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Friday Feedback: How Is This Peace?
Friday, 9 Oct, 2009 – 8:45 | No Comment
Friday Feedback: How Is This Peace?

We HOPE Obama will promote world peace, yet the reality is he has yet to close Guantanamo, he has expanded executive privileges that allow for the torture and illegal detainment of political prisoners, and he’s expanding war in Afghanistan.

CIA Crucified Captive in Abu Ghraib Prison
Tuesday, 30 Jun, 2009 – 6:04 | 2 Comments
CIA Crucified Captive in Abu Ghraib Prison

The Central Intelligence Agency crucified a prisoner in Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad, according to a report published in The New Yorker magazine.
“A forensic examiner found that he (the prisoner) had essentially been crucified; he …

Cheney v. The United States
Tuesday, 2 Jun, 2009 – 13:07 | No Comment
Cheney v. The United States

In an effort to be “fair and balanced,” to coin a phrase, I decided to listen to former Vice President Cheney’s response to Obama’s speech on the President’s handling of terrorism, torture, etc. I nearly …

Obama Betrays Liberals
Wednesday, 27 May, 2009 – 6:22 | 2 Comments
Obama Betrays Liberals

America’s liberals stand betrayed. Their new president, the one they sweated to elect — a brilliant, charismatic leader with a professional background in constitutional law — has transmogrified himself from the champion who denounced in …

Community Organizer Obama Asks Activists: “Where’s Your Base”?
Wednesday, 20 May, 2009 – 5:01 | One Comment
Community Organizer Obama Asks Activists: “Where’s Your Base”?

Some activists excited about Barack Obama’s community organizing background forget what this fully means – namely, that he expects groups seeking progressive measures to mobilize their base. Community organizers do not expect politicians to challenge …

Tortured Reasoning and Tortured Results
Tuesday, 19 May, 2009 – 18:54 | No Comment
Tortured Reasoning and Tortured Results

Each day the evidence piles up – highlighted by the unconvincing rants of Dick Cheney. Lawrence Wilkerson, former Chief of Staff to Colin Powell, said, “the administration authorized harsh interrogation in April and May of …

Was Abu Ghraib Worse Than We Could Have Imagined
Sunday, 17 May, 2009 – 8:33 | One Comment

The president has stated that he will continue to block the release of additional Abu Ghraib photos depicting torture or “troop abuse” as it is now being referred to in some mainstream media outlets. What …

Suppressed Abu Ghraib Photos Published Down Under; Pentagon Has Videos of Children Screaming While Being Sodomized
Saturday, 16 May, 2009 – 10:12 | 28 Comments
Suppressed Abu Ghraib Photos Published Down Under; Pentagon Has Videos of Children Screaming While Being Sodomized

Somehow, the Sydney Morning Herald obtained some of the additional Abu Ghraib photos that the Obama administration is in US court trying to keep hidden as it fights an ACLU Freedom of Information lawsuit. Fifteen …

Nancy Pelosi, Torture, and Bush’s Warmongering
Friday, 15 May, 2009 – 15:00 | One Comment
Nancy Pelosi, Torture, and Bush’s Warmongering

Rightwingers splayed across the corporate media, including Condi Rice and Dick Cheney, constantly remind us that in the immediate aftermath of 9/11 members of the Bush administration were doing their darnedest to keep the nation …

American Torture: No Knowledge of History, No Sense of Tragedy
Wednesday, 13 May, 2009 – 6:15 | No Comment
American Torture: No Knowledge of History, No Sense of Tragedy

Recently in the New York Times, Scott Shane and Mark Mazzetti showed that the Bush Administration, the CIA, and the Senate and House Intelligence Committees failed to ask for any historical context before approving so-called …

Geneva Convention Requirements About Prisoners
Sunday, 10 May, 2009 – 14:34 | No Comment
Geneva Convention Requirements About Prisoners

Muddled thinking characterizes a May 6 Wall Street Journal column by Senators Lindsey Graham and John McCain about those confined in American-run prisons abroad. They reject Geneva Convention trial requirements and even military courts-martial, preferring …

A Worse Bybee Memo
Tuesday, 5 May, 2009 – 11:26 | No Comment
A Worse Bybee Memo

Jay Bybee wrote another memo that nobody has noticed, one purporting to authorize crimes far worse than torture, the same crimes the torture was itself intended to create false justifications for. On October 23, 2002, …

Is Oil Worth More Than Blood In Nigeria?
Sunday, 3 May, 2009 – 18:56 | One Comment
Is Oil Worth More Than Blood In Nigeria?

