GUANTANAMO

What does the presidency of Barack Obama have to say to us this July 4th?

Lars Thorwald argues that Obama's DOJ is simply doing its job. He states:Here's the promise you claim he is breaking: By defending DOMA in court, he is breaking his promise to fight for gay and lesbian rights.  He is breaking a policy pr

The US was founded on the principle that "lesser" or "dangerous" peoples should be "detained" for the good of the nation - on reservations or in slavery. today it's rampant race hatred directed against Arabs and spilling over to all Muslims.

Jonathon S. Landy and Warren P. Stroebel of the Boston Herald in xx have examined Dick Cheney's words on how he and bush (though his speeches and TV appearances have shown clearly who was actually president between Jan 20 2001 and 2009)

"US supported brutal Somoza dictatorship in Nicaragua for 40-years. Nicaraguan people, led by Sandinistas, overthrew this regime in 1979, a breathtaking popular revolution. Sandinistas weren't perfect. Reagan denounced, overthrew them with Contras."

I have no doubt that there will still be those who are going to dismiss the latest evidence that the US government has in fact been torturing prisoners in the War OF Terror.  I am also sure that anyone who speaks-out against this corruption of b

Supreme Court hears Guantanamo casesAt issue: whether to overturn Military Commissions Act passed by CongressA detainee at the detention facility at the Guantanamo Naval Base in Cuba.The Associated Pressupdated 9:59 a.m. CT, Wed., Dec. 5, 2007&n

A litany of failure.

I woke up this morning to an NPR interview with Tara McKelvey, author of "Monstering: Inside America's Policy of Secret Interrogations and Torture in the Terror War" Here it is on Amazon. Don't forget the "Inside This Book"