In a new ABC story, a Marine has testified under oath to rthe existence of serious abuses at Gitmo. ABC reports: “In a sworn affidavit filed with the Pentagon Inspector General, Sgt. Cerveny says she met several Navy prison guards at a club on the base where, over drinks, they described harsh physical abuse. “‘One…

The Blogosphere has been an excellent source of information and in-depth discussion of issues surrounding the English medical journal Lancet’s report that most likey somewhere in the number of 650,000 Iraqis have died as a result of the US invasion and its aftermath. The American radical right has attempted to deny the this report’s accuracy,…

As I was looking over WWI posters on Google Image to help illustrate some of Jane Addams’ arguments about opposition to war in my Twentieth Century American Political Thought class, I discovered this poster from WWI. Back then what counted as a genuine atrocity was something that would probably not even merit a news story…

Recent years have seen the mainstream media’s ability to serve the public by keeping tabs on Washington wither under the combination of corporate priorities, over paid and lazy talking heads, and sophisticated manipulation by the President’s media managers. It had become almost as if we had a state owned media, but because it was “privatre”…

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