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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 . Voltaire (...)

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.
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 (...)

Karl Rove case witness killed in plane crash, sisters want answers

2 May 2009

Karl Rove on the eve of 2004 presidential elections
Web guru was potential witness in Ohio 2004 voting fraud case
Shannon Connell of Madison says her brother Michael rarely talked about work. She knew he ran an Ohio company called New Media Communications that set up websites for Republicans (...)

Spanish judge to hear torture case against six Bush officials

31 March 2009

Judge Baltasar Garzón
Legal moves may force Obama’s government into starting a new inquiry into abuses at Guantánamo Bay and Abu Ghraib.
by Julian Borger and Dale Fuchs
The Observer
Criminal proceedings have begun in Spain against six senior officials in the Bush administration for the use of (...)

Investigative Reporter Seymour Hersh Describes ’Executive Assassination Ring’

Cheney Assassination Squads (see video)

by Eric Black

New York (USA) | 25 March 2009

MSNBC reported that Seymour Hersh has uncovered evidence that Vice President Cheney operated secret assassination squads out of the White House by using military personnel without the knowledge of the CIA. Keith Olbermann, host of MSNBC Countdown discussed the report with Jonathan Alter. Alter (...)

Time for accountability

Should George W. Bush Be Arrested in Calgary, Alberta, To Be Tried For International Crimes?

by Anthony J. Hall

Lethbridge (Canada) | 9 March 2009

While the ICC decision to issue an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Bashir on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity is a welcome development, it is hardly the only situation where it should be applied. Some see it as a double standard promoted by the ICC in the choice of its (...)

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