War Criminal of the Week: Back to School with Robert Delahunty By Nancy Mancias Robert Delahunty was a Bush legal lackey who helped re-write the United States rules of engagement in a post-9/11 world. While working in the Department of Justice, Delahunty co-wrote legal opinions on interrogation, detention and extraordinary rendition with his partner in [...]
Alexander Cockburn’s “Twittergasms” piece today in the Nation slams much of the anti-war movement through the lens of Twitter — including CODEPINK — for failing to rally the world against Obama’s failed promises, war in Afghanistan, growing war in Pakistan, and still-not-over war in Iraq, and for joining in the conversation around the current civil [...]
Elsa Rassbach, a longtime CODEPINKer based in Berlin, penned this powerful letter to the New York Times last week calling for the Obama administration to root out and prosecute all those in the Bush administration who allowed torture. Dang, check out this last line: “We Americans, too, must cleanse our country and make a fresh [...]
Last week and this coming week are full of news about war criminals. Last week Obama met in a closed door meeting with human rights advocates to try to co-opt them into approving his shocking plan to extend Bush’s Military Commissions. Someone leaked the contents of the meeting to Michael Isikoff, whom Rachel Maddow interviews [...]
Thursday, August 26, 2010
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