by Glenn Greenwald Ever since the attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, Obama officials, including the President himself, have been vowing that the perpetrators will be “brought to justice”. That, of…
Counting the Bodies in the Pakistani Drone Campaign
by Alice K. Ross The US government must release its estimates of how many people are being killed in CIA drone strikes, to end an over-reliance on often scanty media reports, a…
Podcast: Gregory Koger on his Unjust Conviction
Gregory Koger, activist and videographer from Chicago joined us for a special conversation on his case, his activism as a former prisoner struggling against all forms of injustice, and the “criminal justice”…
Sold Into “a Piece of Hell:” A Death of Innocence at Gitmo
Sold for a $5,000 bounty, Adnan Latif was among the first prisoners detained at Guantanamo. A federal judge and two presidential administrations said he didn’t belong there. A decade later he left…
Truth was Outside the Debate
By Debra Sweet Despite what you may have seen on the screen Tuesday night, there were little pockets of truth-telling at Hofstra University. World Can’t Wait and the kNOw Drones tour were…
Andy Worthington Asks Supporters to Sign UK Petition Calling for the Release of Shaker Aamer from Guantánamo
By Andy Worthington Last week, I recorded a brief video message of support for Shaker Aamer, the last British resident in Guantánamo, urging everyone who cares about Shaker’s plight to sign the…
Murder by Drone: the U.S. Terror War in Pakistan
From a World to Win News Service As American drones occupy the skies across Pakistan’s North Waziristan, the U.S. is continuing to lie about the many hundreds of ordinary people blasted to…
“After the Fire, the Fire Still Burns”: Horror Goes on for Victims of Iraq War Atrocities
by Chris Floyd Years ago, I wrote several pieces about the savage decimation of Fallujah by American forces in 2004. Some of those pieces [here and here, for example] pointed to the…
America’s Extradition Problem
Not content with having the largest domestic prison population in the world, both in numbers and as a percentage of the total population, the US also imports prisoners from other countries, at…
Over 50 Enter Tar Sands Blockade Tree Village in Defiance of Police and Legal Repression to Defend Tree-Sitters
PRESS RELEASE FROM TAR SANDS BLOCKADE: Risking arrest, lawsuits protesters rally for massive tree blockade after expansion of TransCanada’s overreaching SLAPP suit WINNSBORO, TEXAS – MONDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2012 – Following a…