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Congress passed just before Christmas legislation allowing evidence obtained by torture to be used against Guantanamo captives and denying them the right…
Jeremy Brecher
Jeremy Brecher is a historian, author, and co-founder of the Labor Network for Sustainability. He has been active in peace, labor, environmental, and other social movements for more than half a century. Brecher is the author of more than a dozen books on labor and social movements, including Strike! and Global Village or Global Pillage and the winner of five regional Emmy awards for his documentary movie work.
How has the Bush administration gotten away with such apparently illegal acts as hiding intelligence reports from Congress, creating secret prisons, establishing…
If Hariet Miers’ appointment to the Supreme Court is confirmed, she willtake an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the…
[This is an edited excerpt of the Introduction to IN THE NAME OF DEMOCRACY: AMERICAN WAR CRIMES IN IRAQ AND BEYOND edited…
In the 1841 Amistad case – vividly portrayed in Stephen Spielberg’s movie “Amistad” – the U.S. Supreme Court courageously held that human…
This June, vigilante forces attacked nonviolent Iranian student protesters, charging them on motorcycles and assaulting them with batons, chains, and knives. Instead…
[ “Terminating the Bush Juggernaut,” a longer and more comprehensive discussion paper on this subject, is posted at http://www.zmag.org/brecherjug.htm.] The Bush administration…
Introduction The Bush administration is presenting itself to the world as a juggernaut – a “massive inexorable force that advances irresistibly, crushing…
By The United Nations General Assembly is hovering on the edge of calling an emergency session to challenge the US attack on…