Would Violate Nuremberg...

Gordon Duff: Can Israel Be Saved From “Crackpot” Netanyahu?

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  NETANYAHU'S "TALIBAN" RULE CRUMBLING AROUND HIM JEWS VICTIMIZED BY "DIME STORE" DICK CHENEY CLONE "All I saw in Israel was cowards with guns"...US Marine Ken O'Keefe By...

London Rally for Dr. Aafia Siddiqui Called

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 Demonstrators in London rally at Pakistani and US embassies in solidarity with Aafia Siddiqui on Aafia Siddiqui Day, 28 March 2010 Editors note:  This is...

Israel’s Crackdown Confronts Liberals and Humanists

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An unprecedented Israeli campaign to silence dissidents, intellectuals and human rights organizations is gaining momentum in the wake of Israel's December 2008 assault against Gaza that caused intense international outrage...

Editor’s Picks: News and Opinion Around the Web

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David Cole takes on Liz Cheney and her Daddy Warbucks at Salon. Andy Kroll at Tomgram welcomes us the Ponzi Nation we have become. Glen Beck is still listening to the Beatles backwards and finding dark and treasonous portends in pop music and probably in his breakfast cereal at Media Matters and Jim Hightower says "chicken feathers" to the idea of Georgia's new state bird... the chicken? Those stories and more in today's picks.

Democrats pull provision on penalizing U.S. personnel that Torture

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Congress approved an intelligence agency bill in late February after Democratic leaders hastily removed a provision that would have imposed prison sentences for personnel...

Editor’s Picks: News and Opinion Around the Web

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Douglas Valentine at Consortium News draws some parallels between our current wars and William the Conqueror, they're not pretty. The bumpkin senator from Oklahoma has started an inquisition of climate scientists; their crimes? Being climate scientists, of course. The Taliban strike in downtown Kabul in a story from Juan Cole at Informed Comment and according to McClatchy News their goal is driving America out. Those stories and more in today's picks.

Cheney’s Huge Blunder

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Former VP Dick CheneyFormer VP Dick CheneyIn April, 2009, former vice president Dick Cheney called for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to release classified memos he said demonstrated how well "harsh interrogation methods" -- torture -- worked to prevent terrorist attacks and save lives. But investigators with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) just released a report saying that the CIA memo Cheney cited as justifying U.S. torture contains "plainly inaccurate information" that undermines its conclusions.

Veterans Descend on DC to close GITMO

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In addition to Veterans and Military Families marching on Washington in the Spring to protest the continued occupation of Iraq, Obama’s SURGE in Afghanistan, how our troops and Veterans are treated when they come home, and to close Guantanamo Bay (GITMO), there has been a more recent effort by military Veterans and families to close GITMO that occurred this month.

Editor’s Picks: News and Opinion Around the Web

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In what should be the biggest political story of the week the Supreme Court decided to allow all future federal elections to be completely dominated by America's the worlds corporations. Marty Kaplan writes in Huff Post about Republican finesse with with the age old art of storytelling, and over at Crooks and Liars we find distressing news about "Oathkeepers."