Commentary

Environmental Justice: One Illegal Bid At A Time

Environmental Justice: One Illegal Bid At A Time »

On April 21, the day before Earth Day, Tim DeChristopher was released from custody by the Department of Justice. He had served 21 months for having committed an act of civil disobedience against a government bureau that had violated the law. In his mid-20s, DeChristopher, who graduated from high school in Pittsburgh, was in Utah [...]...

May 12 2013 / No comment / Read More »

Torture

The Torture Memo Obama Never Rescinded »

The Torture Memo Obama Never Rescinded

Nearly a year ago, I asked If Obama Withdrew the Yoo, Bradbury Torture Memos, What Government Opinion Now Covers The AFM and Appendix M? The question...

May 6 2013 / No comment / Read More »

Law

The Justice Department’s Assault On Northern Ireland’s Peace Process And The First Amendment »

The Justice Department’s Assault On Northern Ireland’s Peace Process And The First Amendment

Oral histories of political movements give us glimpses of the participants who helped shape the world we know today. They often provide raw, personal...

Apr 29 2013 / 5 comments / Read More »

Torture

British Press: US Conspires With UK, Saudis To Hold Detainee With Evidence On Iraq War Lies »

British Press: US Conspires With UK, Saudis To Hold Detainee With Evidence On Iraq War Lies

Once upon a time, Daily Kos had numerous diaries on the ongoing use of torture by the United States, or on the false evidence,...

Apr 24 2013 / No comment / Read More »

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Nation

A Secret Plan By Obama to Shut Guantanamo? »

A Secret Plan By Obama to Shut Guantanamo?

Some Guantanamo observers are telling investigative reporter Jason Leopold that the ethical breaches that have surfaced in the military tribunals over the past three months  may actually be intentional: Nearly a dozen years after terrorists guided commercial jets into the Pentagon and the World Trade...

Apr 15 2013 / 1 comment / Read More »

World

Nowruz: An Ancient Festival Which We Should Know About »

Nowruz: An Ancient Festival Which We Should Know About

Some people say that it’s the 5774th time that Iranians across the world are celebrating the ancient Persian New Year festival, Nowruz. However, some history experts believe that Nowruz has been enshrined and observed for more than 15,000 years, even before the official establishment of...

Apr 7 2013 / No comment / Read More »

Nation

The Freedom Of Information Act: The Most Powerful Weapon In My Reporting Arsenal »

The Freedom Of Information Act: The Most Powerful Weapon In My Reporting Arsenal

  Crossposted from Freedom of The Press Foundation. Jason Leopold is Truthout’s lead investigative reporter. Freedom of the Press Foundation is crowd-funding in support of his FOIA work and on-the-scenes reporting at the Guantanamo Bay trials. You can fund his work here. A couple of years ago, a friend handed...

Mar 20 2013 / 2 comments / Read More »

World

Newly Released Autopsy Reports Raise Questions About Circumstances in Deaths of Two Guantanamo Detainees »

Newly Released Autopsy Reports Raise Questions About Circumstances in Deaths of Two Guantanamo Detainees

Truthout reports, in this exclusive by Jason Leopold: The US government detained at Guantanamo a prisoner who was hospitalized for auditory hallucinations he suffered as a teenager and had twice attempted suicide in 2009 while imprisoned at the detention facility. In March of 2009, Hajji...

Mar 6 2013 / No comment / Read More »

Nation

The Blind Sheikh: A Flashpoint For Terror 20 Years After The World Trade Center Bombing »

The Blind Sheikh: A Flashpoint For Terror 20 Years After The World Trade Center Bombing

February 26th, 2013, the 20th anniversary of the World Trade Center bombing, which killed six and injured a thousand, may be the latest proof of George Santayana’s prediction that “those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Why? Because Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, the blind...

Feb 27 2013 / No comment / Read More »

Law

The 9/11 Five’s Defense Counsel Granted Limited Visitation Privileges to “Camp 7″ »

The 9/11 Five’s Defense Counsel Granted Limited Visitation Privileges to “Camp 7″

Judge James Pohl has granted the defense counsel in the 9/11 military commission limited access to Camp 7, the top secret prison home of the alleged mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and his four co-defendants. The defense counsel teams initially requested a...

Feb 23 2013 / No comment / Read More »

Law

KSM, Co-Defendants’ Legal Mail Ransacked And Seized »

KSM, Co-Defendants’ Legal Mail Ransacked And Seized

Wednesday’s pre-hearings in, United States v. Mohammed, et al., ended in soap opera-esqe drama. The last motion of the day was postponed until Thursday morning when it was announced that the alleged mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and two of his co-defendants,...

Feb 14 2013 / No comment / Read More »
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