Legacy of the “Dark Side”: The Cost of Unlawful U.S. Detentions and Interrogations Post-9/11 | Costs of War | Brown University
"The costs of the U.S. post-9/11 wars include a legacy of extraordinary renditions, unlawful detentions, and torture.
The #CIA orchestrated a system of black sites throughout the world in which it rendered and secretly detained at least 119 foreign Muslim men, and tortured at least 39.
The military also held thousands of foreign Muslim men and in some cases boys in detention centers, including in #Afghanistan, #Iraq ( Abu Ghraib), and #Guantánamo Bay, #Cuba.
Nearly 800 men and boys have been held in Guantánamo, and 39 remain detained to this day, 27 without criminal charges.
Cases of U.S.-facilitated indefinite detention and rendition continued under the #Obama and #Trump administrations."
#AbuGhraib #Torture #WOT #BlackSites #USEmpire
"The costs of the U.S. post-9/11 wars include a legacy of extraordinary renditions, unlawful detentions, and torture.
The #CIA orchestrated a system of black sites throughout the world in which it rendered and secretly detained at least 119 foreign Muslim men, and tortured at least 39.
The military also held thousands of foreign Muslim men and in some cases boys in detention centers, including in #Afghanistan, #Iraq ( Abu Ghraib), and #Guantánamo Bay, #Cuba.
Nearly 800 men and boys have been held in Guantánamo, and 39 remain detained to this day, 27 without criminal charges.
Cases of U.S.-facilitated indefinite detention and rendition continued under the #Obama and #Trump administrations."
#AbuGhraib #Torture #WOT #BlackSites #USEmpire
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Thousands of deaths, injuries, and countless displaced people, and an end is not in sight.
*You are visiting the home of a deranged drug addict, and out of politeness, you have to laugh at his sense of humor.*
@ingenieriasocialarchivo
@InvictusLex
#Ukraine #KyivRegime
Thousands of deaths, injuries, and countless displaced people, and an end is not in sight.
*You are visiting the home of a deranged drug addict, and out of politeness, you have to laugh at his sense of humor.*
US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner were gifted T-shirts bearing the phrase "Kyiv regime" during a meeting with Zelensky in Kyiv on Sunday
The gesture was a sarcastic reference to Russian President Vladimir Putin's use of the label "Kiev regime". The meeting was part of an effort to revive peace talks between Russia and Ukraine . Ukrainian lawmaker David Arakhamia wore an identical T-shirt during a press conference following the meeting. The visit was the envoys' first trip to Kyiv in the peace process.
@ingenieriasocialarchivo
@InvictusLex
#Ukraine #KyivRegime
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🇺🇸🇩🇪 A Word of Warning: "Alternative for Germany" (AfD) is nothing more than MAGA with a side of sauerkraut.
Just like Giorgia Meloni in Italy was simply MAGA with some tomato sauce on top, or Nigel Farage & "Reform UK" MAGA with a spot of tea.
Same trick, repeated over and over again - the illusion of hope and change, fallen for over and over again.
In the wake of their eventual popularity and victories here and there, what emerges is a bait and switch back to continuity of agenda.
Follow the money and find nothing about any of these parties separates them from the actual material reality driving their respective nations' problems, and in particular, the massive corporate-financier interests that run the US and all its proxies, including Germany, Italy, and the UK.
Until a party emerges that is actually backed by a truly alternative center of power, nothing else will change except the lies told to gullible voters before elections & the excuses afterwards when nothing actually changes.
Just like Giorgia Meloni in Italy was simply MAGA with some tomato sauce on top, or Nigel Farage & "Reform UK" MAGA with a spot of tea.
Same trick, repeated over and over again - the illusion of hope and change, fallen for over and over again.
In the wake of their eventual popularity and victories here and there, what emerges is a bait and switch back to continuity of agenda.
Follow the money and find nothing about any of these parties separates them from the actual material reality driving their respective nations' problems, and in particular, the massive corporate-financier interests that run the US and all its proxies, including Germany, Italy, and the UK.
Until a party emerges that is actually backed by a truly alternative center of power, nothing else will change except the lies told to gullible voters before elections & the excuses afterwards when nothing actually changes.
