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Prosecute Released: The Bush Administration's Secret Legal Memos List of Memos International Committee Of The Red Cross Torture Report The Red Cross Torture Report: What It Means Bush's Torture Rationale Debunked IG Report: Waterboarding Was Neither "Efficacious Or Medically Safe" Waterboarding Used 266 Times on 2 Suspects Rice, Cheney Approved Waterboarding The Torture Debate -- It's About Time Shepard Smith Uncensored: "We Are America, We Do Not F**king Torture!" (VIDEO) Philip Zelikow: Bush White House Attempted to Destroy Alternative Memo on Torture "Daily Show" Takes On Torture Supporters (VIDEO) Fear and Loathing of Change Sign Petition to Appoint Special Prosecutor for Bush War Crimes Tell Congress To Hold Impeachment Hearings Against Judge Jay Bybee Rumsfeld and a mountain of misery Holding Bush and Cheney Accountable Thomas Ricks: America's 'Gamble' in Iraq Harsh Interrogation Methods Raise Questions Was Critical Note Muzzled By Bush White House? Olbermann: Future Of The U.S. Depends On Torture Accountability (VIDEO) Call on the Justice Department to Appoint a Special Prosecutor Colbert on Torture Memos In 2002, Military Agency Warned Against 'Torture' Rice gave early 'waterboarding green light' New Bush Torture Bombshell Memos: 10 Horrifying Discoveries Spanish Judge’s Decision to Open New Criminal Investigation into U.S. Torture Program Federal Court Permits Landmark ACLU Rendition Case To Go Forward Bruce Fein and Mark Danner Discuss Torture on Moyers' Journal The Bush White House's Appalling and Evil Legacy: Now We Know the Whole Story A Torture Report Could Spell Big Trouble For Bush Lawyers NYTimes' editorial: The Torturers’ Manifesto Abuse of Power: The Bush Administration's Secret Legal Memos Guantanamo Testimonials Project If Obama Doesn't Prosecute... Hey Americans, the Pundits Blame You for Bush and Cheney's Torture Policies Rumsfeld's Pentagon Papers Obama Can’t Turn the Page on Bush Engineering "Trust of the Indigenous Population": How Some Anthropologists Have Learned to Stop Worrying and Start Loving the Army Little Known Military Thug Squad Still Brutalizing Prisoners at Gitmo Under Obama Memory, War, and the Memory of War Cheney's speech ignored some inconvenient truths Abu Ghraib abuse photos 'show rape' Noam Chomsky on American Amnesia HELLHOLE David Swanson's I've Seen 1,200 Torture Photos War Profiteering in Iraq Former Insider Shatters Credibility of Military Commissions, Describes Brutal Treatment of Teenage Detainee Spying Went Beyond Warrantless Wiretapping Luke Mitchell's We Still Torture Iraqi Weapons Monitor Describes Abuse At Hands Of U.S. Interrogators Blackwater Founder Implicated in Murder Top 25 Censored Stories for 2009 The Best of Times: A Former Prisoner Remembers Ramadan at Guantánamo Iraqi Weapons Monitor Describes Abuse At Hands Of U.S. Interrogators Susan Lindauer: Secret Charges and The Patriot Act Investigative Journalist Jane Mayer Probes CIA Secrets Jane Mayer discusses Red Cross' report on CIA torture *** Moyers on Iraqi Refugees Iraq Refugee Problem Still a Growing Crisis Refugee Crisis Threatens Future of Iraq The Iraqi Refugee Crisis Poverty Gets the Survivors Despite US troop surge, number of Iraqi refugees in EU nearly doubled in 2007 Survival Sex In Iraq In Jordan, aid for Iraqi refugees is often redirected Failed Responsibility: Iraqi Refugees in Syria, Jordan and Lebanon US Agrees To Afghan Airstrike Probe In 2002, Military Agency Warned Against 'Torture' Cheney Is Linked to Concealment of C.I.A. Project Iraq e-mails shed doubt on run-up to war Obama Can’t Turn the Page on Bush U.S. Inaction Seen After Taliban P.O.W.’s Died Voices from Afghanistan: Afghan Women’s Activist Zoya Speaks Out on Eight Years of Occupation Malalai Joya on Afghanistan's Big Lie The Faces of Collateral Damage Obama Administration Demands Amnesia From Reporters Covering Gitmo Something in the Air Looking For Ways to Help the Iraqi Refugees? Here are three organizations who are working to better the lives of the Iraqi refugees. For the first two organizations, designate your donations as being for the "Iraqi refugees in Syria" Mercy Corps Dept. W P.O. Box 2669 Portland, OR 97208-2669 UNHCR-United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (The UN Refugee Agency) Case Postale 2500 CH-1211 Genève 2 Dépôt Suisse. Collateral Repair Project P.O. Box 8160 Medford, OR 97501 *** Looking For Ways to Help the Iraqi injured? No More Victims *** Looking for Ways to Help the People of Afghanistan? Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) Afghan Women's Mission *** Silence is violence: End the abuse of women in Afghanistan *** World Military Spending *** Military Matters G.I. Coffeehouse Now Open Near Ft. Lewis *** Department of Veterans Affairs Suicide Prevention 1-800-273-TALK (8255) * Latest News on Lt. Ehren Watada Justice Dept. Drops Case Against War Resister Watada * Learn more about this war and resistance to this war from those who have been there: Iraq Veterans Against The War (IVAW) * * * Center
