http://bravenewfilms.org/topics/us-government 2008-10-26T15:29:24Z http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/42230-us-accused-of-encouraging-the-illegal-use-of-torture-18jun08 2008-10-26T15:29:24Z aljazeera <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/s-XJ3y3Na_Y&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/s-XJ3y3Na_Y&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/42230-us-accused-of-encouraging-the-illegal-use-of-torture-18jun08"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/47656" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>US military officials actively sought ways to implement harsh interrogation techniques such as waterboarding used at Guantanamo Bay despite legal objections, a senior Democratic senator has said. <br /> <br />Carl Levin, the Senate Armed Services Committee chairman, told a hearing the US government had "twisted the law to create the appearance of legality". <br /> <br />A US congressional committee is investigating accusations that the Pentagon ignored guidelines about how to treat detainees in US custody. <br /> <br />The head of that committee says defense department officials encouraged military interrogators to use illegal practices like torture. </p> <p>Al Jazeera's Monica Villamizar reports from Washington.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/42230-us-accused-of-encouraging-the-illegal-use-of-torture-18jun08">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/38241-us-backs-eastern-seccession-in-bolivia 2008-10-17T03:30:35Z The Real News <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/zCYKv8jZ5Kc&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/zCYKv8jZ5Kc&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/38241-us-backs-eastern-seccession-in-bolivia"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/43199" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>More at <a href="http://therealnews.com/c.php?c=080501YT">therealnews.com</a> </p> <p>Minority landholders vote for independence</p> <p>Bolivia's landowning eastern elite voted on Sunday for autonomy from President Evo Morales' central government. According to author Forrest Hylton the US government has spent up to $125 million dollars supporting the secession movement, a movement which has been disregarded by a large percentage of the Bolivian population as well as governments from Bolivia's neighboring countries.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/38241-us-backs-eastern-seccession-in-bolivia">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/37625-dr-len-horowitz-speaks-on-origins-of-aids-us-government 2008-10-16T03:29:57Z ll2sco <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/azUX_cWc2Yg&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/azUX_cWc2Yg&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/37625-dr-len-horowitz-speaks-on-origins-of-aids-us-government"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/42409" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>dr len horowitz details the agenda behind virus technologies and their use on global civilian populations by the military industrial complex,time to wake up and realize there are forces on this planet intent on global population reduction</p> </div> <a href="/blog/37625-dr-len-horowitz-speaks-on-origins-of-aids-us-government">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/33220-ap-president-us-is-rounding-up-journalists-to-control-information 2008-03-21T14:05:30Z GottaLaff <a href="http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/33220-ap-president-us-is-rounding-up-journalists-to-control-information"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/thumbnail_pic/36192" style="border: solid 1px black; margin-right: 7px; margin-top: 3px;" align="left" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p><p>But our government would never lie about a thing <a href="http://rawstory.com//printstory.php?story=9746">like this</a>. They&#39;re so transparent. Oh yeah, that&#39;s not the government, that&#39;s Bush&#39;s head.&nbsp;</p><blockquote><p><strong>Associated Press president Tom Curley says his news organization does not buy the government&#39;s argument that one of its photographers arrested in Iraq was working on behalf of the enemy</strong>, and he alleged<strong> the US is rounding up journalists in an attempt to control information</strong>.</p></blockquote><p>Now why would they want to <a href="http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/03/todays_must_read_299.php">control information</a>?&nbsp;</p><blockquote><p>Noting that<strong> at least a dozen other Iraqi photographers have been detained or arrested</strong>, Curley stated, &quot;<strong>It&#39;s impossible not to conclude that the words and pictures these journalists produced were considered unhelpful to the war effort and that their arrests would have served a broader strategy of information control.</strong>&quot; </p></blockquote><p>Speaking of restricting information:</p><blockquote><p>Curley also called on journalists to demand that <strong>all the presidential candidates make a commitment to reversing a directive issued by Attorney General John Ashcroft shortly after September 11 that radically restricted the scope of the Freedom of Information Act. </strong></p></blockquote><p>Just imagine what we the people could do with a little more information. Just... imagine... </p></p> </div>