Thursday,
January 29, 2009
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Israeli Settlers Trying to Prevent Peace Deal
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Bob Simon from 60 Minutes under attack.
Fight back with a
letter of support.
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British Film Crew Threatened by
Jewish Settler in Hebron
(Caution:
unpleasant, explicit language..)
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Maya Schenwar, Truthout:
"Amid talk of a drawdown of troops in Iraq, new statistics from the
Department of Defense (DoD) and the Department of Veterans' Affairs (VA) show
that US casualties are still climbing quickly. Iraq and Afghanistan
battlefield injuries and deaths number 81,361, up from 72,043 last January,
according to data obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request by
Veterans for Common Sense (VCS). Veteran patients - including those who
didn't seek care until their return home - shot up to 400,304 (from 263,909
in December 2007). For the thousands of soldiers flooding the VA, mental
illness tops the list of ailments.... However, many barriers to adequate care
and compensation remain, particularly for veterans filing for disability
benefits."
Bush’s ‘Tortured’ Legacy: Behind
the Executive Orders Jane Mayer, The New Yorker:
"On Thursday, President Barack Obama consigned to history the worst
excesses of the Bush Administration's 'war on terror.' One of the four
executive orders that Obama signed effectively cancelled seven years of
controversial Justice Department legal opinions authorizing methods of
treating terror suspects so brutal that even a top Bush administration
official overseeing prosecutions at Guantanamo, Susan Crawford, recently
admitted that they amounted to torture. According to some of those opinions,
many of which remain classified, President Bush could authorize US officials
to capture, interrogate, and indefinitely imprison terror suspects all around
the globe, outside of any legal process." |
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