Monthly Archives: November 2015

Psychology group bans members from national security interrogations

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“The American Psychological Association (APA) has approved a ban on psychologists’ involvement in national security interrogations.  The APA adopted the plan in the wake of 542-page independent investigation (PDF) that discovered psychologists worked with the Central Intelligence Agency to help silence dissent over harsh interrogation tactics being employed by the Bush administration (including torture). What’s more, the report found that APA officials colluded with military officials to adopt APA ethics rules in order to allow psychologists to be a part of tortuous interrogations in the wake of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks.”

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/08/psychology-group-bans-members-from-harsh-national-security-interrogations/

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Detainees sue psychologists who engineered, profited from CIA torture

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“The two psychologists whose company made more than $80 million helping draw up the CIA’s interrogation-torture program were sued Tuesday by three former war-on-terror US detainees who claim they were waterboarded, forced into tiny boxes, starved, chained, deprived of sleep, and beaten while naked.  The suit names James Mitchell and John Bruce Jessen, who were inspired by psychological work on dogs. Their work centered on a state of ‘learned helplessness‘ from ongoing mental and physical abuse that they believed would help interrogators coerce confessions out of detainees. The suit is the first following the government’s release of the ‘torture report’ questioning the program.”

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/10/detainees-sue-psychologists-who-engineered-profited-from-cia-torture/

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Canada to end airstrikes in Syria and Iraq: new prime minister Trudeau

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“Canadian Liberal prime minister designate Justin Trudeau has confirmed that Canada will withdraw its fighter jets from the US-led mission against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.  In his first news conference following the sweeping majority Liberal victory in Canada’s federal election, the visibly fatigued leader said he had spoken with US president Barack Obama in a phone call during which he discussed his intention to pull Canada’s fighter jets out of the anti-Isis campaign.  He did not set out a timeline for the withdrawal. Canada has also deployed around 70 special forces troops to train Kurds in northern Iraq, although Trudeau has previously indicated that this mission would continue.”

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/21/canada-end-airstrikes-syria-iraq-new-prime-minister-trudeau

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Obama extends US military mission in Afghanistan into 2017

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“When President Barack Obama leaves office in 15 months, he’ll hand his successor military conflicts in the two countries where he promised to end prolonged war: Afghanistan and Iraq.  There will be far fewer troops in each, and the American forces won’t have a direct combat role. But for Obama, it’s nevertheless a frustrating end to a quest that was central to his political rise. As a result, the winner of the 2016 presidential election will become the third American commander in chief to oversee the Afghan war. Under the new $15 billion-a-year plan, the U.S. will maintain its current force of 9,800 through most of 2016, then begin drawing down to 5,500 late in the year or in early 2017.”

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/nation_world/20151015_ap_fa394db4a9f24815ab44c573e26be8dc.html

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France Pays Price for Front-Line Role From Syria to West Africa

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“France was the first European country to join the U.S. air strikes on Islamic State in Iraq last year and is the only European country to join the U.S. in air strikes in Syria.  France sent troops to Mali in January 2013 to prevent the country falling to an al-Qaeda affiliate based in the Sahel. That intervention has now been transformed into a mission covering Niger and Chad to prevent Islamic militants based in southern Libya from destabilizing the area. This isn’t the first time France’s involvement abroad has led to terrorism at home. In 1995, Algerian Islamists set off eight bombing attacks in Paris to punish France for supporting the government in that country’s civil war.”

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-11-14/france-pays-price-for-front-line-role-from-syria-to-west-africa

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Jeffrey Tucker: The Shoemaker and His Capitalist Elves

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“We were born into a world of amazing prosperity that our generation did not create. We have the expectation of living to old age, but this is completely new in the sweep of history. The shift in population reflects that dramatic change, too. There were most probably 250 million people alive 2,000 years ago, and it took until 1800 for the 1 billion mark to be reached. One hundred and twenty years later, that was doubled. Three billion people lived on the planet by 1960, and there are 7 billion today. Charting this out, you gain a picture of a world of stagnation and stasis from the beginning of recorded history until the Industrial Revolution, when life as we know it today was first experienced by humankind.”

https://tucker.liberty.me/the-shoemaker-and-his-capitalist-elves/

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Trump’s Operation Police State

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“If elected president, Donald Trump says he would create a ‘deportation force’ to carry out his pledge to expel more than 11 million people from the United States merely because they lack government permission to be here. ‘We have no choice if we’re going to run our country properly and if we’re going to be a country,’ he said during the Republican debate Tuesday night. Ultimately the case for freedom of movement is not about the U.S. economy. It’s about whether people born outside the United States will be treated like human beings or, as Trump proposes, like animals.”

https://sheldon.liberty.me/trumps-operation-police-state/

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Body cam shows dad had hands up when cops killed his 6-year-old son

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“A lawyer says body camera video shows the father of a 6-year-old autistic boy who was shot to death in his car had his hands in the air and did not pose a threat before police opened fire last week.  Mark Jeansonne is the attorney for Chris Few, who was seriously woundedwhen local marshals in the town of Marksville opened fire.  His 6-year-old, Jeremy Mardis, was strapped into his seatbelt in the front passenger seat. Jeansonne said ‘this was not a threatening situation for the police.’  Jeansonne spoke with The Associated Press after a closed hearing for the two marshals, now jailed on $1 million bond.”

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/la-dad-hands-cops-shot-son-6-lawyer-article-1.2428316

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Supreme Court increases immunity for police who kill fleeing suspects

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“The Supreme Court made it harder Monday to sue police for using deadly force against fleeing suspects, ruling that officers are immune from lawsuits unless it is ‘beyond debate’ that a shooting was unjustified and clearly unreasonable.  By an 8-1 vote, the justices tossed out an excessive force suit against a Texas police officer who ignored his supervisor’s warning and took a high-powered rifle to a highway overpass to shoot at an approaching car. The officer said he hoped to stop the car but instead shot and killed the driver. The ruling bolsters previous decisions that give police the benefit of the doubt when they encounter a potentially dangerous situation.”

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-supreme-court-police-shootings-20151109-story.html

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Facebook Monitors Private Messages and Photos, Reports to Police

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“Facebook has a new little known software that monitors your profile chat and pictures for criminal activity. The software will proceed to alert an employee at the company who will then decide whether to call authorities or not.  Facebook’s software focuses on conversations between members who have a ‘loose’ relationship on the social network. For example, if two users aren’t friends, only recently became friends, have no mutual friends, interact with each other very little, have a significant age difference, and/or are located far from each other, the tool pays particular attention.”

http://www.copblock.org/146809/facebook-monitors-private-messages-photos-criminal-activity-reports-to-police/

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