Supreme Court Ruling Means Torture May Return
Washinton’s Blog The Supreme Court has just ruled that four Guantanamo prisoners cannot sue the government for torture. The Center for Constitutional Rights notes: It is an awful day for the rule of...
View Article11 Articles On Indefinite Detention | U.S. Government Now Asserts More Power...
11 Articles On Indefinite Detention ___________ CHRIS FLOYD Empire Burlesque December 5, 2011 Now what’s that little baby doing Dressing up in banker’s clothes? – Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings Many...
View ArticleThe Lawless Roads: America’s Ever-Expanding Torture Matrix
CHRIS FLOYD Empire Burlesque April 9, 2012 In two brief posts over the past week, Scott Horton at Harper’s gives us a harrowing sketch of the entrenchment and ever-spreading expansion of the Torture...
View ArticleTorture Continues to be Legitimized by U.S. Legal System
Joe Wright Activist Post In another blow to human rights, freedom, the law, and morality, the 7th Circuit Court has exonerated Donald Rumsfeld from prosecution for allegations of being a primary...
View ArticleUS Torture Victim Takes Case to International Human Rights Tribunal
Activist Post The American Civil Liberties Union and Yale Law School’s Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic today filed a petition against the United States with the Inter-American Commission...
View Article11 Years of Infamy — US Actions at Guantanamo Prison
By Ann Wright, OpEdNews Despite his January 22, 2009 executive order closing Guantanamo Prison in one year, President Obama ensured the continued operation of Guantanamo for another year by signing the...
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