Alex Gibney, Huffington Post AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. September 29, 2008. For starters, Condi Rice admitted last week that the Bush administration knew about "harsh interrogations" as early as 2002.
David Cole, Mother Jones. September 26, 2008. Support Barack Obama all you want, but don't assume a Democratic president will relinquish the sweeping authority imbued by the Bush administration.
Lys Anzia, Women News Network. September 23, 2008. Physical and psychological abuse are rampant in women's prisons from the U.S. to Canada to Pakistan.
Fatih Abdulsalam, Azzaman AlterNet: PEEK. September 4, 2008. The Iraqi government's plan to reopen Abu Ghraib, including a museum of crimes committed under Saddam is revisionist history.
Liliana Segura, AlterNet AlterNet: War on Iraq. August 21, 2008. Like Iraq, Vietnam was not a noble cause. It's time we stopped letting politicians and the press perpetuate the McCain War Hero myth.
Willam Fisher, IPS News. August 18, 2008. Among the defendants in the lawsuit by extraordinary rendition Maher Arar are John Ashcroft, Tom Ridge, and Robert Mueller.
Center for Constitutional RightsAugust 14, 2008. The 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals will revisit the case of the Canadian citizen who was kidnapped at JFK Airport and sent to Syria to be tortured.
Andy Worthington, AlterNet. August 13, 2008. Until now, the Bush administration has said it has the right to hold "enemy combatants" without charge or trial. The Hamdan sentence says otherwise.
Stephen Soldz, Boston Globe. August 12, 2008. Psychologists have become accomplices to torture. They owe it to their profession to oppose abuses, not participate in them.
Andy Worthington, AlterNet. August 6, 2008. Widely considered a trial of the military commissions system itself, the Hamdan trial was a two-week exercise in government secrecy and propaganda.
Andy Worthington, Andy Worthington's Blog. July 25, 2008. As the military commission trial of Salim Hamdan continues, justice and logic remain in short supply.
Jessica Pupovac, AlterNet. July 23, 2008. More than 20 years after being tortured into giving confessions by Chicago police officers, dozens of black men remain behind bars.
Andy Worthington, Andy Worthington's Blog. July 22, 2008. A 5 to 4 ruling in the case of Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri legitimizes the president's right to indefinitely imprison "enemy combatants."
Leonard Doyle, Independent UK. July 21, 2008. Salim Hamdan, the suicidal and delusional prisoner who was once a chauffeur for Osama bin Laden, is being tried by Military Tribunal.
Eric Umansky, ProPublica. July 17, 2008. The investigative reporter who connected the dots on detention, rendition and torture, discusses her new book, The Dark Side.
Brad, Sadly, No! AlterNet: War on Iraq. July 16, 2008. The pardons recommended in Stuart Taylor Jr.'s Newsweek article are absurd and, you know, illegal.
Andy Worthington, Andy Worthington's Blog. July 16, 2008. A closer look at the first Guantánamo interrogation to be released on video reveals, above all, a "victimized and exploited" child.
Laura Carlsen, Huffington Post. July 14, 2008. Videos depicting torture-training sessions with Mexican police raise alarm over human rights under Calderon's US-assisted war on crime.