On May 26, 2009, a potentially historic human rights trial will take place in a federal court in New York. At issue: What did Royal Dutch/Shell, the multinational oil giant, do in Nigeria?
The case …

Torture: It’s Perfectly Legal — But We Don’t Do It
Monday, 27 Apr, 2009 – 12:51 | No Comment
Torture: It’s Perfectly Legal — But We Don’t Do It

Liz and Dick Cheney, Bill Bennett, Ari Fleischer, and countless other commentators have saturated the public airwaves of late ever since the Obama Administration decided to make public the Bush torture memos. These apologists for …

Tortured Posturing on Harsh Interrogation Techniques
Friday, 24 Apr, 2009 – 18:47 | No Comment
Tortured Posturing on Harsh Interrogation Techniques

Although Barack Obama should be applauded for stopping torture by the U.S. government and pledging to close the infamous Guantanamo and worldwide CIA secret prisons, he is nevertheless playing politics with the issue to get …

Torture Memos: Don’t Prosecute, But Change Law
Thursday, 23 Apr, 2009 – 14:09 | No Comment
Torture Memos: Don’t Prosecute, But Change Law

The recent release of memoranda used by the Bush administration to justify various aggressive interrogation techniques for use on suspected terrorists has led to widespread calls for prosecution, either against those who wrote the memos, …

Reader Feedback: Moral Crossroads
Wednesday, 22 Apr, 2009 – 5:33 | No Comment
Reader Feedback: Moral Crossroads

Weekly the LA Progressive features a comment that was particularly noteworthy. This week we are featuring a comment submitted by Michael, commenting on Please Investigate War Crimes Now: Please by Charley James. Michael writes:
I think …

We Don’t Torture But Here Are the Things We Do Do
Tuesday, 21 Apr, 2009 – 7:35 | No Comment
We Don’t Torture But Here Are the Things We Do Do

Jon Stewart really hits the ball out of the park with this one. He asks, “does our country torture people?” Looks like we don’t torture but Jon Stewart provides us with a list of …

Please Investigate War Crimes Now: Please
Monday, 20 Apr, 2009 – 8:59 | 3 Comments
Please Investigate War Crimes Now: Please

The Obama Administration is beginning to remind me of a woman I dated some years ago who developed a drinking problem. Not only did she refuse to admit having trouble, discussing her addiction was taboo, …

Neocon Dick Armitage: “I Should Have Resigned.”
Thursday, 16 Apr, 2009 – 19:12 | No Comment
Neocon Dick Armitage: “I Should Have Resigned.”

Guess who’s contritely telling al-Jazeera he should have resigned from his senior State Department post when he and Colin Powell lost their battle with Dick Cheney, Condi Rice, John Ashcroft and Don Rumsfeld over observing …

Color of Law: U.S. Drug Policy Has Gone to Pot
Thursday, 2 Apr, 2009 – 9:36 | No Comment
Color of Law: U.S. Drug Policy Has Gone to Pot

In a recent online town hall meeting at the White House, President Obama was asked by the online audience whether he thought legalizing marijuana would create jobs and help the economy. It was the most popular question asked at the meeting.

President Obama Repudiates Bush Cheney Policy
Tuesday, 24 Mar, 2009 – 17:57 | No Comment

In an uncharacteristically confrontational manner President Barack Obama stated that he fundamentally disagrees with Dick Cheney’s notion that we can’t reconcile our core values with our national security interests.  The President went on to say …

This Week in The LA Progressive: March 15 to 21, 2009
Sunday, 22 Mar, 2009 – 9:26 | No Comment
This Week in The LA Progressive: March 15 to 21, 2009

Averting the Greater Depression
The Rich Countries’ Faltering “United Front.” During the 1930s, Europe and the U.S. were also unable to agree on a common strategy, which led to a worldwide trade war and the plunge …

Hypocrisy in Government
Wednesday, 18 Mar, 2009 – 11:47 | No Comment
Hypocrisy in Government

Recent statements by President Barack Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, admitting that they were going to use the economic crisis to get other things done, is …

Detainee Rights: Make a Clean Break
Wednesday, 18 Mar, 2009 – 6:49 | No Comment
Detainee Rights: Make a Clean Break

After the shameful, embarrassing performance of the Bush administration in denying the most basic human rights to detainees at Guantánamo, Bagram, Afghanistan, and at CIA black sites elsewhere, the record of the Obama admininstration on …