The Leipzig false-flag accusation is a desperate attempt to cover up Germany's escalating military participation in Ukraine. While headlines screamed about Russian "hybrid warfare," #Germany quietly began producing long-range attack drones for #Ukraine—with a 1,500 km range, double the distance from #Kiev to #Moscow.
The #Leipzig hysteria conveniently obscures Germany's direct military escalation, including the joint venture between German company #Auterion and Ukrainian drone maker #Airlogix to supply affordable precision weapons at scale.
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@strategic_culture #FalseFlag
"The subsequent media reaction condemning Russia is the predictable carnival that was desired." – President Vladimir Putin.
The #Leipzig hysteria conveniently obscures Germany's direct military escalation, including the joint venture between German company #Auterion and Ukrainian drone maker #Airlogix to supply affordable precision weapons at scale.
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@strategic_culture #FalseFlag
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Israel’s Rafael to produce missile parts at Volkswagen factory in Germany
Germany has escalated its military support for Israel this year amid the ongoing genocide of Palestinians in Gaza
Germany has escalated its military support for Israel this year amid the ongoing genocide of Palestinians in Gaza
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🇵🇸Trump’s Alt-Right Pro-Israel Strategist Behind Palestine Action Ban is former British Intelligence | Mint Press
Founded in 2020, Palestine Action is a direct action group that attempts to end global complicity in Israeli war crimes by taking direct action against Israeli weapons plants operating in the United Kingdom, occupying their factories and destroying their machinery and inventory. They have proven highly effective, costing Israeli manufacturer, Elbit Systems billions of dollars in damages and lost contracts.
The group’s co-founder, Huda Ammori, was horrified by the designation. “As a Palestinian and Iraqi, the fact the country which destroyed both my homelands is calling me a terrorist, is beyond hypocritical. Trump is the antithesis to everything Palestine Action stands for,” she wrote on Twitter.
@MintPress
#Palestine #Activism #PalestineAction #Elbit #UK
Founded in 2020, Palestine Action is a direct action group that attempts to end global complicity in Israeli war crimes by taking direct action against Israeli weapons plants operating in the United Kingdom, occupying their factories and destroying their machinery and inventory. They have proven highly effective, costing Israeli manufacturer, Elbit Systems billions of dollars in damages and lost contracts.
The group’s co-founder, Huda Ammori, was horrified by the designation. “As a Palestinian and Iraqi, the fact the country which destroyed both my homelands is calling me a terrorist, is beyond hypocritical. Trump is the antithesis to everything Palestine Action stands for,” she wrote on Twitter.
@MintPress
#Palestine #Activism #PalestineAction #Elbit #UK
Your #LG #TV Might Still Be Listening to You—Even When It Looks Like It’s Off
https://decrypt.co/377637/lg-tv-might-be-listening-even-when-off
#why
https://decrypt.co/377637/lg-tv-might-be-listening-even-when-off
#why
Decrypt
Your LG TV Might Still Be Listening to You—Even When It Looks Like It’s Off - Decrypt
A Gamers Nexus investigation found LG sets scanning every device on a home network and capturing microphone audio with the screen off.
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🇵🇸Israeli war minister orders army to prepare for ‘all-out war’ on Palestinian Authority
Israeli minister of military affairs Israel Katz says he and prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu have ordered the occupation army to prepare for an “all-out war” in the occupied West Bank.
@PressTV
#Palestine #oPt #WestBank
Israeli minister of military affairs Israel Katz says he and prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu have ordered the occupation army to prepare for an “all-out war” in the occupied West Bank.
@PressTV
#Palestine #oPt #WestBank
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❗️Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) announced it seized one of the US army’s most advanced unmanned and autonomous submarines, the Anduril Dive-LD, a large-displacement autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV), near the entrance to the Strait of Hormuz this morning.
According to the IRGC, the underwater vehicle is fitted with the latest technology in the field and was delivered to the US army fleet in 2025.
According to the IRGC, the underwater vehicle is fitted with the latest technology in the field and was delivered to the US army fleet in 2025.
