20 Years Later, Abu Ghraib Torture Victims Get Their Day In Court
Authored by Brett Wilkins via Common Dreams Two decades after they were tortured by U.S. military contractors at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad,…
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‘Do The Right Thing’: Assange Supporters Urge As Biden Mulls Dropping Case
By Brett Wilkins President Joe Biden this week for the first time said his administration is weighing the Australian government’s requests to drop charges against…
Modern Genocide: America’s Post 9/11 “War on Terror” Killed Over 4.5 Million People — Study
By Brett Wilkins “The United States government, while not solely responsible for the damage, has a significant obligation to invest in humanitarian assistance and reconstruction…
Bipartisan US Bill Aims to Prevent AI From Launching Nuclear Weapons
By Brett Wilkins In the name of “protecting future generations from potentially devastating consequences,” a bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday introduced legislation meant…
Top Bush Lawyer Admits Guantánamo Military Commissions “Doomed From the Start”
By Brett Wilkins Ted Olson – the former US solicitor-general in the George W. Bush administration who argued against basic legal rights for Guantánamo Bay…
“Freedom for Assange and Journalism Are at Stake” — Belmarsh Tribunal Comes to DC
By Brett Wilkins “As long as the Biden administration continues to deploy tools like the Espionage Act to imprison those who dare to expose war…
6 Million Afghans Facing Famine as US Refuses To Return $7 Billion in Seized Funds
By Brett Wilkins “Biden should immediately reverse his executive order,” said one humanitarian. “With millions of Afghans impoverished and starving, the U.S. must return to…
Biden Ripped for $1 Billion UAE Arms Deal Days After Khashoggi Lawyer Sentenced
By Brett Wilkins Progressives this week decried the Biden administration’s approval of a nearly $1 billion weapons support deal with the United Arab Emirates –…
Assange Makes Final Appeal Against US Extradition
By Brett Wilkins In a last-ditch effort to avoid extradition to the United States, lawyers for jailed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Friday appealed to…
“All of These Guys Belong in Prison” — CIA Torture Described in Vivid Detail by Psychologist
By Brett Wilkins One of the psychologists paid tens of millions of dollars by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency to oversee the interrogation of prisoners…
“A Non-Starter” — Critics Slam Amtrak Request for DHS Watchlist Screening of Passengers
By Brett Wilkins Civil liberties defenders sounded the alarm Wednesday after Amtrak asked the Transportation Safety Administration to start screening passengers against the U.S. Department…
“Anti-Democratic and Cowardly”: US Building New Secret Courtroom at Guantánamo
By Brett Wilkins Human rights advocates and attorneys representing Guantánamo Bay detainees on Thursday decried a secret new courtroom reportedly being built by the Pentagon…
“Inappropriate Giveaway of Galactic Proportions”: Outrage Over $10 Billion Taxpayer Gift to Bezos Space Obsession
By Brett Wilkins Activist Post Editor’s Note: We don’t agree with the progressives’ plans for spending other people’s money either. Progressives on Wednesday slammed what…
“Historic Victory”: US Judge Rules Guantánamo Detainee’s Imprisonment Illegal
By Brett Wilkins Two weeks after a review board cleared Guantánamo Bay prisoner Asadullah Haroon Gul for release, a federal judge ruled this week that…