9 February 201419 December 2022 4WardEverUK

The truth about the criminal bloodbath in Iraq can’t be ‘countered’ indefinitely

by: The Guardian
published: 7 February 2014

BBC’s Today programme is enjoying high ratings, and the Mail and Telegraph are, as usual, attacking the corporation as leftwing. Last month a single edition of the Radio 4 show was edited by the artist and musician PJ Harvey. What happened was illuminating.

Harvey’s guests caused panic from the moment she proposed the likes of Mark Curtis, a historian rarely heard on the BBC who chronicles the crimes of the British state; the lawyer Phil Shiner and the Guardian journalist Ian Cobain, who reveal how the British kidnap and torture; the WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange; and myself.

26 January 201419 December 2022 4WardEverUK

The hidden history of the CIA’s prison in Poland

by: The Washington Post
published: 23 January 2014

On a cold day in early 2003, two senior CIA officers arrived at the U.S. Embassy in Warsaw to pick up a pair of large cardboard boxes.

Inside were bundles of cash totaling $15 million that had been flown from Germany via diplomatic pouch.

The men put the boxes in a van and weaved through the Polish capital until coming to the headquarters of Polish intelligence.

11 November 201317 December 2022 4WardEverUK

US double standards and the world’s deadliest war since World War II

by: Stop the War Coalition
published: 8 November 2013

The US has provided military training, arms, intelligence and financing to Rwanda’s military who in turn sponsors and directs war criminals who commit war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Congo.

Earlier this year, President Obama asked how one might weigh the “tens of thousands who’ve been killed in Syria versus the tens of thousands who are currently being killed in the Congo?” But as tragic and devastating as the Congo conflict is, Congolese are not asking for the United States – or the international community – to militarily intervene.