What Doesn’t Surprise Me Is That Cheney’s Death Squads Don’t Surprise Me – Or Anyone Else
Tuesday, 17 Mar, 2009 – 7:00 | No Comment
What Doesn’t Surprise Me Is That Cheney’s Death Squads Don’t Surprise Me – Or Anyone Else

Dick Cheney initiated secret death squads.
YAWN.
Wait, what? Did I hear that right? It sounded like Seymour Hersh had some information that when he was vice chancellor, er oops, I mean vice president, Dick Cheney’s office …

Against Truth, Reconciliation, and Commissions
Thursday, 15 Jan, 2009 – 13:00 | No Comment
Against Truth, Reconciliation, and Commissions

House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers has introduced a bill, H.R. 104, that would create a commission to spend a year and a half looking at the various crimes of Bush and Cheney. While this …

Friday Feedback: Military Recruiters Target Poor, Not Just Blacks and Latinos
Friday, 26 Dec, 2008 – 6:32 | No Comment
Friday Feedback: Military Recruiters Target Poor, Not Just Blacks and Latinos

Every Friday the LA Progressive features a comment that was particularly noteworthy. This week we are featuring a comment submitted by Trevor in response to Sherwood Ross’s Pentagon Targets African-American and Hispanic Kids to Fight …

The Purloined Constitution: Or How to Look Only Forward and Still Look Like an Ass
Wednesday, 24 Dec, 2008 – 6:00 | No Comment
The Purloined Constitution: Or How to Look Only Forward and Still Look Like an Ass

by David Swanson –
The wonderful thing about big lies is their kettle logic. The term, of course, derives from the story of the man who offered several mutually incompatible excuses for returning his friend’s kettle …

What Obama Owes Bush — That’s Right
Friday, 19 Dec, 2008 – 13:00 | One Comment
What Obama Owes Bush — That’s Right

by Robert Illes –
Here’s the thing about racism. If you’re a drowning Klansman, and someone offers you their hand in order to save your life, you don’t — at least I don’t think you do …

UPDATE: Wanted: Richard Bruce Cheney – Self-Confessed War Criminal: Sen. Carl Levin Calla For Torture Investigation, Possible Indictment Based On Cheney’s TV Admission
Thursday, 18 Dec, 2008 – 14:00 | No Comment
UPDATE: Wanted: Richard Bruce Cheney – Self-Confessed War Criminal: Sen. Carl Levin Calla For Torture Investigation, Possible Indictment Based On Cheney’s TV Admission

by Charley James
Appearing last night on Rachel Maddow’s show, Senate Armed Services Committee chair Carl Levin called for an investigation and possible indictment of Vice President Dick Cheney for admitting he authorized waterboarding – …

WANTED: Richard Bruce Cheney, Self-Confessed War Criminal
Thursday, 18 Dec, 2008 – 6:00 | 2 Comments
WANTED: Richard Bruce Cheney, Self-Confessed War Criminal

by Charley James
Overlooked in the frothing about Dick Cheney’s interview with ABC’s Jonathan Karl is a simple truth. Shotgun Dick, Darth Vadar, The Man Who Never Was, Richard Bruce Cheney confessed freely and openly …

Bush’s Blanket Pardon for War and Torture?
Tuesday, 18 Nov, 2008 – 13:00 | No Comment
Bush’s Blanket Pardon for War and Torture?

As if we don’t have enough to worry about the shenanigans Bush & Co. might try pulling in their last 60-plus days in office, now comes whispered reports from Washington that Dubya is considering issuing …

The “Special Relationship” Frays: British Gov’t Investigating CIA Officers For Torture
Friday, 31 Oct, 2008 – 8:39 | One Comment
The “Special Relationship” Frays: British Gov’t Investigating CIA Officers For Torture

So much for the “special relationship” between the United States and Great Britain. If it is not in complete tatters, it is fraying badly this morning.
The British Attorney General says he will investigate allegations that …

McCain, Obama, and the Inherent Advantage of Caring More About Ends Than Means
Wednesday, 20 Aug, 2008 – 12:00 | No Comment
McCain, Obama, and the Inherent Advantage of Caring More About Ends Than Means

We’ve been here before: The Republican attack machine at full throttle, spewing lies in best-selling books, on Fox News, on talk radio. The mainstream media reporting on the controversy, thereby giving it more air time …

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