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Poland, Romania and Lithuania ordered to compensate CIA victim

13 January 2022

Following a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights, Poland, Romania and Lithuania, which operated secret CIA prisons, were each sentenced to pay compensation of up to 100 000 dollars to Abu Zubaydah, a CIA victim who had been detained on their territory.
Six members of the Bush (...)

Lieberman admitted real reason for US war against Iraq

1 November 2021

Interviewed on 28 October 2021 by MSNBC host Mehdi Hassan, former Senator Joe Lieberman acknowledged that he induced Congress to support the war against Iraq not because of the weapons of mass destruction it allegedly possessed, but in order to overthrow President Saddam (...)

"Before Our Very Eyes" (19/25)

The post-9/11 American empire watches, plunders and kills

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus (Syria) | 10 August 2021

We continue the publication of Thierry Meyssan’s book, « Before Our Very Eyes ». In this episode, he exposes the transformations of the American Empire thanks to 9/11: the creation of a system of internal surveillance of the civilian population and, externally, the launching of the endless war in (...)

"Before our very eyes" (18/25)

2001 : The Moult of the American Empire

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus (Syria) | 4 August 2021

We begin the publication of the last part of Thierry Meyssan’s book, “Before Our Very Eyes”. He rereads the history of the American Empire. In this episode he comes back to the attacks of September 11 as the seizure of Power by the direct descendants of the Pilgrim Fathers against the descendants (...)

Covid-19 and The Red Dawn Emails

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus (Syria) | 28 April 2020

The Covid-19 outbreak has so far killed more than 200,000 people and frightened billions more into panic. A panic that deprives most of them of any critical sense and pushes them to make or approve stupid political decisions. A group of personalities, Red Dawn, whose correspondence was revealed (...)

Brennan upholds censorship of Senate torture report

4 February 2014

The Senate Intelligence Committee hearing, on 29 January 2014, of CIA director John Brennan led to heated exchanges with Democratic senators.
The latter called for the Committee to declassify the 6 300-word report from 2012 on the use of torture during the Bush Jr. administration [1]. (...)

Citizens’ arrest

The trial of the man who tried to arrest George W. Bush

by Joshua Blakeney

Lethbridge (Canada) | 22 May 2010

On March 17, 2009, Mohawk activist Splitting the Sky (STS) attempted a citizens’ arrest on George W. Bush in Calgary (Canada), his first foreign visit as a private citizen without diplomatic immunity. Brutally arrested for his action, STS earned his "day in court" in March 2010 to highlight the (...)

United States: the empire of barbarism

The secret behind Guantánamo

by Thierry Meyssan

20 May 2010

You think that you are informed about what happened at Guantánamo and you are astonished that President Obama is reluctant to close this torture centre. You’re wrong. You are not aware of the underlying purpose of this "facility" and why it is vital for the current administration. Thierry (...)

# 5 News Story selected by Project Censored in 2009

Seizing War Protesters’ Assets

by Matthew Rothschild, Michel Chossudovsky

9 May 2010

George W. Bush signed more laws and executive orders trampling civil rights and liberties than any president in US history. The two examined below, specifically crafted to stifle and criminalize protests both at home and abroad against U.S. policies in Iraq and Lebanon, fly in the face of the (...)

Spain’s Judge Garzón faces suspension —after opening Bush-era war crimes probe

28 February 2010

Authorities in Spain have launched proceedings to suspend the notorious investigating magistrate Baltasar Garzón. The ostensible reason for the move is his investigation into the fate of 114,000 people who disappeared during the Spanish Civil War and its aftermath. The public prosecutor’s office (...)

#1 News Story selected by Project Censored in 2009

Over One Million Iraqi Deaths Caused by US Occupation

by Dahr Jamail , Michael Schwartz, Joshua Holland, Luke Baker, Maki al-Nazzal

21 February 2010

Reproduced below is the first of the 25 investigations selected by Project Censured in 2009. It is based on research by Michael Schwartz, posted on Voltaire Network in 2007, which was continued by other associated researchers. Several official sources have validated the studies conducted by (...)

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Obama administration uses Blackwater in drone killings

by Tom Eley

23 August 2009

According to a recent report by the New York Times, the Obama administration has retained the services of the notorious Blackwater guards to carry out drone attacks in Afghanistan, denoting no substantive distinction from the Bush administration’s use of Blackwater - now operating under the (...)

Obama Calls for Probe into 2001 Massacre of at Least 2,000 Suspected Taliban POWs by US-Backed Afghan Warlord (Video)

15 July 2009

President Obama’s comments follow initial statements from other officials in his administration Friday who said the Department of Defense and the FBI had no jurisdiction over the mass killing by a US-backed warlord, General Abdul Rashid Dostum. [1]
A Pentagon spokesman told the Associated (...)

Cheney receives exceptional protection

12 July 2009

In an unprecedented move, US President Barack Obama has reportedly extended former Vice President Dick Cheney’s Secret Service Protection.
According to Huffington Post, Obama has extended Cheney’s Secret Service protection before time runs out for the special safety measures meant to protect the (...)

Rice: Nazis were less of a threat to the U.S. than al Qaeda; SCOTUS wouldn’t let us try detainees (Video)

2 May 2009

Speaking with a group of Stanford students Monday, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice declared that al Qaeda is a greater threat to the United States than Nazi Germany was because Germany “never attacked the homeland of the United States.” In a defensive exchange with a student, she also (...)

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