An Interview With Col. Lawrence Wilkerson (Part Two)
Col. Lawrence Wilkerson served in the US military for 31 years and was Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell from August 2002 until January 2005, two months after Powell’s resignation, when...
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Saturday was the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, established twelve years ago to mark the day, in 1987, when the UN Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading...
View ArticleWikiLeaks’ Revelations that Bush and Obama Put Pressure on Germany and Spain...
In the relatively small number of US diplomatic cables released to date by WikiLeaks, from its cache of 251,287 documents, the most disturbing revelations concerning the “War on Terror” deal with the...
View ArticleTorture Whitewash: Probe of Two CIA Murders Ends Obama Administration’s...
How convenient is it that a door shuts on the Bush administration’s global program of extraordinary rendition and torture, just as America’s military-industrial complex plays musical chairs — with...
View ArticleTen Years After 9/11, America Deserves Better than Dick Cheney’s Self-Serving...
On August 30, when In My Time, former Vice President Dick Cheney’s self-serving autobiography was published, the timing was pernicious. Cheney knows by now that every time he opens his mouth to endorse...
View ArticleGeorge W. Bush’s Torture Program Began Ten Years Ago
Last month was the 10th anniversary of the opening of the “war on terror” prison at Guantánamo, and as this year progresses it is appropriate to remember that there will be other grim 10-year...
View ArticleThe Permanent Injustice of Guantánamo
Last summer, I wrote an article reviewing ten years of Guantánamo for the Future of Freedom Foundation, for whom I write a weekly column for their online Email Update. This article, however, was for...
View ArticleWar Crimes Tribunal in Malaysia Finds Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld Guilty of...
Last November, a war crimes tribunal established in Malaysia “found George Bush and Tony Blair guilty of ‘crimes against peace’ and other war crimes for their 2003 aggressive attack on Iraq, as well as...
View ArticleTen Years of Torture: Marking the 10th Anniversary of John Yoo’s “Torture Memos”
Exactly ten years ago, on August 1, 2002, Jay S. Bybee, who, at the time, was the Assistant Attorney General in the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, signed two memos (see here and here)...
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