The Senate Report on CIA Torture: “The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly”

by Robert E. Hunter Finally, someone in the US government has followed through on President Barack Obama’s judgment that CIA-conducted and “-outsourced” torture—let’s call it by its common name—is “not who we are” as a nation.  Finally, the Senate Select… Continue Reading

Guilty Until Proven Innocent

How to Pre-Convict and Pre-Punish an American Muslim  by Victoria Brittain via Tom Dispatch A four-month hunger strike, mass force-feedings, and widespread media coverage have at last brought Guantanamo, the notorious offshore prison set up by the Bush administration early in… Continue Reading

Some Preliminary Questions about the Alleged Iranian Terror Plot

Update: I was interviewed on FAIR’s Counterspin radio show about this on October 13. I come in around the 15 minute mark. Earlier today the FBI issued a press release stating that two Iranian men have been criminally charged in… Continue Reading