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Terrore e carcere: IN YEMEN'S SECRET PRISONS, UAE TORTURES AND US INTERROGATES
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By Maggie Michael
Information
Clearing House
MUKALLA, Yemen (AP) — Hundreds of men
swept up in the hunt for al-Qaida
militants have disappeared into a secret
network of prisons in southern Yemen
where abuse is routine and torture
extreme — including the “grill,” in
which the victim is tied to a spit like
a roast and spun in a circle of fire, an
Associated Press investigation has
found.
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Terrore e carcere: DDL GAMBARO: ARRIVA LA CENSURA ONLINE
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Se foste stati eletti nelle liste di un movimento nato e cresciuto online, se
poi fossero successi incidenti, vi avessero espulsi e aveste occupato
la legislatura in un lungo pellegrinaggio fra i più cangianti gruppi
parlamentari (Misto, Gruppo Azione Partecipazione Popolare, Italia
Lavori in Corso…) per poi approdare alla corte di Denis Verdini (sì, il
gruppo di Ascari inviati da Berlusconi in missione dall’altra parte
dell’emiciclo per tenere in vita i vari governi del PD)…
Se aveste votato la fiducia a qualsiasi
ipotesi di governo avesse il coraggio di presentarsi alle camere, e se
nonostante questo, a legislatura ormai agli sgoccioli, vi trovaste senza
una reale possibilità di essere ricandidati, cosa fareste?
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Terrore e carcere: PERCHE' LA FOTO DI SALAH ABDESLAM E' STATA RITOCCATA?
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DI ROSANNA SPADINI
comedonchisciotte.org
Il
concept album è sempre più ossessivo e ripropone i soliti modelli
puntuali, due fratelli nel ruolo di kamikaze uno puntualmente morto,
l’altro puntualmente in fuga. Parigi 13 novembre 2015, Bataclan, i fratelli Abdeslam.
Un puzzle apparentemente indecifrabile, un canovaccio improvvisato su
spazi d’arte pervasivi, che ad ogni nuovo attentato terroristico invece
si ripresentano in termini monotoni e sempre uguali … scenografie da
incubo colluse con le stesse confezioni antologiche abbastanza scontate,
quasi fossero gli intrighi che Ray Donovan deve quotidianamente disbrogliare nella sua Hollywood sontuosa e bastarda.
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Terrore e carcere: MY 40 YEARS IN PRISON
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 Leonard Peltier
www.counterpunch.org
What can I say that I have not said before? I guess I can start by
saying see you later to all of those who have passed in the last year.
We Natives don’t like to mention their names. We believe that if we
speak their names it disrupts their journey. They may loose their way
and their spirits wander forever. If too many call out to them, they
will try to come back. But their spirits know we are thinking about
them, so all I will say is safe journey and I hope to see you soon.
On February 6th, I will have been imprisoned for 40 years! I’m 71
years old and still in a maximum security penitentiary. At my age, I’m
not sure I have much time left. I have earned about 4-5 years good time that no one seems to want to
recognize. It doesn’t count, I guess? And when I was indicted the
average time served on a life sentence before being given parole was 7
years. So that means I’ve served nearly 6 life sentences and I should
have been released on parole a very long time ago. Then there’s
mandatory release after serving 30 years. I’m 10 years past that. The
government isn’t supposed to change the laws to keep you in prison —
EXCEPT if you’re Leonard Peltier, it seems.
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Terrore e carcere: NON SOLO EGITTO (GIULIO E LA TORTURA)
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 FONTE: ROSSLAND (BLOG)
Qualcuno fatica forse a immaginare che il povero Giulio Regeni possa essersi
trovato nel posto sbagliato al momento sbagliato (le manifestazioni di
Piazza Tahrir per l'anniversario della caduta di Mubarak), e che sia
finito arrestato insieme ad altri manifestanti, quindi portato in
carcere e lì torturato?
Forse pensiamo che questa ipotesi sia "poco credibile"?
Che non si pratichi la tortura nelle carceri egiziane?
Uhmmm.
Che
a nessuna persona "normale" possa mai capitare di finire nel posto
sbagliato nel momento sbagliato come probabilmente è successo a Giulio?
