by Andy Worthington Ten years and seven months after the Bush administration’s “war on terror” prison opened at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, it is less clear than it was under George W. Bush…
Put the Drones on Trial!
From Voices for Creative Non-Violence Join Ramsey Clark, Kathy Kelly, Ann Wright and Bill Quigley Come to Missouri to Join Experts in Constitutional and International Law Supporting Activists in First Anti-Drone Trial…
Join Us at DNC in Charlotte to Stop the Crimes of your Government
by Elaine Brower and Jill McLaughlin Early in September, Obama and the Democrats, who have carried forward some of the very crimes so hated under Bush, will gather at the Democratic…
The New York Times Drones on About the Morality of Drones
“…it may be a surprise to find some moral philosophers, political scientists, and weapons specialists believe unmanned aircraft offer marked moral advantages over almost any other tool of warfare.” —Scott Shane, national…
September 13: Blow the Whistle on Stop and Frisk!
From the Stop Mass Incarceration Network To those who are tired of seeing police step to our youth with harassment, brutality and even worse; to those outraged because the NYPD stopped and frisked…
Ten Years of Torture: Marking the 10th Anniversary of John Yoo’s “Torture Memos”
by Andy Worthington Ten years ago, on August 1, 2002, Jay S. Bybee, who, at the time, was the Assistant Attorney General in the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, signed two…
Extremism normalized
How Americans are efficiently trained to acquiesce to ideas once deemed so radical as to be unthinkable By Glenn Greenwald Remember when, in the wake of the 9/11 attack, the Patriot Act…
Report on the July Sustainer Drive
By Samantha Goldman Over the month of July, 21 more people joined our sustainer community. It is a precious political act that these individuals took in making the monthly commitment to support…
Podcast: Golnaz Fakhmi on Bagram
The call on July 26 was hosted by Dr. Dennis Loo, of our Steering Committee, author of Globalization and the Demolition of Society and Impeach the President: The Case Against Bush & Cheney….
Podcast: Kevin Gosztola and Nick Mottern
Hear from Kevin Gosztola, reporter for FireDogLake (The Dissenter blog), with updates from the legal proceedings against Bradley Manning, the accused Wikileaks whistleblower. Kevin has been attending all court hearings and has…