Six months into pro-democracy protests in Syria, allegations of human rights abuses perpetrated by supporters of President Bashar al-Assad’s regime proliferate.
The US's proxy war in Somalia has led to the arming and empowering of warlords and an almost unthinkable rise in the influence and power of Al Qaeda and the Shabab.
Angus Stickler, Caelainn Barr, The Bureau of Investigative Journalism. September 8, 2011.
Despite ample evidence of ethnic cleansing, widespread torture and extra-judicial killings by Ethiopian government forces, the US, UK and EU continue to lavish aid on Addis Ababa
The U.S. Court of Appeals has refused to dismiss a lawsuit against Rumsfeld for creating policies that caused American civilians to be tortured in Iraq.
An investigation in Somalia uncovers secret sites that include counterterrorism training for Somali intelligence agencies and secret prisons, operated by the CIA.
Amy Goodman, Matthew Alexander, Democracy Now!. May 4, 2011.
"I'm convinced we would have found [bin Laden] a lot earlier had we not resorted to torture and abuse," says a former senior military interrogator in Iraq.
Medea Benjamin, Charles Davis, AlterNet. March 7, 2011.
Bradley Manning leaked cables showing officials covering up U.S. tax dollars funding child rape in Afghanistan, illegal bombings in Yemen and more -- and he's the one in jail?
The military announced on Wednesday almost two dozen charges against Manning, who has been held in torture-like solitary confinement conditions for months.
Salim Muwakkil, In These Times. December 30, 2010.
The depressing Jon Burge saga in Chicago reinforces the notion that racial bias is part of the institutional gene pool of the nation's police departments.
A New York judge has ruled that coercively-procured evidence is inadmissible in the trial of Ahmed Ghailani, the first former Guantanamo detainee to be tried in the U.S.
Erik Hayden, Miller-McCune Magazine. July 7, 2010.
A new book, “The Enemy In Our Hands,” looks at how America has treated -- and mistreated -- prisoners of war through history, resonates in the age of terror.
David Swanson, After Downing Street. June 16, 2010.
Obama has gone further than Bush in claiming the powers to spy without warrant, imprison without charge, torture, assassinate, occupy and operate in unprecedented secrecy.