For
Constitutional
Rights * Additional Resources and Action Items: G.I. Voice
* "The Iraq Veterans Memorial
is an online
war memorial that honors the members of the U.S. armed forces who have
lost their lives serving in the Iraq War. The Memorial is a collection
of video memories from family, friends, military colleagues, and
co-workers of those that have fallen." *** ***
Impeach
Bybee /// ImpeachBybee.org **** Stand for Peace The change that we all
hoped for has yet to come. We are out there reminding others and
ourselves that casualties, both civilian and military, continue to
mount in both Iraq and Afghanistan. Occasionally, other matters of
peace and justice make an appearance on our signs (e.g. Universal
Healthcare). Please join us whenever you can, we'll be out there every
Sunday. 5903 U.S. Military Dead in Iraq
and Afghanistan *** NATIONAL WHITE HOUSE CALL-IN DAY TO SUPPORT BRADLEY MANNING Thursday, February 3rd, 2011 -- 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. EST White House Switchboard: 202-456-1414 (or the White House comments line after hours: 202-456-1111) FROM THE BRADLEY MANNING SUPPORT NETWORK Please call the White House Thursday, February 3, 2011, to voice your support for accused WikiLeaks whistle-blower U.S. Army PFC Bradley Manning. Express your concern that Bradley's human rights be respected by the Quantico, Virginia, brig authorities. Bradley has been held in solitary confinement-like conditions for over eight months, and his trial is still months away. This American citizen-soldier has been convicted of no crime, yet continues to endure inhumane conditions of pre-trial confinement like no other inmate at the Marine Corps brig at Quantico. White House press secretary Robert Gibbs recently stated that the White House was not paying attention to Bradley Manning’s extreme confinement conditions, or the fact that recently pre-approved visitors of Bradley’s have been detained and interrogated by military police in order to block their scheduled visit. It is critical that we educate the White House of this ongoing injustice! Recommended points to make: U.S. Army PFC Bradley Manning, the accused WikiLeaks whistle-blower being held at the Marine Corps brig in Quantico, Virginia, is an American citizen who is innocent until proven otherwise. Yet, he has been subjected to continuous illegal pre-trial punishment since his arrest in May 2010. Based on these abuses alone, Manning should be freed pending court martial. Military pre-trial confinement is supposed to be about ensuring a soldier’s presence at court martial, yet for eight months now Manning has been subjected to extreme pre-trial punishment through the arbitrary use of rarely applied regulations --specifically the “maximum security classification” and the "prevention of injury" order. If he is not freed pending court martial, then at the very least, Manning’s human rights need to be respected -- the illegal pre-trial punishment must end. The arbitrary restrictions placed on Manning -- and no other inmates at Quantico -- mean that: Manning is allowed no meaningful physical exercise, he is allowed no social interaction with other inmates, he is kept in his cell at least 23 hours per day, and he is not allowed out of his cell without restraints. If the charges against him are true, they actually show that Manning is a patriot acting to advance an informed democracy. There is no allegation that Manning did anything but share truthful information with the American public regarding the realities of our nation’s ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, with absolutely no benefit to himself, in order to spark public debate regarding foreign policy. The Bradley Manning Support Network: www.bradleymanning.org Sign the "Stand with Bradley Manning" public declaration: www.standwithbrad.org ***
Disarm Now Plowshares Trial Begins December 7th
The trial of the Disarm Now Plowshares activists who entered a U.S. Navy Trident nuclear submarine base and nuclear weapons storage depot begins on December 7, 2009 at 9:00 AM at the Tacoma Courthouse, U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington. The Disarm Now
Plowshares co-defendants, Bill “Bix” Bichsel, SJ, Susan Crane, Lynne
Greenwald, Steve Kelly, SJ, and Anne Montgomery, RSCJ, all face charges
of Conspiracy, Trespass, Destruction of Property on a Naval
Installation and Depredation of Government Property for their November
2, 2009 Plowshares action. They entered the U.S. Navy’s nuclear
weapons storage depot at Bangor, Washington to symbolically disarm the
nuclear weapons stored there, and expose the illegality of the
government's continued preparations for nuclear war.
