U.S. Troops Fear Hostile VA, Press as Reforms Are Attempted
by Michael Leon Just off the phone with a veteran who told me U.S. soldiers and Marines often take pictures in war zones [such as they are] of enemy dead in violation of various articles of the Geneva...
View ArticleFiat justitia ruat caelum: "May justice be done though the heavens fall!"
Truly the most arrogant presidential adminstration since our founding, the Bush-Cheney war criminal regime and its cast of un-impeached, un-charged, un-convicted conspirators, co-conspirators, and a...
View ArticleGeorge W. Bush, Unrepentant War Criminal
The only thing worse than a war criminal is an unrepentant one. Sadly, that's the self-portrait George W. Bush will present this week with the release of his new memoir, Decision Points. As his new...
View ArticleCoercion, Sexual Humilation and TSA: Part III (And We're Starting To Be Heard)
They're starting to listen. Not only have pilots been exempted from the new gawk-n-grope procedures. Outraged travelers have now made enough noise to get on President Obama's screen. His initial...
View ArticleUpdated: Not buying it, baby - the real issue isn't Cenk
Making Cenk's remarks and even Cenk personally the villain is a diversion, a clever distraction, a red herring. The implied message of some of the diarists and other critics of the left is that the...
View ArticleJesus Christ! Mr. President!
How's about I, as a "professional liberal," (oh Hell! Unprofessional liberal!) throw myself under your Republican bus before you preemptively put it into gear to prematurely capitulate to your...
View ArticleThe Long Moral Arc of the Universe, Bending Towards Justice
Today was a very sad and low day in American History, with the release of the official indefinite detention policy. This after a remarkable 9-year string of sad and low days in American History, about...
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Messenger shooting: State Dept.'s P.J. Crowley resigns after criticizing...
Private First Class Bradley Manning (United States Army, Wikimedia Commons)How very 2003 of this administration. U.S. State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley spoke out last week at a forum in...
View ArticleIsrael dismisses Geneva Conventions as "Outmoded"
In the wake of Judge Goldstone's op-ed in the Washington Post that, in the minds of some, 'retracts' Goldstone's judgment that Israel committed war crimes in Operation Cast Lead, a video conversation...
View Article"The Keystone Of The Whole Convention"
Video footage showed Gaddafi, dazed and wounded, but still clearly alive and gesturing with his hands as he was dragged from a pick-up truck by a crowd of angry jostling group of government soldiers...
View ArticleShalit Is Free. Lift the Siege of Gaza Now.
In the world of principle and international law, the ongoing Israeli blockade of Gaza - which until now blocks Gazans from traveling to the West Bank and East Jerusalem, and blocks Gazans from...
View ArticleNYC ‘Terror’ Suspect Out-Geneva’s Manhattan DA
NYC ‘Terror’ Suspect Out-Geneva’s Manhattan DAWhen Jose Pimentel was arrested and indicted on terrorism-related charges in New York City Saturday, the Manhattan District Attorney made a point of...
View ArticleRomney-Netanyahu 2012
Over the weekend, the New York Times published a glowing story of the 36-year relationship between GOP frontrunner Mitt Romney and his old Boston Consulting Group colleague turned two-time Israeli...
View ArticleGrowing Dissent in Israel Poses Challenge for Romney
"We will not have an inch of difference,"Mitt Romney declared in January, "between ourselves and our ally Israel." While that unprecedented pandering may have helped Romney slightly narrow the massive...
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Foreign policy extraordinarily foreign to Romney
On Wednesday, Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney will kick off a six-day swing through the UK, Israel and Poland. Like any challenger, Romney wants to burnish his foreign policy credentials...
View ArticleGuantánamo Quagmire Worsens: Ignore Reciprocity Consequences or Detain...
The New York Times has an amazing and disturbing article by Charlie Savage on the impeccable Brig. Gen. Mark S. Martins--chief prosecutor of the military commissions system who was handpicked to reboot...
View ArticleRussell Maroon Shoatz Must Be Released From Solitary -An interview w/ Theresa...
