Secret prisons: How the U.S. government uses its media servants to attack real journalism — Glenn Greenwald on Jeremy Scahill’s Nation expose

FRIDAY, JUL 15, 2011 07:16 ET How the U.S. government uses its media servants to attack real journalism BY GLENN GREENWALD   salon.com “The US has stopped running its global network of secret prisons, CIA director Leon Panetta has announced. ‘CIA no longer operates detention facilities or black sites,’ Mr Panetta said in a letter to staff” More

Why Women Need to Be Part of the Peace Process (in Afghanistan and elsewhere)

Why Women Need to Be Part of the Peace Process by Theresa de Langis   Originally published on Tuesday, July 5, 2011 by Waging Nonviolence.  From CommonDreams.org What is wrong with this picture? After all, it looks like a typical photo of world leaders making decisions for their countries. That is precisely the problem. What’s wrong is the More

Our Afghan War: Immoral, Ilegal, Ineffective… and It Costs Too Much

Our Afghan War: Immoral, Ilegal, Ineffective... and It Costs Too Much by Leah Bolger    Published on Monday, July 4, 2011    CommonDreams.org The Afghanistan War.  War itself is inherently immoral, but especially so when the fight is not between two state-sponsored militaries, but rather between a military superpower and a third-world country with 70% of More

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