Month: April 2009

Article 1 of the International Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment provides, in simple terms, that “torture means any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether...

Cover of Kenneth Stern’s book revealing violent Palestinian stereotypes. What was Kenneth Stern thinking when he approved this cover for his book? Philip Weiss, in this post on Mondoweiss, ‘American Jewish...

I just got through watching press secretary Robert Gibbs do his daily White House press briefing. Ninety-percent of the briefing consisted of various beat reporters acting like panicked schoolchildren at the idea that the...

In any kind of sane world, Dick Cheney wouldn’t be spouting off, he’d be obtaining legal counsel. In fact, I wish Joe Biden would go off message and say as much.

Zellikow was Condi Rice’s deputy and also 9/11 counsel. He claims that he wrote a memo objecting to the OLC torture memos when they were circulated in the Bush government. Zellikow claims to have identified a logical...