“Extraordinary rendition” is White House-speak for kidnapping. Just ask Maher Arar. He’s a Canadian citizen who was “rendered” by the U.S. to Syria, where he was tortured for almost a year.
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U.S. Army Reserve Spc. Chancellor Keesling died in Iraq on June 19, 2009, from “a non-combat related incident,” according to the Pentagon. Keesling had killed himself.
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Climate-change activists, from pranksters to presidents, are stepping up the pressure by staging elaborate stunts.
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Lt. Dan Choi doesn’t want to lie. Choi, an Iraq war veteran and a graduate of West Point, declared last March 19 on “The Rachel Maddow Show,” “I am gay.” Under the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” regulations, those three words are enough to get Choi kicked out of the military.
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A social worker from New York City was arrested last week while in Pittsburgh for the G-20 protests, then subjected to an FBI raid this week at home—all for using Twitter.
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Journalist Christian Parenti responds to our interview with Kevin Bales, founder of Free The Slaves
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Kurds all over Europe are holding protests for a third day to denounce the arrest of PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan in Kenya this Monday. They are enraged as well by the killing yesterday of three Kurds by Israeli security guards at the Israeli Consulate in Berlin.
The United States sent 51 extra military aircraft to Europe today to prepare for possible NATO strikes on Yugoslav targets if the Kosovo peace talks under way in France do not produce an agreement between Serbs and ethnic Albanians. NATO Secretary General Javier Solana warned today that NATO would act swiftly if a peace agreement were not reached in the next few days. Solana said that the strikes could come “very soon.”
The Justice Department closed the books this week on a $1.6 billion reparations program for ethnic Japanese interned in American camps during World War II, and will settle with 181 ethnic Japanese from Latin America who suffered similar treatment.