He's not closing Guantanamo, he's continuing the "preventive detention" policy of the Bush administration under a new rubric ("prolonged detention"), he's on board with military commissions ("reformed," of course) and the denial of habeas...
If I were a liberal Democrat – and, as my regular readers know, this is very far from being the case – I'd be mad as heck over the way President Barack Obama has reversed himself on key foreign policy and civil liberties issues. I'd be positively furious about his...
As the story of Bush administration's war crimes comes out in fits and starts, it appears that torture is only one aspect – and not the worst, by any means – of this horrific history. In an interview in mid-March, Seymour Hersh let slip the following: "After 9/11...
The last futile, expensive, and grotesquely immoral war launched by the United States was authored by those ideological shape-shifters and creatures of legend, the neoconservatives (neocons for short), whose storied history has been the subject of endless books,...
