• Cheney Throws Down Gauntlet, Defies Prosecution for War Crimes

  Commondreams  Dick Cheney has publicly confessed to ordering war crimes. Asked about waterboarding in an ABC News interview,...

   

• Deterring Torture Through the Law

  By Coleen Rowley and Ray McGovern “First, let’s kill all the lawyers” may have made sense in that Shakespearian...

   

• Why We Must Prosecute Bush and His Administration for War Crimes

  By Mike Ferner During the rush to get the Nuremberg Tribunals underway, the Soviet delegation wanted the tribunal’s historic...

   

• Cheney Admits Authorizing Detainee’s Torture

  Outgoing VP says Guantanamo prison should stay open until end of terror war, but has no idea when that might be By David...

   

• Gov’t pulls witness in Gitmo case against Canadian

  Military prosecutors have withdrawn a government witness in an upcoming Guantanamo war-crimes trial to conceal evidence of...

   

• Pentagon approves Iraq sales worth up to $6 billion

  The U.S. Defense Department on Wednesday said it had approved the sale to Iraq of weapons valued at up to $6 billion, including...

   

• Bush returns to West Point to defend doctrine of aggressive war

  By Bill Van Auken President George W. Bush made a farewell appearance Tuesday at the US Military Academy at West Point, New...

   

• Legal Scholars Outraged by Talk of Blanket Pardons

  By Daphne Eviatar In his Nov. 16 interview on CBS’s “60 minutes,” President-elect Barack Obama reiterated his pledge...

   

• Bush Regime Declares Itself Above the Law

  By Paul Craig Roberts The US government does not have a monopoly on hypocrisy, but no other government can match the hypocrisy...

   

• Noam Chomsky and the Innate Humanity in the Human Brain

  Discover | In his penetrating study of language, MIT linguist Noam Chomsky has given us a framework that is to culture what...

   

• Thai court dismisses the government

  By Peter Symonds | In a highly political decision, Thailand’s Constitutional Court effectively sacked the government...

   

• How to Find out the Hidden Secrets of the Bush Administration

  In March 2001, U.S. Archivist John W. Carlin received a letter from Alberto Gonzales, then counsel to the newly inaugurated...

   

• Open government means access to e-mails

    Business and budgeting as usual have gone by the boards for most cities and towns. The revenue picture is grim, and communities...

   

• Bush Speaks of Legacy

  Truthdig | Still-President Bush has discussed his legacy with his sister Dorothy Bush Koch as part of a national oral-history...

   

• Report suggests CIA covered up role in missionary’s death

  By Steve Gunn MUSKEGON, Mich. — A top-ranking Republican said he will call for a new federal inquiry into an alleged...

   

• You Cannot Pardon a Crime You Authorized

  Statement from the Steering Committee for the Prosecution for War Crimes of President Bush and His Subordinates Never before...

   

• Rumsfeld’s Attempts to Rewrite Himself on the Right Side of History Are Laughable

  By Gary Brecher | The failed defense secretary pens a historical cover-up on Iraq and reveals more wild stupidity with his...

   

• Block Bush’s Pardons

  The Nation — Our friends at Democrats.com have launched a campaign in support of Rep. Jerry Nadler’s H.Res. 1531....

   

• Obama Preserves Our Way of Life

  By Mickey Z | Awakened by the muffled, distant howls of slaughtered Indians, Uncle Sam rises from his bed and hits the light...

   

• Debate on War Crimes and Torture: Should High Government Officials Be Investigated and Prosecuted

  Michael Ratner, President, Center for Constitutional Rights and Author, “The Trial of Donald Rumsfeld: A Prosecution...

   

• Obama’s Cellphone Account Breached by Verizon Employees

  By AMOL SHARMA, Wall Street Journal | Verizon Wireless disclosed late Thursday that several of its employees accessed and...

   

• Judge removes Guerra as prosecutor for 5 of 9 criminal cases involving Vice President Cheney

  Texas Rangers to escort Guerra to court Friday morning after having been found in Mexico By ROBERT WILCOX | After being AWOL...

   

• US lawmaker accuses Bush of secrecy over Iraq deal

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. government is refusing to make public the security pact it has signed with Iraq, even...

   

• Hillary Clinton wavers over Barack Obama job as Bill’s finances are investigated

  By Tom Baldwin and Tim Reid | Hillary Clinton is hesitating over the chance to become Secretary of State while Barack Obama...

   

• Did U.S. push detention of American without charges?

  By Jonathan S. Landay | WASHINGTON — An American Muslim subjected to several years of intense FBI scrutiny and questioning...