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Apr 24 2009
Top Bush Aides Knew Most At Guantanamo Were Innocent
By Sherwood Ross   

New Revelations Compel Obama and Congress to Proscute Bush and Aids for War Crimes

Revelations that high Bush administration officials both approved torture and knew that almost all of Guantanamo’s prisoners were innocent compel the nation to prosecute them for war crimes, a distinguished legal scholar writes.

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Tags:  Sherwood Ross Lawrence Velvel Bush Aides
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Hanford Nuclear Reservation
By MWC News   

A Look at the Nation’s Most Polluted Nuclear Weapons Production Site

We speak with investigative report Karen Dorn Steele about the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, the nation’s most polluted nuclear weapons production site. Steele won a 1994 George Polk Award for a newspaper series on squandered money in the $50 billion Hanford nuclear cleanup.

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Tags:  Karen Dorn Steele Hanford Nuclear Reservation Nuclear Weapons
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Media Coverage of Haiti's Sham Elections
By Stephen Lendman   

What if a national election was held and virtually no one showed up? That's precisely what happened in Haiti. On April 19, scheduled senatorial elections were to fill 12 open seats. However, after majority Fanmi Lavalas (FL) candidates were disqualified on a first time ever procedural technicality, party leaders called for a national boycott, and Haitians responded overwhelmingly with estimates of as few as 3% of eligible voters participating.

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UN Racism Conference
By MWC News   

A growing number of Western countries are joining the United States and Israel in boycotting the United Nations World Conference on Racism, which opened today in Geneva, Switzerland. Australia, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and New Zealand all announced they would boycott the conference soon after the US announced its formal decision not to attend Saturday. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told the opening session he was “profoundly disappointed” at the boycotts. We go to Geneva to get the latest.

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Tags:  Margaret Parsons Ingrid Jaradat Israel Boycott UN Racism Conference
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ICRC's Damning Expose of US Torture
By Stephen Lendman   

On March 12, Mark Danner, in a New York Times op-ed and The New York Review of Books, wrote about the ICRC's revelations of "US Torture: Voices from the Black Sites." He said George Bush (in 2007) "informed the world that the United States had created a dark and secret universe to hold and interrogate captured 'terrorists,' " - at locations outside America, Guantanamo and elsewhere.

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Tags:  Stephen Lendman ICRC US Torture Mark Danner New York Times
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