by Missy Comley Beattie
September 10, 2010
Counterpunch
Our experiences and what we do with them shape and determine our trajectory. Often, they change us gradually; sometimes, they are immediately life altering. So much so that...
Using the McChrystal Moment to Raise a Forbidden Question
There are many questions to ask about the war in Afghanistan. One that has been widely asked is whether it will turn out to be "Obama's...
June 10, 2010
By Michael Doyle
McClatchy Newspapers
WASHINGTON -- A federal judge has forcefully put Yemeni citizen Mohammed Mohammed Hassan Odaini on the path to freedom after eight years of incarceration at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
In a...
The Justice Department has quietly recanted nearly every major claim the Bush administration had made about "high-value" detainee Abu Zubaydah, a Guantánamo prisoner who at one time was said to have planned the 9/11...
Obama's lies over the Afghanistan war remind us of the lessons of Nineteen Eighty-Four
In Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell described a superstate, Oceania, whose language of war inverted lies that "passed into history and became...