As co-defendant
Susan Crane described their intention during a pre-trial hearing, “On Nov. 2, 2009,
we remembered the words of the prophet Isaiah,
who had a vision of beating swords into plowshares… convert weapons of
war into something useful for human life. It is our
firm understanding that these Trident nuclear weapons are illegal under
national and international law, as well as the teachings of our faith,
and general humanitarian law and conscience.”
The Trident submarine base at Bangor, just 20 miles west of Seattle, is home to the largest single stockpile of nuclear warheads in the U.S. arsenal, housing more than 2000 nuclear warheads. In November 2006, the Natural Resources Defense Council declared that the 2,364 nuclear warheads at Bangor are approximately 24 percent of the entire U.S. arsenal. The Bangor base houses more nuclear warheads than China, France, Israel, India, North Korea and Pakistan combined. The base has been rebuilt for the deployment of the larger and more accurate Trident D-5 missile system. Each of the 24 D-5 missiles on a Trident submarine is capable of carrying eight of the larger 455 kiloton W-88 warheads (each warhead is about 30 times the explosive force as the Hiroshima bomb) and costs approximately $60 million. The D-5 missile can also be armed with the 100 kiloton W-76 warhead. The Trident fleet at Bangor deploys both the 455 kiloton W-88 warhead and the 100 kiloton W-76 warhead. Despite the limitations already imposed on their defense by Judge Benjamin Settle, the Disarm Now Plowshares co-defendants are prepared to present a case to the jury; that their actions on November 2, 2009 were lawful in light of the government's unlawful actions involving continuing preparations for and threat of use of nuclear weapons, in this case Trident. International law is clear regarding the illegality of the possession and threat of use of nuclear weapons, and the voluntary participation of the U.S. government in international law is well established. Because of the government's disregard for the law coupled with its ignoring all previous attempts by the co-defendants to bring the government's attention to this issue, they had no other recourse, and in fact were bound by the law and their conscience to engage in this Plowshares action. A number of expert witnesses will be in Tacoma to testify on behalf of the Disarm Now co-defendants. They include Scottish Trident activist Angie Zelter, Anabel Dwyer, Esq., an expert on international law relating to nuclear weapons, Retired Air Force Colonel Ann Wright, and Steven Leeper, Chairman of the Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation. Angie
Zelter is a British nuclear disarmament activist, founder of
Trident Ploughshares and winner of the 2001 Right Livelihood
Award. Anabel Dwyer is an attorney and
Board Member of The Lawyers’ Committee on Nuclear
Policy (LCNP). She has studied, lectured, taught and written
widely on public international law in particular human rights and
humanitarian law (the laws of war) and nuclear weapons. Ret. Col. Ann Wright, who served in the U.S. Army
and Foreign Service, resigned on the eve of the U.S. invasion of Iraq,
stating that without the authorization of the UN Security Council, the
invasion and occupation of a Muslim, Arab, oil-rich country would be
a violation of international law. Most recently, she was on
the May 2010 Gaza Freedom Flotilla that was attacked by the Israeli
military. Steven Leeper is the first
American (as well as the first non-Japanese) chairman of the Hiroshima
Peace Culture Foundation. He was recognized with the 2008
Academia Prize in International Exchange from the Academic Society of
Japan for his leadership as the Chairman of the Hiroshima Peace
Culture Foundation in the initiatives of Mayors for Peace, the project
to do 101 Hiroshima-Nagasaki A-bomb Exhibitions in the U.S., and other
international exchange and cooperation projects.
