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Russia blacklists 12 Americans in retaliation for U.S. sanctions

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“The Russian Foreign Ministry published a list of 12 Americans barred from entering the country on Saturday after the United States expanded sanctions on Moscow over the Ukraine crisis.  The blacklist included persons related to legalizing and using torture against inmates of the Guantanamo prison in Cuba, and U.S. servicemen involved in abuses against detainees in the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq or those who concealed crimes.  In particular, Moscow banned entry for U.S. congressman James Moran, as a response to a similar move taken by Washington against Russian State Duma, lower house of the parliament, deputy Adam Delimkhanov.”

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-07/19/c_133496286.htm

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Germany asks top US intelligence official to leave the country

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“Diplomatic relations between Germany and the US plunged to a new low after Angela Merkel’s government asked the top representative of America’s secret services in Germany to leave the country.  According to Süddeutsche Zeitung, the US embassy staffer who has been asked to leave is a CIA ‘chief of station’ who coordinates secret service activity in Germany, and who emerged as the key contact for two German officials recently arrested for allegedly spying for the US.  According to German media reports, such drastic action had previously only been thinkable when dealing with ‘pariah states like North Korea or Iran’.”

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/10/germany-asks-top-us-intelligence-official-spy-row

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U.S. Court Authorized the NSA to Spy on 193 Different Countries

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“The FISA court certified a list of 193 countries deemed to be of ‘valid interest’ to the U.S. along with a raft of international organizations, too. That certification gave the NSA permission to to gather intelligence about all of the countries on the list, as well as entities as diverse as the World Bank, the European Union and the International Atomic Energy Agency.  The U.S. is part of a no-spying arrangement with four countries—Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand—but clearly others aren’t so lucky. From Belize to Bhutan, Ireland to Iraq, this list shows that Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court sees, and has since 2010, any other country as fair game for the NSA.”

http://gizmodo.com/u-s-courts-authorized-the-nsa-to-spy-on-193-different-1598453310

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Bill Bonner: America’s War in Iraq Was a Fool’s Errand

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“With the US Army moving quickly up the Italian peninsula, Benito Mussolini knew it was time to get out of town.  The war was almost over for the Italians. But it was not a pretty ending.  The next day, the partisans shot Mussolini and his mistress… before hanging them from meathooks suspended from the roof of an Esso gas station in Milan (the same place that fascists had displayed the bodies of fifteen Milanese resistance fighters a year earlier).  What was Mussolini’s crime?  He had led Italy into a disastrous war.  So our question for our fellow Americans is this: Are there no gas stations in the continental USA?”

http://www.bonnerandpartners.com/americas-war-in-iraq-was-a-fools-errand/

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Oklahoma execution doctors’ secrecy law passed quietly

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“The clause, tucked into HB 1991, prevents the public from knowing whether doctors, pharmacists, EMTs and others taking part in executions are qualified.   State officials have cited the law in refusing to discuss the training of medical officials who, when the inmate was still writhing on the gurney 33 minutes after the lethal injection had started, stopped the procedure. To ensure there is no record of the participants in executions, the Department of Corrections uses petty cash accounts to pay pharmacists, doctors and others.  Critics say such laws, which are being adopted rapidly by other states, merely serve to protect doctors and pharmacists from criticism.”

http://www.tulsaworld.com/homepagelatest/state-s-execution-secrecy-law-passed-quietly/article_c0f548e2-0ccb-58c3-a218-afe68938aa47.html

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The Strange Tale of Swiss Banking – And What It Means for You

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“It is interesting that remaining private banks are switching from partnerships to corporations. Judicially enforced corporate personhood distorts markets and enables market behavior that would not otherwise be feasible or tolerated. What remains most puzzling is that this most powerful industry composed primarily of private Swiss banks allowed itself to be virtually ruined in a few years’ time. The precedent has been set, however. One nation may indeed interfere judicially in the affairs of another and force compliance, part of a wider assertion of privilege by a US government that is attempting to turn banking systems around the world into part of the US tax collection effort.”

http://www.thedailybell.com/news-analysis/35355/The-Strange-Tale-of-Swiss-Banking–And-What-It-Means-for-You/

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CIA misled public on interrogation program, Senate report says

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“A Senate committee report concludes that the CIA misled the government and the public about aspects of its brutal interrogation program for years — concealing details about the severity of its methods, overstating the significance of plots and prisoners, and taking credit for critical pieces of intelligence that detainees had in fact surrendered before they were subjected to harsh techniques.  The report, built around detailed chronologies of dozens of CIA detainees, documents a long-standing pattern of unsubstantiated claims as agency officials sought permission to use — and later tried to defend — excruciating interrogation methods that yielded little, if any, significant intelligence.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/cia-misled-on-interrogation-program-senate-report-says/2014/03/31/eb75a82a-b8dd-11e3-96ae-f2c36d2b1245_story.html

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UN Condemns America on Human Rights Violations

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“How would you like to live in a country that tortures prisoners?  That reads its residents’ mail and monitors their phone conversations? That executes its own citizens without trial? That murders innocent people in foreign countries on a regular basis? Whose government manipulates courts and other legal processes to ensure that criminals are never held to account, while whistle blowers are punished severely?  If you’re an American, you already do.  Many Americans tend to adopt an attitude of ‘if you’ve got nothing to hide, you’ve got nothing to worry about,’ as if our government’s rights violations are directed only at bad apples. Nothing could be further from the truth.”

http://thesovereigninvestor.com/2014/04/02/un-condemns-america-human-rights-violations/

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Civilian drone deaths triple in Afghanistan, UN agency finds

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“The report, by the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (Unama), found that drone strikes accounted for at least a third of all civilian deaths in air strikes last year. Unama notes that it is sometimes difficult to establish which type of aircraft carried out a strike, so the true total could be higher.  The UK and US are the only countries to operate armed drones in the conflict. A December 2012 report by the Bureau found that the two forces had carried out over 1,000 drone strikes in the country in the previous five years. British drones have carried out over a fifth of all these strikes, despite having a much smaller fleet.”

http://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/2014/02/08/civilian-drone-deaths-triple-in-afghanistan-un-agency-finds/

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ACLU to Obama: No, You Can’t Just Murder an American Overseas

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“The ACLU, which is fighting an ongoing legal battle with the White House over the CIA and Pentagon’s use of drones and Obama’s secretive assassination program, responded to the leaked details of the internal deliberations by issuing a serious warning against an attempted assassination.  Though the ‘leaks’ given to AP appear to be designed to show that the White House is having serious internal legal deliberations, those opposed to the targeting killing argue that the Obama administration, even with increased transparency, could not possibly justify a program in which due process is withheld from those facing an extrajudicial death sentence.”

https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2014/02/10-3

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