Guantánamo

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A hellhole where torture scandals shook the world’s trust in US justice

By Tim Reid

gitmo.jpgOn January 11, 2002, a giant C141 military transport aircraft landed at the US military base in Guantánamo Bay after an 8,000-mile journey from Kandahar, in Afghanistan - a trip during which the 20 hooded, shackled prisoners inside had not been allowed to use the lavatory.

As the transporter came to a stop and its cargo door opened, it was surrounded by dozens of US Marines in face masks and bullet-proof vests, together with soldiers in Humvees aiming grenade-launchers and machineguns.

Slowly, the first “enemy combatants” in the Bush Administration’s newly declared War on Terror emerged. The men - in orange jump-suits and blue facemasks and with their feet and hands manacled - shuffled on to the tarmac and into Camp X-Ray, part of a detention camp that would quickly become a worldwide symbol of US injustice and abuse.

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A Letter to America

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By Anwaar Hussain

risun3.jpgDear Americans,

With your election of Barack Hussein Obama, you have almost realized the dream of Martin Luther King. Now truly you have a chance to rise up as a nation and live out the proper meaning of the creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.”

Now you have an opportunity to ensure that ‘on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners indeed are able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood’. Now is the time to make certain that your great country does really get ‘transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice’. Now is that moment in time to become color blind forever to the skin tones of not just your countrymen but of all the citizens of our planet. Do that and you have arrived.

But before you can join Barack Obama’s sweet lilting voice in singing, Free at last! Free at last!, Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!, you have one last ritual to perform. And that is the killing of the demons of your recent past lest they come back to haunt you yet again. Unless you perform that sacred rite too, this transformation stands incomplete.

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In Lies We Trust

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The CIA, Hollywood, and Bioterrorism

lyes.jpgIts hard to explain the full depth and breadth of the depravity of the pharmaceutical industry, the medical research industry, and the federal government.

The film above (click on the sub-title) does a pretty good job.

Hang on to your hat.

The model for modern biological warfare was “discovered” during the conquest of the Americas and has been repeated over and over again.

A recent example:

“American missionaries had first come to southwest Suriname in the early 1970s…At the time of their first contact with missionaries, the Tirios were suffering from diseases that had been introduced by explorers, Maroons, and other Indians, and possibly even by the evangelists themselves.

Tirio ethnomedicine had been ineffective against these strange illnesses. The missionaries, however, provided remedies that worked, thereby “proving” to the tribal elders the superiority of Western culture over indigenous traditions.”

Creating new diseases, releasing them on the public, and then providing the magic cure - for a price - will work just as well as a social control tool in New York and Los Angeles as it does in the Amazon.



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Americans Murdering Their Judges, and the US Crisis of Judicial Corruption

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By Dr Leslie Sachs

prison-bars-image.gifIn the headlines are the appalling news stories of Americans carrying out murderous attacks on judges and their families. In a matter of days, one judge was shot and killed in his own courtroom, while another judge had family members brutally murdered in their home.

These news stories are, however, related to another news story, which is the most taboo subject of the American media - the expanding crisis of corruption among American judges and lawyers. At question is whether the deepening despair of Americans about their own legal system, is fueling some of these violent attacks on judges.

Much is written now about how America’s economy is resembling that of a banana republic, given how America is sunk in preposterous debt, and how the US dollar currency is sinking toward a possible collapse in the near future.

But there is another way that America is also like a banana republic, in that its legal system - contrary to its Hollywood image - has become a sinkwell of secret proceedings, the jailing of the innocent, and political misconduct; and how it is sullied with documented corruption, fake trials and court fraud.

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Anwaar’s articles appear simultaneously here at Truth Spring and at Soul Vibes in The Pakistan Tribune.


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