Enver Masud was one of the speakers at a “Demand Accountability for Torture” rally, on June 25, 2009, in John Marshall Park, in Washington, D.C. He questioned how Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who was “waterboarded 183 …

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By JEFFREY ST. CLAIR | CounterPunch
Of all of Barack Obama’s airy platitudes about change none were more vaporous than his platitudes about the environment and within that category Obama has had little at …

By John Chan | World Socialist Website
22 June 2009
Four emerging economic powers—Brazil, Russia, India and China, collectively known as BRIC—held their first summit in Russian city of Yekaterinburg on June 16. A summit of Shanghai …

Torture Accountability Action Day was marked in San Francisco and Berkeley by three events: a press conference at the California State Bar Association where 130 ethics complaints against William “Jim” Haynes were filed; a “Bye …

Nelson, an interrogator, memorably said “Torture is the tool of impatient buffoons, ignorant clods, and insolent sadists.”
Marshall Thompson, Salt Lake:

Rocky Anderson, Exec Director, High Road for Human Rights:

Karen McCreary, Exec Director, UCLA Utah:

Torin Nelson, former …

By David Swanson | AfterDowningStreet.org
Lawless detention is the least of it. State secrets and warrantless spying scrape the surface. Drone attacks and ongoing torture http://afterdowningstreet.org/ongoingtorture begin to touch it. But central to the power of …

Last week, a video journalist from the Empire Report website asked Norman Solomon: “What one message would you say you have for the younger generation?” Here’s how he responded:

One of the speakers at a “Demand Accountability for Torture” rally, on June 25, 2009, in John Marshall Park, in Washington, D.C. was Marcus Raskin. He is an author and the cofounder of the Institute …