Hackivist collective Anonymous has set their sights on Guantanamo Bay, demanding the facility be shut down in accordance with US and international law.
Anonymous Launches Global Protest To Shut Down Guantanamo (VIDEO)
by Leslie Salzillo •
Tag Archive for torture
GOP Lawmaker Doubles Down On Demanding Torture For Teenaged Boston Bombing Suspect (VIDEO)
by Elisabeth Parker •
NY State Senator Greg Ball to Fox News: If he’d had the same chance after 9/11, ‘it would have been me Osama bin Laden and a baseball bat.’
Reject Fear in the Wake of the Boston Bombing
by Winning Progressive •
The worst thing we could do is to respond to the horrible and tragic events in Boston with more fear.
Stunning NY Times Op-Ed ‘Gitmo Is Killing Me’ Details Guantánamo Prisoner’s Hunger Strike
by Lorraine Devon Wilke •
Eleven years is a long time to await charges, to await trial, to await justice, and the anguish felt by many on all sides of this issue is deep and metastasizing.
This Is What Superstition Does: ‘Witches’ Tortured, Burned Alive
by T. Steelman •
Belief in sorcery is widespread in the Pacific nation. Think back to Europe during the Middle Ages, when anyone could accuse anyone else of witchcraft.
10 Things Conservatives Support That Are MORE Invasive Than Background Checks For Gun Ownership
by Stephen D. Foster Jr. •
Claims of outrage over invasion of privacy over background checks are nonsense in the face of the things far more invasive which these same conservatives support.
Montana Man Arrested For Waterboarding Sons And Making School Threat
by T. Steelman •
He was wearing military-style body armor and, the witness told police, owns assault rifles and armor-piercing bullets.
Terror Porn – Senators Outraged By ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ Depictions Of Torture
by Lorraine Devon Wilke •
The torture scenes jump-start the film and place us as reluctant witnesses to activity that is both repugnant and inhumane…’it’s a movie not a documentary.’
It’s Tough To ‘Get A Job!’ When The Job Creators Send Them Overseas
by Terrence •
Once upon a time, America was a land offering unlimited promise and opportunities, but for four decades now, it has borne witness to a growing atrocity
Romney Campaign In Favor Of Torture
by Justin Acuff •
George W. Bush Remembers His Presidency As ‘Awesome’ – He Was ‘Famous And Powerful’
by Wendy Gittleson •
Bush remembers his Presidency as ‘Awesome,’ we remember it as a long nightmare, one we should never forget, even though we’d like to.
George W. Bush, Dick Cheney Convicted Of War Crimes
by Justin "Filthy Liberal Scum" Rosario •
This past Friday, a five panel tribunal delivered a unanimous guilty verdict after a week long trial that, unsurprisingly, was not covered by American media.
Scalia Lies About Bush V. Gore – Tells Crowd To ‘Get Over It’
by Wendy Gittleson •
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is either losing the mental capacity to remain on the court or he flat out lied when he arrogantly told a crowd at Wesleyan University that had asked about the landmark 2000 Bush v. Gore decision, ‘Get over it.’
Rick Santorum – Cafeteria Catholic
by Winning Progressive •
The poster child for such conservative Cafeteria Catholicism is GOP Presidential hopeful Rick Santorum, who is happy to use his Catholic faith as the basis for attacking reproductive rights and LGBT equality, but promotes conservative policies that oppose Catholic teachings on a wide array of other issues.
Do Viacom and YouTube Hate Free Speech? Michael Hayne’s Interview With Director of Dick Cheney War Crimes Film
by Michael Hayne •
I had the pleasure of chatting with the writer and director of The Last War Crime, The Pen, and he had some very startling things to say about his fight with Viacom and Youtube over the promotion of this film.
Conservative Audience Boos ‘The Golden Rule’ During GOP Debate In South Carolina (VIDEO)
by Stephen D. Foster Jr. •
As if the Republican Party hadn’t already damaged itself enough since August, the audience of yet another GOP Debate has booed something that seriously questions their claims of being true Christians.
Keep Talking, Cenk
by Osborne Ink •
Cenk Uygur speaks of ‘this bill’ as if NDAA was something new and cruel and unusual. In fact, the National Defense Authorization Act is the Department of Defense budget.
Congress Secretly Working To Pass National Defense Authorization Act In Closed Doors Conference Committee
by Stephen D. Foster Jr. •
Not too long ago, Addicting Info reported that the US Senate was voting on S. 1867, a bill that would allow the military to arrest Americans on American soil and hold them indefinitely.
The National Defense Authorization Act Is Even Scarier Than We Thought, Allows Military To Torture American Citizens
by Stephen D. Foster Jr. •
This week, the United States Senate passed S. 1867 also known as the National Defense Authorization Act including sections 1031 and 1032 which authorize the military to arrest and indefinitely detain American citizens without trial or charge.
South Carolina Republican Debate Crowd Cheers Waterboarding (VIDEO)
by David E. Phillips •
Tonight in South Carolina, at the Republican Debate, the conservative audience in attendance cheered both Herman Cain and Michele Bachmann when the two candidates agreed that waterboarding would be a staple of either of their presidencies in addressing the war on terror.