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The New Imperialism is the title of an annual seminar which I offer at Concordia University to advanced undergraduates. It is an unusual course, and given the content of past student evaluations, one that is extremely popular with participants who unanimously rated it as excellent on all levels. Part of the reason might be that there […]
Read More…Full credit for this story goes to Ishtar Enana, an Iraqi citizen journalist and blogger who has undertaken the monumental task of translating the Wikileaks Iraq War Logs into Arabic. Through her in depth digging through the logs, Ishtar reported (here, here, and here) that she found evidence in the war logs to substantiate the case brought […]
Read More…Further to the Pentagon’s response to the Wikileaks Iraq War logs, Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and senior military adviser to President Obama, apparently had no qualms about posting the following in Twitter–posted without remorse, apology, or disgrace over the release of documentation (from his own troops) of multiple U.S. war […]
Read More…Republished from the Bureau of Investigative Journalism October 27th, 2010 | by admin The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay has called for an investigation into allegations of abuse and murder of Iraqis within detention centres, following the publication of the Iraq war logs. The High Commissioner also called for all […]
Read More…Republished from the Bureau of Investigative Journalism October 27th, 2010 | by Yuba Bessaoud A series of reports contained in the leaked U.S. logs reveal that troops handed over detainees to a feared Iraqi police interrogation squad, despite knowing the torturous methods they employed. A number of files make reference to U.S. interactions with the […]
Read More…An excellent hour-long overview by Al Jazeera English, featuring details of war crimes and their cover up, killing of civilians, and torture, along with interviews with an outrageous and increasingly bizarre Pentagon spokesman (Geoff Morrell), as well as Julian Assange, Jeremy Scahill, an Iraqi MP, and others. Definitely worth seeing in full. Channel 4 UK: […]
Read More…Republished from the Bureau of Investigative Journalism October 23rd, 2010 | by Angus Stickler President Barack Obama’s government handed over thousands of detainees to the Iraqi authorities, despite knowing there were hundreds of reports of alleged torture in Iraqi government facilities. Washington was warned by the United Nations and many human rights organisations that torture was […]
Read More…Republished from the Bureau of Investigative Journalism October 19th, 2010 | by Emma Slater On November 13 2005, U.S. forces discovered 173 incarcerated men in a secret detention centre run by the Iraqi Ministry of Interior. Many showed signs of brutal torture. The discovery is recorded in the war logs: November 13 2005 Approx 95 x […]
Read More…Republished from the Bureau of Investigative Journalism October 22nd, 2010 | by Angus Stickler When a U.S. military unit visited Diyala prison, north of Baghdad on May 25 2006, it discovered a man who had been held in an underground bunker. He had been tortured for approximately two months. May 25 2006 His hands were […]
Read More…Republished from the Bureau of Investigative Journalism October 22nd, 2010 | by Angus Stickler and Chris Woods United States troops were told not to investigate allegations of torture by Iraqi security forces, according to documents found in the war logs. A comprehensive trawl of the secret military files show that U.S. soldiers witnessed, or were told […]
Read More…Dahlia Wasfi (Physician and Iraqi antiwar activist who has traveled to Iraq twice since the invasion and spoken out around the U.S. about what she has seen): We have an obligation to every last victim of this illegal aggression, because all of this carnage has been done in our name. Since World War II, 90 […]
Read More…EE: Report #1, 03—11 September 2010 Encircling Empire Reports is a selection of essays, blog posts, and news reports covering a given time period, which can usually be glimpsed in raw form at zero.collected. They are intended to be useful for those interested in: ● contemporary and critical political anthropology ● public anthropology ● imperialism […]
Read More…Previously we read here of the testimony by a Col. Martin Schweitzer, Commander, 4 / 82 Airborne Brigade Combat Team, United States Army, before the House Armed Services Committee, Terrorism & Unconventional Threats Sub-Committee and the Research & Education Sub-Committee of the Science & Technology Committee , on 24 April 2008. He repeats statements there that have […]
Read More…In connection with our last report, “Physicians for Human Rights to File Federal Complaint: On CIA-led Human Experimentation and Research to Design Torture Techniques Used against Detainees,” please consider signing a petition effort mounted by Physicians for Human Rights, “Office of Human Research Protections Complaint: Join Us in Demanding an Investigation into Evidence of Illegal […]
Read More…Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) this week released a shocking and damning report (Experiments in Torture) that implicates psychologists and medical practitioners in human experimentation, under CIA leadership, to calibrate and design torture techniques applied to detainees held by the U.S. as part of its so-called “war on terror.” This is illegal activity that violates […]
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