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Honduras: The making of a death squad "democracy" by: rjones2818 Fri Feb 12, 2010 at 02:04:04 PST Original article, by Bill Van Auken, via World Socialist Web Site: With the restoration of diplomatic relations and the resumption of aid and credits from the world's major governments and financial institutions, Honduras is being welcomed back into the fold of "democratic" nations, even as the organizers of last year's coup remain at their posts and death squad murders continue. There's More... :: (2 Comments, 295 words in story)

Crossroads For The Rule Of Law - Cheney Hit Squads by: Something The Dog Said Thu Jul 16, 2009 at 11:50:11 PDT (10 am. - promoted by ek hornbeck) For those of us who are really concerned (obsessed) with the rule of law the revelations of the Cheney sponsored CIA Death Squads are the kind of thing which makes you want to curl up and rock back and forth while thinking of our happy place. It might be going a little under-thought about by most of the nation right now as we are focused on the Health Care bills and the ever diverting "Great Republican Melt Down" with Americas three current favorite clowns, Governor's Palin and Sanford, and Sen. Ensign (The Family, NV) taking up all the oxygen but this is serious stuff we should be really concerned about. "Originally posted at Squarestate.net" There's More... :: (15 Comments, 940 words in story)

"We're killing the wrong people" by: ANKOSS Wed Jul 15, 2009 at 08:26:55 PDT The supreme act of corrupt power is to murder with impunity, and it is this act that may bring down Dick Cheney. Today Lawrence Wilkerson had this to say about Cheney's secret death squads: "What I suspect has happened is what began to happen while I was still in the government, and that was we're killing the wrong people," Wilkerson added. "And we're killing the wrong people in the wrong countries. And the countries are finding out about it, or at least there was a suspicion that the countries might find out about it, and so it was shut down. That's my strong suspicion." For monsters like Cheney and Bush, the thrill of the kill was not diminished by making mistakes. No, this simply added to the feeling of unbridled power. That's what it means to kill with impunity. There were no checks on the heads of our national security state. They were no different from Louis XIV or Caligula. They held the power of life and death over hundreds of millions of people, and it was intoxicating. Discuss :: (0 Comments)

Three articles and a call to action by the U.S. and the Presidential Candidates by: AndyS In Colorado Sun Jan 06, 2008 at 20:45:55 PST On January 2nd, it was revealed that the Iraqi Government is considering releasing 5000 prisoners from its jails in a move toward amnesty but has explicitly excluded homosexuals from any possibility of such release. Earlier in 2007, it was revealed that death squads, possibly with the sanctioning of elements of the government of Iraq, were targeting gay men and women and believed to be killing them. In June of 2007, the United States military acknowledged that it was aware of the actions being taken against gay Iraqi people by other Iraqis. I would like to highlight the following paragraph in the last mentioned article: "It doesn't make a whole lot of sense, when we're in a fledgling time like this, to go in and say, 'Here's these issues that are going to repel 80 percent of the population and this is what we want to inflict on you,'" he said. "We're trying not to get into too many values judgment type issues and just do the right thing." -Army Maj. Joseph Todd Breasseale, chief of the Media Relations Division of the Multinational Corps in Iraq There's More... :: (1 Comments, 678 words in story)