When US envoy to Afghanistan, Richard Holbrooke, met with Afghanistan’s ‘democratically’ installed President Hamid Karzai in Kabul on February 14, he may have just learned of the historic significance of the following day. February 15...
18 February 2009
Peace and justice activists in Virginia's Fifth District were thrilled last November when we and our neighbors replaced Congressman Virgil Goode with Tom Perriello. We got together and held a couple of meetings to discuss what we might...
12 February 2009
In a tent in front of Shifa hospital, the largest hospital in Gaza, a
sign on the photo of a young child bleeding from wounds from the Israeli
attack on Gaza read “Gaza Will Not Die.”
Shifa hospital received hundreds of...
Shifa hospital received hundreds of...
10 February 2009
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy has now joined House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers in proposing some sort of "truth and reconciliation" commission for the crimes of Bush and Cheney, as if Bush and Cheney have...
08 February 2009
If we can move beyond torture, do we not have a responsibility also to think for a moment about the obvious fact that torture is not the cruelest thing we do? Torture offends us, in part, because the torturer is not at risk, but neither...
23 January 2009
The Center for Constitutional Rights has expressed concern that
President Obama's executive order banning torture may contain a
loophole. But no president has any right to declare torture legal or
illegal, with or without loopholes. And...
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