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American War Crime: The Case of John Walker Lindh
A Victim of War Crimes Perpetrated by His Fellow Americans: Free John Walker Lindh!By Dave Lindorff / April 24, 2009 Enough is enough. It’s time to free John Walker Lindh, poster boy for George Bush’s, Dick Cheney’s and John Ashcroft’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Bush Administration, Criminal Justice, Torture, War Crimes, War on Terror
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Jim Hightower : Texas’ Governor Goodhair is One Pandering Goober
Texas’ Panderer-in-Chief, Gov. Rick Perry, covers his lovely locks with a gimme cap at the Texas tea party rally April 15, 2009 at the state capitol. With him is Michael Quinn Sullivan of Texans for Fiscal responsibility. Photo by Harry … Continue reading
BOOKS / ‘Cruel and Unusual: The Culture of Punishment in America’
What I found striking in this volume is the extent to which advances in behavioral science and pedagogical experience have played almost no role in the evolution of corrections: Sentencing policies and prison conditions stem from basic, often religious and … Continue reading
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Tagged American Society, Books, History, Incarceration, Prison Reform, Prisons
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Foodie Friday: Michael Pollan’s Food Revolution in the Making
A food revolution in the making from Victory Gardens to White House LawnBy Michael Pollan / April 20, 2009 Last month, First Lady Michelle Obama broke ground for a new vegetable garden on the South lawn of the White House. … Continue reading
If the World Stopped Burning Coal, This Would Be 80% of the Solution to Climate Change
Paul Nolley, sophomore English and political psychology major, admires Beehive Designs artwork. Media Credit: Martha Warfel / Daily Vidette Photographer.Beehive Design Collective share stories of activistsBy Sam Schild / April 24, 2009 “Clean Coal Dirty Lie” is a sign held … Continue reading
The Radical Right: Alive, Well, and Wanting to March on Washington in Protest … of Something
Ohio Militia Calls for Armed March on WashingtonBy David Holthouse / April 24, 2009 The self-identified leader of the Ohio Militia, a conspiracy-minded “Patriot” group, released a video [above] earlier this week calling for 1 million heavily armed antigovernment demonstrators … Continue reading
Hey Naomi Klein : You and What Movement?
Barack Obama, community organizer.You and What Movement?A Response to Naomi Klein Revealing a bizarre contempt and college-educated condescension toward a vast multi-racial swathe of progressive supporters and sympathizers of Obama and his movement, Klein seeks to explain us away as … Continue reading
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Tagged Community Organizing, Obama Presidency, Progressive Movement, The Left
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Steve Weissman : How Should We Respond to Ahmadinejad
Ultra-conservative Rabbi Moishe Arye Friedman, left, shakes hands with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, during international conference questioning the existence of the holocaust in Tehran, Dec. 12, 2006. Photo by AP. Using the word ‘pretext’ to describe Jewish suffering during World … Continue reading
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Tagged Ahmadinejad, Denial, Holocaust, Iran, Israel, Middle East, Palestine
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Afghanistan’s Bagram Prison : ‘Worse than Gitmo’
Detainees being held at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan cannot use US courts to challenge their detention, the US says. Photo by Musadeq Sadeq / AP.‘Worse than Gitmo’:ACLU Asks for Documents on Bagram Prison, Where the US Still Holds 600 … Continue reading
Medical Professionals ‘Led the Way’ : The Psychologists of Torture
Licensed psychologist and Army Col. Larry James was the director of Guantanamo’s “Behavioral Science Consultation Team,” which oversaw the use of harsh interrogation techniques widely condemned as torture. Photo by Army Spc. Shanita Simmons / from In These Times.Medical professionals … Continue reading
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Tagged Bush Legacy, Interrogation Techniques, Medical Ethics, Torture, War Crimes
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Newsroom Layoffs : Black Journalists Take Hardest Hits
Controversial sports analyst Stephen A. Smith — once a rising star at ESPN radio and television — is leaving the air because he refused a pay cut. With all the hair-pulling about the demise of the print media, and especially … Continue reading
An FBI Official Who Was There Talks About ‘Enhanced Interrogation’
I have juxtaposed a former FBI supervisor with Liz Cheney defending her father. And I lead with Helen Thomas grilling Dana Perino back in October 2008 about this subject. There are those who do not believe that murder is murder, … Continue reading
