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Thursday, June 18, 2009
Agent Orange Continues to Poison Vietnam
On May 15 and 16 of this year, the International Peoples' Tribunal of Conscience in Support of the Vietnamese Victims of Agent Orange convened in Paris and heard testimony from 27 victims, witnesses and scientific experts. Seven people from three continents served as judges of the Tribunal, which was sponsored by the International Association of Democratic Lawyers (IADL).

Thursday, May 28, 2009
Obama's Guantanamo Appeasement Plan
(1 comments) Two days after his inauguration, President Obama pledged to close Guantánamo within one year. The Republicans, led by Senators John McCain, Mitch McConnell and Pat Roberts, immediately launched a concerted campaign to assail the new president. And now even the Democrats are piling on the bandwagon.

Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Stanford Antiwar Alums Call for War Crimes Investigation of Condoleezza Rice
(22 comments) During the Vietnam War, Stanford students succeeded in banning secret military research from campus. Last weekend, 150 activist alumni and present Stanford students targeted Condoleezza Rice for authorizing torture and misleading Americans into the illegal Iraq War.

Thursday, March 5, 2009
Memos Provide Blueprint for Police State
(9 comments) Seven newly released memos from the Bush Justice Department reveal a concerted strategy to cloak the President with power to override the Constitution.

Friday, February 20, 2009
War Criminals, Including Their Lawyers, Must Be Prosecuted
(35 comments) Attorney General Eric Holder should appoint a Special Prosecutor to investigate and prosecute high Bush officials including lawyers like John Yoo who gave them "legal" cover. Obama is correct when he said that no one is above the law. Accountability is critical to ensuring that our leaders never again torture and abuse people.

Tuesday, February 10, 2009
A Call to End All Renditions
(5 comments) Binyam Mohamed,an Ethiopian residing in Britain,said he was tortured after being sent to Morocco and Afghanistan in 2002 by the US govt. He was transferred to Guantánamo in 2004 and all terrorism charges against him were dismissed last year. He was a victim of extraordinary rendition,in which a person is abducted without any legal proceedings and transferred to a foreign country for detention and interrogation, often tortured.

Monday, November 24, 2008
Guantanamo Justice After Seven Years
The sanctioned use of torture by the Bush/Cheney regime will be judged by history as one the crueler acts of barbarism committed in their quest for world domination. The recent judicial beat down given the administration over this recent group of illegitimately held prisoners is just the beginning. How many times and how often must one say never again?

Sunday, November 9, 2008
Obama Spells New Hope for Human Rights
In the cathedral of human rights, the U.S. is more like a flying buttress than a pillar – choosing to stand outside the international structure supporting the international human rights system but without being willing to subject its own conduct to the scrutiny of the system. Bring on the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.

Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Preemptive Strikes Against Protest at RNC
(3 comments) In the months leading up to the Republican National Convention, the FBI-led Minneapolis Joint Terrorist Task Force actively recruited people to infiltrate vegan groups and other leftist organizations and report back about their activities. On May 21, the Minneapolis City Pages ran a recruiting story called "Moles Wanted." Law enforcement sought to preempt lawful protest against the policies of the Bush administration

Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Scalia Cites False Information in Habeas Corpus Dissent
(14 comments) To bolster his argument that the Guantánamo detainees should be denied the right to prove their innocence in federal courts, Justice Antonin Scalia wrote in his dissent in Boumediene v. Bush: "At least 30 of those prisoners hitherto released from Guantánamo have returned to the battlefield." It turns out that statement is false.

Saturday, May 24, 2008
Hillary Invokes Assassination
(1 comments) It's astounding that a presidential candidate could verbalize such a thing when the collective American psyche still aches from the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy. Many of us remember where we were when these heroes were shot. The pain we felt is palpable. We still suffer from their absence.

Monday, March 17, 2008
Beware an Attack on Iran

Friday, February 15, 2008
Injustice at Guantanamo: Torture Evidence and the Military Commissions Act
(2 comments) Dick Cheney and other officials who participated in formulating the abusive interrogation policies should be investigated under the U.S. War Crimes Act. And the Democratic-controlled Congress should repeal the Military Commissions Act that Bush rammed through the Republican-controlled Congress.

Monday, January 21, 2008
Cheney Impeachment Gains Traction in House Judiciary Committee
(6 comments) the Clinton impeachment "must not be the model for impeachment inquiries. A Democratic Congress can show that it takes its constitutional authority seriously and hold a sober investigation, which will stand in stark contrast to the kangaroo court convened by Republicans for Clinton.

Wednesday, December 26, 2007
The Torture Tape Cover-up: How High Does It Go?
(2 comments) Bush tried to create the image of the noble war on terrorism. Abu Ghraib images created a public relations disaster for Bush. After the Abu Ghraib revelations, the Bush administration could not tolerate more bad publicity. So in 2005, the CIA destroyed several hundred hours of videotapes depicting torturous interrogations of Abu Zubaydah and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, probably including water boarding.

Monday, November 26, 2007
Preventing the Impending War on Iran
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Monday, October 22, 2007
Michael Mukasey: Another Loyal Bushie
(1 comments) The Michael Mukasey Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing has demonstrated that Mukasey cannot be relied upon to function independently as U.S. Attorney General. Nevertheless, Senators on the Senate Judiciary Committee seem so thrilled that Mukasey is not Alberto Gonzales that they're willing to vote for him even though he's another loyal Bushie.

Monday, October 8, 2007
Torture Endorsed, Torture Denied
(2 comments) It is incumbent upon the Senate Judiciary Committee to vigorously interrogate Michael Mukasey during his attorney general confirmation hearing. As AG, Mukasey would oversee the department that writes interrogation policy. Mukasey should know that the Convention Against Torture prohibits torture in all circumstances, even in times of war.

Sunday, September 2, 2007
Bush Plans War on Iran
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Saturday, August 25, 2007
Turning Iraq Into Vietnam
(1 comments) Congress has no more will to end the Iraq War than it did the Vietnam War. It was one year after our troops came home that Congress finally cut the funding for all support of the South Vietnamese government;

Thursday, August 9, 2007
FISA Revised: A Blank Check for Domestic Spying
(1 comments) New Congressionally-approved amendments to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act give the Bush administration wide discretion to illegally spy on Americans

Wednesday, August 1, 2007
Time for an Independent Counsel
(2 comments) In light of material inconsistencies in Alberto Gonzales's testimony before Congress, a criminal investigation is warranted. Gonzales, who is suspected of committing perjury, has a conflict of interest. The public interest requires that the highest prosecutor in the land be brought to justice. Congress should appoint a permanent special counsel to investigate and advise Congress about misconduct...