Below is our new interview. Immediately below is a 2011 video by Solitary Watch with interviewee Theresa Shoatz
View ArticleRussell ‘Maroon’ Shoatz Files Lawsuit Protesting 22 Consecutive Years in...
This is the second part of our report on the campaign to have Maroon removed from solitary. Below is a video interview with Shoatz from several years ago, featured here to accompany the text interview.
View ArticleVIDEOS: Oakland Protest Supporting CA Prisoner Hunger Strike
At lunchtime on Wednesday July 31, Frank Ogawa/Oscar Grant Plaza in downtown Oakland hosted a protest rally in support of the CA prisoner hunger strike that began on July 8. The rally was followed by a...
View ArticleGeneva Conventions / Rules of War
http://www.icrc.org/...The Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols are at the core of international humanitarian law, the body of international law that regulates the conduct of armed...
View ArticleArrival in Israel — Chapter One of the book I never wrote
After my family returned from three years resident as temporary workers in Israel, my mother told me to write a book about the experience. Israel provides a wealth of material.American Jews who visit...
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Neocons "jolted back to life" like Frankenzombies from hell - must be tried...
Evoking images of Frankenstein's castle Edward Luce of The Financial Times warns us that America’s neocons have been jolted back to life, refusing to die, like contagious zombies from hell, coming...
View ArticleRove claims Obama is "more Unlawful" than Bush? Like Hell.
Hold the phone, stop the presses, and hang on just one Cotton-Picking Second because this right here is a full-on load of Bull-Crap from Fox News Sunday.http://talkingpointsmemo.com/..."I think it’s...
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Boehner lawsuit shows why America must look backward at Bush torture team
So it's come to this. After five and a half years of setting records for filibusters, blocking judicial nominees, stonewalling executive branch appointees and holding the debt ceiling hostage,...
View ArticleIssues arise if Palestine pursues war crime charges against Israel in...
Terrible images of hundreds of dead, maimed, and wounded children and so many innocent civilians in Gaza wrench our hearts with despair. Deaths of several Israels from thousands of rockets fired from...
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UN Investigation of Israel should go beyond war crimes to include genocide...
Our moving truck came today for our move from Massachusetts to Florida. We had so much stuff that we filled this giant truck up so they are going to need to send a second one tomorrow which was...
View ArticleThe law President Obama did not faithfully execute
With their 225 votes to sue President Obama, House Republicans provided one of the most ironic spectacles in recent U.S. political history.After waves of op-eds by Speaker John Boehner (here and here)...
View ArticleChief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda says Palestine is a state so can join...
Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda declared that Palestine is a state and can join the ICC by signing the Rome Statute which would enable Palestinians President Mahmoud Abbas to sue Israeli leaders for...
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President Obama's nuclear option on torture
As the year draws to a close, the only question in Washington appears to be how—and not whether—Republicans will seek payback against President Obama for his executive action deferring the...
View ArticleThe Torture-Free TRUE Story of The Best USMC Interrogator in WWII [Important...
If you are looking for a sledgehammer to crush Cheney's conceit that "torture worked," here's the story and the memo that sucks the air out of any apologist's arguments for torture. Forever and...
View ArticleToday I Am Disgusted and Ashamed
Today as a Briton I am disgusted and ashamed by the conclusion of a Public Inquiry that British forces mistreated prisoners taken in an incident in Iraq in 2004.The Al-Sweady Public Inquiry was set up...
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Ala. Torturer Gets Death; CIA Torturers, Bush Officials, Etc. Protected by...
Yes, if you commit torture you can be convicted of a crime - in Alabama. Not however, by the US Government, provided you were employed by the US Military and the CIA to torture "detainees" during the...
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Loretta Lynch isn’t Rosa Parks; she’s Michael Mukasey
Illinois Democratic Senator Dick Durbin created quite the uproar when he condemned Senate Republicans for sending Attorney General nominee Loretta Lynch to "the back of the bus." But Durbin didn't...
