Truthout
9/11
The Path to a New 1914? How America Chose War After 9/11
By identifying a target as generic “terrorism,” rather than as al-Qaeda or any other group or list of groups, the Bush administration licensed military operations anywhere in the world.
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Could John McCain Be Responsible for the Next 9/11?
In today's real-life remake of “Charlie Wilson's War,” John McCain is playing the role of Charlie Wilson and Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, the head of ISIS, is playing the role …
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What We’ve Lost Since 9/11: Taking Down the First Amendment in the Post-Constitutional US
For the war on terror, the driver for the tattering of the Bill of Rights, there is no end in sight.
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Participatory Totalitarianism
We are not passive objects of the surveillance state. We are active subjects of our own YouTube channels.
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Response to Tragedy
If people in other countries responded to tragedy like Americans...
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Dahr Jamail | On Bringing War Criminals to Justice
Dahr Jamail reports from the Iraq Commission conference in Belgium, where he testified about war crimes witnessed while reporting from Iraq during the US-led occupation.
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Abu Ghraib 10 Years Later: Challenging Corporate Impunity for Torture
War-profiteering contractors like CACI continue to earn millions without carrying any legal risks for actions outside the US - even when they lead to torture.
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American Abu Ghraib Prisoner “Disappears“
Shawki Ahmed Omar, an American-Jordanian prisoner who has been held without due process in Iraq for almost 10 years, has disappeared.
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How Many Watch Lists Fit on the Head of a Pin? Post-Constitutional America, Where Innocence Is a Poor Defense
Ibrahim was no threat to anyone, innocent of everything, and ended up on a no-fly list only due to a government mistake.
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Academia Under the Influence
Rather than bastions of free thought and intellectual rigor, colleges' historic cooperation with government is outlined in ‘The Imperial University: Academic Repression and Scholarly Dissent.’