Uhmmm.
Come
alcuni terribili casi italiani dimostrano (da Bolzaneto a Cucchi), la
tortura e il pestaggio sono pratiche in uso non solo in Egitto o in
qualche sperduto paese sudamericano, ma nelle carceri di molti altri
civilissimi paesi occidentali (Guantanamo per tutti, ma senza
dimenticare l' extraordinary rendition, pratica illegale tutta occidentale).
Il
punto è che Giulio ha (forse) sperimentato la brutalità del mondo
parallelo, quello dell'illegalità praticata da chi della legalità
dovrebbe essere garante.
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Terrore e carcere: L'ESECUZIONE DI AL NIMR: UNA MOSSA POLITICA INTELLIGENTE
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FONTE: MOON OF ALABAMA
Il governo saudita ha dato seguito all'esecuzione di 47 prigionieri
che, da lunga data, erano stati condannati a morte per terrorismo e per
ribellione contro il governo.
Dal punto di vista del governo saudita è stata una mossa politica intelligente.
I
sauditi sono nei guai per la guerra nello Yemen. Dopo nove mesi di
bombardamenti che hanno fatto vedere l'inferno in quel paese non c'è
nessuna possibilità che l'obiettivo della loro guerra – cioè
reinstallare un governo fantoccio a Sanaa - possa realizzarsi in tempi
brevi. Mentre le forze yemenite fanno continui raid (vid)
su una città saudita dopo l'altra, anche i progetti sauditi di cambiare
i regimi per mezzo di jihadisti salafiti sia in Iraq che in Siria
stanno vacillando. Il prezzo del petrolio troppo basso rende necessario
che il governo saudita introduca le tasse sul suo popolo e le tasse,
quasi sempre, non rendono più popolare.
Per distogliere la gente da questi problemi i sauditi hanno deciso di
sbarazzarsi di un gruppo di prigionieri e utilizzare questo evento per
riguadagnarsi una certa legittimità. Molti dei 47 uccisi erano veramente
marmaglia di al-Qaida che, dieci anni fa, aveva ucciso e fatto saltare
in aria interi edifici in Arabia Saudita e aveva provato a rovesciare
con la violenza il governo saudita.
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Terrore e carcere: APPEAL ABOUT THE FATE OF ANA BELEN MONTES
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 thesaker.is
To all our American progressive friends:
We are writing this note to you from Cuba with a heartfelt desire to
let you know about the formation of the Cuba Committee, which presently
manages the campaign for a better treatment and a possible pardon for
Ana Belen Montes
She is an American citizen who was able to sense a different future
between our country of Cuba and the United States. A future where both
nations would procure to conduct with each other within the parameters
of a relationship based on friendship. Ana Belen was able to foresee a
change of the United States government policy toward Cuba that “would
bring our government back in harmony with the compassion and generosity
of the American people. It would allow Cubans and Americans to learn
from and share with each other. It would enable Cuba to drop its
defensive measures and experiment more easily with changes. And it would
permit the two neighbors to work together and with other nations to
promote tolerance and cooperation“, as we are slowly learning to do since December 17, 2014.
(Ana Belén Montes : dessin d’Ernesto Robles)
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Terrore e carcere: THE POLITICS OF PRISONS AND PRISONERS
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 by Steve Martinot
counterpunch.org
They are getting ready to activate another super-max prison. This one
is a reconditioned prison built a decade ago in Thomson, Illinois. Like
Pelican Bay, Marion, and Florence, this prison will be dedicated to
holding people in solitary confinement. They say it will double the
federal government’s isolation capacity. They say it is for “the worst
of the worst.” But we know what that means. They pretend to refer to the
incorrigibly violent, but we know it refers to political prisoners.
Prison administrations have nothing against violence. They use violence
as part of their very profession. A prison system is already a form of
violence (kidnapping). Torture occurs there free of any accountability.
They even use violent “offenders” for the purpose of “getting” someone
they don’t like (Yogi Pinell, for instance). And they make a game of
instigating “gladiator” contests between prisoners (which sometimes give
guards a chance to shoot someone).
