Surviving Capitalism (Not) : No CIA Prosecutions: the Cover-up Continues

We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Friday, August 31, 2012

No CIA Prosecutions: the Cover-up Continues

Click here to access article by Daphne Eviatar from Huffington Post.

Once again we see the political operatives of the One Percent hiding their crimes behind secrecy classifications. Once again we see that Tweedle-Obama is interchangeable with Tweedle-Bush.

Manadel al-Jamadi’s beaten corpse, with a smiling US soldier

In a 2006 report, Human Rights First documented that up to 12 men had been tortured to death in U.S. custody since 2002. Reviewing documents we've received more recently through a Freedom of Information Act request to the government, it now appears that up to 19 of 247 deaths involved torture. In only six of those cases was anyone held criminally liable. According to military documents, many more detainees -- we've counted 72 so far -- are believed to have been murdered. While in some cases charges were brought, in many they were dropped or the perpetrators received only administrative sanctions.