Top US senator urges Guantanamo for Iraqi suspects
Gautanamo Bay Camp VI © AFP/File Virginie Montet AFP WASHINGTON (AFP) – The US Senate’s top Republican, Mitch McConnell, called Tuesday for two Iraqi nationals…
Human Rights
Families say Guantanamo ‘suicides’ were killings
© AFP/File Paul J. Richards Editor’s Note: Sure, people usually kill themselves by ripping out their own esophagus — a detail that appears at the…
Visible Means of Support: Backing Brutality in Bahrain
Wiki Image Chris Floyd Empire Burlesque Last week, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate met with the crown prince of Bahrain and “reaffirmed” the United…
I’m Bradley Manning (Video by Tom Ford)
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Geneva Conventions Redefined: The New U.S. Department of War
“What’s in a name?”— William Shakespeare Perpetual war continues abroad and domestically Dees Illustration Lt. Eric N. Shine and Gary Corseri Activist Post Most people…
Obama Nearly Triples Bagram Detainee Population
image credit Justin Elliot Salon President Obama has presided over a threefold increase in the number of detainees being held at the controversial military detention…
Supreme Court nixes suit against ex-attorney general
Former US Attorney General John Ashcroft © AFP/Getty Images/File Mark Wilson AFP WASHINGTON (AFP) – The US Supreme Court has ruled that former attorney general…
Live by Treachery, Die by Treachery; A Historical Lesson About Selling Your Soul
Sadist, bully Nikolai Yezhov: The system in a sense of ironic justice, cornered, tortured a false confession from, and executed the man who had so…
US expects to grill bin Laden women ‘soon’
A Pakistani boy plays cricket. © AFP Asif Hassan AFP WASHINGTON (AFP) – The United States said it expects Pakistan will “soon” let it question…
Bring back waterboarding, says Cheney
© AFP/Getty Images/File Mark Wilson AFP WASHINGTON (AFP) – Harsh interrogation methods such as waterboarding played a role in tracking down Osama bin Laden and…
Bin Laden death rekindles torture debate
Dees Illustration AFP WASHINGTON (AFP) – Osama bin Laden’s death has reignited debate over the George W. Bush administration’s use of harsh interrogation methods, with…
Torture Nation: Enhancing the Move Toward Totalitarianism
Kurt Nimmo Infowars Now that the government claims it offed Osama bin Laden – never mind a complete lack of evidence – it is time…
Osama bin Laden’s Useful Death
Dees Illustration Paul Craig Roberts InfoWars In a propaganda piece reeking of US Triumphalism, two alleged journalists, Adam Goldman and Chris Brummitt, of the Associated…
Pentagon shows off alleged WikiLeaker’s new prison
US soldier Bradley Manning © AFP/Getty Images/File Chip Somodevilla AFP FORT LEAVENWORTH, Kansas (AFP) – Bradley Manning, the US soldier accused of leaking cables to…