Crackpot Criminality From Abu Through Zubaydah

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John Kiriakou led the CIA operation that arrested, or rather, kidnapped without charge, Abu Zubaydah. Joseph Hickman helped imprison Abu Zubaydah as a guard at Guantanamo and was later the lead researcher for Zubaydah’s habeas defense team.

Here are some highlights of a tale of crackpot criminality recounted by Hickman and Kiriakou in their jointly authored new book, The Convenient Terrorist:

Maher Abu Zubayda and Zain Abidin Mohammed Husain aka Abu Zubaydah are two completely different people. read more

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Talk Nation Radio: Ajamu Baraka on the Black Alliance for Peace

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Ajamu Baraka is National Organizer for the Black Alliance for Peace. He is a human rights defender whose experience spans four decades of domestic and international education and activism. He has provided human rights trainings for grassroots activists across the country, briefings on human rights to the U.S. Congress, and appeared before and provided statements to various United Nations agencies. Baraka was the Founding Executive Director of the US Human Rights Network. He held read more

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U.S. Conference of Mayors Opposes Military-Heavy Trump Budget

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The U.S. Conference of Mayors on Monday unanimously passed three resolutions opposing the military-heavy Trump budget proposal, urging Congress to move funding out of the military and into human and environmental needs rather than the reverse.

The three resolutions are numbers 59 and 60 found on this page.

and number 79 found on this page.

“We are very excited that the entire US Conference of Mayors, from major metropoles such as New York City and Los Angeles to small rural townships, understand read more

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Sanctions Are Crimes, Not Law Enforcement

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By David Swanson, American Herald Tribune

The U.S. Senate has increased sanctions on the people of Iran and Russia, if the House and President go along. The Senate vote was 98-2, with Senators Rand Paul and Bernie Sanders voting no, the latter despite his support for the Russian half of the bill.

The bill is called “An act to provide congressional review and to counter Iranian and Russian governments’ aggression.”

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You’ll Never Guess What Losing Democrats All Have in Common

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It was curious to observe how much of Jeremy Corbyn’s successful campaign to rebuild the Labour Party was about foreign policy. Wars, he said, make us less safe, not more. Agreeing with him were: the obvious facts of the matter, voters in opinion polls, and apparently voters in their votes.

Also largely agreeing, dragged along by Corbyn’s leadership, was the Labour Party, whose new platform — despite many serious flaws — says:

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Imagine

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Imagine nuclear winter
It’s easy if you try
Firestorms around us
Soot blocks out the sky
Imagine all the people dying in that way

Imagine there’s an upside
It isn’t hard to do
Something to kill and die for:
Putin would die too
Imagine all the Russians dying in our war, you

You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
You’ll have no choice but to join us
And Hillary finally will have won

Imagine there’s no evidence
I wonder if you can
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Talk Nation Radio: Ray McGovern on Russia and Syria

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Ray McGovern has been studying/analyzing Russia for more than five decades, both in academe and government.  A senior analyst at the CIA during the 80s, he also conducted early morning briefings, one-on-one, of the President’s Daily Brief for President Reagan’s most senior foreign policy advisers. McGovern’s work is supported by the ecumenical Church of the Saviour, which strongly believes that church/synagogue/mosque leaders must find ways to find their voice and speak out.

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Murder in Suburbia

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A teenage girl from my hometown in Northern Virginia, a girl identified most prominently as a Muslim, has reportedly been murdered with a baseball bat. We do not know and may never know whether prominent promotion of hatred toward Muslims contributed. The question of whether this was a “hate crime” is unanswered, despite the clear requirement that hatred have been involved.

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