Month: April 2009

BELGRADE – An estimated 160,000 people in Serbia are still in danger from thousands of unexploded cluster bombs, ten years after the NATO bombing campaign. The danger is gravest in the south, close to the border with Kosovo. A survey by the independent Norwegian People’s Aid (NPA) says that North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) cluster … Continue reading “Cluster Bombs Threaten Thousands in Serbia”

Does the US support a strike on Iran?

Human rights organizations and legal scholars are applauding the efforts of Spanish lawyers in seeking the indictment of six former officials of the administration of President George W. Bush in connection with the torture of detainees at the U.S. military’s Guantánamo Bay prison. Spanish prosecutors may decide this week whether to proceed with an investigation. … Continue reading “Spain May Try American Officials in Terror War Abuses”

Tom Engelhardt on Planet Terminator

Human rights advocates are expressing alarm about recent disclosures that medical professionals assisted the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency in harsh interrogations at secret prisons overseas and at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility. It has also been brought to light that judges have ignored the mental health problems of government witnesses in terror-related trials. A secret … Continue reading “Medics and Interrogations Don’t Mix”

Grant Smith on why Steve Rosen is suing AIPAC

Justin Raimondo on the liberals rallying ’round Obama’s war

PARIS – Barack Obama’s trip to Europe, the Near East, and Iraq was a personal but not a policy triumph. He and his charming wife, Michelle, seem the most popular people on earth at this moment, but that is a slippery plinth upon which to stand, as the two of them undoubtedly recognize. Otherwise, it … Continue reading “A Softer Version of Bush’s Worldview”