By John Ryan From LawDragon | Original Article Sketch by William J. Hennessy Jr. / CourtroomArt.com. Guantanamo Naval Base, Cuba – Lawyers for the Sept. 11 defendants this week asked a military…
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11/5/21 Some Sept. 11 Trial Secrets May Not Be Secrets Anymore
By Carol Rosenberg From The New York Times | Original Article The capital case has been in pretrial hearings since 2012, one reason information once considered national security secrets may now be…
11/1/21 What Really Happened in CIA Sites, Finally
By Debra Sweet From Guantanamo: Two extraordinary developments happened days ago inside the US torture camp at Guantanamo. One: For the first time ever, a prisoner testified in military court, with reporters…
10/28/21 For First Time in Public, a Detainee Describes Torture at C.I.A. Black Sites
By Carol Rosenberg From The New York Times | Original Article In a sentencing hearing, Majid Khan, a Pakistani who lived in suburban Baltimore before joining Al Qaeda, detailed dungeonlike conditions and…
10/27/21
By Paul Street From Counterpunch | Original Article From My Lai to WMD Lie In dominant capitalist-imperialist media, America’s imperial crimes are airbrushed out of historical memory, like they never took place….
10/16/21 Prisoners cleared for transfer remain stuck in the military prison at Guantánamo
By By Abigail Hauslohner From The Washington Post | Original Article The U.S. government this month cleared for transfer three more detainees held at the military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, attorneys…
10/15/21 Ban the Use of Drones as Weapons
By Peter Weiss and Judy Weiss From Foreign Policy in Focus | Original Article America’s parting drone attack in Afghanistan, which killed an aid worker and his family, is emblematic of the…
10/8/21 New Pentagon climate plan addresses realities of war-fighting in hotter, harsher Earth
From The Washington Post | Original Article WASHINGTON (AP) — A new Pentagon plan calls for incorporating the realities of a hotter, harsher Earth at every level in the U.S. military, from…
10/1/21 Will the United States Officially Acknowledge That It Had a Secret Torture Site in Poland?
By Raymond Bonner From ProPublica | Original Article Abu Zubaydah has been a prisoner at Guantanamo Bay for 15 years. He’s asking the Supreme Court to allow his lawyers to depose the…
9/27/21 International Criminal Court Shutters Investigation Into U.S. Torture
From Center for Constitutional Rights | Original Article Prosecutor Seeks to Move Forward With Investigation Against Only Taliban, Islamic State-Khorasan Province September 27, 2021—Prosecutor Karim A.A. Khan of the International Criminal Court…
9/26/21 Nick Turse, A Forever Wall for Our Forever Wars
By Nick Turse From TomDispatch | Original Article In the wake of the American withdrawal from Afghanistan, among the many things barely mentioned or already long forgotten (if ever even noticed), were…
9/22/21 An Unprincipled Attack on a Human Rights Giant
By Marjorie Cohn Edited by: Katherine Gemmingen | U. Pittsburgh School of Law From Jurist | Original Article Samuel Moyn’s Unprincipled Attack on Human Rights Giant Michael Ratner Is Shameful Samuel Moyn’s…
9/10/21 The Distributed Empire of the War on Terror
By Madiha Tahir From Boston Review | Original Article Drone attacks were sold to the American people as a way to limit U.S. involvement in Pakistan. But all the while, Pakistani forces…
9/8/21 Gitmo’s Forgotten Ex-Detainees
By Clair MacDougall From The Nation | Original Article They were freed from Guantánamo, but they’re still searching for a home. One afternoon in July, flanked by about 10 protesters in orange…
9/3/21 U.S. Psychology’s Unfinished Journey from 9/11
By Roy Eidelson From Counterpunch | Original Article As the 20th anniversary of September 11, 2001, nears, there will be many valuable reflections about that horrific day and about the subsequent “global…