President Obama Should Go to Chicago. And Yemen. And Pakistan. And … President Obama Should Go to Chicago. And Yemen. And Pakistan. And …
The president should condemn violence at home, and hold himself accountable for violence abroad, as well.
Feb 8, 2013 / Mychal Denzel Smith
America’s Global Torture Network America’s Global Torture Network
A new Open Society Foundations report details just how far down the river we've sold this country's democratic values in our overreaching response to terror.
Feb 8, 2013 / Robert Scheer
Nine Things John Brennan Needs to Explain Today Nine Things John Brennan Needs to Explain Today
No Congressional hearing has examined the secret expansion of targeted drone killings, but the senate has a chance to grill Obama's nominee for CIA director today.
Feb 7, 2013 / George Zornick
Fifty-four Nations Are Implicated in a CIA Torture Scheme Fifty-four Nations Are Implicated in a CIA Torture Scheme
A new report shows that a central element of the Bush administration response to 9/11 was itself to spread terror—on a global scale.
Feb 6, 2013 / David Cole
Questions for John Brennan That Won’t Get Asked Questions for John Brennan That Won’t Get Asked
Because if he told them, he’d have to kill them. Wait. He did.
Feb 6, 2013 / Bob Dreyfuss
Torture and Taboo: On Elaine Scarry Torture and Taboo: On Elaine Scarry
How the work of a literary critic became the proxy for our preoccupation with the horrors of torture.
Feb 5, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Samuel Moyn
Katrina vanden Heuvel: Rethinking Perpetual War and How We Wage It Katrina vanden Heuvel: Rethinking Perpetual War and How We Wage It
With covert ops and drone warfare on the rise, we have to ask ourselves about how we fight terrorism.
Jan 28, 2013 / Press Room
‘Bug Splat’: Council on Foreign Relations, Rep. Keith Ellison Call for Drone Reform ‘Bug Splat’: Council on Foreign Relations, Rep. Keith Ellison Call for Drone Reform
The CFR report concludes that “the current trajectory of US drone strike policies is unsustainable."
Jan 18, 2013 / Tom Hayden
Another Word For Propaganda: On ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ Another Word For Propaganda: On ‘Zero Dark Thirty’
Why aren’t film director Kathryn Bigelow’s claimed government sources, including employees of the CIA, in jail like Bradley Manning?
Jan 18, 2013 / Robert Scheer
Newtown, Afghanistan Newtown, Afghanistan
Isn't a slaughtered child is a slaughtered child, regardless of where they come from?
Dec 24, 2012 / Bob Dreyfuss