GTMO 2016: Special Report (Video)
RT America’s Simone Del Rosario went to Guantanamo Bay to investigate how and if the prison will be soon shut down, and to see what conditions those detainees are living in.
CCR: Beyond awareness, accountability for torture – and action
Center for Constitutional Rights: June is Torture Awareness Month, and June 26 is International Day in Support of Victims of Torture. Center for Constitutional Rights June 22, 2015 CCR is marking these occasions with a week of blog content focusing on our anti-torture work in a variety of cases and several events in Washington, DC as More
Chris Hedges: The Post-Constitutional Era
Corporations, no matter which politicians are in office, loot the Treasury, escape taxation, push down wages, break unions, dismantle civil society, gut regulation and legal oversight, control information, prosecute endless war and dismantle public institutions and programs that include schools, welfare and Social Security. By Chris Hedges May 4, 2014 truthdig.com Activist Lauren DiGioia is arrested More
Peter Van Buren> Homeland Insecurity> Seven Years, Untold Dollars to Silence One Man
Tomgram: Peter Van Buren, If the Government Does It, It's "Legal" Posted by Peter Van Buren at 8:22am, May 9, 2013 Indefinite detention of the innocent and guilty alike, without any hope of charges, trial, or release: this is now the American way. Most Americans, however, may not care to take that in, not even when the indefinitely More
Peter Van Buren> Homeland Insecurity> Seven Years, Untold Dollars to Silence One Man
Tomgram: Peter Van Buren, If the Government Does It, It's "Legal" Posted by Peter Van Buren at 8:22am, May 9, 2013 Indefinite detention of the innocent and guilty alike, without any hope of charges, trial, or release: this is now the American way. Most Americans, however, may not care to take that in, not even when the indefinitely More
Truthdigger of the Week: Chris Hedges with video from Democracy Now!
Truthdigger of the Week: Chris Hedges Truthdigger of the Week Posted on Jan 20, 2012 Late last year, President Obama pulled a fast one by changing his stance on the National Defense Authorization Act so suddenly and drastically that Americans were left with a bad case of legislative whiplash—and a very serious state of affairs with regard More