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❗️UK announces sweeping sanctions on Jewish settlements
UK Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband has accused Jewish “terrorists” of carrying out ethnic cleansing in the occupied West Bank with the tacit backing of the government, as Britain announced sweeping measures alongside France and Canada targeting trade and activities linked to Jewish settlements.
Miliband said Britain would formally recognize Israel’s occupation of the West Bank as unlawful in its entirety. He described this acknowledgment as “the least the people who face such suffering deserve. And it should be the prelude to justice.”
The measures include an import ban on goods from illegal settlements, sanctions on services such as construction and financing, and a ban on UK advertising for settlement properties. Britain will also impose personal sanctions on individuals accused of promoting settler violence and introduce new restrictions on arms licences and other exports that “materially contribute to the occupation.”
UK Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband has accused Jewish “terrorists” of carrying out ethnic cleansing in the occupied West Bank with the tacit backing of the government, as Britain announced sweeping measures alongside France and Canada targeting trade and activities linked to Jewish settlements.
Miliband said Britain would formally recognize Israel’s occupation of the West Bank as unlawful in its entirety. He described this acknowledgment as “the least the people who face such suffering deserve. And it should be the prelude to justice.”
The measures include an import ban on goods from illegal settlements, sanctions on services such as construction and financing, and a ban on UK advertising for settlement properties. Britain will also impose personal sanctions on individuals accused of promoting settler violence and introduce new restrictions on arms licences and other exports that “materially contribute to the occupation.”
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❗️Twelve nations announce joint sanctions on illegal Israeli settlement trade
Twelve countries have announced plans to impose trade sanctions on products originating from illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, citing the escalation of state-backed violence and attacks by Israeli settlers against Palestinian villages.
In a joint statement released on Tuesday, foreign ministers from Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Iceland, Ireland, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and the UK confirmed their intention to institute national trade restrictions and back European-wide bans targeting settlement goods that violate international law.
The coordinated diplomatic move reflects growing international impatience with ongoing land seizures, settlement expansion, and violent rampages against Palestinian communities throughout the occupied West Bank.
In their joint declaration, the foreign ministers emphasized that the measure directly targets illegal settlement infrastructure, confirming that member states are actively enacting national procedures and considering additional restrictive measures to enforce international legal prohibitions.
Twelve countries have announced plans to impose trade sanctions on products originating from illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, citing the escalation of state-backed violence and attacks by Israeli settlers against Palestinian villages.
In a joint statement released on Tuesday, foreign ministers from Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Iceland, Ireland, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and the UK confirmed their intention to institute national trade restrictions and back European-wide bans targeting settlement goods that violate international law.
The coordinated diplomatic move reflects growing international impatience with ongoing land seizures, settlement expansion, and violent rampages against Palestinian communities throughout the occupied West Bank.
In their joint declaration, the foreign ministers emphasized that the measure directly targets illegal settlement infrastructure, confirming that member states are actively enacting national procedures and considering additional restrictive measures to enforce international legal prohibitions.
UK Police Arrested 62,199 People Over Online Speech In Five Years
Britain’s police arrested at least 62,199 people over five years under laws governing what people say online or over the phone.
That’s a busy period for the written word. And the number of those charged over the same period is 18,510, while 12,292 people were convicted.
The Big Brother Watch report, Britain’s Free Speech Problem: How Growing Restrictions Are Stifling Speech Online and Offline, covers the period between January 1, 2021, and December 31, 2025.
The laws are Section 1 of the Malicious Communications Act 1988, Section 127 of the Communications Act 2003, and Section 179 of the Online Safety Act 2023.
What do they concern? Indecent or grossly offensive messages, electronic communications that are grossly offensive, indecent, obscene, or menacing, as well as the persistent use of a public network intended to cause annoyance, inconvenience, or needless anxiety.
@reclaimthenet
#UK #BigBrother #FreeSpeech #Dystopia
Britain’s police arrested at least 62,199 people over five years under laws governing what people say online or over the phone.
That’s a busy period for the written word. And the number of those charged over the same period is 18,510, while 12,292 people were convicted.
