By Susan Cornwell, Reuters The Senate voted on Wednesday against considering a measure to give Guantanamo detainees and other foreigners the right to challenge their detention in the U.S. courts. Check out how your Senator voted at the Washington Post The legislation needed 60 votes to be considered by lawmakers in the Senate, narrowly controlled…
By Gareth Porter, IPS News. In his prepared statement to the US House of Representatives Foreign Affairs and Armed Services committees last week, General David Petraeus claimed that Iran is using the Quds Force to turn Shi’ite militias into a “Hezbollah-like force” to “fight a proxy war against the Iraqi state and coalition forces in…
By Jason Leopold, t r u t h o u t A military watchdog organization filed a lawsuit in federal court Tuesday against the Pentagon, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, and a US Army major, on behalf of an Army soldier stationed in Iraq. The suit charges the Pentagon with widespread constitutional violations by allegedly…
“As the person who filmed this event. I would like to say that although Andrew may appear to be a conspiracy theorist, he still was accosted by the police after Senator Kerry said he wanted to hear the question. If Accent Speakers Bureau had allowed all those standing in line to ask questions, this never…
