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U.S. Use of Drones Queried by U.N.

“UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) — The United States must demonstrate that it is not randomly killing people in violation of international law through its use of drones on the Afghan border, a United Nations rights investigator said Tuesday.
The investigator, Philip Alston, also said the American refusal to respond to United Nations concerns that the use of drones might result in illegal executions was an “untenable” position.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/28/world ... .html?_r=1

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Resignation Letter from US Foreign Service Officer Matthew P. Hoh

“It is with great regret and disappointment I submit my resignation from my appointment as a Political Officer in the Foreign Service and my post as the Senior Civilian Representative for the US Government in Zabul Province.”

http://original.antiwar.com/news/2009/1 ... hew-p-hoh/

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SUFFER THE CHILDREN - U.S. barbarism in Iraq
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Iraq/ ... _Iraq.html

SUFFER THE CHILDREN II - U.S. barbarism in Iraq
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Iraq/ ... _Iraq.html

SEE NO EVIL - Abu Ghraib prison - Iraq
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Iraq/SeeNoEvil.html

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SUFFER THE CHILDREN - U.S. barbarism in Iraq
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Iraq/ ... _Iraq.html

SUFFER THE CHILDREN II - U.S. barbarism in Iraq
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Iraq/ ... _Iraq.html

SEE NO EVIL - Abu Ghraib prison - Iraq
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Iraq/SeeNoEvil.html

Most of these shots are of the victims of scum suicide bombers they've already appeared in other places under different titles.The trouble with you is that you're a member of an anti west forum that hands out maunfatured false prpoganda.

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U.N. condemns Cuba embargo by U.S.

“The United States found itself up against virtually the entire world Wednesday as country after country at the United Nations denounced the nearly 50-year-old trade embargo against Cuba, which the island government says is as strong as ever under President Barack Obama.”

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/251/story/77950.html

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9yr-old boy tortured, says former Guantanamo detainee

“KUALA LUMPUR: A British Muslim detained for three years at the controversial Guantanamo Bay prison manned by the United States, revealed that the youngest detainee he knew of was a nine-year-old boy who was also tortured like the rest.

Ruhal Ahmed’s story was among more accounts of atrocities committed against the detainees at Guantanamo, told before an open commission hearing which began Friday on the sidelines of an international conference to criminalise war.”

http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?fi ... 1030191203

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America is performing its familiar role of propping up a dictator

“Could there be a more accurate description of the Obama-Brown message of congratulations to the fraudulently elected Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan? First the Palestinians held fair elections in 2006, voted for Hamas and were brutally punished for it – they still are – and then the Iranians held fraudulent elections in June which put back the weird Mahmoud Ahmadinejad whom everyone outside Iran (and a lot inside) regard as a dictator. But now we have the venal, corrupt, sectarian Karzai in power after a poll far more ambitiously rigged than the Iranian version, and – yup, we love him dearly and accept his totally fraudulent election.”

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/co ... 14194.html

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The Evil Empire

“The US government is now so totally under the thumbs of organized interest groups that "our" government can no longer respond to the concerns of the American people who elect the president and the members of the House and Senate. Voters will vent their frustrations over their impotence on the president, which implies a future of one-term presidents. Soon our presidents will be as ineffective as Roman emperors in the final days of that empire.

Obama is already set on the course to a one-term presidency. He promised change, but has delivered none.”

http://original.antiwar.com/roberts/200 ... il-empire/

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Rights Groups: Obama’s Terrorism Courts ‘Fatally Flawed’

"Human rights advocates and legal scholars are voicing sharp criticism of President Barack Obama’s revisions to the George W. Bush administration’s Military Commissions Act of 2006, characterizing them as unnecessary and saying the new law will lead to further delays and create a system of "second-class justice."

One powerful advocacy group, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), called on the Obama administration to "abandon the fatally flawed military commissions system and, where evidence of terrorism crimes exists, try the Guantánamo detainees in federal courts."

http://original.antiwar.com/fisher/2009 ... sm-courts/

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Gorbachev Advises Obama to Withdraw From Afghanistan

"Mikheil Gorbachev, the last head of state to organize the withdrawal of a failed occupation from Afghanistan, has some advice for President Barack Obama: get out while the getting’s good.

“There is no prospect of a military solution,” Gorbachev warned, “what we need is the reconciliation of Afghan society – and they should be preparing the ground for withdrawal rather than additional troops.”

http://news.antiwar.com/2009/11/10/gorb ... ghanistan/

Do you suppose Gorbachev knows something that Obama doesn't?