World

How Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Remains In “Command” and Continues to “Strike Fear”

How Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Remains In “Command” and Continues to “Strike Fear” »

Originally published at Truthout and reprinted here with permission. Written by Truthout’s lead investigative reporter, Jason Leopold. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed sat stone silent inside the courtroom at the US Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, refusing to answer routine questions from the judge presiding over his arraignment for war crimes. Four other co-defendants, who are being [...]...

May 16 2012 / No comment / Read More »

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Standing Up To The Richest Man In The World »

Standing Up To The Richest Man In The World

An honorable degree? “I am concerned that George Washington University – an American icon – is sending the wrong message to Mexicans wanting to...

May 15 2012 / No comment / Read More »

Law

Chaos At Guantanamo »

Chaos At Guantanamo

The eyes of the world were on Guantánamo, as Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other men accused of planning and facilitating the terrorist attacks...

May 14 2012 / No comment / Read More »

Torture

Torture: The Bush Administration on Trial »

Torture: The Bush Administration on Trial

Law-abiding US citizens have been appalled that Jose Rodriguez, the director of the CIA’s National Clandestine Service until his retirement in 2007, was invited...

May 14 2012 / No comment / Read More »

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Torture

If Obama Withdrew Yoo, Bradbury Torture Memos, What Goverment Opinion Now Covers The AFM And Appendix M? »

If Obama Withdrew Yoo, Bradbury Torture Memos, What Goverment Opinion Now Covers The AFM And Appendix M?

An article in the July-Sept. 2004 edition of the journal Military Intelligence (PDF) sheds further light on the origins of the Army Field Manual (AFM) on interrogation, FM 2-22.3, HUMINT Collector Operations (PDF), that became operational in September 2006. The AFM became the de jure...

May 12 2012 / No comment / Read More »

Religion

How Pastor Terry Jones Can Get Away With It »

How Pastor Terry Jones Can Get Away With It

Burning the holy books which are interconnected with the hearts and souls of millions of people around the world is one of the most heinous and dreadful actions which one can think of. After decades of bloodshed and bigotry in the two World Wars, Civil...

May 7 2012 / No comment / Read More »

Torture

Revealed: The CIA’s Phoenix Program Files »

Revealed: The CIA’s Phoenix Program Files

Via Cryptocomb: In cooperation with Author/Journalist Douglas Valentine, Cryptocomb is publishing over 8GB’s of audio recordings that Mr. Valentine collected throughout his personal interviews with former CIA and U.S. Military Officers while researching for his book, “The Phoenix Program”. The Phoenix Program for the unacquainted...

May 6 2012 / No comment / Read More »

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May Day And The Ass Bomber of Ray Kelly’s Dreams »

May Day And The Ass Bomber of Ray Kelly’s Dreams

I got home at 10:00 pm on the nose, and the first thing I did was take off my shoes after 14 hours of May Day marching with 30-40,000 other conscientious objectors to capitalism. My feet hurt, okay? My second priority was turning on the...

May 4 2012 / No comment / Read More »

Commentary

The Trayvon Martin Case: A Lesson Still to be Learned »

The Trayvon Martin Case: A Lesson Still to be Learned

For years, my father, a federal employee with a top secret clearance, carried a copy of his birth certificate when he went into Baja California from our home in San Diego. Many times, when he tried to reenter the U.S., he was stopped by the...

Apr 26 2012 / 1 comment / Read More »

World

Former Guantanamo Psychiatrist Promotes Dubious Drug Theory On Afghan Killings »

Former Guantanamo Psychiatrist Promotes Dubious Drug Theory On Afghan Killings

Intrepid reporter Jeffrey Kaye has written an important follow-up story on the media’s campaign to link the antimalarial drug mefloquine to the massacre in Afghanistan last month. Kaye’s findings: A tag team of two contributors to Time Magazine’s Battleland blog have misrepresented the facts concerning...

Apr 20 2012 / No comment / Read More »

Nation

Did NYPD “Undercover Agent” Try To Suborn Tarek Mehanna Into A “Terrorist Plot”? »

Did NYPD “Undercover Agent” Try To Suborn Tarek Mehanna Into A “Terrorist Plot”?

Many bloggers and the press have reposted Tarek Mehanna’s impassioned speech to the court as he was sentenced to 17-1/2 years for supposedly providing “material support” to terrorists. (See here, here, here, and especially the ACLU’s Nancy Murray’s widely quoted article at the Boston Globe...

Apr 14 2012 / 1 comment / Read More »
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