Archive for April 25th, 2009
2008 the Bloodiest Year for Palestinians Since 1948
26 Apr 09 | IMEMC
The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) bases in Gaza, issued a report on Saturday revealing that the year 2008 is the bloodiest year for the Palestinians since the Nakba of 1948. It included violations and attacks inflicted during internal clashes, and during Israeli offensives against the Palestinians.
U.S. Military Agency: Harsh Interrogation Methods are ‘Torture’ and ‘Unreliable’
25 Apr 09 | Raw Story and AWC News
The US military agency which runs the Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape (SERE) program — from which the enhanced interrogation techniques used on detainees were derived — warned as early as July 2002 that those techniques constituted “torture” and would produce “unreliable information.”
Lieberman Rules Out Golan Withdrawal, Partnership for Peace With Syria, Says U.S. ‘Accepts all Israel Decisions’
Moldova’s ‘Twitter Revolutionary’ Speaks Out
25 Apr 09 | BBC
The Moldovan capital, Chisinau, was rocked by protests earlier this month amid claims that an election which returned the Communist Party to power was rigged.
Bank of America ‘Threatened’ over Merrill Lynch Deal
23/25 Apr 09 | FT
Bank of America’s chief executive, Ken Lewis, only agreed to complete the acquisition of Merrill Lynch after US federal regulators threatened to oust him and his board if BofA walked away from the deal, New York’s attorney-general said on Thursday in a letter to federal officials. Read the rest of this entry »
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