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Terrore e carcere: INJUSTICE SYSTEM: DEATH PENALTY FOR BOSTON MARATHON SUSPECT
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Original Title: Death Penalty for Boston Marathon Suspect Drives Nail in the Coffin of US Justice System
 By Joachim Hagopian
Global Research, May 16, 2015
With the jury’s verdict now in sentencing an innocent man to death,
the US justice system is sinking ever lower in its moral decay. So many
giant holes in the prosecution’s case were simply ignored. Photos of
the shredded backpacks allegedly containing the bombs never matched the
backpacks of the Tsarnaev brothers. But the fact that they did match a
number of Kraft International private security contractors photographed
at the scene meant nothing. When evidence of a staged “realistic”
enacted event complete with role actors and stagehand direction, fake
bombs and fake blood, pre-marathon announcements of a “bomb drill” confirmed
by a public notice in the Boston Globe, and no real evidence that
either Tsarnaev brother committed a crime as much as admitted by the feds, there is absolutely no justice left in America today!
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Terrore e carcere: A SLOW DEATH FOR MUMIA ABU-JAMAL
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A SLOW DEATH FOR THOUSANDS OF PRISONERS IN AMERICA
 by Heidi Boghosian and Johanna Fernandez
blackagendareport.com
Political prisoner Mumia Abu Jamal nearly died – and remains in grave
danger – from a diabetic condition that the Pennsylvania prison system
failed to diagnose in his decades behind bars. He is not alone. “The
Bureau of Justice reported some 40% of prisoners and jail inmates in
2011-2012 reporting chronic medical condition such as asthma, cancer,
heart disease, high blood pressure—and diabetes.”
“Mumia’s condition highlights the systemic neglect and abuse of
prisoners in our nation’s vast and ever growing system of mass
incarceration.”
What does it mean for hundreds of thousands of prisoners in the United
States when the world’s most famous prisoner faces possible death from
medical neglect in a Pennsylvania prison? Often called the “Voice of the
Voiceless” for his countless publications and broadcasts revealing the
injustices of the criminal justice system, Mumia Abu-Jamal has seen his
health slip away in a matter of months. Thousands of supporters
worldwide and frequent visitors could not stop the burning black lesions
that covered his entire body or the profound fatigue that, since
January, has sucked him into trance-like sleeps, or guards who punished
him with denial of calls, visitors and yard for sleeping through morning
alarms and the morning count. What does it say that on March 30, Mumia
Abu-Jamal fell unconscious with uncontrolled—and undiagnosed—diabetes?
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Terrore e carcere: THE PRISON STATE OF AMERICA
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 The incarcerated poor have become the
nation’s most exploited workers. They are
the prototype drones for the corporate
totalitarian state.
By Chris Hedges
December 28, 2014 "ICH"
- "Truthdig"
Prisons employ and exploit the
ideal worker. Prisoners do not receive
benefits or pensions. They are not paid
overtime. They are forbidden to organize and
strike. They must show up on time. They are
not paid for sick days or granted vacations.
They cannot formally complain about working
conditions or safety hazards. If they are
disobedient, or attempt to protest their
pitiful wages, they lose their jobs and can
be sent to isolation cells. The roughly 1
million prisoners who work for corporations
and government industries in the American
prison system are models for what the
corporate state expects us all to become.
And corporations have no intention of
permitting prison reforms that would reduce
the size of their bonded workforce. In fact,
they are seeking to replicate these
conditions throughout the society.
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Terrore e carcere: ALCATRAZ: UNA PRIGIONE COME DISNEYLAND
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 DI CHRIS HEDGES
truthdig.com
Ho preso il traghetto dal Molo 33 sull’Embarcadero di San Francisco
per Alcatraz. Sono sceso sull’isola da una passerella, ho camminato su
per la collina verso l’ingresso della vecchia prigione, e mi hanno dato
un’audioguida portatile. Ho trascorso due ore camminando attraverso i
corridoi e le celle dove orribili sofferenze e traumi hanno oppresso gli
esseri umani. Alcatraz presumibilmente aveva il tasso di pazzia più
alto di ogni penitenziario federale della sua era.
