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Bush's war on women's bodies

Thursday, December 18, 2008 10:26 PM
As the sun finally begins to rise and banish the darkness of the Bush years, we continue to witness an alarming chain of eleventh-hour regulations emanating from the White House. The latest of those offenses against decency was published today : The Bush
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Little hope of justice on torture

Thursday, December 11, 2008 9:07 PM
Today, the Senate Armed Services Committee released a bipartisan report that explicitly names Donald Rumsfeld, his minions, George W. Bush, and others in his administration as the parties responsible for the use of torture as official tools of the US
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Justice denied

Wednesday, August 06, 2008 10:12 PM
Salim Hamdan was convicted today of providing material support to terrorists in a sham kangaroo court convened at Guantanamo. His "trial" included the admission of inflammatory, irrelevant evidence such as the 1998 African embassy bombings and the 9/11
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Richard Holbrooke on Radovan Karadzic

Thursday, July 24, 2008 10:14 PM
Foreign Policy has a short but fascinating interview with former Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, who was the chief architect of the 1995 Dayton Agreement , which ended the war in Bosnia. He discusses the recent arrest of the fugitive Serbian war criminal
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Another day, another papal apology

Monday, July 21, 2008 10:48 PM
A couple of days ago, the Pope apologized again, this time in Sydney, for the Catholic Church's global sex abuse scandal : Speaking in Sydney, where he is participating in World Youth Day celebrations, the pontiff called the abuses 'a grave betrayal of
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If a general calls them war crimes ...

Wednesday, June 18, 2008 9:38 PM
Major General Antonio Taguba, who conducted an extensive inquiry into the Abu Ghraib torture scandal, has spoken out again on the Bush regime's lawlessness. In his preface to a new report from Physicians for Human Rights, he says this: In order for [detainees]
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Chalk one up for the Constitution

Thursday, June 12, 2008 1:10 PM
This morning, the US Supreme Court handed down its decision in Boumediene v. Bush , holding that Guantanamo detainees have the right to challenge their detention in US civilian courts. As SCOTUSblog said: The Court, dividing 5-4, ruled that Congress had
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The kangaroo courts begin to collapse

Tuesday, May 13, 2008 9:30 PM
The sham "trials" of detainees at Guantanamo have always been legally and Constitutionally invalid, but they were continuing anyway. Now, the process of these show trials has met some blowback from within the Pentagon (in contrast to civilian trials,
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Another Yoo torture memo

Thursday, May 08, 2008 11:40 PM
In August 2002, John Yoo wrote an infamous memo on behalf of the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel which attempted to justify the use of torture by the CIA. The memo has since been released ( PDF here ), widely circulated, and then disavowed
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On the Olympic torch protests

Thursday, April 10, 2008 10:26 PM
When China was awarded the 2008 Olympics seven years ago, the executive director of the International Olympic Committee made the announcement with breathtaking naiveté : Beijing was the front-runner throughout the race, even with criticism about its human
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