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EXCLUSIVE: “Guidebook to False Confessions”: Key Document John Yoo Used to Draft Torture Memo Released
Abu Zubaydah, the first high-value detainee captured after 9/11, was tortured at CIA black site prisons beginning in May 2002. Seven of the ten techniques he was subjected came …
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The Pledge of Resistance Could Change the Game Against a War With Iran
If you sometimes find yourself at a bit of a loss of what to make of the on-again, off-again drumbeat for war with Iran, you should at least have …
Israel’s Assassination of Gazan Leader Lays Groundwork for Iran Attack
Gaza is a punching bag or escape valve that Israeli generals and politicians can use when they need to show their public that they're tough on terror, whether …
Israel Shields Public from Risks of War with Iran
Tel Aviv - The government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been telling Israelis that Israel can attack Iran with minimal civilian Israeli casualties as a result of retaliation, …
War With Iran? Sen. Rand Paul Calls the Question
Before we have a war with Iran, shouldn't the Senate and the House have at least one debate and vote on it? Isn't that what the Constitution demands? Isn't …
Maddow Writes on America’s Love Affair With War
Of all the enemies to public liberty, war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent …
Support in US for Afghan War Drops Sharply, Poll Finds
Washington - After a series of violent episodes and setbacks, support for the war in Afghanistan has dropped sharply among both Republicans and Democrats, according to the latest New …
Maxwell’s Hammer Redux: Syracuse University and the Effort to Break Down the Rule of Law
In the wake of President Obama's new National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which does away with habeas corpus for those who are labeled “terrorists,” it really shouldn't be all …
Citing Truthout Report, UN Special Rapporteur “Looking Into” Guantanamo “Suicides“
On Friday, March 9, Christof Heyns, the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, responded to an inquiry by this reporter regarding new information on the deaths …