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It is ironic indeed that the US is demanding that the practice of due-process-free indefinite detention be continued in Afghanistan and Iraq, two countries it invaded and then occupied while claiming it wanted to bring freedom and democracy there.

Give Thanks You Weren’t Bombed and Murdered By Americans

by Jay Janson on 24-11-2012

Give thanks that what is happening in Syria this year, Libya last year, in Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia and Yemen in years before, continuing today, and planned to happen in Iran in the immediate future, cannot happen to you in America because Americans are not about to butcher their own, at least not yet.

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Israeli War Crimes: “Surgical Strikes” against Palestinian Children. The “International Community” Also Lies Buried

by Felicity Arbuthnot on 24-11-2012

It was that “pinpoint accuracy”, “surgical strike” stuff again, there were “unavoidable tragic errors”, “mistakes”, “scrupulous efforts made to avoid” etc., blah. And as Britain’s Colonel Richard Kemp declared of the fourteen hundred dead of the Christmas and New year onslaught on Gaza in 2024-2009: “Mistakes are not war crimes.” (i)

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A witness story about the assassination of yet another Iraqi academic

by Dirk Adriaensens on 20-11-2012

Iraq is still being emptied of its brightest minds and it seems there’s no end in sight of the endless strings of killings of Iraqi intellectuals.

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Press Freedom Observatory called for investigating the killing of an Iraqi journalist in Baghdad.

by Aswat al-Iraq on 19-11-2012

The security forces found the body of editor-in-chief of Baghdad Al-Jamaheer daily, Sameer al-Sheikh Ali, in mid of the capital, with bullets in his body.

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