Filed at 11:14 am, Thursday March 15th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
The traditional media is all abuzz over KSM’s (Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s) apparent confession to having been “responsible for the 9/11 operation, from A to Z.” And of course the Administration is pleased as punch about it.
The problem is, it’s very difficult to say that after you kidnap someone illegally, hold them illegally for more than […]
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Filed at 3:43 pm, Tuesday December 26th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
I produced this a while back but didn’t post it on the front page.
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Filed at 3:12 pm, Saturday December 23rd 2006
by Arlen Parsa
This was something I produced a while back and never posted on the front page (until now). It’s a 1 minute and 40 second PSA and the topic is Dick Cheney and legalized torture.
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Filed at 1:15 pm, Sunday December 17th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
Associated Press:
The Pentagon called them “among the most dangerous, best-trained, vicious killers on the face of the Earth,” sweeping them up after Sept. 11 and hauling them in chains to a U.S. military prison in southeastern Cuba.
Since then, hundreds of the men have been transferred from Guantanamo Bay to other countries, many of them for […]
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Filed at 12:30 pm, Thursday December 14th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
The Washington Post, today reports that “A previously undisclosed Pentagon report concluded that the three terrorism suspects held at a brig in South Carolina were subjected to months of isolation, and it warned that their “unique” solitary confinement could be viewed as violating U.S. detention standards.”
Luckily, I have the benefit of having read a bunch […]
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Filed at 11:30 pm, Sunday December 10th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
Check out a new section of the website I’m busy building… It’s only partially done and not all of the links work yet, but you’ll get the idea.
Update: Okay, it’s pretty much done now. I’ll update it later, but it’s fully functional now at least. Here’s a screenshot:
Go on, check it out.
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Filed at 3:53 pm, Tuesday December 05th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
There is a myth, proagated by the Administration and almost exclusively unchallenged by the media, that so-called ‘torture lite’ techniques which the Administration has approved for use on ‘unlawful enemy combatants’ don’t run the risk of causing permenent injury or death to the victim. I’m working on a longer piece about human rights violations in […]
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Filed at 10:50 pm, Monday December 04th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
Hey, two small items for you tonight. Two notes summaries on two specific types of torture authorized by the Bush Administration.
“Cold Cell”
“Waterboarding”
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Filed at 10:30 am, Monday December 04th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
Apparently, it would be a threat to national security if this man was allowed to see daylight or hear anything going on around him
The New York Times has a front page article today about the treatment of Jose Padilla, an American citizen who was branded an ‘enemy combatant’ by the White House in 2002 and […]
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Filed at 8:22 pm, Sunday December 03rd 2006
by Arlen Parsa
Hey, I’ve been working on my final project for my human rights class. My topic is human rights abuses in the “war on terror.” This segment is about VP Cheney. You can watch it here (quicktime, 6mbs). You can watch the earlier workprint I uploaded, of a different sequence from the same project here.
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Filed at 5:59 pm, Sunday December 03rd 2006
by Arlen Parsa
Obviously “great progress” is being made in the arena of women’s rights by the President’s friends in Saudi Arabia:
Saudi women still can’t drive cars, but they can sell them. Potential buyers can go to an all-women showroom where, for the first time, other women will help them choose a car and answer questions about horsepower, […]
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Filed at 3:46 pm, Sunday December 03rd 2006
by Arlen Parsa
Hey, I’ve been working on my final project for my human rights class. My topic is human rights abuses in the “war on terror.” You can see the ending of the video here (quicktime, 6mbs).
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Filed at 9:30 am, Wednesday November 29th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
Just how much extraordinary rendition has been going on? ABC News reports, quite a bit:
The CIA flew 1,245 secret flights into European airspace, according to a European Parliament draft report obtained by ABC News.
The report is the result of a year-long investigation into secret CIA “extraordinary rendition” flights and prisons in Europe.
[…]
But citing records from […]
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Filed at 9:30 am, Tuesday November 28th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
The following is from a source-review paper (sort of a research proposal, sort of a run-through of types of sources) for my english class. Yes, I’m posting homework. Lame of me, no? I think it’s worth reading though. Humble me. Haha. Anyways I used footnotes to cite sources and I’m much too lazy to put […]
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Filed at 9:09 pm, Friday November 17th 2006
by Arlen Parsa
The Associated Press reported today that the US military plans to spend 125 million dollars worth of taxpayer’s money in order to build a gigantic new compound in Guantanamo to put detainees on trial for war crimes.
My question is: is anybody really fooled? Does anybody really think that this Administration is going to conduct fair […]
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