Justice Department Refuses Cooperation With Polish Prosecutors Investigating Torture at CIA Black Site—By Scott Horton (Harper's Magazine) - Occupation-Preoccupation (notes): "Justice Department Refuses Cooperation With Polish Prosecutors Investigating Torture at CIA Black Site—By Scott Horton (Harper’s Magazine)
Justice Department Refuses Cooperation With Polish Prosecutors Investigating Torture at CIA Black Site—By Scott Horton (Harper’s Magazine)
http://harpers.org/archive/2010/12/hbc-90007880
a new billboard has appeared in Poznan featuring a person hooded and bound to a chair with a tattered American flag in the background. The legend in Polish and English reads “Welcome to Poland—Where they torture people.”"
6.29.2011
Japan's Prime Minister Steps Down Over Okinawa Marine Base Row : NPR - Occupation-Preoccupation (notes)
Japan's Prime Minister Steps Down Over Okinawa Marine Base Row : NPR - Occupation-Preoccupation (notes): "Japan’s Prime Minister Steps Down Over Okinawa Marine Base Row : NPR
Japan’s Prime Minister Steps Down Over Okinawa Marine Base Row : NPR
Hatoyama’s Waterloo was on the southern island of Okinawa. Perennially frustrated by noise, pollution and crime problems with U.S. military installations, but ignored by generations of conservative governments in Tokyo, Okinawans were energized by Hatoyama’s pledges to move the Marine Air Station Futenma off their island. When Hatoyama announced, after months of delay, that this promise would also be broken, it was the last straw for voters. As his support tumbled to below 20 percent, his party members began to panic.
http://www.diigo.com/annotated/f03a74d23af29e5a2c840b49c09e967e"
Japan’s Prime Minister Steps Down Over Okinawa Marine Base Row : NPR
Hatoyama’s Waterloo was on the southern island of Okinawa. Perennially frustrated by noise, pollution and crime problems with U.S. military installations, but ignored by generations of conservative governments in Tokyo, Okinawans were energized by Hatoyama’s pledges to move the Marine Air Station Futenma off their island. When Hatoyama announced, after months of delay, that this promise would also be broken, it was the last straw for voters. As his support tumbled to below 20 percent, his party members began to panic.
http://www.diigo.com/annotated/f03a74d23af29e5a2c840b49c09e967e"
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