Military lawyer resigns in protest of ‘show trial’ of accused 9-11 mastermind. Report by RT - ”Last week, a US military lawyer on the defense team for self-proclaimed 9/11-attacks mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed resigned from the Army in protest of the “show trial” conducted by the US at Guantanamo Bay.
Maj. Jason Wright resigned on Aug. 26, according to NPR. He accused the US government of “abhorrent leadership” on human rights and due process at the military detention center at Guantanamo, where Mohammed and other defendants are being prosecuted for the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Wright joined the military in 2005, serving 15 months in Iraq. He then worked as a Judge Advocate. Mohammed was captured in 2003, and spent years in CIA “black site” prisons around the world.
“All six of these men have been tortured by the U.S. government,” Wright told NPR, saying that his client was subject to abuse undisclosed to the public that was “beyond comprehension.” “And those are just the declassified facts that I’m able to actually speak about,” Wright said. What has Vladimir Putin to say about NATO putting its missiles on Russia's borders?
We have the right to ask, says Putin, against whom is the NATO expansion intended?
And what happened to the assurances made after the dissolution of the Soviet Union? Russian author and campaigner Boris Kagarlitsky speaking on the eve of anti-Nato protests in Wales, August/September 2014. Video: Ady Cousins AMIDST A SLEW of unverified allegations in recent weeks of Russian invasions, violations of Ukraine sovereignty and NATO’s current claim of Russian troops and Russian tanks fighting on the side of the federalist rebels, the upcoming annual NATO Heads of State Summit in Wales, threatens a widening violence and heightened military activity throughout eastern Europe. NATO Summit It is worth noting that the largest gathering of international leaders to ever assemble in the UK, will include non NATO member Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko as part of a ‘special NATO meeting’ on Ukraine but will exclude Russian President Vladimir Putin.
NATO Accusations Obama’s Unprovoked Attack on Russia. Henry Kissinger on the Assembly of a New World Order - WSJ. Suspicious Plane Crash in Brazil Bolsters American and Globalist Interests. By Wayne Madsen Brazil’s scheduled October presidential election was seen as a virtual cake walk for incumbent President Dilma Rousseff.
That was until a plane crash killed Rousseff’s rather lackluster opponent, economist and former governor of Pernambuco, Eduardo Campos. Court: Poland culpable for CIA secret prisons. Haarlem, Netherlands - On July 24, seven judges on the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled against Poland in a landmark case, making it the first European Union country to be held accountable for its involvement in the United States' systematic, extrajudicial detention of suspects, known as the "extraordinary rendition" programme.
Established by the George W Bush administration in the aftermath of September 11 attacks, the programme was run by the CIA, and designed to detain suspects deemed to be of "high value". In the unanimous ruling, the judges stated that "Poland had cooperated in the preparation and execution of the CIA rendition, secret detention, and interrogation operations on its territory" and that it had failed in its duty under the European Convention on Human Rights to "ensure that individuals within its jurisdiction were not subjected to torture or inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
" Pressure on Poland. Images coming from Ferguson, Mo., reveal unfiltered, uncomfortable truths. A photograph is never sufficiently proportional to truth.
The truth — the full story, the context of things — is too large and complicated to be encompassed by any single image. So from Ferguson, Mo., where daily protests have erupted after Saturday’s police shooting of an unarmed African American teenager, we get only photographic data points. A man lights a rag in a bottle and prepares to throw a Molotov cocktail; militarized police sit atop armored vehicles, guns drawn and aimed at protestors who have their hands raised. Both are volatile images, and both confirm aspects of the truth: There are provocateurs among the mostly peaceful protestors, and the police have adopted a terrifyingly aggressive posture in relation to the citizens they supposedly serve. But these images aren’t coming from Egypt or the Gaza Strip or Ukraine.
The manipulation of photography has become so complex and widespread that images from conflict zones often tend to cancel each other out. The State Department’s Ukraine Fiasco. Exclusive: The State Department’s handling of the Ukraine crisis may go down as a textbook diplomatic fiasco, doing nothing to advance genuine U.S. interests while disrupting cooperation with Moscow and pushing Russia and China back together, reports Robert Parry.
By Robert Parry American diplomacy, by definition, is supposed to advance the national interests of the United States, not contribute to international crises that undermine those interests. Yet, by that standard, the U.S. State Department and Secretary of State John Kerry have failed extraordinarily during the current Ukraine crisis. Besides ripping Ukraine apart – and getting scores of Ukrainians killed – the U.S. U.S. Any new business downturn in Europe also would inflict harm on the U.S. economy, which itself is still clawing its way out of a long recession and needs a healthy Europe as an important trading partner.
The $400 billion pact means that Putin, in effect, has countered U.S. efforts to use limited U.S.