Source: Truthdig by Chris Hedges December 28, 2009 Syed Fahad Hashmi can tell you about the dark heart of America. He knows that our First Amendment rights have become a joke, that habeas corpus no longer exists and that we torture, not only in black sites such as those at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan or at Guantánamo [...]

Source: Ted Rall Since 9/11, We’ve Embraced Our Inner Coward by Ted Rall December 31, 2009 NEW YORK — Home of the free and the brave. Live free or die. Shoot first; ask questions later. Kill ‘em all, let God sort ‘em out. These were the mottos of a brash, impetuous, audacious-to-a-fault nation. That nation is dead. Once we Americas did [...]

Fuente: Público Entrevista a Taha Azeez, integrante de la resistencia iraquí y clérigo suní en Bagdad por Jorge García 30 de diciembre, 2009 Taha Azeez. Integrante de la resistencia iraquí y clérigo suní en Bagdad. Tras sufrir torturas durante tres años en Abu Ghraib, sólo quiere que las fuerzas ocupantes se marchen definitivamente de Irak. Taha Azeez vino a España [...]

Source: The Guardian US agency co-operating with Palestinian counterparts who allegedly torture Hamas supporters in West Bank by Ian Cobain (in Ramallah) December 17, 2009 Palestinian security agents who have been detaining and allegedly torturing supporters of the Islamist organisation Hamas in the West Bank have been working closely with the CIA, the Guardian has learned. Less than a year [...]

Source: Glenn Greenwald by Glenn Greenwald December 3, 2009 Ronald Reagan, May 20, 1988, transmitting the Convention Against Torture to the Senate for ratification: The United States participated actively and effectively in the negotiation of the Convention. . . . Ratification of the Convention by the United States will clearly express United States opposition to torture, an abhorrent [...]

“Cada día en libertad es una victoria” Fuente: Punto Final Entrevista a Marcelo Catrillanca, dirigente mapuche clandestino por Pedro Cayuqueo 16 de octubre, 2009 Es uno de los líderes mapuches más buscado del país. Y el más escurridizo. Marcelo Osvaldo Catrillanca Queipul (39 años), padre de Camilo (14 años), Paulina (12 años) y Newen (6 años), acaba de cumplir siete [...]

versión en español abajo Will You Love Every Future President? by David Swanson October 15, 2009 Presidential power has been on a pathway of expansion beyond what the Constitution outlined, and what a government of, by, and for the people requires, since George Washington was president. That expansion, which hit the highway after World War II, got a [...]

por Daniela Estrada CONCEPCIÓN, Chile, 13 nov (IPS) – “Si (el gobierno) dice ‘sentémonos y busquemos una solución’, nosotros nos sentamos”, dijo a un grupo de corresponsales extranjeros Héctor Llaitul, líder de la radical organización mapuche Coordinadora Arauco Malleco (CAM), preso en la chilena región del Bío-Bío. En esa eventual mesa de diálogo, para resolver el centenario [...]

by Al Jazeera and agencies November 16, 2009 Journalists have been allowed to inspect refurbished facilities at Bagram airbase in Afghanistan, the largest US military hub in the region and home to a controversial prison. Al Jazeera’s correspondent James Bays, who was among those who inspected the facilities on Sunday, said Bagram, unlike its Guantanamo counterpart, was clearly [...]

versión en español abajo by Ray McGovern November 15, 2009 Media commentary on the upcoming 9/11 trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed has raised concern that state secrets may be divulged, including details about how the Bush administration used torture to extract evidence about al-Qaeda. “I think that we’re going to shine a light on something that a lot of [...]