View Article"we do not spare ammo – we unload, we use as much as possible" - Breaking the...
In the summer of 2014, 2,205 people were killed in Gaza. 547 children were among those killed and over 1,000 were permanently disabled. Entire families died in their homes as a result of IDF...
View Article"2,000 dead, 11,000 wounded, half a million refugees" = Mission Accomplished...
Earlier this week, Breaking the Silence (an organization of Israeli veterans) released a report: "This is How We Fought in Gaza - Soldiers' testimonies and photographs from Operation Protective Edge...
View ArticleWar Crimes R Us
Watching the Republican presidential debate Tuesday night, I kept flashing back to George W. Bush's acceptance speech at the 2000 Republican National Convention. Vice President Al Gore, Bush charged...
View ArticleUS warns Israel: 1995 customs rule prohibits settlement products labeled...
After an extensive debate, the EU recently issued guidelines requiring products from Israel’s settlements over the Green Line to be labelled“made in settlements”. Several Israeli lawmakers promptly...
View ArticleMake America White Again: 2016 KKK Rally, Night One
Here are some of the highlights of the first night of the 2016 Republican National Convention (I could only take so much):Racial Diversity Ratio — .00195 : 1The Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland seats...
View ArticleTrump shows torture unpunished means torture repeated
The just completed Democratic and Republican conventions broke new ground in modern American politics in two ways. The opposing party’s reaction to the first presidential nomination of a woman by a...
View ArticleWhy President Obama should pardon Hillary Clinton—and George W. Bush
Before he leaves office on January 20, 2017, President Obama should take two unpleasant, unfortunate but absolutely necessary steps. First, Obama should pardon his former Secretary of State Hillary...
View ArticleTrump, Threats & Torture
"We’re going to have a president again who will never say what we’ll never do.” - Vice President-elect Mike PenceDonald Trump, in his campaign for the presidency, placed a high value on his boast to...
View ArticleAngela Merkel had to explain Geneva conventions to Trump
From the Guardian https://t.co/1S9FAsmFQkA spokesman for Angela Merkel said the German chancellor regretted Trump’s decision to ban citizens of certain countries from entering the US, adding that she...
View Article"His wife and kid are in the car too? Not the end of the world" - Breaking...
During Operation Protective Edge, the Israeli Defense Forces [IDF] bombed dozens of residential structures, killing hundreds of civilians. Over 500 children were killed. Earlier this week, Breaking the...
View ArticleScientists announce boycott of South Korean university over development of...
On Friday — the 4th day of the 4th month — more than 50 artificial intelligence and robotics researchers announced a boycott of a major South Korean university, KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of...
View ArticleOpen Letter to Dick Cheney
Mr. former Vice President— or Dick if you don’t mind — I was greatly disturbed to hear that you endorsed Gina Haspel or “Bloody Gina” as she has been affectionately called, for Director of the CIA, and...
View ArticleThe dangerous veto power of right-wing rage
Many Congressional Republicans were shocked—SHOCKED!—this week at Donald Trump’s humiliation in Helsinki. Like the rest of the world, they watched in real time as an American president kowtowed on...
View Article'Club Gitmo' is now for children, too
During the 2016 presidential campaign, candidate Donald Trump gave full-throated support for resurrecting the Bush administration’s regime of torture for terror detainees. But Trump’s brand of...
View ArticleBarr turns to familiar faces for bogus probe of Russia investigation
This is the legal landscape now before the man who must be identified as the attorney general of the United States: The unanimous consensus of the American intelligence community, the findings of the...
View ArticleTrump’s Planned War Crimes Are Impeachable
The President of the United States targeted a specific high official of the Iranian government in a military strike, killing Iran’s Qasem Soleimani, commander of Iran’s notorious “Quds” division (just...
View ArticleUkraine update: Russia has wrought 'a wall of lies, a sea of blood, and a...
On Russian TV, a guest claimed that Russia would need at least two months to regain the initiative. You see, Ukraine had begun its mobilization at the start of the war, he explained, so Russia was just...
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