Archive for Geneva Convention

Bush DoubleSpeaks About Darfur - What Promises?

Posted by bosskitty

U.S. Promises on Darfur Don’t Match Actions
Bush Expresses Passion for Issue, but Policies Have Been Inconsistent
By Michael Abramowitz Washington Post Staff Writer
In April 2006, a small group of Darfur activists — including evangelical Christians, the representative of a Jewish group and a former Sudanese slave — was ushered into the Roosevelt [...]

Historical Revisionism - United States Genocide vs Ottomans

Posted by bosskitty

Why does the US think that disrespecting Turkey’s historical image related to the Ottoman/Armenian era, then ordering it to lay off the Kurds, is acceptable? Turkey’s military chief has said US-Turkish ties will never be the same again if US lawmakers brand the Ottoman Empire’s massacre of Armenians a genocide
How does that help [...]

Freedom Of Information Act - US Black Ops Then And Now

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U.S. Weighed Radioactive Poisons

Cold War Papers on Potential Assassination Methods Unveiled
Early in the Cold War, the U.S. Army explored the potential for using radioactive poisons to assassinate “important individuals” such as military or civilian leaders, according to newly declassified documents.
Approved at the highest levels of the Army in 1948, the effort was a [...]

Japanese Play Down Historical Indiscretions, Just Like We Do

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US Fall From Grace Creates Global Power Shift

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THE GLOBAL POWER BAROMETER

In their own words:
 

“The world is bigger than the West”, a BBC correspondent; Source: BBC.

Russia, China and Iran are up as they warn the US to stay out of Central Asia.
HOW THE WORLD SEES AMERICA
The Bush Factor in Pakistan

Amar C. Bakshi: The administration has “actively rejected expertise and embraced ignorance,” [...]

Bush; CIA To Comply With Geneva Convention

Posted by nytexan

Now this is stunning.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush, under fire over the treatment of terrorism suspects, has issued new rules to ensure that detention and interrogation by the CIA comply with the Geneva Conventions’ ban on torture.
An executive order from Bush set out how to deal with detainees and gives interrogators from [...]

Bush Administration Last Days - Are We Scared Yet?

Posted by bosskitty

Bush administration wants us to be scared of:

AlQaeda,
Other un-named terrorists,
Gays,
anyone who is not a radical Christian, anyone who is not with his agenda,

Inclusive health care
People who think

This administration wants his [...]

Unrestrained Execuitive Supremancy Horror Flick

Posted by bosskitty

Pushing the Envelope on Presidential Power
By Barton Gellman and Jo Becker
Washington Post Staff Writers
Monday, June 25, 2007
Shortly after the first accused terrorists reached the U.S. naval prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on Jan. 11, 2002, a delegation from CIA headquarters arrived in the Situation Room. The agency presented a delicate problem to White House [...]

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