Stories by Liliana Segura
Liliana Segura is an AlterNet staff writer and editor of Rights & Liberties and World Special Coverage. http://twitter.com/LilianaSegura
In his confirmation hearing, Holder called waterboarding "torture," but his support for preventive detention and warrantless spying is bad news.
Posted on Jan 16, 2009, Source: AlterNet
As Europe calls for a ceasefire, Israel is accused of cruel tactics and use of deadly white phosphorous in its blood-soaked assault on Gaza.
Posted on Jan 6, 2009, Source: AlterNet
A.C. Thompson discusses his Nation report on the men who roamed New Orleans shooting African Americans. (With full text of Thompson's article).
Posted on Dec 20, 2008, Source: AlterNet
Taser's marketing coup has convinced consumers that there is such a thing as a gun that won't kill. Taser deaths prove otherwise.
Posted on Dec 13, 2008, Source: AlterNet
The NRA and Co. have pushed campaigns to allow concealed-weapons permits on college campuses in 15 states this year and failed in all of them.
Posted on Dec 9, 2008, Source: AlterNet
Montell Johnson was sent from California to Illinois to be executed. His sentence was commuted. Now he's dying from medical neglect.
Posted on Dec 5, 2008, Source: AlterNet
Obama isn't likely to pursue torture atrocities during the Bush era, but this is one problem you simply can't wish away.
Posted on Nov 28, 2008, Source: AlterNet
With shoot first/ask questions later legislation passing across the country, are more Americans getting away with murder?
Posted on Nov 14, 2008, Source: AlterNet
The first Muslim in Congress, no stranger to the prejudice and fearmongering leveled at Obama, explains why these attacks ultimately fail.
Posted on Nov 2, 2008, Source: AlterNet
A 25-year fight to bring Jon Burge and police who systematically tortured black men to justice makes a critical breakthrough.
Posted on Oct 27, 2008, Source: AlterNet
Months after the Pentagon pundits flap, the Department of Defense continues to hand down contracts for propaganda in Iraq and beyond.
Posted on Oct 17, 2008, Source: AlterNet
Carl Bernstein, Kai Wright, Robert Dreyfuss, Campbell Brown -- and more -- take McCain's fearmongering to task.
Posted on Oct 15, 2008, Source: AlterNet
"War hero" McCain voted against healthcare funding for veterans in 2003, '04, '05, '06 and '07. Now veterans are confronting him on his record.
Posted on Sep 6, 2008, Source: AlterNet
"It's like we don't have rights. Like we don't even live here."
Posted on Sep 3, 2008, Source: AlterNet
In the run-up to the Republican convention, Minnesota police launched a series of preemptive raids to intimidate protesters and quash dissent.
Posted on Sep 1, 2008, Source: AlterNet
The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles has unanimously denied clemency for Jeff Wood, a man who killed no one. This cannot be tolerated.
Posted on Aug 20, 2008, Source: AlterNet
We did not invade Afghanistan to help the Afghan people. So why are so many progressives buying into that myth?
Posted on Aug 5, 2008, Source: AlterNet
In a reactionary political calculation, Barack Obama comes out in support of the death penalty for child rape.
Posted on Jun 27, 2008, Source: AlterNet
The author of
Antiwar Soldier discusses the GI movement, the election and why "the military needs racism" to fight its wars.
Posted on Jun 25, 2008, Source: AlterNet
After a six-year battle that cut to the Constitution's core, a look at how advocates for Gitmo prisoners won a major victory against Bush.
Posted on Jun 13, 2008, Source: AlterNet
A Supreme Court ruling recently gave states the green light to resume executions; two of the first three executed prisoners were mentally disabled.
Posted on May 31, 2008, Source: AlterNet
On May 21, after nearly 26 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, Michigan prisoner Walter Swift was finally released. But is he really free?
Posted on May 22, 2008, Source: AlterNet
Angry vets testify to horrors of killing innocent people, and the way they came to dehumanize those they were supposedly sent to "liberate."
Posted on May 20, 2008, Source: AlterNet
Phil Donahue's documentary
Body of War offers a chilling view of how the lies that led us to war changed the life of one Iraq veteran.
Posted on May 1, 2008, Source: AlterNet
With the world's most famous death row prisoner recently denied a new trial, activists take to the streets on April 19th.
Posted on Apr 19, 2008, Source: AlterNet
With a 7-2 ruling ending a moratorium on state-sanctioned killing, states across the country are gearing up to resume executions.
Posted on Apr 17, 2008, Source: AlterNet
The
New York Times reports that the former attorney general can't find a job. That should be the least of his problems.
Posted on Apr 14, 2008, Source: AlterNet
News that the Bush administration threw out the Fourth Amendment after 9/11 is a sobering reminder of the lawlessness of its spying program.
Posted on Apr 10, 2008, Source: AlterNet
Current controversy aside, the border "fence" is one of those harebrained schemes that might be funny if it weren't so cynical and racist.
Posted on Apr 3, 2008, Source: AlterNet
A recent report shows that the Bush administration has failed to deliver on its promise to cut the FOIA backlog. This is no accident.
Posted on Mar 26, 2008, Source: AlterNet
The Georgia Supreme Court refuses to grant a new trial to a death row prisoner who is almost certainly innocent.
Posted on Mar 20, 2008, Source: AlterNet
Gender panel at Winter Soldier conference suggests pattern of condescending to outright sexist behavior in the armed forces.
Posted on Mar 17, 2008, Source: AlterNet
The Vatican's talk of "social sins" may indicate progress. But before it speaks for social responsibility, the Church has to have to take some itself.
Posted on Mar 15, 2008, Source: AlterNet
For years, America has been using a British island as a landing pad for its torture taxis -- only now has the U.K. admitted to it.
Posted on Mar 11, 2008, Source: AlterNet
The attorney general's last-ditch attempt to preserve our federal crack cocaine sentencing guidelines was pure "War on Drugs" propaganda.
Posted on Mar 8, 2008, Source: AlterNet
A bloated prison system is against the country's best interests. Yet "tough on crime" rhetoric has gotten in the way of reform.
Posted on Mar 5, 2008, Source: AlterNet
The media missed a damning story that has actual implications for American democracy.
Posted on Feb 22, 2008, Source: AlterNet
Barack Obama has pushed for restoring habeas corpus and closing Gitmo, but some of his positions on terrorism and civil liberties are vague.
Posted on Feb 9, 2008, Source: AlterNet
Opposing the death penalty used to distinguish Democrats from Republicans. Now, across party lines, death is just another day at the office.
Posted on Jan 25, 2008, Source: AlterNet
It is impossible to tell the difference between the dark stories emerging from Bush's "extraordinary renditions" policy and the Hollywood fiction about horrible torture.
Posted on Oct 27, 2007, Source: AlterNet
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