Category: Foreign Policy
Coming to a Theater Near You: Five Years in Guantánamo
by WS Editors | Jul 1, 2007 | Foreign Policy, Legal AffairsBREMEN, Germany FIFTEEN AMERICAN SOLDIERS WATCHED over a man, shackled to a seat in the cargo bay of a C-17 Globemasterthe Air Force workhorse that usually moves Abrams tanks, Chinook helicopters or infantry vehicles. Wearing goggles that shut out all light, a soundproof headset and a mask that covered his mouth so he could not […]
Tom DeLay’s Unsolicited Advice | The Foreclosure Epidemic | An Iraq Fallacy
by WS Editors | Apr 1, 2007 | Economy, Foreign PolicyThe Hammer Strikes Back—NBC’s Today Show isn’t known for putting its guests in the hot seat—unless your name is Tom Cruise. Yet there was host Meredith Vieira on March 20, sinking her teeth into former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay. “You say to fight, and the name of your book is No Retreat, No Surrender. But didn’t you […]
Congress Just Says No to an Iraq War Escalation
by WS Editors | Mar 1, 2007 | Foreign Policy, PoliticsIf the Congressional elections of the past November 7 were an unofficial vote of no-confidence for President Bush and the Iraq War, an official one was finally delivered on February 15 by the House of Representatives when it passed a resolution disapproving of the Bush plan for a “surge” of more U.S. troops to be […]
A Republican Legal Blacklist | Journalism Is a Dangerous Job | The Future of Guantánamo
by WS Editors | Mar 1, 2007 | Foreign Policy, MediaPurging Prosecutors—It’s an ugly trend. Democratic control of Congress hasn’t stopped the Bush administration from continuing to remake the courts and refashion the rule of law in its ideological image. In recent months, eight U.S. Attorneys have been asked to resign by the Justice Department in an unprecedented purge of the nation’s top law enforcement […]
Despite Cheney’s Absence, His Influence Looms Over Complex CIA Leak Trial
by Margie Burns | Feb 15, 2007 | Foreign Policy, National SecurityEditor’s note: Margie Burns is an investigative writer who has reported for us in the past on election fraud, Bush family post-9/11 war profiteering, and the right-wing neocons who promoted the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Burns teaches at the University of Maryland in Baltimore, and she has recently been sitting in at the federal perjury trial of Vice President […]
Bad Faith Documentary
Bad Faith
“A great and powerful and timely film” – Ken Burns
Critics are raving about BAD FAITH, the sensational expose of Christian Nationalism from directors Stephen Ujlaki and Chris Jones
“One of the Ten Best Films of 2024” – Variety