Chicago, IL Judge Thaddeus Wilson - holding down the house in Room 303 of the Cook County Courthouse in Chicago, IL - ruled the Illinois terrorism statute constitutional on its face. This ruling was issued approximately two months after the attorneys defending the...
This story from Der Speigel laments German Chancellor Angela Merkel's reverting back to Germany's post-WWII pacifist doctrine after years of gradual "steps towards normality" - where "normality" is militarism. On April 2, 1993, the cabinet of then Chancellor Helmut...
Ten years ago this month, Operation Iraqi Freedom began. The invasion of Iraq occurred in spite of protests of millions of people around the world. Massive demonstrations took place in the months leading up to the war. On Feb. 15, 2003, there were protests in more...
Carl Warner, an attorney defending 11 Guantanamo detainees, appeared in an interview with Russia Today and read a statement from one of his clients, Faiz al-Kandari, who remains detained despite having his charges dropped last year. Kandari's statement was the...
As conditions in Iraq spiraled downward in 2005, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld prodded the Pentagon press corps to adopt the long view. Instead of focusing on short-term setbacks and daily violence, with all the “gloom and doom” this involved, “we should ask...
Update: The CIA officer in question has been promoted to the top position in the clandestine service as of Thursday, according to The New York Times. John Brennan, the man Obama appointed to head the CIA, is reportedly on the verge of promoting an undercover agent to...
When the United States, the United Kingdom, and the “coalition of the willing” attacked Iraq in March 2003, millions protested around the world. But the war of “shock and awe” was just the beginning. The subsequent occupation of Iraq by the...
Secretary of State John Kerry went to Iraq this weekend to meet with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and tersely request that he stop allowing Iran to use Iraqi airspace to send weapons and support to the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad. They shouldn't be supporting...
According to veteran journalist Greg Mitchell, The Washington Post yanked a story of his that he was commissioned to write about failures in the news media in the lead up to the Iraq War. His piece made the obviously true argument that the media not only failed to...
Judge Thaddeus Wilson will hand down a ruling on the constitutionality of the Illinois terrorism statute - signed into law in the weeks after the 9/11 attacks - on March 27 at 2:00 PM CST. That announcement was made at the first oral argument at Cook County Courthouse...
