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One of the most intense scandals the field of psychology has faced over the last decade is the involvement of several of its members in enabling Bush's worldwide torture regime. Numerous health professionals worked for the U.S. government to help understand how best to mentally degrade and break down detainees. At the center of that controversy was -- and is -- Dr. Larry James. James, a retired Army colonel, was the Chief Psychologist at Guantanamo in 2003, at the height of the abuses at that camp, and then served in the same position at Abu Ghraib during 2004. Today, Dr. James circulated an excited email announcing, "with great pride," that he has now been selected to serve on the "White House Task Force entitled Enhancing the Psychological Well-Being of The Military Family." In his new position, he will be meeting at the White House with Michelle Obama and other White House officials on Tuesday.

[From an earlier US - NATO massacre...]

The US-led military alliance in Afghanistan has admitted that it killed and injured several civilians instead of Taliban militants in its latest airstrike.

US-led NATO forces targeted two vehicles carrying civilians in the southern Afghan province of Helmand on Friday. The western military alliance provided no details about the number of casualties. However, the governor of Helmand Province Mohammad Gulab Manga said in a statement on Saturday that seven civilians were killed when a NATO helicopter fired on two civilian vehicles. The statement also added that the seven victims were two men, two women, and three children.

According to a UN report, about 2,800 civilians were killed by foreign forces and militants in Afghanistan last year. The figure was the highest since the start of the US-led invasion in 2001. Over 150,000 foreign troops are stationed in the country. The invasion of Afghanistan took place with the official objective of curbing militancy and bringing peace and stability to the country. Nine years on, however, Afghanistan remains unstable and civilians continue to pay the price.

PressTV: US-led strike kills Afghan civilians

As Japan's cleanup efforts begin, the number of people found dead and declared missing has reached staggering proportions. The latest count is more than 27,000: 10,000 dead and more than 17,400 remain missing, according to Al Jazeera. Furthmore, on Friday, Japanese officials admitted that radioactive contamination may reach potentially catastrophic levels, due to a breech in the core of reactor #3 at the Fukushima power plant. In addition to the mounting death toll from the worst earthquake in Japan's history, radiation from the damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant has reached the food supply and drinking water. "Contaminated water likely seeped through the containment vessel protecting the reactor's core," Hidehiko Nishiyama of the Japan Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency told CNN. The radiation leak may cause the death toll to rise further, as the deadly nuclear material infiltrates the environment.

WSWS: Radioactive contamination spreading from damaged Japanese nuclear plant

President Obama’s criminal launch of an undeclared and Congressionally unauthorized war against Libya may be compounded by the crime of spreading toxic uranium oxide in populated areas of that country.

This is latest concern of groups like the International Coalition to Ban Uranium Weapons, which monitor the military use of so-called depleted-uranium (DU) anti-tank and bunker-penetrating shells.

Images of Libyan civilians and rebels celebrating around the burning hulks of the Libyan army’s tanks and armored personnel carriers, which had been hit by US, French and British aircraft ordnance in the early hours of the US-led assault on the forces of Col. Muammar Gaddafy, could well have been unknowingly inhaling the deadly dust of the uranium weapons favored by Western military forces for anti-tank warfare.

Specifically, the British-built Harrier jets used by British naval air forces and also by US Marine pilots, are often equipped with pod-mounted cannons that fire 20 mm shells--shells that often have uranium projectiles designed to penetrate heavy armor.

Fourth election in seven years will take place in May after opposition parties bring down Stephen Harper government. Canadian opposition parties have brought down the government of Stephen Harper in a vote of no confidence, triggering an election that polls suggest will reinstate the status quo of minority rule by his Conservative party. The opposition parties held the prime minister in contempt of parliament in a 156-145 vote for failing to disclose the full financial details of his tougher crime legislation, corporate tax cuts and plans to purchase stealth fighter jets. Opinion polls expect Harper's Conservative party to be re-elected but not with a majority, meaning he could only continue governing dependent on opposition votes.

PressTV: Canadian government collapses

BILOXI, Mississippi -- The U.S. government is keeping a tight lid on its probe into scores of unexplained dolphin deaths along the Gulf Coast, possibly connected to last year's BP oil spill, causing tension with some independent marine scientists. Wildlife biologists contracted by the National Marine Fisheries Service to document spikes in dolphin mortality and to collect specimens and tissue samples for the agency were quietly ordered late last month to keep their findings confidential. The gag order was contained in an agency letter informing outside scientists that its review of the dolphin die-off, classified as an "unusual mortality event (UME)," had been folded into a federal criminal investigation launched last summer into the oil spill.

Demonstrations in the Syrian capital, Damascus, and elsewhere were met with force as security forces struggled to contain unrest that had begun in the southern city of Deraa a week ago. Thousands once again joined funeral processions in Deraa on Friday, chanting: "Deraa people are hungry, we want freedom." Hundreds took to the streets in the cities of Homs, Hama, Tel and Latakia and in towns surrounding Deraa, with smaller protests in the major cities of Damascus and Aleppo, which are more firmly under the watch of security forces. Troops reportedly opened fire in some cases. There were reports that at least 23 people had been killed, some of them in Damascus, hitherto unaffected; the reports could not be independently verified. Amnesty International put the death toll around Deraa in the past week at 55 at least.