Category: Politics
Avenging Angels
by Rick Perlstein | Apr 18, 2016 | Election 2016, RickipediaPhoto Credit: Derzsi Elekes Andor I’ve been studying the history of American conservatism full time since 1997—almost 20 years now. I’ve read almost every major book on the subject. I thought I knew what I was talking about. Then along comes Donald Trump to scramble the whole goddamned script. Now, historians must begin to consider […]
Playing the Heel
by Chauncey DeVega | Apr 14, 2016 | Election 2016, PoliticsSophia Oldsman I remember going to the corner drug store to buy comic books when I was 7 or 8 years old. They were in a rack next to the magazines. Seeing nothing that inspired my curiosity, my eyes wandered to the covers of some nearby professional wrestling magazines. On them were photos of […]
FBI and CIA Bungling Impedes Justice in Guantánamo
by Washington Spectator | Apr 13, 2016 | Legal Affairs, National Security, PoliticsPhoto Credit: Gino Reyes Since 2012, a team of attorneys and support staff led by Brigadier General Mark Martins has been working within the constraints of the Military Commissions Act to prosecute the alleged orchestrators of the worst act of terror and largest mass murder ever committed on U.S. soil: the 9/11 terror attacks. Martins’s […]
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. […]