Advisers Warned Bush of Torture as a War Crime
In January, 2002, when US President George W. Bush suspended the Geneva Convention’s application to his troops, legal counsel from the State Department urged White House counsel to alert the president that he could eventually be prosecuted for “war crimes.”
Union Movement Urges Congress to Block Social Security Privatization
Union movement urges members and friends to call on Congress to block Bush's dangerous privatization plans for Social Security.
The Yalta Conference and International Cooperation
he postwar rightwing Republican use of the issue of the Yalta Conference was for domestic political consumption.
Australian Withdrawal From Iraq Called For
At the very time a number of other countries are withdrawing their armed forces from the Iraq quagmire, the Howard government is heading in the opposite direction.
Haiti, a Forgotten Country
Haiti is now by far the poorest country in the Americas. Once it was, as Saint Domingue, the richest of all the colonies.
Human Rights Groups Sue Bush Officials Over Torture Policy
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld bears direct responsibility for the torture and abuse of detainees in U.S. military custody.
When the Arm Breaks: John Chaney and the Rules of Violence
Temple University basketball coach John Chaney is this week's sports antichrist, following the broken arm heard 'round the world.
Socialist President Sworn into Office in Uruguay
Tabare Vazquez will be sworn in Tuesday as the first socialist president of Uruguay with a broad political support, breaking with a nearly 180 year-old tradition of conservative administrations.
The US State Department Country Reports – Oh the Hypocrisy!
The report cites the cases of Afghanistan and Iraq. It revises history to claim that the people there rose up to create new regimes.
To Believe or Not to Believe
With all the talk of Red State religious reaction and the Republican-Evangelical alliance, I thought it time to bone up on Theology.
