1.17 government secrecy

Help Bring Justice to Timor-Leste: A Sample Letter

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Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan

Silver Spring, MD, March 2008. Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan. PHOTO: © Diane Greene Lent 2008

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I was explicitly told by my chain of command that I could shoot anyone who came closer to me than I felt comfortable with.

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How to Avoid Destroying Our Movements: On the death of SDS, Nonviolence, and the War

Meaghan Linick (right) of Newschool SDS, Iraq Moratorium, 2007. Photo Thomas Good/Next Left Notes
Authors: Mark Rudd

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We (the Weather Underground) did the FBI's work for them.

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Crimes Against Humanity: A Review of The Language of Empire

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Authors: Kate Cloud

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Remember Abu Ghraib?

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What Do You Do When a Child is Burning?: A review of the film The Camden 28

Camden 28 poster

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She could now understand her protesting son, because the trial revealed the lies which killed her other son.

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Impeachment: A Check on Presidents Swollen with Power

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I am not going to sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution.

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A Case for Impeachment of President Bush

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Impeachment is a vital protection against evisceration of the balance of power among the three branches of government.

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"Credibility" Kills: Vietnam, Iraq, and Excuses for Prolonging War

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Government policymakers care about military "credibility,"not the people of Southeast Asia -- or Iraq.

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Highlights from the AFSC Film & Video Library

Highlights from the AFSC Film & Video Library
Authors: Penny Adams

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Penny Adams is a social worker and a volunteer with the AFSC Film and Video Library, AFSC-NERO.

From Issue 377 - July-August 2007

The History of CIA Interrogation, From the Cold War to the War on Terror

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Authors: Alfred McCoy

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I looked at those photos, and I didn't see individual abuse. What I saw was textbook, trademark CIA psychological interrogation techniques.

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