Editor2 (2021-09-23). War Hawks Quietly Positioning Canada to Participate in US-led Ballistic Missile Defence Program. orinocotribune.com During the 2021 federal election campaign, there has been almost no emphasis or discussion in the media on the Liberal government's plan to spend more than $553 billion on the military over the next 20 years, including the awarding of contracts for purchase of military fighter jets and armed drones in the next few months. The contracts for new frigates have already been awarded, including design components by Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, and BAE Systems. | Since then, the U.S. has spent more than $100 billion attempting to build a missile shield, and for almost two decades the U.S. and defense industry lobb…

Rick Rozoff (2021-09-23). Next Turkish intervention? Algeria, Morocco clash over Western Sahara. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com ==== Turkish combat drones to be used in Western Sahara after Karabakh, Libya, Syria, Iraq, Donbass ==== Algeria closes airspace to all Moroccan planes Algeria's presidency has announced the closure of the country's airspace to all Moroccan planes, according to the presidency, in the latest dispute between the two neighbours at odds mainly over Western …

Jessica Corbett (2021-09-23). 'This Cannot Happen': Biden DHS Seeks Contractor for Migrant Detention Center at Guantánamo Bay. globalresearch.ca

Staff (2021-09-23). Send Haitian migrants to GITMO? Report that small detention facility in Guantanamo Bay will house migrants sparks outrage. rt.com The Biden administration is seeking guards fluent in Haitian Creole to staff a detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba — but it is far too small to have an impact on the thousands of Haitian migrants currently camped in Texas. | According to an NBC News report on Wednesday, the Department of Homeland Security posted a contract

sputniknews (2021-09-23). DHS Looks to Staff Gitmo Migrant Facility With Guards Who Speak Haitian Creole Amid US Border Surge. sputniknews.com In the early 90s, US Coast Guard cutters transported thousands of Haitians fleeing the coup-hit country to refugee camps based at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base. At one point, the detention facility came under human rights scrutiny, and was branded an "HIV prison camp" for its quarantining of HIV+ refugees and their relatives.

Agnieszka Pikulicka-Wilczewska (2021-09-23). Afghanistan: Ex-Bagram Inmates Recount Stories of Abuse, Torture. globalresearch.ca

_____ (2021-09-22). 'This Cannot Happen': Biden DHS Seeks Contractor for Migrant Detention Center at Guant√°namo Bay. commondreams.org Peruvian President Pedro Castillo is pushing for an international accord to "guarantee universal access to vaccines for all people on the planet, with no discrimination on the basis of privilege."

Paul Haeder (2021-09-22). So You Go Deaf at a Protest: *MIC/MICC* at the Helm. dissidentvoice.org *Military Industrial Complex, or Lawrence Wilkerson's, Military Industrial Congressional Complex* You get a story on the supposed Havana Syndrome, and then you also get the concept of mass psychogenic illness (you know, it's all in your head, buster, those heart palpitations, the sweats, the throbbing veins, after getting mRNA "vaccinated") explained, and, well, no huge …

Kevin Gosztola (2021-09-22). Twenty Years In A Security State: CIA's Global Rendition Network, Wrongful Detentions (Exclusive For Subscribers). thedissenter.org Photo Adaptation: [Editor's Note: To mark the 20th anniversary of the rise of the American security state after the September 11th attacks, The Dissenter presents a retrospective on this transformation in policing and government. This is an exclusive article for paid subscribers. Thanks for supporting independent journalism.]The Central Intelligence Agency had a network of secret prisons as part of the rendition, detention, and torture program. Detainees were cruelly and inhumanely treated by CIA interrogators as well as intel…

_____ (2021-09-22). Rapid Shift to Electric Vehicles Could Create Over 150,000 Jobs in US by 2030. commondreams.org "It is psychologically hard for me to recall all that was happening," said one former Bagram Air Base inmate. "The torture was mostly done by Afghans, sometimes the Americans. But the orders came from the U.S."

Moderator (2021-09-22). Ex-Prisoners Recall U.S. Torture at 'Afghanistan's Abu Ghraib'. scheerpost.com Activists protest U.S. torture at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan and at Guantánamo Bay in front of the White House in Washington, D.C. on February 27, 2009. ( By Brett Wilkins / In a chilling reminder of the war crimes committed during the 20-year…

_____ (2021-09-22). Ex-Prisoners Recall US Torture at 'Afghanistan's Abu Ghraib'. commondreams.org Premature endorsement of incomplete and inadequate targets is the wrong approach.

Paul Haeder (2021-09-22). So You Go Deaf at a Protest: *MIC/MICC* at the Helm. dissidentvoice.org *Military Industrial Complex, or Lawrence Wilkerson's, Military Industrial Congressional Complex* You get a story on the supposed Havana Syndrome, and then you also get the concept of mass psychogenic illness (you know, it's all in your head, buster, those heart palpitations, the sweats, the throbbing veins, after getting mRNA "vaccinated") explained, and, well, no huge …

Rick Rozoff (2021-09-21). Moscow will pay close attention. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com As the Kremlin paid close attention to Turkey shooting down its military aircraft and destroying its anti-aircraft batteries in Syria, murdering its allies and contractors in Syria, Libya and Nagorno-Karabakh, selling combat drones to kill Russian speakers in Donetsk and Lugansk, participating in the Sea Breeze and Rapid Trident U.S.-NATO war games in Ukraine, building …

Rick Rozoff (2021-09-21). Turkish combat drones to be used in Western Sahara after Karabakh, Libya, Syria, Iraq, Donbass. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Morocco receives 1st Turkish Bayraktar TB2 delivery: Reports Morocco has received the first units of Turkey's Bayraktar TB2 unmanned combat aerial vehicles (UCAVs)… **** The Royal Moroccan Armed Forces (FAR) ordered a total of 13 such drones, according to the reports. **** The deal comes during regional tensions and at a time the Maghreb country …

John Kendall Hawkins (2021-09-21). Anguished Lyricism: the Poetry of the Tortured. counterpunch.org "If it works, why do we need to do it 183 times?" — Dianne Feinstein, Senate Intelligence Committee on Torture Last year, I filed a FOIA to obtain the poetry of Khalid Sheik Mohammed (KSM) and Abu Zubaydah (AZ). I was in earnest. The illustrious and toolishly necessary New York Times, along with London's equivalent

MEE staff (2021-09-21). US court dismisses torture lawsuit against former Egyptian prime minister. middleeasteye.net US court dismisses torture lawsuit against former Egyptian prime minister | Judge dismisses case filed by Egyptian-American activist Mohamed Soltan against Hazem el-Beblawi after Biden administration asserted his diplomatic immunity | Tue, 09/21/2021 – 16: 06 | Mohamed Soltan filed a lawsuit against Hazem el-Beblawi (pictured) last June, accusing him of direct responsibility for his treatment, which included b…

_____ (2021-09-21). President Biden: End The War On Terror At Home! popularresistance.org While the Bush Administration launched these policies, the Obama and Trump Administrations cemented and expanded them. Under Obama, the US carried out drone strikes targeting US citizens, ratified bulk collection of US citizens' metadata, initiated the Countering Violent Extremism program, and revived the World War I-era Espionage Act to punish War on Terror whistleblowers. Trump called for the surveillance of mosques, enacted a Muslim Ban, and continued to abuse the Espionage act, using it to indict a journalist for publishing truthful information about US war crimes. | You made the decision to end the US ground…

Deborah Conrad (2021-09-21). Video: Vaccine Injuries and Deaths: Whistleblower Exposes VAERS Corruption. globalresearch.ca