You know the fix is in when a suspect who shot an unarmed man voluntarily provides four hours of un-cross examined testimony to a grand jury without taking the Fifth
Unless we are provided an honest accounting of the disgraceful history of the US war on Vietnam, we will be ill equipped to protest the current and future wars conducted in our name
Do those shared values include slaughtering civilians, torturing children, and holding people in custody indefinitely without charges?
President Barack Obama escalated the drone war he has conducted for the past five and a half years by declaring his intention to “degrade and ultimately destroy” the Islamic State
The United States has failed to fulfill its legal obligations under the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (Convention)
National Lawyers Guild, other legal organizations urge International Criminal Court to investigate war crimes by Israeli, U.S. leaders in Gaza
Genocide and crimes against humanity
Israel has commenced full-scale warfare on the people of Gaza
It is only through an accurate understanding of our history that we can struggle against our governmentās use of military force
The recent torturous execution of Clayton Lockett in Oklahoma has propelled the death penalty into the national spotlight
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