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Federal Judge: Rumsfeld Can Be Sued For Torture

By Diane Sweet On August 4, 2011  

U.S. Federal Judge says ‘Yes, he can.’

WaPo:

WASHINGTON — A federal judge has ruled that former Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld can be sued personally for damages by a former U.S. military contractor who says he was tortured during a nine-month imprisonment in Iraq.

The lawsuit lays out a dramatic tale [...]

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Libya No-Fly: “Interventionism” Versus “Isolationism” Is Still a False Dichotomy

By Joshua Holland On March 19, 2011  

Conceptually, humanitarian intervention is a rather beautiful thing. State sovereignty had been seen as absolute for 350 years, but then the universal human rights  regime emerged and the idea took hold that a state’s responsibility to defend its people trumped its right to territorial sovereignty. When a state massacres its people rather than protecting them, the human [...]

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Libya No-Fly Zone: “Limited Intervention” Is Like a Gateway Drug for War

By Joshua Holland On March 18, 2011  

Having mixed feelings about the no-fly zone established over Libya by the UN Security Council seems wholly appropriate. One can’t ignore the massacre perpetrated by Gaddhafi’s air-force, yet at the same time, events of the past decade have given the concept of “humanitarian intervention” a black eye. We can thank the neocons for that.

The [...]

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Truth Is Not an Option: The Manning/Crowley Affair

By Paul Rosenberg On March 14, 2011  

The firing of State Department Spokesperson P.J. Crowley for speaking honestly about the barbaric treatment of accused WikiLeaker Private Bradley Manning shows once again that truth is not an option in the Obama Administration. But there’s a deeper sense in why and how this is so, going to the very roots of the creeping authoritarianism of the Obama Administration & why progressives have such a hard time recognizing and coming to terms with it. Cross-posted from Merge-Left.

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From “It Takes a Village” to It Takes a “Race”

By JeffBryant On March 5, 2011  

Return with me if you will to the heady days of the early Clinton Presidency when then-First Lady Hillary declared that “it takes a village to raise a child.” Her bold exhortation at that time committed the leadership of the Democratic party to the belief that there are societal responsibilities owed to every [...]

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Deval Patrick’s Regret

By Frederick Clarkson On March 1, 2011  

President Obama has been taken to task by many of those who earnestly supported his candidacy for turning away from the movement that swept him to power. The historic losses for the Democratic Party in 2010 are certainly partly attributable to grassroots disaffection, loss of hope, and lack of interest. That is what makes Massachusetts [...]

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“Maybe you shouldn’t have supported trillions in unfunded wars…”

By Adam Lambert On February 28, 2011  

What “the great deficit debate” really boils down to is one thing: priorities.

Deficits weren’t a priority when nearly all Republicans and a good number of Democrats voted for the ill conceived and ill advised invasions and occupations in Afghanistan and Iraq close to a decade ago. They weren’t a priority when tens, if not [...]

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