Not only did the new CIA Director personally oversee the torture of Abu Zubaydah, she did so in order to lie you and your mom into supporting the aggressive war against Iraq. From David Rose’s report "Tortured Reasoning": Some of what he did say was leaked by the...
A number of human rights issues converge on Friday January 11, 2013. In Washington DC and many other cities around the country, including the Twin Cities, people will don orange “Gitmo” jumpsuits and black hoods to protest the 11th year anniversary-travesty of...
Richard Silverstein sent this update last night to Antiwar.com regarding Sunday's article Shin Bet Arrests Israeli Druze at Syrian Border, Slaps Gag on Media Reporting: Yesterday, the Shin Bet lifted the gag order prohibiting reporting on the case of the 38 year-old...
Dear Department of Justice and Department of Treasury Officials: We might have just helped you bag another material supporter of terrorism this week! And you'll never believe who the culprit is! We were even able to tape record some of his own damning admissions!...
From Boiling Frogs: Leading scholars and human rights groups from a range of fields -- including psychology, medicine, law, military, and intelligence -- have joined together in spearheading a broad-based effort to annul and delegitimize the American Psychological...
This has got to be the quote of the day -- maybe the week, maybe the month. After agreeing all around on FOX News' Special Report tonight that there was "nothing there, there" in the 400k documents dumped by WikiLeaks on Friday (a massive release of classified reports...
Breaking: Twenty-Four Anti-Torture Activists Acquitted in Trial for Protest at the US Capitol Calling for Guantanamo's Closure and the Investigation of Deaths at the Prison. From WitnessTorture.org: On Monday, June 14, twenty-four activists with Witness Against...
For just one example of the disgusting exploitation of Capt. Scott Speicher by pro-war officials and pundits, I give you this from Jed Babbin on March 23, 2003, three days after the invasion of Iraq began: He [Speicher] may still be alive in Iraq, rumored to have been...
Radio host "Mancow" has apparently been defending the water torture. Perhaps those days are now over.
Rachel Maddow, on the other hand, appears to be a keeper. In the clip below, she explains how President Obama, principled opponent of prosecuting or even investigating past crimes, plans to lock people up for future crimes. Forever. To be fair, that is literally...
