Category: National Security
End the Shame of the Guantánamo Prison
by Lou Dubose | Apr 11, 2016 | Legal Affairs, National Security, PoliticsPhoto Credit: Garry Knight The plan President Obama released in February, to close the 14-year-old prison at Guantánamo, leaves in place some of the most egregious practices devised during the Bush-Cheney administration. Under Obama’s plan, there will be no end to military commissions, although the ongoing war-court trial (actually pre-trial) of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and […]
Trial Without End in Guantánamo
by Lou Dubose | Apr 7, 2016 | Foreign Policy, National SecurityImage Credit: Edel Rodríguez “We are attempting to practice law here,” Cheryl Bormann said. The defense attorney’s response to Judge James L. Pohl in a war court hearing was something close to resigned capitulation from a lawyer who appears to have concluded she cannot provide an adequate defense for a client facing execution by the state. […]
Irradiated Iraq
by Barbara Koeppel | Mar 30, 2016 | Foreign Policy, National Security, PoliticsImage Credit: Edel Rodríguez When the United States revealed in January that it is testing a more nimble, more precise version of its B61 atom bomb, some were immediately alarmed. General James Cartwright, a former strategist for President Obama, warned that “going smaller” could make nuclear weapons “more thinkable” and “more usable.” However, what is little known […]
Shocked! Shocked!
by Hannah Gais | Feb 24, 2016 | National Security, PoliticsPhoto Credit: Michael Vadon The 2016 presidential primary has featured a whole host of new lows. From a neo-fascist, crony-capitalist Republican front-runner, to the repeated attempts at red-baiting on the Democratic side against a Democratic socialist, no less, we’re on track for a Super Tuesday race to the bottom. A little over a week before 12 […]
The Audacity of Keeping Calm
by Hannah Gais | Jan 15, 2016 | National SecurityPhoto Credit: Robb Hohmann For those concerned that the United States is in danger of another terrorist attack, President Obama has two words for you: chill out. World War III won’t be ignited by the crumbling Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS). “Masses of fighters on the back of pickup trucks and twisted […]