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The terror wars are getting old

by Steven Woskow | May 7, 2019 | Blog

Guantanamo Bay begins construction on senior care wing. GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA—Saying the expansion would ensure the facility is adequately prepared for upcoming challenges, officials at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp announced Wednesday that they had broken ground...

The Antiwar Comic: This is What He Wants

by Tony DiGerolamo | Sep 9, 2017 | Blog

In many ways, it doesn't surprise me that Trump wants this. No skin off his back, right? Still, would've been nice of him to close it. For a few minutes during the campaign, I thought he might just to spite Obama. For more comics, visit The Webcomic...

Israeli Settlers Taunt Palestinian Hunger-strikers with Barbecue

by The New Arab | Apr 20, 2017 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

Israeli settlers held a barbecue on Thursday outside a jail where Palestinian detainees are currently on hunger strike in an attempt to make their protest more arduous. Dozens of Israelis gathered outside the Ofer jail, near Ramallah, and began barbecuing chicken and...

3/31/17 Arnaldo Claudio on National Security Advisor Gen. H.R. McMaster’s human rights violations of Iraqis in 2005

by Scott Horton | Mar 31, 2017 | The Scott Horton Show

Arnaldo Claudio, a retired senior US Military Police officer, discusses his 2005 investigation of human rights abuses of detainees in Tal Afar, in a camp commanded by then-Colonel H.R. McMaster, whom Claudio threatened to arrest. According to Claudio, detainees were...

Trump’s National Security Advisor Challenged Over Human Rights Record

by Gerardo Reyes | Mar 23, 2017 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

General H.R. McMaster, who was confirmed last week as White House National Security Advisor, is widely regarded as one of the best military men of his generation. But a retired senior U.S. Military Police officer, Colonel Arnaldo Claudio, 61, has a different view of...

Paul Lewis, Former Envoy for Guantánamo Closure Under Obama, Urges Donald Trump to Close Guantánamo

by Andy Worthington | Mar 22, 2017 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

On closing Guantánamo, Paul Lewis, the former Special Envoy for Guantánamo Detention Closure at the Department of Defense under President Obama, recently had an article published on Lawfare, in which he explained why Guantánamo must be closed. We’re cross-posting the...

Jose Rodriguez, Who Ran Bush’s Torture Program, On Short List to Head CIA

by Scott Horton | Nov 11, 2016 | Blog

"Donald Trump may select Jose Rodriguez, one of the primary architects of the George W. Bush torture program, to run the Central Intelligence Agency, according to a law firm with close ties to Trump. Rodriguez, the former director of the National Clandestine Service,...

11/2/16 Jeffrey Kaye on the lawless torture state

by Scott Horton | Nov 6, 2016 | The Scott Horton Show

Jeffrey Kaye, a psychologist and writer on torture, discusses the latest developments in the ACLU’s lawsuit (on behalf of former Guantanamo detainees) against James Elmer Mitchell and John “Bruce” Jessen, the psychologists who designed the CIA’s post-9/11 torture...

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They’ll Ruin Your Country Then Piss on You for Sayin’ So

It should be no surprise that the faux-conservative "Rich Men North of Richmond" at the National Review don't approve of the meteoric rise of singer-songwriter Oliver Anthony. "Just what is it this time?" you might ask—did he oppose slaughtering a million Iraqis? No,...

The Gov’t Sterilized the “Feebleminded” in My Hometown

When I was in middle school, the bus route would take us past a mysterious, old campus with an array of decaying brick buildings. I always thought it was dark and ominous looking. Little did I know, a century prior, hundreds of people had been committed and sterilized...

The Trinity Test Killed Babies…Yeah, You Read that Right

The wanton and reckless disregard for human life shown by the Manhattan Project boggles the mind. Despite my criticism of the Christopher Nolan Film "Oppenheimer," it did include the infamous fact that Manhattan Project scientists believed there was a chance that the...

Tom Woods Show Episode 2378: Contradictions and Stupidities of Public Health

Tom Woods and I recently discussed the Coronapocalypse and Questioning the Company Line: Critical Thinking in Hysterical Times: The Tom Woods Show Episode 2378: Contradictions and Stupidities of Public Health https://youtu.be/ez1hCYAOuHM

The Army Panicked When it Discovered This Shocking Fact

In 1947, Brigadier General SLA Marshall made an announcement that shocked the military world and changed combat forever. The startling news came when Marshall published "Men Against Fire: The Problem of Battle Command," a study that he conducted during his service as...

You’ll Never Believe this Fact About Dr. Seuss

During WWII, a children's author and cartoonist smeared American's largest political organization opposing US involvement in WWII. It may surprise you that this children's author was none other than Theodor Seuss Geisel, or Dr. Seuss. But just what was this group Dr....

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