Sono
stato intrattenuto attraverso le cuffie con storie riguardanti famosi
detenuti di Alcatraz inclusi Al Capone, Robert “Birdman” (uomo uccello,
ndr) Stroud e George “Machine Gun” (mitragliatrice, ndr) Kelly,
tentativi di evasione, la rivolta armata del 1946 che fu brutalmente
soppressa dal Corpo dei Marines, e gli intrepidi agenti FBI che diedero
la caccia ai criminali più noti della nazione e li consegnarono alla
giustizia. Su questo binario, racconti di buoni e cattivi, di poliziotti
e gangster, persino il ripugnante J.Edgar Hoover è stato resuscitato
come simbolo virtuoso di ordine pubblico.
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Terrore e carcere: BLACK TEEN CLEARED OF MURDER 70 YEARS AFTER HE WAS EXECUTED
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 presstv.ir
More than
70 years after a 14-year-old African American boy was executed by the
electric chair in South Carolina, a judge threw out his murder
conviction.
George Stinney was found guilty in 1944 of killing two white girls, in a one-day trial before an all-white jury.
Stinney was subsequently electrocuted in the same year, becoming the
youngest person executed in the United States in the 20th century. The
95-pound boy was so small he had to sit on a book when he was strapped
to the electric chair.
The only evidence against the boy was a confession he allegedly made
to police officers after hours of questioning, away from his parents and
without a lawyer.
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Terrore e carcere: LA TORTURA E' UNA BUONA COSA ?
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 DI CHRIS FLOYD
counterpunch.org
E’ stata finalmente diffusa una parziale versione dell’inchiesta del
Senato sul sistema di tortura della Cia nella guerra al terrorismo. Pur
se in forma limitata, fornisce dettagli su un’operazione di abominevole
depravazione, che dovrebbe gettare una nazione civile in una profonda
crisi di coscienza e sollevare una profonda ed angosciata discussione su
come trasformare un sistema di governo – ed una morale nazionale – che
ha potuto arrivare a tali ignobili crimini. Dovrebbe anche dare vita ad
un esteso impegno per sottoporre gli ideatori, gli esecutori ed i
complici del programma di torture a tutte le possibili punizioni legali
che essi meritano.
Inutile a dirsi, nulla di tutto ciò
avverrà in America. Infatti, ancor prima che venisse diffuso il
rapporto, il New York Times – la voce ufficiale e il creatore del
pensiero liberale “rispettabile” per la nazione – sbatté in prima pagina
del proprio sito web un articolo di opinione, che chiedeva che “noi
perdonassimo Bush e i torturatori”. Fu il primo “pezzo d’opinione”
espresso dal Times la mattina della pubblicazione del rapporto.
Sono sicuro che entro la fine della giornata, la polvere si sarà nuovamente depositata nei suoi solchi consueti.
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Terrore e carcere: IN MANY US COMMUNITIES, COPS ARE THE 'TERRORISTS'
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Police need to be demilitarized and remade as ‘peace officers’
By Dave Lindorff
rinf.com
The apparent murder by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri,
of Mike Brown, an unarmed 18-year-old black youth who was shot a number
of times while he was allegedly on his knees with his hands up in the
air, pleading “Don’t shoot, I’m not armed,” is exposing everything that
is wrong with policing in the US today.
The Ferguson Police Department, reportedly nearly all white, patrols a
St. Louis suburban community that is largely African-American, which is
already a recipe for disaster in a country that is drenched in racism.
The Ferguson PD is also reportedly using the kind of aggressive policing
— arresting people over minor infractions — that can quickly escalate
into violent confrontations. In this case, it appears Brown’s offense
was jay-walking and perhaps talking back to the police officer — the
first being a citation offense, and the second not even illegal.
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Terrore e carcere: INVENTING TERRORISTS
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 projectsalam.org
This study, sponsored by two national organizations, Project
SALAM (Support And Legal Advocacy for Muslims) and the National Coalition to Protect Civil Freedoms (NCPCF),
focuses on post - 9/11 claims
by the U.S. government that it keeps the country safe from terrorism by
arresting hundreds of so-called “terrorists” who were about to strike the
U.S. until the FBI foiled their plots. In fact, this study shows that there have
been remarkably few actual terrorism threats to this country in the last
decade.