The Big Brother Watch report, Britain’s Free Speech Problem: How Growing Restrictions Are Stifling Speech Online and Offline, covers the period between January 1, 2021, and December 31, 2025.
The laws are Section 1 of the Malicious Communications Act 1988, Section 127 of the Communications Act 2003, and Section 179 of the Online Safety Act 2023.
What do they concern? Indecent or grossly offensive messages, electronic communications that are grossly offensive, indecent, obscene, or menacing, as well as the persistent use of a public network intended to cause annoyance, inconvenience, or needless anxiety.
@reclaimthenet
#UK #BigBrother #FreeSpeech #Dystopia
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resonating with PEP's 1932 document, 'Freedom and Planning'... but then again, that off-shoot of the Fabian Society always carried water for the Bank of England, just as the Fabians...
https://escapekey.substack.com/p/the-english-devolution-bill
https://escapekey.substack.com/p/the-english-devolution-bill
SF911Truth Annual Film Festival – 9/11 25 Years On
The Northern California 9/11 Truth Alliance will host its 22nd Annual 9/11 Truth Film Festival at the Grand Lake Theatre, 3200 Grand Avenue, Oakland, CA, Tuesday, September 8th, 2026 from 3:00 PM to 10:00 PM with documentary films and speakers.
A Coalition of 9/11 Truth organizations will also host a major conference in New York City, Turning the Tide 9/11 25 Years Later, Thursday, September 10th – Sunday September 13th , 2026 at El Teatro at El Museo del Barrio, 1230 Fifth Ave., NY, NY . The New York Conference will include a broader range of topics and many…...
Read full article ...
https://off-guardian.org/2026/09/08/sf911truth-annual-film-festival-9-11-25-years-on/
#WTC #Building7 911 #ComtrolledDemolition #FreeFall #WOT
The Northern California 9/11 Truth Alliance will host its 22nd Annual 9/11 Truth Film Festival at the Grand Lake Theatre, 3200 Grand Avenue, Oakland, CA, Tuesday, September 8th, 2026 from 3:00 PM to 10:00 PM with documentary films and speakers.
A Coalition of 9/11 Truth organizations will also host a major conference in New York City, Turning the Tide 9/11 25 Years Later, Thursday, September 10th – Sunday September 13th , 2026 at El Teatro at El Museo del Barrio, 1230 Fifth Ave., NY, NY . The New York Conference will include a broader range of topics and many…...
Read full article ...
https://off-guardian.org/2026/09/08/sf911truth-annual-film-festival-9-11-25-years-on/
#WTC #Building7 911 #ComtrolledDemolition #FreeFall #WOT
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🇵🇸 Do Not Let Europe Wash Its Hands of Gaza by Blaming Netanyahu
Suddenly, Europe and friends have discovered their outrage.
After years of destruction in Gaza, mass displacement, starvation, demolished hospitals, dead journalists and children pulled from beneath concrete, governments that armed Israel, traded with Israel and provided it diplomatic protection now want the world to believe they have finally found their moral compass.
Britain, France and others are announcing measures against illegal Israeli settlements. European politicians increasingly condemn Benjamin Netanyahu and members of his government and the language is becoming harsher. The distance between European capitals and Jerusalem is becoming more conspicuous.
Do not mistake this for absolution, European governments cannot erase the material and political support they provided while Gaza was being destroyed. The European Union remained Israel’s largest trading partner.
Even after the EU’s own review found indications that Israel was violating the human-rights provisions of its Association Agreement, Europe could not bring itself to impose the kind of sweeping economic measures it has demonstrated elsewhere that it is perfectly capable of imposing.
Now we are expected to applaud because settlement dates and wine may disappear from European shelves.
This creates a convenient political escape hatch: make Netanyahu the story.
Netanyahu deserves accountability for the policies carried out under his government. So do the ministers who have openly advocated displacement and collective punishment.
But reducing what happened to Gaza to the personality of Benjamin Netanyahu is an extraordinarily convenient fiction.
Israel’s assault was not conducted by Netanyahu personally. It was conducted by state institutions, an enormous military apparatus and a government that initially included figures from Netanyahu’s political opposition. Nor did European support begin with Netanyahu or depend entirely upon him.
