By Mark Benjamin
Self-proclaimed waterboarding fan Dick Cheney called it a no-brainer in a 2006 radio interview: Terror suspects should get a “a dunk in the water.” But recently released internal documents reveal the controversial “enhanced interrogation” practice was far more brutal on detainees than Cheney’s description sounds, and was administered with meticulous cruelty.
Interrogators pumped detainees [...]

Obama visit plan has caused controversy among the Indonesian Muslims although the plan is canceled now.  According to a polling of Detik.com,  a widely-read popular online news website, by today 19 March, more than 60% has shown refusal on the president visit.
The polling itself reads: “The US President Obama will visit Indonesia in the coming [...]

Source Palestine Think Tank
This week’s  PTT has many new items of interest, but we’d like to point out a few that are particularly relevant to us as “activists”, “campaigners” and Palestinians who struggle to keep their cause in the light and going in the right direction.
The first, by Mohamed Khodr is about [...]

by Khalid Amayreh  in occupied Palestine
No sooner had the Obama administration announced the resumption of “indirect” talks between Israel and the PA regime than Israel announced new plans to expand Jewish settlements in occupied East Jerusalem and other parts of the West Bank .
On Tuesday, as visiting  US Vice president Joe Biden was showering Israel  [...]

Khalid Amayreh (*) is a journalist who lives in Hebron, a city brutalized and bloodied daily by armed Jewish settlers who are driving the authentic inhabitants by force. He is what might be called a true Palestinian; a man of integrity who was never seduced by financial rewards and prestige; a man standing who has [...]

Manila (Voa-Islam.com) – An Islamist militant accused of being behind the deadly 2002 Bali bombings is alive and hiding in the southern Philippines despite earlier reports of his death, a senior military official said on Tuesday.
Dulmatin, leader of the regional militant group Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), was not killed in a clash in 2008 as the [...]

Qatar (Voa-Islam.com) – Osama bin Laden, the leader of Al Qaeda, blamed the United States and developed countries for not halting climate change and said that the global economy should immediately abandon its reliance on the American dollar, according to an audiotape released Friday by the broadcaster Al Jazeera.
“Talk about climate change is not an [...]

Surabaya (voa-islam. com) – A thousand of ulemas in east java have been making an agreement to reject the arrival of US president to Indonesia on 20th march. This rejection is as form of protests because of US actions that tortue moslem in all over the world.
Those ulemas have been compromising that obama is cruelty [...]

ACEH (voa-islam.com) – The team of Aceh Provincial Police Headquarter arrested four people that were suspected as the members of Jemaah Islamiah (JI) located in the Jalin mountain, the district of Kota Jantho, Aceh Besar. Unfortunately it was regreted because it ran in tragic. Two civil citizens was shot. In fact, One [...]

A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.
Nicolò Machiavelli

WRITTEN BY MARY RIZZO
Obama, before he actually “did” anything, had a reputation. And, indeed, reputation – what others think you are, and not what you actually are – is a crucial factor in a public figure. A political leader, while marketed, literally, in order to [...]