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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Muslims are numerous but powerless. Divisions among Muslims, especially between Sunni and Shi’ites, have consigned the Muslim Middle East to almost a century of Western control. Muslims cannot even play together. The Islamic Solidarity Games, a regional version of the Olympics, which were to be held in [...]

USA Pakistan looking in opposite directions – blindedBe not deceived by Barack Hussein Obama’s middle name or by the fact that he spent several childhood years in Indonesia. His political career is a product of a Westside Chicago Ashkenazi network with roots that trace directly back to organized crime of the 1920s.
Top fundraiser Penny Pritzker [...]