International Tribunal Takes Up Rendition, Torture Case

(The Intelligence Daily) -- Three days after the Justice Department released documents that described in extraordinary detail the CIA’s top secret rendition program, an international human rights tribunal has agreed to take up the case of a German citizen who was “rendered” to a CIA black site prison in Afghanistan and tortured in a case of mistaken identity. The American Civil Liberties Union filed a petition in April with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IAHCR) on behalf of Khaled El-Masri, a truck driver,...

Monopoly Money Round Two with a Teetering Economy

(The Intelligence Daily) -- Remember the whole scam of "repackaging" sub-prime mortgages with "good" instruments to get AAA rated investment instruments, which then fed into the credit default...

Prosecuting Bush and Cheney Could Prevent Future Crimes

(The Intelligence Daily) -- Allowing today’s leaders to get away with war crimes will send a dangerous signal to future leaders that they can do the same. “The battle to impose...

Pentagon Plans For Global Military Supremacy: U.S., NATO Could Deploy Mobile Missiles Launchers To...

(The Intelligence Daily) -- From August 17-20 the annual U.S. Space and Missile Defense Conference was conducted in Huntsville, Alabama, which hosts the headquarters of the Pentagon's Missile...

Venezuela warns against 'destabilization' efforts

(Press TV) -- Venezuela's Attorney General, Luisa Ortega, has accused the opposition of orchestrating efforts in a bid to 'destabilize' the establishment and vowed tough action. The country's top...

US military firm acts “against the Constitution of the Philippines”

“A Blackwater subsidiary operates a five-acre facility in the Philippines where they can train up to one thousand military contractors… for operations in Iraq and...

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