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Ten Years After 9/11, America Deserves Better than Dick Cheney’s Self-Serving...
On August 30, when In My Time, former Vice President Dick Cheney’s self-serving autobiography was published, the timing was pernicious. Cheney knows by now that every time he opens his mouth to endorse...
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George W. Bush’s Torture Program Began Ten Years Ago
Last month was the 10th anniversary of the opening of the “war on terror” prison at Guantánamo, and as this year progresses it is appropriate to remember that there will be other grim 10-year...
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War Crimes Tribunal in Malaysia Finds Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld Guilty of...
Last November, a war crimes tribunal established in Malaysia “found George Bush and Tony Blair guilty of ‘crimes against peace’ and other war crimes for their 2003 aggressive attack on Iraq, as well as...
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Ten Years of Torture: Marking the 10th Anniversary of John Yoo’s “Torture Memos”
Exactly ten years ago, on August 1, 2002, Jay S. Bybee, who, at the time, was the Assistant Attorney General in the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, signed two memos (see here and here)...
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The Long Pursuit of Accountability for the Bush Administration’s Torture Program
In June 2004, in the wake of the Abu Ghraib scandal, a notorious memo from August 2002 was leaked. It was written by John Yoo, a lawyer in the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel and it...
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Video: Culture of Impunity – New Online Film Includes Andy Worthington...
As today is the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, initiated by the United Nations in 1997, on the 10th anniversary of the the day that the UN Convention against Torture and Other...
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Video: Culture of Impunity Part Two – Andy Worthington on Bush’s War Crimes,...
Six weeks ago, on June 26, the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, initiated by the United Nations in 1997, on the 10th anniversary of the the day that the UN Convention against Torture...
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Video: Todd Pierce Discusses the Lawlessness of Guantánamo’s Military...
I’ve been meaning for some time to post a video of my friend Todd Pierce, a retired major in the US Army JAG (Judge Advocate General) Corps, being interviewed on the “London Real” show run by US ex-pat...
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Exactly 16 Years Ago, George W. Bush Opened the Floodgates to Torture at...
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The Forgotten Torture Report: It’s Ten Years Since the Publication of the...
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