If Netanyahu loses Israel’s coming election and is replaced by a leader who speaks more politely in European capitals while maintaining occupation, settlement expansion and Palestinian subjugation, Europe must not be permitted to declare the crisis solved.
A different prime minister does not resurrect the dead.
A different coalition does not rebuild Gaza.
A different face does not absolve the governments that supplied weapons, maintained economic relations and offered diplomatic cover while Palestinians were being killed.
This is why today’s European outrage deserves scrutiny rather than applause.
Perhaps some countries have genuinely changed their position. If so, they can demonstrate it through policy: suspend military assistance, impose meaningful restrictions on trade connected to violations of international law, demand accountability regardless of who governs Israel, and support the same legal standards for allies that they demand for adversaries.
But if their objective is merely to isolate Netanyahu, wait for an Israeli election and then embrace a more presentable government pursuing substantially the same policies, this is not accountability.
It is reputation management.
Palestinians do not need Europe to find a more palatable administrator of their dispossession.
They need the policies that enabled it to end.
And Europe should not be allowed to rewrite the last several years as though it spent them standing helplessly on the sidelines.
It did not. It was there.
@DDGeopolitics
#Palestine #EU #UK #Genocide #ComplicityInGenocide
Suddenly, Europe and friends have discovered their outrage.
After years of destruction in Gaza, mass displacement, starvation, demolished hospitals, dead journalists and children pulled from beneath concrete, governments that armed Israel, traded with Israel and provided it diplomatic protection now want the world to believe they have finally found their moral compass.
Britain, France and others are announcing measures against illegal Israeli settlements. European politicians increasingly condemn Benjamin Netanyahu and members of his government and the language is becoming harsher. The distance between European capitals and Jerusalem is becoming more conspicuous.
Do not mistake this for absolution, European governments cannot erase the material and political support they provided while Gaza was being destroyed. The European Union remained Israel’s largest trading partner.
Even after the EU’s own review found indications that Israel was violating the human-rights provisions of its Association Agreement, Europe could not bring itself to impose the kind of sweeping economic measures it has demonstrated elsewhere that it is perfectly capable of imposing.
Now we are expected to applaud because settlement dates and wine may disappear from European shelves.
This creates a convenient political escape hatch: make Netanyahu the story.
Netanyahu deserves accountability for the policies carried out under his government. So do the ministers who have openly advocated displacement and collective punishment.
But reducing what happened to Gaza to the personality of Benjamin Netanyahu is an extraordinarily convenient fiction.
Israel’s assault was not conducted by Netanyahu personally. It was conducted by state institutions, an enormous military apparatus and a government that initially included figures from Netanyahu’s political opposition. Nor did European support begin with Netanyahu or depend entirely upon him.
If Netanyahu loses Israel’s coming election and is replaced by a leader who speaks more politely in European capitals while maintaining occupation, settlement expansion and Palestinian subjugation, Europe must not be permitted to declare the crisis solved.
A different prime minister does not resurrect the dead.
A different coalition does not rebuild Gaza.
A different face does not absolve the governments that supplied weapons, maintained economic relations and offered diplomatic cover while Palestinians were being killed.
This is why today’s European outrage deserves scrutiny rather than applause.
Perhaps some countries have genuinely changed their position. If so, they can demonstrate it through policy: suspend military assistance, impose meaningful restrictions on trade connected to violations of international law, demand accountability regardless of who governs Israel, and support the same legal standards for allies that they demand for adversaries.
But if their objective is merely to isolate Netanyahu, wait for an Israeli election and then embrace a more presentable government pursuing substantially the same policies, this is not accountability.
It is reputation management.
Palestinians do not need Europe to find a more palatable administrator of their dispossession.
They need the policies that enabled it to end.
And Europe should not be allowed to rewrite the last several years as though it spent them standing helplessly on the sidelines.
It did not. It was there.
@DDGeopolitics
#Palestine #EU #UK #Genocide #ComplicityInGenocide
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🚨BREAKING: Iran captured a U.S. Navy Dive-LD autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) near the entrance of the Strait of Hormuz.
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