Israel, US Block International Force for Gaza Strip Defense
"The US and Israel are insisting that not only were the killings legally permissible, but that any questioning of the deaths is tantamount to terrorism itself."
The Case Against Gina Haspel, By CIA Agent Who Was Imprisoned For Exposing Torture
"Torture was illegal in 1946. It was illegal in 1968. And it was illegal in 2002, no matter what Bush Justice Department officials John Yoo and Jay Bybee said."
James Bovard: Washington secrecy is creating a know-nothing democracy
"The sharpest plunge in America’s press freedom rating occurred during the Obama administration — thanks in part to its zealous prosecutions of journalists. Trump is continuing policies started by earlier presidents."
While America Feuds, the Police State Shifts Into High Gear
"What characterizes American government today is not so much dysfunctional politics as it is ruthlessly contrived governance carried out behind the entertaining, distracting and disingenuous curtain of political theater."
Unit 731: How Japan’s Germ Warfare Unit Ended Up Working for the US
"The U.S. embraced defeated German and Japanese doctors who intentionally drowned, gassed, suffocated, froze, burned, poisoned, infected, shot, stabbed and dissected living men, women and children to death to advance its own weapons of mass destruction programs."
Why Does The Government Treat Immigrant Kids Cruelly? Because It Can
"The Trump administration is going a step further by wrenching children from the arms of asylum-seekers, apparently as a way of inflicting gratuitous cruelty to discourage new arrivals."
Carnage Unleashed: DoD & AUMF
"A draft bill touted as reigning in the AUMF allows the President to proclaim new enemies against whom any amount of force may be used, requiring two-thirds of Congress to reject that determination."
Iraq +15: Accumulated Evil of the Whole
"Where the U.S. stands on this 15th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq: in a war without end, without boundaries, without limits on time or geography."
The Millions Killed in America’s Post-9/11 Wars – Part One: Iraq
"No crime, however horrific, can justify wars on countries and people who were not responsible for the crime committed, as former Nuremberg prosecutor Ben Ferencz patiently explained to NPR at the time."
Andrew J. Napolitano: War and the Separation of Powers
"Can the president legally use military force to attack a foreign land without a serious threat or legal obligation or a declaration of war from Congress? In a word: No."