People and
organizations around the world have demonstrated their support for
Disarm Now. Letters of support have come from Retired Archbishop
Desmond Tutu and Nobel Laureates Shirin Ebadi, Mairead Corrigan and
Jody Williams.
Supporters of
Disarm Now Plowshares will vigil outside the courthouse each day
beginning at 8:00 AM. On December 7th, Ground Zero Center for
Nonviolent Action will set up a full scale (44 foot long) inflatable
Trident D-5 missile in front of the courthouse for the 8:00 AM vigil as
a graphic reminder of what should be on trial.
A Press
Conference will be held on Tuesday, December 7th at 8:00 AM in front of
the Tacoma Union Station Courthouse (1717 Pacific Avenue) with all
members of Disarm Now Plowshares and some expert witnesses present to
make a statement and answer questions.
Evening events are
also planned each night of the trial where the public can meet the
Disarm Now Plowshares five, hear speakers, including each of the expert
witnesses, and learn more about the movement to abolish nuclear weapons.
An updated listing
of all the week's events is at the "Events" page
at the Disarm Now Plowshares Website and Blog. Daily trial
summaries will be posted on the Blog.
There have been more than 100 Plowshares Nuclear Resistance Actions worldwide since 1980. Plowshares actions are taken from Isaiah 2:4, a book in the Hebrew Scriptures of the Bible, “God will judge between the nations and will settle disputes for many people. And they shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. And nations will not take up swords against nations, nor will they train for war anymore.” Contact: Leonard Eiger, 425-445-2190, subversivepeacemaking@comcast.net Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action 16159 Clear Creek Road NW Poulsbo, WA 98370
Further information (background, court, ) on Disarm Now Plowshares is available at http://disarmnowplowshares.wordpress.com/. *** Former Rumsfeld/Wolfwowitz Deputy: Iraq War Is A ‘Major Debacle,’ ‘Classic Case Of Failure’ Read critique here Independent Poll Confirms Iraqi Death Toll Over a Million Iraq Veterans say "ENOUGH" Maliki Says "ENOUGH" THE NEW YORK TIMES Says "ENOUGH" Attorney with the Department of Justice says "ENOUGH" Dahr Jamail has been saying "ENOUGH" Rick Steves says "ENOUGH" Paul Craig Roberts says "ENOUGH" Sharon Olds and Marilyn Horne say "No" to the White House Newspapers Join Forces Against the War Even David Brooks Can't Find Something Nice to Say This Lack of Transparency and Accountability Should Have Us All Shouting "ENOUGH" Scott Ritter's Reporting From Baghdad Olberman on Bogus Terror Threat State Dept. Official Thwarted Probes Sanchez calls Bush "incompetent" The Architects of War: Where Are They Now? Frank Rich: The 'Good Germans' Among Us Olbermann on Daniel Levin and Waterboarding Listen to an interview with Haifa Zangana, author of City of Widows: An Iraqi Woman's Account of War and Resistance Ret. JAGs say waterboarding is inhumane FBI 'Clean Team' Re-Interrogated 9/11 Suspects CIA Admits Waterboarding Inmates Army Buried Story Faulting Iraq Planning AFSC's The Cost of War A war of utter folly by Hans Blix Mystery Loophole Wouldn't Require Reporting Fraud While Abroad Glenn Greenwald's John Yoo's War Crimes Phillippe Sands' The Green Light Andrew Sullivan on War Crimes Bleak Picture of Iraq Conditions Listen to This American Life's The Audacity of Government Forced Drugging of Guantánamo Prisoners: A Crisis for Health Professionals Dahlia Lithwick's Getting Away With Torture MediaMatters on NYTimes article on Military Analysts Abrupt Dismissal Of Judge Is More Evidence Of Military Commissions' Illegitimacy U.K. rights group: U.S. has photographic evidence of torture Paul Alexander: How Karl Rove Played Politics While People Drowned Pentagon Told Guantanamo Interrogators To Trash Evidence Revealed: Secret plan to keep Iraq under US Control Lawmakers Urge Probe of Harsh Interrogation Tactics The Three Trillion Dollar