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- www.theguardian.com The disappeared: Chicago police detain Americans at abuse-laden 'black site'
Exclusive: Secret interrogation facility reveals creeping aspects of war on terror in US city as accounts describe shackling and brutality without basic rights
Trigger warning. Video of arrestee having a panic attack after she realizes it’s not the real jail.
- • 100%www.middleeasteye.net US and UK to boycott Nagasaki bombing memorial after Israel disinvited
The US nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 killed tens of thousands of Japanese civilians
The American and British ambassadors to Japan have announced they will skip an upcoming ceremony commemorating the victims of the US’s 1945 atomic bombing because the city’s mayor did not invite the Israeli ambassador.
The Russian and Belarusian ambassadors have also been excluded from the event this Friday by Japanese authorities.
Julia Longbottom, the UK’s ambassador to Japan, told local reporters that Israel is exercising self-defence in Gaza and should not be treated in the same way as Russia for its invasion of Ukraine.
- www.nytimes.com Haunting Image: First Photo Released of C.I.A. Prisoner at Black Site
Lawyers for a prisoner at Guantánamo Bay said the image emerged from a classification review that blacked out much of a legal brief.
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While photos have leaked of U.S. troops abusing prisoners in the aftermath of the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, including from the Army-run Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq in 2004, none have ever emerged from the C.I.A. black sites. In fact, in 2005 the agency’s leadership destroyed videotapes of interrogations at a black site in Thailand to make sure they were never seen.
This is the kind of material defense lawyers have long sought to present to a judge or jury as evidence of outrageous government conduct, to avert a death penalty or have a war crimes case dismissed
- • 100%www.theguardian.com Sinclair TV chairman to Trump: 'We are here to deliver your message'
The rightwing broadcaster met Trump at the White House to pitch a potentially lucrative new product to officials
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/38512955
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Hey, so I just started like two new jobs. I absolutely I love all of you, but I’m probably going to have to post a little less. The secret sauce was Facebook. I curated a Facebook algorithm with nothing but the worst most accurate dystopian stuff about the USA Training the newsfeed on a new Account with purpose.
- observer.com Obama Administration Helped Make Trump’s Muslim Travel Ban Possible
While Trump’s ban provided a moment of clarity to many on the left, they widely ignore Obama’s record on foreign policy and immigration.
- www.vox.com Why the far right is surging all over the world
The “reactionary spirit” and the roots of the US authoritarian moment.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17805513
> … > > While Americans have long clashed over our country’s cruel and bigoted past, Germans have undertaken one of the most thoroughgoing efforts of any nation on the planet to reckon with their history. Germany, perhaps more than any other country, has attempted to pull out by the roots its homegrown variant of the reactionary spirit — the tendency of opponents of social change to choose hierarchy over democracy, trying to constrain or even topple democracy to protect hierarchies of wealth and status. > > The Nazis were born out of disgust with post-World War I Weimar democracy, led by men furious about both the new government’s weakness and acceptance of the Jewish minority into German society. After Nazism brought Germany to ruin, preventing a reactionary resurgence became one of the central goals of the country’s subsequent leaders. > > So it’s all the more extraordinary that in the past few years, Germany’s far right has been on the rise. > > In 2015, at the peak of the global refugee crisis, German chancellor Angela Merkel announced an open-door policy for those fleeing violence in Syria and elsewhere. In response, the Alternative for Deutschland (AfD) party, a Euroskeptic faction without a single seat in Parliament, morphed into a virulently xenophobic force calling for Germany to slam Merkel’s open door shut. > > … > > But its rise illustrates something vitally important: That Germany, of all countries, could fail to prevent a surge in reactionary antidemocratic politics suggests there’s something eternal and enduring about the reactionary spirit. And there is something about our current time period that makes it especially likely to flourish — not just in Germany, but around the world.
The Link https://www.wnyc.org/story/teacher-was-disciplined-after-shared-access-brooklyn-public-library-now-shes-speaking-out-against-banning-books/