British International Development Secretary Hilary Benn has announced an end to the use of “war on terror” phraseology among the UK government. “What these [terrorist] groups want,” he observed, is to “force their individual and narrow values on others without… Read moreUK rejects GWOT nomenclature
Remember all the hype when Padilla was first arrested? Now that he is finally going to trial—on considerably less ambitious charges than those originaly floated—it is a discrete little story on the inside pages. Funny how that works, huh? We… Read morePadilla case opens —minus “dirty bomb” charge
Scott Ritter has been wrong before, but The Nation is still enamored of him. Robert Scheer has also been wrong before. Now they team up for a little collaborative error. In an April 13 piece on Scheer’s TruthDig, “The Final… Read moreRitter blames the Jews —again
More than a dozen detainees have launched a new hunger strike at Guantánamo, and the military has responded by starting to force-feed the detainees, according to an April 8 New York Times report. Lawyers for the hunger strikers said the… Read moreJournalist force-fed in Gitmo hunger strike
From the Center for Constitutional Rights, April 2: Supreme Court Denies Immediate Review of Guantanamo Cases Clients May Wait Another Year in Detention Without Meaningful Way to Challenge Imprisonment The Supreme Court announced today that it would not be hearing… Read moreSupreme court puts off review of Gitmo cases
A high-level al-Qaeda suspect who was in CIA custody for more than four years has alleged that his US captors tortured him into making false confessions about terrorist attacks in the Middle East, according to newly released Pentagon transcripts of… Read moreGitmo tribunal reveals torture charge
From the Center for Constitutional Rights, March 27: First Military Commission at Guantanamo Deeply Flawed The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) today released a statement on the military commission proceedings at Guantánamo Bay against Australian David Hicks that began yesterday…. Read moreFirst Gitmo military tribunal opens
In the March 25 Washington Post, Trilateral Commission ideological guru and former National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski once again sounds like he was bitten by a radioactive Noam Chomsky. What’s really sad is that the remnants of the American left… Read moreBrzezinski disses GWOT —again
As we have argued before, the paradigmatic metaphor for the global struggle is jihad against the robots: equally anti-human, exterminationist forces battling for control of the Earth—one zealous to the point of insatiable bloodlust, the other sterile and devoid of… Read morePentagon plans cyber-insect army
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, purportedly the highest-ranking al-Qaeda operative in US custody, has now confessed to being “responsible for the 9-11 operation from A to Z,” as well as being the mastermind of the 1993 WTC attack, Richard Reid’s attempted shoe-bombing,… Read moreKhalid Shaikh Mohammed invokes US annexation of Mexico
Democrats are urging President Bush not to pardon Lewis “Scooter” Libby following his conviction on perjury charges in the Valerie Plame case. His lawyers pledge to seek a retrial, or appeal. Significantly, Libby was never charged with leaking Plame’s identity—whoever… Read moreScooter takes hit for Dick: juror
From the Center for Constitutional Rights via Buzzflash, March 6: US to Put 14 Ghost Detainees From CIA Black Sites Before Sham Tribunals at Guantanamo Today the Center for Constitutional Rights issued a statement in response to the news that… Read more“Ghost detainees” from secret CIA gulag to Gitmo tribunals
