Category Anti-war

Canadian lawyers charge Bush with torture

Hey, US lawyers, why not do the same… This sounds like something the National Lawyers Guild might be interested in! Today in Vancouver, Lawyers Against the War filed torture charges against George W. Bush under the Canadian Criminal Code. The…

Colin Powell aide on Cheney

Quote of the Day "Otherwise I have to declare him a moron, an idiot or a nefarious bastard." — Former Colin Powell chief of staff Lawrence Wilkerson, in an interview with the AP, on how he might describe Vice President…

The colonel and the corruption

Col. Ted Westhusing, West-Point trained, a straight arrow, the best and the brightest, went to Iraq. He either killed himself or was murdered after learning of possible corruption and human rights violations by private contractors to the US. So it…

Amnesty: Britain approves torture

Tony Blair has been accused of undermining decades of British campaigning for international human rights by using the war on terror to give a “green light” to torture. A day earlier, Mr Blair had told MPs: “We do not agree…

Iraq leader: abuse worse now

Human rights abuses in Iraq are now as bad as they were under Saddam Hussein and are even in danger of eclipsing his record, according to the country’s first Prime Minister after the fall of Saddam’s regime.