Jonathan Cook, Foreign Correspondent May 16, 2009 Nazareth, Israel // The United Nation’s watchdog on torture has criticised Israel for refusing to allow inspections at a secret prison, dubbed by critics as “Israel’s Guantanamo Bay”, and demanded to know if more such clandestine detention camps are operating. In a report published on Friday, the Committee Against Torture requested [...]

por toni solo revista correo 7 de mayo 2009 Aparentar ser de izquierda en ciertos temas, mientras en la práctica se defiende el estatus quo, ha sido por mucho tiempo una táctica común de personas que forman parte de la elite gerencial-intelectual que domina la información y el debate en los medios de comunicación. Nicaragua es actualmente un [...]

New ‘prisoner abuse’ photographs emerge despite US bid to block publication Graphic photographs of alleged prisoner abuse, thought to be among up to 2,000 images Barack Obama is trying to prevent from being released, emerged yesterday. By Alex Spillius in Washington 14 May 2009 The shocking images of inmates in Iraq and Afghanistan were published just a day after [...]

By Robert Scheer We are being robbed big-time, but you can’t say we haven’t been warned. Not after the release Tuesday of a scathing report by the Treasury Department’s special inspector general, who charged that the aptly named Troubled Asset Relief Program is rife with mismanagement and potential for fraud. The IG’s office already has opened 20 [...]