Antiwar Radio: Jeff Stein and Michael Hastings

Jeff Stein and Michael Hastings will be the featured guest on the Scott Horton Show at Antiwar Radio on Friday, April 21st. Stein will discuss the major scandal involving Rep. Jane Harman, Alberto Gonzales and AIPAC at 2:00PM Eastern and Hastings will discuss his...

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Rahm Emanuel: There is no law.

This society is ruled only by the will of men. Don't you ever lie to your younger kin and tell them otherwise. Update: Robert "Obama's Ari Fleischer" Gibbs is forced by a CNN reporter to demonstrate the abject hollowness of the administration's absurd substitute for a...

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AWC Contributor in Court Monday

Antiwar.com contributor Neil Kitson will have his day in court in Vancouver Monday. Kitson is seeking information on prisoners taken by Canadian troops in Afghanistan. His requests have thus far been denied. The hearing is open to the public. For details, check out...

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Obama’s “Nation of Laws”

Obama proudly declared yesterday that ours is a "nation of laws" at the same time he announced that CIA torturers would not be prosecuted for their crimes. Life in Washington is one damn paradox after another. Kudos to the American Civil Liberties Union for their...

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The ICRC Torture Report

A few weeks ago, Mark Danner at the New York Review of Books published an article about a classified International Committee of the Red Cross report written for the CIA's eyes only. It described in detail the tortures committed against those held in the CIA's "Ghost...

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Missing Charles Goyette

I'm always getting emails that go something like this: "Hey Scott, what the heck ever happened to Charles Goyette?! We're sick and tired of you, yada, yada, yada..." Well a blogger named Mark Yannone has outdone all of you: October 11, 2005: A year into his...

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Taking Hostages for Torture

Republican senators are threatening to block confirmation of key Obama nominees if the Obama administration makes public the Bush administration Justice Department memos that explicitly authorized torture and other barbaric relics. Human rights/constitutional lawyer...

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