By Carol Rosenberg From The New York Times | Original Article The hearings have showed the role of medical professionals, including keeping count during waterboarding sessions, in the agency black sites where…
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1/22/20 CIA’s 9/11 Interrogation Leader Sheds Defiant Tears Testifying at Guantanamo Bay
By John Ryan From LawDragon | Original Article Sketch by Janet Hamlin. The judge, Air Force Col. Shane Cohen (left), watched defense lawyer James Connell question witness James Mitchell on Monday. Guantanamo…
1/20/20 “The Afghanistan Papers”: The Lies Exposed — and the Deeper Truths That Need to Come Out
From Revcom.us | Original Article Editors’ Note: We received the following from a reader and feel it is important to share. What is revealed by the revelations of the Washington Post’s “Afghanistan…
1/12/20 How the President Became a Drone Operator
By Allegra Harpootlian From TomDispatch | Original Article From Obama to Trump, the Escalation of Drone Warfare We’re only a few days into the new decade and it’s somehow already a bigger…
1/6/20 Why Not Impeach Trump for War Crimes?
From Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA) | Original Article Francis Boyle is professor of international law at the University of Illinois College of Law. Boyle was legal adviser to Rep. Henry B….
1/5/20 An eyewitness to the horrors of the US ‘forever wars’ speaks out
By Kathy Kelly From Voices for Creative Nonviolence | Original Article Kathy Kelly and Maya Evans walk…
1/5/20 Trump Threatens Afghan Armageddon
By Nick Turse From TomDispatch | Original Article U.S. “Plans” for the Afghan War Might Prove a Crime Against Humanity On February 4, 2002, a Predator drone circled over Afghanistan’s Paktia province,…
12/27/19 In Confidential Videos, Navy SEALs Say Gallagher Was “Toxic” & “Freaking Evil”
From Democracy Now | Original Article The New York Times has revealed a trove of confidential military interviews with the Navy SEALs who accused Chief Edward Gallagher of war crimes. Gallagher met…
12/11/19 Material Authors Sentenced but Impunity Continues For_Those_entenced But Impunity Continues for Those Who Ordered Murder
From School of Americas Watch | Original Article On December 2, 2019, a Honduran court sentenced seven men for the murder of visionary Honduran social movement leader Berta Cáceres — over a full…
12/11/19 Attorneys Urge Court to Change Ground Rules for Guantánamo Cases
From Center for Constitutional Rights | Original Article Without Due Process, Detainees Face Detention for Life, Lawyers Warn On Dec. 11, 2019 attorneys from the Center for Constitutional Rights urged a federal…
12/4/19 What the C.I.A.’s Torture Program Looked Like to the Tortured
By Carol Rosenberg From The New York Times | Original Article Drawings done in captivity by the first prisoner known to undergo “enhanced interrogation” portray his account of what happened to him…
12/5/19 Don’t Look Away
By The Editorial Board From The New York Times | Original Article Abu Zubaydah’s drawings of torture at the hands of American agents are a sickening reminder of what this country is…
11/29/19 Iraqis Rise Up Against 16 Years of “Made in the USA” Corruption
By Nicolas J.S. Davies From Common Dreams | Original Article Many of this new generation of Iraqis who have grown up amid the ruins and chaos the U.S. occupation left in its wake believe they…
11/29/19 Top human rights post goes vacant as Trump nominee confronts links to post-9/11 torture program
By Mike DeBonis From The Washington Post | Original Article Treasury Department Assistant Secretary for Terrorist Financing Marshall Billingslea speaks during an Organization of American States meeting on state corruption and human…
11/26/19 Climate Change is a War Crime
By Manuel Garcia, Jr. From Counterpunch | Original Article Mill and power plan, Oregon City. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. Climate change is a war crime. International jurisprudence recognizes the supreme crime as…