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When the hideous photographs of torture and abuse emerged from Abu Ghraib in the fall of 2004, they created a public relations…
Marjorie Cohn
Marjorie Cohn is professor emerita at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, dean of the People's Academy of International Law, and former president of the National Lawyers Guild. She is a member of the national advisory boards of Veterans For Peace and Assange Defense, and is a member of the bureau of the International Association of Democratic Lawyers and the U.S. representative to the continental advisory council of the Association of American Jurists. Her books include Drones and Targeted Killing: Legal, Moral and Geopolitical Issues.
The unanimous conclusion of the 16 U.S. intelligence agencies, that Iran ceased pursuing a program of nuclear weapons in 2003, has…
The Supreme Court will hear arguments on Wednesday in Boumediene v. Bush. Most of the 34 detainees whose fate hangs in…
Rhetoric flowing out of the White House indicates the Bush administration is planning a military attack on Iran. Officials in Saudi Arabia,…
Pakistan‘s President General Pervez Musharraf declared a state of emergency on November 3rd after the Pakistani Supreme Court indicated it would overturn…
The April 2004 publication of grotesque photographs of naked Iraqis piled on top of each other, forced to masturbate, and led…
Responding to fear-mongering by the Bush administration in August, the Democrat-led Congress put its stamp of approval on the unconstitutional wiretapping of…
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s visit to the United States has prompted an outcry, including protests and tabloid headlines calling him “evil”…
One week after renowned legal scholar Erwin Chemerinsky was offered the position of dean of the new law school at the University…
The Sunday Times of London is reporting that the Pentagon has plans for three days of massive air strikes against 1,200 targets…