Pentagon officials: Drone War on Terror is endless
At Congressional hearing, Defense officials defend AUMF and the boundless war-waging powers it grants
Friday, May 17, 2013 1:53 PM UTCNews aumf, Pentagon, Drones
War on Terror
News aumf, Pentagon, Drones
Guantánamo: It’s Obama’s disgrace now
Sure, Bush created this nightmare -- but the current hunger-strike crisis stems from Obama's political cowardice
Saturday, May 4, 2013 5:00 PM UTC 97News Politics, U.S. Politics
“The Reluctant Fundamentalist”: Is the Princeton grad a jihadi?
Riz Ahmed plays a financial genius turned Islamic intellectual in Mira Nair's "The Reluctant Fundamentalist"
Wednesday, Apr 24, 2013 10:50 PM UTCEntertainment Movies, Thrillers, Pakistan
In Boston, our bloated surveillance state didn’t work
Beefed-up expenditures and laws failed to stop the Boston bombing, and did little to help capture the suspects
Monday, Apr 22, 2013 12:00 AM UTC 84Media Boston Explosions, Surveillance
Guantánamo prisoners exert their final leverage
Why their hunger strike should not just remind us of their humanity -- but reawaken our own
Monday, Apr 8, 2013 4:00 PM UTC 25News Guantanamo, Guantanamo Bay
Over 100 Guantanamo detainees on hunger strike
Prisoners' attorneys claim that inmates refusing food after reported interference with effects including Korans
Tuesday, Mar 12, 2013 2:34 PM UTCNews Guantanamo, Guantanamo Bay
The global war on terror’s forgotten victims: Women and children
Lost in the discussion of the war's civilian targets is the suffering their families are forced to endure
Tuesday, Mar 5, 2013 4:46 PM UTCPolitics TomDispatch.com, European Union
What about foreign nationals killed by drones?
Politicians and the media ignore the overwhelming majority of those targeted and killed
Tuesday, Feb 26, 2013 4:46 PM UTCPolitics ProPublica, Drones, John Brennan
World peace should be a priority again
Data suggests that wars between countries are now rare, leading to an emerging "decline-in-violence" proposition
Wednesday, Feb 20, 2013 4:55 PM UTCPolitics GlobalPost, War, World Peace
Latin America escaped the CIA
A new report shows that the region is the sole exception to Washington's global torture and rendition program
Tuesday, Feb 19, 2013 6:45 PM UTCNews TomDispatch, Latin America, CIA
Are liberals being hypocrites about Obama’s wars?
Maybe liberals don't criticize Obama's foreign policy because American liberalism has always been pro-intervention
Wednesday, Feb 13, 2013 9:59 PM UTC 107Politics Politics, American History
How do you explain drone killings? With post-Orwellian “Newspeak”
In the logic of perma-war, "imminent threat" is everywhere and drone attacks on Americans are no problem
Saturday, Feb 9, 2013 5:00 PM UTC 80News Drones, John Brennan
Report: 54 countries supported CIA rendition
More than a quarter of the world's governments covertly helped the U.S.'s controversial program
Tuesday, Feb 5, 2013 3:44 PM UTCNews Torture
Senate-approved CIA torture report kept under wraps
The 6,000-page investigation challenges the efficacy of enhanced interrogation during the war on terror
Friday, Dec 14, 2012 5:04 PM UTC 11News Senate, Dianne Feinstein, CIA
Extraordinary rendition’s day in court
As "Zero Dark Thirty" debate rages, European court rules in favor of man sent to secret Afghan prison by the CIA
Thursday, Dec 13, 2012 3:49 PM UTCNews Extraordinary Rendition
Obama’s community organizing: Occupy the globe
Since the onset of the Global War on Terror, the US has spent trillions on bases in countries you'd never expect
Tuesday, Dec 11, 2012 2:53 PM UTCPolitics TomDispatch.com, Italy
Liberals let Obama get away with unconstitutional actions
The president's deplorable record on privacy and kill lists is an affront to our values. Liberals just shrug it off
Saturday, Nov 3, 2012 11:00 AM UTC 140Politics Detainees, habeas corpus
Secret socialist or grand bargainer?
A second term would likely look familiar -- and again depend upon how Obama chooses to deal with the GOP House
Thursday, Nov 1, 2012 11:45 AM UTC 46Politics War, U.S. Congress, War on Terror
Obama’s Gitmo betrayal
In 2008, detainee lawyers backed him, thinking he'd restore the rule of law. They feel they were hoodwinked
Friday, Oct 26, 2012 3:52 PM UTC 28Politics habeas corpus, Counterterrorism
Spain nabs 3 al-Qaida suspects, Europe plot feared
Spanish police arrested three suspects and found explosive materials, raising fears about a possible plot
Thursday, Aug 2, 2012 2:45 PM UTCAll Salon From the Wires, Al-Qaida, Spain
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