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by: Tom Engelhardt   . Yes, Stanley McChrystal is the general from the dark side (and proud of it). So the recent sacking of Afghan commander General David McKiernan after less than a…

  By David Swanson   Dick Cheney could make anyone look decent, honorable, and law-abiding by comparison.  But is the existence of someone worse, no matter how many hours our media monopoly…

Obama Censors Photos of U.S. Torture On Wednesday, May 13, Barack Obama reversed his previously announced position, and said that he would move to block the release of some 2000 photos documenting…

 Telling the truth can be dangerous business. Honest and popular don’t go hand in hand. – Lyle Rogers and Chuck "The Hawk" Clarke, Ishtar (1987) by Nima Shirazi Last Tuesday, prominent Israeli…

  By Michael Ratner   Yes, it is good that President Obama ordered the release of four more of the torture memos issued by the Office of Legal Counsel during the Bush…

  By David Swanson The official story is that Spain has decided not to prosecute Bush’s torture lawyers. Yet the known facts suggest something else entirely. 1-We know that the prosecutor who…

  This thought provoking article, which we encourage all our readers to study, think about, pass around, and discuss, first appeared on the website of Revolution newspaper. Part I. Introduction A grievous,…

World Can’t Wait received the following letter from Defend Science   Letter to Defend Science Signatories   Two important decisions have just been announced in Texas, one a court case and the…

  Commentary by Tim Jones We had hoped this would go differently. Last week, in a motion to dismiss Jewel v. NSA, EFF’s litigation against the National Security Agency for the warrantless…

This article originally appeared on Wide Asleep in America, the blog of “Lord Baltimore”  On March 19th, two months after the 22-day devastation of Gaza and the slaughtering of over 1,400 Palestinians,…