The vast majority of arrests in the war on terror have consisted of
• the FBI foiling its own entrapment plots; or
• the government arresting people on material support for terror
ism
charges that effectively criminalize innocent conduct, such as
charitable giving and management, free speech, free association,
peace-making, and social hospitality; or
• inflation of
minor or technical incidents
into terrorism events, such
as immigration application inaccuracies, old weapons charges, or
inaccurate statements to governmental officials.
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Terrore e carcere: SEGREGATION BY INCARCERATION
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 AMERICA'S NEW APARTHEID
by GARRY LEECH
counterpunch.org
Many people associate the mass imprisonment of a population with
authoritarian regimes. Consequently, many Americans are surprised when
they learn that the country that incarcerates more of its own citizens
than any other is the United States. With 2.3 million prisoners, the
“land of the free” has more people in prison than China, which has a
population four times the size of the United States. A hugely
disproportionate percentage of those incarcerated are African-Americans
as Washington’s war on drugs constitutes the latest incarnation of
racist policies that have existed since the country’s founding.
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Terrore e carcere: THE PSYCHOPATHOLOGY OF POLICE VIOLENCE
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 Andy Dilks, Staff Writer
Waking Times
In a recent article for Waking Times,
Julian Wash suggested that the psychopaths running the show might as
well be inhuman, discussing the apparent consensus opinion that violence
and war is something inherent to the human condition – it is a
consensus pushed primarily by those who profit from such aggression, not
the population in general. If you consider the fact that the police is
the enforcement arm of the State, their increasingly out of control
violent behavior towards innocent members of the public can only serve
to reinforce the view that this psychopathic tendency trickles down from
the top of the hierarchy and permeates throughout the system.
The evidence supporting this position is abundant. Every day, news
stories are emerging concerning the latest barbaric act on the part of
America’s law enforcement; acts which the perpetrators carry out with
apparent immunity from any kind of reprimand, let alone prosecution.
Sometimes these actions are relatively mild but nevertheless bring to
light the complete lack of compassion from the officers involved – this
was certainly the case recently in Cleveland, where police took away a
basketball hoop set up by a resident for neighborhood kids who helped
her around the yard. The woman, Cheri Fiorilli, was threatened with
arrest before the hoop was confiscated, and not given a single chance to
move the goal into her own driveway.
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Terrore e carcere: QUELLO CHE NON VORREBBERO FARCI VEDERE A GUANTANAMO
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DI ANASTASIA CHURKINA
Russia Today
L’inviata di RT (Russia Today, canale satellitare russo diffuso a
livello mondiale, ndt) Anastasia Churkina si è diretta verso la sede
della base militare della più scandalosa prigione americana e ha
scoperto un potente meccanismo di copertura.
Il volo da Fort Lauderdale, in Florida, a Guantanamo è stato l’unico
della mia vita che, decollando da un aeroporto pubblico, non fosse stato
prima segnalato sul tabellone delle partenze. Solo una manciata di
persone in attesa all’imbarco. Qualche soldato cupo e dall’aspetto
stanco- giovani sui vent’anni – e i membri dello staff molto meno
eccitati di noi, in quanto, ovviamente, saranno stati in questo posto
completamente nascosto già dozzine di volte.
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Terrore e carcere: LA VERGOGNA DEI GULAG AMERICANI
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DI CHRIS HEDGES
truthdig.com
Se, come scrisse Fyodor Dostoevsky, “il grado di civilizzazione di una
società si può valutare entrando nelle sue carceri”, qui siamo davanti
ad una nazione di barbari. La nostra vasta rete di prigioni federali e
statali, con qualcosa come 2.3 milioni di reclusi, fa a gara con i gulag
degli stati totalitari. Non appena sparisci dietro le pareti del
carcere diventi una preda. Da stuprare. Da torturare. Da picchiare.
Isolamenti prolungati. Privazioni sensoriali. Discriminazioni razziali.
Reti di bande. Lavori forzati. Cibo rancido. Bimbi incarcerati alla
stregua degli adulti. Prigionieri forzati a prendere medicinali che
inducono all’apatia. Impianti di ventilazione e riscaldamento
inadeguati. Scarse cure sanitarie. Dure sentenze per crimini non
violenti.
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