Stories by Chase Madar

Chase Madar is a lawyer in New York. He reviews and reports for the London Review of Books, Le Monde Diplomatique, the American Conservative Magazine and CounterPunch. subscribe to Chase Madar's feed

Our Government's Secrecy Has Caused Far More Deaths Than 9/11

Posted on: Jun 11, 2013, Source: TomDispatch

Bradley Manning has done more for U.S. security than SEAL Team 6.

Handcuffing and Interrogating a 7-Year-Old? The Police State Crashes Into America's Schools

Posted on: Feb 26, 2013, Source: TomDispatch.com

Reactionary policies after Newtown will only bolster the school-to-prison pipeline.

From Bradley Manning to Aaron Swartz -- The Government's Inhumane Persecution of Brave Truth Tellers

Posted on: Jan 28, 2013, Source: The Nation

The Justice Department’s legal assault on Swartz is one of many attacks on people who carried important information into the public realm.

The WikiLeaks War Logs Don't Show Rare War Crimes--They Show The (Legal) Reality of War

Posted on: Apr 15, 2012, Source: TomDispatch.com

The real problem with the laws of war is not what they fail to restrain but what they authorize.

How Scapegoating Bradley Manning Avoids the Truth About the American Military

Posted on: Jan 19, 2012, Source: TomDispatch.com

Washington only seems to want to talk about the casualties of war when they're the entirely hypothetical ones they're trying to pin on Bradley Manning.

4 Reasons Bradley Manning Deserves the Medal of Freedom

Posted on: Jul 7, 2011, Source: TomDispatch.com

We still don't know if he's guilty, but if he did leak the Wikileaks documents, Bradley Manning deserves commendation for exposing our secretive government's lies.

Why Bradley Manning Is a Patriot, Not a Criminal

Posted on: Feb 10, 2011, Source: TomDispatch.com

Washington is clearly intent on destroying this young Army private and then putting him away until hell freezes over. It should not be this way.

No One Cares About Child Soldiers if They're in Guantanamo

Posted on: Nov 5, 2010, Source: TomDispatch.com

In many ways, Guantanamo is not the exception, but far closer to the rule of our criminal justice system.