Andymatic

Category: 2. Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights

  • Land Rush in Africa

    Don’t worry, we’ll still pillage Africa: Ethiopia is one of the hungriest countries in the world with more than 13-million people needing food aid, but paradoxically the government is offering at least 7.5 million acres of its most fertile land to rich countries and some of the world’s most wealthy individuals to export food for […]

  • Obama to Block Vote on Turkey's Armenian Genocide

    20 countries and 42 U.S. states have adopted resolutions acknowledging the Armenian Genocide as a bona fide historical event. But: The Obama administration has said it will seek to block a controversial bill describing as genocide the World War I killing of Armenians by Turks. A congressional panel on Thursday approved the resolution, paving the way […]

  • UN Concludes UK Complicit in Torture

    Tighten that noose: United Nations human rights investigators have concluded that the British government has been complicit in the mistreatment and possible torture of several of its own citizens during the “war on terror”. In a report published today that will make difficult reading for ministers who repeatedly denied the UK’s involvement in torture, UN officials […]

  • CIA Man Retracts Claim on Waterboarding

    Dear CIA, this is why we don’t believe anything you say: John Kiriakou, the former CIA operative who affirmed claims that waterboarding quickly unloosed the tongues of hard-core terrorists, says he didn’t know what he was talking about. Kiriakou, a 15-year veteran of the agency’s intelligence analysis and operations directorates, electrified the hand-wringing national debate […]

  • Obama Imprisons 50 Indefinitely

    Best Nobel Peace Prize Ever: The Obama administration has decided to continue to imprison without trials nearly 50 detainees at the Guantánamo Bay military prison in Cuba because a high-level task force has concluded that they are too difficult to prosecute but too dangerous to release, an administration official said on Thursday. via Glenn Greenwald […]

  • Guantanamo Guard Reunites with Ex-inmates

    Only a matter of time before Maury or Tyra jumps on this: “You look different without a cap.” “You look different without the jump suits.” With those words, an extraordinary reunion gets under way. The last time Ruhal Ahmed met Brandon Neely, he was “behind bars, behind a cage and [Brandon] was on the other […]

  • I Know How to Save $30 Billion

    I’ve never really understood why Israel can’t fund their own military: As the single largest expense of the 2010 foreign aid budget, President Obama approved $2.775 billion in military aid to Israel, the first payment in a decade-long commitment that will reach at least $30 billion. Last year, Israel’s military budget amounted to $13.3 billion, […]

  • You Have No Right Not to Be Tortured

    The Supreme Court refused to hear a case of four detainees bringing suit against Rumsfeld, et al: Obama’s Justice Department lawyers argued in this case that there is no constitutional right not to be tortured or otherwise abused in a U.S. prison abroad…. The Religious Freedom Restoration Act – a statute that applies by its […]

  • 54% Americans Okay with Torture

    Too much Jack Bauer: Most notably, 19% of the public says the use of torture is often justified to gain important information from terrorist suspects, while 35% say the use of torture in these circumstances is at least sometimes justified. Just 2% of [Council on Foreign Relations] members say torture is often justified, and 11% […]

  • Michael Moore to President Obama RE: Afghanistan

    From HuffPo If you go to West Point tomorrow night and announce that you are increasing, rather than withdrawing, the troops in Afghanistan, you are the new war president…. It is not your job to do what the generals tell you to do. We are a civilian-run government… Your corporate backers are going to abandon […]