Burning the Law in a Riot of Treason By William Rivers Pitt t r u t h o u t | Columnist As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there’s a twilight where everything remains seemingly unchanged, and it is in such twilight that we must be aware of…
by Rob Woollard, AFP A US Marine was ordered to execute a room full of terrified Iraqi women and children during an alleged massacre in Haditha that left 24 people dead, a military court heard Thursday. The testimony came in the opening of a preliminary hearing for Marine Sergeant Frank Wuterich, who faces 17 counts…
History Will Not Absolve Us, Nat Hentoff — If and when there’s the equivalent of an international Nuremberg trial for the American perpetrators of crimes against humanity in Guantanamo, Iraq, Afghanistan, and the CIA’s secret prisons, there will be mounds of evidence available from documented international reports by human-rights organizations, including an arm of the…
By Matt Taibbi, RollingStone.com How is it done? How do you screw the taxpayer for millions, get away with it and then ride off into the sunset with one middle finger extended, the other wrapped around a chilled martini? Ask Earnest O. Robbins — he knows all about being a successful contractor in Iraq. You…
