“Gitmo Files” lifted the Pentagon’s lid on the prison, describing a corrupt system of military detention resting on torture, coerced testimony and “intelligence” manipulated to justify abuses at the base, writes Patrick Lawrence.
A protest sparked by another police killing of an unarmed, black man spread in days beyond the U.S. Can this upheaval produce serious reform of policing and economic policy? With Margaret Kimberley, Garland Nixon, Brian Becker and Richard Wolff.
Now that U.S. officials will be investigated for war crimes, the international court can expect escalating threats and retaliation by the White House, says Marjorie Cohn.
The U.S. has been in deep denial. The war is over, it has been for a long time, and the U.S. lost, for all intents and purposes, writes Danny Sjursen.
The U.S. humiliation in Afghanistan shows that the empire can’t impose its will, no matter how much violence it inflicts, writes As`ad AbuKhalil.
The Quincy Institute’s kickoff conference lacked any dramatic moment announcing the arrival of a powerful new voice for radical change in U.S. policy, writes Gareth Porter.
What is at stake here, absent any hyperbole, is the very existence of a free press, writes Danny Sjursen.
Caitlin Johnstone issues a reminder that the WikiLeaks publisher not only tried to alert the State Department he also pulled an all-nighter to cleanse the logs of over 10,000 names.
The CIA and Pentagon are saying, in effect, “Trust Us.” What could possibly go wrong? — aside from a publisher of accurate information spending the rest of his life in prison .
The U.S. has declared “revolutions” on its own terms, and in its own image, writes As`ad AbuKhalil.