Ruling: No Court Can Hear Abuse and Wrongful Death Claims from Guantanamo
Center for Constitutional RightsFebruary 17, 2010 - Yesterday evening, the district court in Washington, D.C. ruled against two men who died in Guantanamo in June 2006 and their families in a case seeking to hold federal officials and the United States responsible for the men’s torture, arbitrary detention and ultimate deaths at Guantánamo. Following a two-year investigation, the military concluded that the men had committed suicide. Recent first-h … |
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Patrick Cockburn: Where war goes, propaganda follows: The largely mythical US success in Iraq is now to be replicated in Afghan towns like Marjah and skirmishes there will be heavily reported.
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Expert Says Greek Debt Challenges Logic of EU
"The Greek debt crisis has exposed the underlying contradictions of Europe's economic monetary union-- a single currency and market absent a single government--at a time when the EU is beset by growing conflicts among the member states".
Until and unless excess debts are liquidated, the disease cannot be subdued. It will merely return at a different time, in a different
form. Next to feel the pain: Sovereign nations!
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UC Berkeley business management professors find counterfactual thinkers are more analytical in organizational settings.
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By Joel S. Hirschhorn Real, Uglier American Unemployment
Can you trust national averages? As bad as the jobless data you hear are, you have not been told the whole truth. If you think the terrible impact of Americ’s Great Recession is shown by an official unemployment rate of about 10 percent, think again.
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UN Climate Chief to Step Aside
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By Mike Adams, NaturalNews Editor
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Obesity—Mild Or Severe—Raises Kidney Stone Risk
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The great thing about Corporate America is that competition is always fierce for the national title of greediest.
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JAMES HOWARD KUNSTLER: EUROLAND, THE HORROR MOVIE
The ‘contagion’ of Greece has already spread and it’s only a matter
of months before the Iberian peninsula goes under too. Did I leave
out the UK's financial troubles (acknowledging that they are not
within the Euro currency system)?
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