This article, originally published on ProPublica, deals with the Obama volte-face on holding prisoners without charge in Guantanamo Bay. It’s a long piece, but not as long as the sentences already served and, by all accounts, about to be extended, to several people who have been denied the right to a fair trial and held in [...]
By John Kelly
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Also posted in Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Global security, Insurgency, Policy, Totalitarian drift, US Politics, War on Terror, human rights abuse
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“British policy fails because we behave too much like an ineffective old Jeeves, even when Bertie Wooster has gone berserk.” By Timothy Garton Ash.
Britain’s Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, responded to my article about possible British complicity in the torture of Binyam Mohamed (Thus passim) with a reader’s letter in the Guardian, disputing its accuracy. It [...]
By John Kelly
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Also posted in Afghanistan, Global security, Iraq, Law and order, Politics, Totalitarian drift, War on Terror, citizens' rights, extradition, human rights abuse
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Tagged Binham Mohamed, David Miliband, Foreign office, George W Bush, security services, Timothy Garton Ash, UK-US special relationship, War on Terror
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January 22, 2009 – 4:45 pm
Though you wouldn’t know it from the CNN broadcast soundtrack, George W Bush was soundly booed by a large portion of the 240,000 Washington crowd when he appeared at the Obama coronation on Tuesday (wasn’t Aretha magnificent, but where did they find that poetess and that rambly old biblebashing bloke?) Never mind, though. W. received [...]
January 15, 2009 – 9:28 am
“The president is honoring these leaders for their work to improve the lives of their citizens and for their efforts to promote democracy, human rights and peace abroad“ White House spokeswoman…
By John J Kelly
On the day when UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband opined that the War on Terror had been a mistake, the Financial Times published conjecture that medallion [...]
By John Kelly
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Also posted in Colombia, EU President, Global security, Human rights, Latin America, Political spin, Right Wing paramilitaries, Totalitarian drift, US Politics, War on Terror, ethnic cleansing, human rights abuse, left wing guerillas
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Tagged Afro-Colombians, by John J Kelly, Colombia, Colombian Free Trade Agreement, Colombian paramilitaries, Colombian President Alvaro Uribe, FARC, Latin America, Lori Wallach, Mario Uribe, President Ulribe, Presidential Medal of Freedom, Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch, UAC, Ulribe, worldwide pariah status for its systematic crushing of the most basic human rights
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January 14, 2009 – 8:58 pm
Rasmussen Reports, 13 January 2009
President George W. Bush in a final press conference on Monday 12 January, 2009 acknowledged he made some mistakes in the White House, but most Americans – at least for now – are a lot more critical than that. Fifty-seven percent (57%) of Americans say Bush is one of the five [...]
By John Kelly
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Also posted in Global security, Iraq, Law and order, Political spin, US Politics, War on Terror
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Tagged 77% say Bush hurt the Republicans, Global security, GOP, homeland security, Iraq, Only 26% believe America will be a safer place by the end of Obama’s first year, Poll votes George Bush worst US president, President George H.W. Bush, Republican Party, Tony Blair, US Politics, War on Terror
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January 13, 2009 – 2:18 pm
By Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research
The contents of this article, which can be viewed in full at the link below, are summarised here with no endorsement or comment by Thus Magazine or guarantees as to their accuracy, save that, where indicated, attributed sources or comment in the public domain has been checked.
This piece, which contains some [...]
By John Kelly
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Also posted in Global security, International Affairs, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Middle East, Palestine, Policy, Totalitarian drift, US Politics, War on Terror, gaza
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Tagged bunker-busters, gaza, GBU-28 "bunker-buster" bombs, Global Research, Iran, Israel, Robert Gates, weapons, X-Band early warning system
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January 8, 2009 – 6:46 pm
Nothing from me about Gaza, but I trust the judgement of my friends at The Economist who, even though they are not allowed into Gaza, know plenty of people who are. I am a good friend of one of the people who wrote this piece. Like me, the piece conjectures that Israeli politicians are having second [...]
By John Kelly
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Also posted in Genocide, Insurgency, Intifada, Israel, Middle East, Palestine, Political spin, carpet bombing, citizens' rights, ethnic cleansing, gaza, human rights abuse
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Tagged Ceasefire proposals, Egypt, Gaza bombardment, Israel/Palestine, Israeli blockade of Gaza, The Economist
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January 4, 2009 – 9:59 pm
“We don’t do body counts” – General Tommy Franks
Apart from the grim news of 23 people dead at a Sunni meeting four days ago, followed by over 40 deaths at a Shia shrine on 4 January, there are ominous signs that rumours of a peaceful withdrawal from Iraq are sadly exaggerated. Iraq Bodycount, the most [...]
By John Kelly
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Also posted in Genocide, Global security, Insurgency, Iraq, Law and order, Middle East, War on Terror, ethnic cleansing, human rights abuse
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Tagged "We don't do body counts" - General Tommy Franks, Bagdhad, daily death toll rises, General Tommy Franks, Insurgency, iraq bodycount, John Sloboda, militias, Muqtadr-al-Sadr, Shia, Sunni
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December 29, 2008 – 5:21 pm
“After all, who remembers the Armenians?” (Adolph Hitler). By John J Kelly.
Israel is feeling “no real pressure” from the world to end the operation in the Gaza Strip, and the amount of time the international community will sit relatively quietly on the sidelines depends on how things develop, senior diplomatic officials said Sunday. According to [...]
By John Kelly
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Also posted in Genocide, Global security, Human rights, Insurgency, International Affairs, Intifada, Israel, Law and order, Middle East, Palestine, Political spin, Totalitarian drift, War on Terror, carpet bombing, citizens' rights, ethnic cleansing, gaza, human rights abuse
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Tagged Adolph Hitler, AIPAC, Armenians, by John J Kelly, gaza, International response, Israel, Israel Lobby, Jerusalem Post, UN Security Council, US, War on Terror, West Bank
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December 29, 2008 – 12:05 pm
The US and its ‘allies’ pursued an aggressive ‘war’ counter to the 4th Geneva Convention against Iraq on the spurious justification that Iraq had ignored a UN resolution. Israel is in breach of more than 65 UN Resolutions, but the most significant, Resolution 446, passed in 1979 with abstensions from the UK, Norway and the [...]
By John Kelly
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Also posted in Genocide, Human rights, Insurgency, Iraq, Israel, Law and order, Palestine, Political spin, Politics, Totalitarian drift, United Nations, War on Terror, ethnic cleansing, gaza, human rights abuse, political theory
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Tagged 4th Geneva Convention, gaza, ICC, Israel, Middle East, Nazis, Nuremberg, occupied territories, professor Richard A Falk, UN resolution 446, UN Security Council, UNHCR, West Bank
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