Is there any hope at all that the larger players in the Bush-era criminal activities – Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rove, Perle, Feith and Wolfowitz most prominently – will be brought to justice when those two lesser lights (Yoo and Bybee) are allowed to return to a law school classroom and a seat on the federal [...]
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Also tagged Accountability, Barack Obama, Condoleezza Rice, Corporatism, Corruption, Crime, Dick Cheney, Douglas Feith, George W Bush, Jay Bybee, John Yoo, Karl Rove, Law, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, Rule of Law, War Crimes, William Rivers Pitt
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The Power of Nightmares, subtitled The Rise of the Politics of Fear, is a BBC documentary film series, written and produced by Adam Curtis. Its three one-hour parts consist mostly of a montage of archive footage with Curtis’s narration. The series was first broadcast in the United Kingdom in late 2004 and has subsequently been broadcast [...]
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Also tagged Adam Curtis, Afghanistan War, Al Qaeda, Anwar Al Sadat, Ayman al-Zawahiri, BBC, Bill Clinton, CIA, Dick Cheney, Documentary, Egypt, Extremists, Fear, Gamal Abdel Nasser, George HW Bush, George W Bush, Guantanamo, Iraq War, Irving Kristol, Islam, Leo Strauss, Muslim Brotherhood, Muslims, Neo-Conservatives, Osama bin Laden, Paul Wolfowitz, Power of Nightmares, Rendition, Ronald Reagan, Saudi Arabia, Sayyid Qutb, Taliban, Terrorism, Tony Blair, Torture
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Sunday, December 13, 2009
Apart from WMD there was no other conceivable foundation for an invasion. Using force to produce regime change on humanitarian grounds is not permissible under international law, and the attorney general told Blair as much in July 2002. Nor is there any way that the security council would have authorised it later on that year [...]
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Also tagged Alberto Gonzales, Condoleeza Rice, Crime, David Addington, Dick Cheney, George W Bush, Invasion, Iraq War, John Yoo, Law, Sovereignty, War Crimes
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Tuesday, December 1, 2009
President Barack Obama appears set to approve a dramatic increase in troops in Afghanistan. The original goal of the U.S. effort there was to find and capture Osama bin Laden. Why is Washington not still seeking the man who allegedly masterminded the attack on American on Sept. 11, 2001?
In an Oct. 7, 2008, debate, candidate [...]
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