Shopping Spree McClatchy's Investigation of Guantanamo Bay Detainees The Physicians for Human Rights Report: Broken Laws, Broken Lives Moyers interviews Philippe Sands, author of Torture Team Interrogation For Profit NSA's Domestic Spying Grows As Agency Sweeps Up Data Gag Orders on 70 Cases of War Profiteering Dahlia Lithwick's Getting Away With Torture Despair Drives Suicide Attacks by Iraqi Women Hill Briefed on Waterboarding in 2002 CIA Destroyed 2 Tapes Showing Interrogation Olbermann speaks w/Georgetown Law Professor Katyal Censoring the Truth of Iraq SeattlePI's Congress should impeach Bush now Countdown: Impeachment & Subpoenas, Bush Continues To Evade Justice Ray McGovern's Creeping Fascism: History's Lessons Listen to Jane Mayer's interview about The Dark Side with Amy Goodman of Democracy Now Seymour M. Hersh's Preparing the Battlefield Eric Lichtblau's Judge Rejects Bush’s View on Wiretaps McClatchy's Investigation of Guantanamo Bay Detainees at-Largely's Cheney pay-to-play Canada Rejects Testimony Obtained ThroughWaterboarding 'Angler' Takes Measure Of Cheney's Influence Dahr Jamail on The Myth of Sectarianism The Physicians for Human Rights Report: Broken Laws, Broken Lives Marcia and Thomas Mitchell: The Spy Who Tried To Stop A War Extraordinary Rendition Court: US govt can't block detainee photos release Charles Faddis "Operation Hotel California" Is Posse Comitatus Dead? Inside Account of U.S. Eavesdropping on Americans Justice Probe: Partisan Politics Had Role In Firings Bush Rule Changes Could Block Product-Safety Suits Angler' Takes Measure Of Cheney's Influence Dahr Jamail's The Cost of Slumber Glenn Greenwald discusses Rule of Law on Moyers' Journal The Hidden Casualties of War Seymour Hersh describes 'executive assassination ring' Bill Moyers reflects on
the Recent Violence in the Middle East Welcome
to
Vietnam,
Mr.
President 'Shadow
Elite':
Outsourcing
Government,
Losing
Democracy Children
of
Afghan
Refugees
Are
Dying
From
the
Cold As Kabul Ignores Their Plight
Stand with us every Tuesday at the Seattle Federal building, at 2nd Ave and Madison, from 11-am until 1-pm, or any time within that time frame. Invite some of your family members and/or friends to come with you. New folks can bring their own signs, but please keep the focus on ending the war and bringing our troops home. I'll also have some extra signs available. For more information, please contact *** Tacoma Peace Vigils Wednesdays: 5-6 pm in front of the Federal Courthouse on Pacific Avenue For more information, please contact People for Peace, Justice, and Healing Thursdays : noon to 1 pm at the Tacoma Farmer's Market (9th and Broadway) Fridays: 5-6 pm in front of the old Johnny’s Seafood on Ruston Way, on Tacoma’s waterfront. Saturdays: 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm in front of Border's Books, 38th and Steele For more information, please contact United For Peace of Pierce County *** Amazing And Chilling Protest In Switzerland *** 
*** Reaching Critical Will *** The True Cost of War 4436 U.S. Military Dead 66,851 U.S. Military Injuries*** 1,426,359 Iraqi Civilian Deaths 4,854,864 Iraqi Injured 4,800,000 Iraqi war refugees 12.5 billion dollars per month which would be better spent reducing the deficit, introducing universal healthcare, expanding social services, exploring alternative energy sources, supporting education programs, etc. ** "About 1,800 U.S.
troops, according to the Department of Veterans
Affairs, are now suffering from traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) caused
by penetrating wounds. But neurologists worry that hundreds of
thousands more -- at least 30 percent of the troops who've engaged in
active combat for four months or longer in Iraq and Afghanistan -- are
at risk of potentially disabling neurological disorders from the blast
waves of IEDs and mortars, all without suffering a scratch." --The Washington Post 04/08/07
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