By: Dave Lindorff From Counter Punch l Original Article If the Constitution is to have any relevance, and if America is to remain a free society, then there is really no alternative:…
Category: Outcries
2-12-13 Letter to NYT Editor from Archbishop Tutu
From The New York Times | Original Article To the Editor: I am deeply, deeply disturbed at the suggestion in “A Court to Vet Kill Lists” (news analysis, front page, Feb. 9)…
2-8-13 “He Was The Agency”: Ex-CIA Analyst Questions Brennan Claim He Couldn’t Stop Waterboarding, Torture
From Democracy Now | Original Article CIA nominee John Brennan was repeatedly questioned about torture at his CIA confirmation hearing, including the use of waterboarding and enhanced interrogation techniques. He refused to…
2-8-13 Jeremy Scahill: Assassinations of U.S. Citizens Largely Ignored at Brennan CIA Hearing
From Democracy Now | Original Article President Obama’s nominee to run the CIA, John Brennan, forcefully defended Obama’s counterterrorism policies, including the increased use of armed drones and the targeted killings of…
2-6-13 Decade After Iraq WMD Speech at UN, Ex-Powell Aide Lawrence Wilkerson Debates Author Norman Solomon
From Democracy Now | Original Article Ten years ago this week, a defining moment occurred in the Bush administration’s push to invade Iraq. On Feb. 5, 2003, then-Secretary of State General…
2-5-13 Kill List Exposed: Leaked Obama Memo Shows Assassination of U.S. Citizens “Has No Geographic Limit”
From Democracy Now | Original Article NERMEEN SHAIKH: The Obama administration’s internal legal justification for assassinating U.S. citizens without charge has been revealed for the first time. According to a secret…
1-22-13 Lupe Fiasco Gets Booted from Inauguration Concert for Criticizing Obama
From World Can’t Wait | Original Article Cheers to Lupe Fiasco for doing an extended version of his politically charged song Words I Never Said while performing at an Inauguration concert January…
1-18-13 March & Speak Out for An END to the US “War on Terror”
By Debra Sweet While we walked from the Supreme Court, past the US District Court, the FBI, and to the White House last Friday to protest eleven years of illegitimate imprisonment at…
1-14-13 Dark, Zero-Femenism
By Zillah Eisenstein From Zillah Eisenstein WebBlog | Orignal Article The film starts with a black blank screen and the voices from people stuck in the trade towers on that fateful day,…
1-10-13 Death of a Prisoner
By Laura Poitras From The New York Times | Original Article Death of a Prisoner: The filmmaker Laura Poitras follows the tragic return home to Yemen of a Guantánamo Bay prison detainee,…
1-10-13 Two Pieces on “Zero Dark Thirty” by Karen Greenberg
by Karen Greenberg From TomDispatch | Original Article Tomgram: Karen Greenberg, How Zero Dark Thirty Brought Back the Bush Administration We got Osama bin Laden — and now, for millions of Americans,…
1-9-13 As Brennan Tapped for CIA, Case of Somali Detainees Highlights Obama’s Embrace of Secret Renditions
From Democracy Now! | Original Article New details have emerged about how the Obama administration has quietly embraced the controversial practice of extraordinary rendition in which terrorism suspects are secretly detained and…
1-9-13 Part 2: Al Jazeera’s Sami al-Hajj on His 438-Day Hunger Strike in U.S. Detention at Gitmo Prison
From Democracy Now! | Original Article In part two of our exclusive interview, Sami al-Hajj, the Al Jazeera journalist imprisoned and tortured at Guantánamo for six years, describes how he waged a…
1-13-13 Zero Dark Thirty, or How People Lose Their Humanity
By Annie Day From Revolution Newspaper | Original Article I was shaking as I walked out of Zero Dark Thirty, the new film about the CIA’s 10-year search for Osama bin Laden….
1-8-13 Exclusive: As Gitmo Turns 11, Al Jazeera’s Sami al-Hajj on 6-Year Ordeal of U.S. Detention, Torture
From Democracy Now! | Original Article On the 11th anniversary of Guantánamo Bay’s use as a prison for foreign detainees, we air a Democracy Now! exclusive interview with Sami al-Hajj, the only…