A Gitmo detainee expressed support for U.S. civilian courts over military tribunals, so they must be evil.
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‘Inalienable Constitutional Rights in Court is Terrorism’
Posted: 27 September 2010 by Little Alex in National News, Political ScienceTags: Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, civil liberties, conservatives, constitutional rights, Guantanamo Bay, John Grisham, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, NY Times, tea party movement
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Daily Briefing—21st Sept 2010
Posted: 21 September 2010 by Editors in Daily BriefingTags: Abdu Rahman, ACLU, Af-Pak War, airstrikes, Andy Worthington, antiwar activism, arms trading, Brazil, C.J. Chivers, Carol Rosenberg, China, Chris Hedges, Dahr Jamail, Death Penalty, domestic surveillance, domestic terrorism, drones, electoral politics, Eric Garris, false flag operation, FBI, Federal Reserve, fiat money, FOREX, Glenn Greenwald, gold, Great Recesseion, Guantanamo Bay, Iran, Israel, Jason Ditz, Kaveh L. Afrasiabi, Kyrgyzstan, Lockheed MArtin, Middle East, Middle East peace process, military industrial complex, NAM, Noah Shachtman, Obama Administration, Omar Khadr, Pakistan, Paul O'Mahoney, Peace Now, Pittsburgh G-20 Summit, privacy rights, racism, Saudi Arabia, Scott Horton, settlement expansion, Sheldon Richman, Somalia, Stephen Walt, Sweden, Tom Engelhardt, UAE, Wall Street, war games, Warfare and Conflict, West Bank, William Fisher
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Evening Briefing—16th Sept 2010
Posted: 16 September 2010 by Editors in Daily BriefingTags: AEA, Af-Pak War, Afghanistan, Arab League, China, civil liberties, criminal justice system, Daniel Luban, DPRK, Futenma, Gaza, Glenn Greenwald, Guantanamo Bay, home foreclosures, IAEA, IMF, IRA, Iran, Israel, Japan, military aid, military industrial complex, NATO, North Korea, NPT, Pakistan, poverty, settlement expansion, Somalia, Syria, terrorism, UN, USDCNY, Venezuela, Warfare and Conflict, William Fisher
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Evening Briefing—7th Sept 2010
Posted: 7 September 2010 by Editors in Daily BriefingTags: ACLU, Af-Pak War, Afghanistan, Andy Worthington, anti-depressants, bailouts, banking, BP, cancer, Charles Davis, CIA, cooperatives, Cuba, David Petraeus, Deepwater Horizon, Fannie Mae, FOREX, Fourth Amendment, France, Freddie Mac, general strike, Guantanamo Bay, Gulf oil spill, habeas corpus, healthcare, human rights, IAEA, infrastructure, Iran, Iraq, Jonathan Turley, London Underground, mortgage crisis, Mozambique, mushrooms, NATO, Obama Administration, Pakistan, police brutality, Russia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, tasers, torture, unemployment, US military, USDJPY, Walter Block, Walter Pincus, Warfare and Conflict
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The Tragedy of Omar Khadr (mp3)
Posted: 22 August 2010 by Editors in International AffairsTags: Afghanistan, AntiWar radio, Bagram Air Base, Bush Administration, Canada, child soldiers, criminal justice, Daphne Eviatar, Guantanamo Bay, human rights, international law, military commissions, Newspeak, Obama Administration, Omar Khadr, rendition, Scott Horton, torture, United States, United States armed forces, war crimes, War on Terror, Warfare and Conflict
Omar Khadr, a 23-year-old Canadian citizen was kidnapped by the military in Afghanistan after being shot to the infirmary at the U.S. detention center at Bagram Air Base, where he was tortured and threatened with rape before being transferred the prison at Guantánamo Bay—all when he was only 15—where he’s been held captive since. The ‘war crime’ was throwing a hand grenade at U.S. troops and allegedly killing one of them, though the cause of the soldier’s death is in question, the burden of proof cannot be met of who threw any grenades, throwing a grenade at a uniformed enemy is not a war crime and child soldiers are legally distinguished as victims.
At AntiWar Radio with Scott Horton, journalist, legal analyst and Human Right First senior associate in law and security Daphne Eviatar discussed the U.S. military commission to try Mr. Khadr for war crimes (25:55):
Evening Briefing—19th Aug 2010
Posted: 19 August 2010 by Editors in Daily BriefingTags: ACTA, Afghanistan, Afghanistan War Logs, AIG, Baha'i, BP, China, CIA, Death Penalty, Dennis Kucinich, Eden Abergil, extrajudicial assassination, Federal Reserve, Gaza, Gaza blockade, general strike, Ground Zero Mosque, Guantanamo Bay, Gulf oil spill, IDF, India, Iran, Iraq, Iraq War, Islam, Islamophobia, Jason Ditz, John Robbins, Keith Olbermann, Monsanto, MSNBC, national debt, NBC, NY Times, Pakistan, Park 51, Phillipines, religion, Roderick Long, Sharia Law, South Africa, Taiwan, Task Force 373, terrorism, TF 373, unemployment, Warfare and Conflict, Wikileaks, Zionism
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Daily Briefing—17th Aug 2010
Posted: 17 August 2010 by Editors in Daily BriefingTags: Afghanistan, arms trading, Blackwater, Bob Herbert, BP, Bretigne Shaffer, China, Chris Hayes, CNN, Cordoba House, David Finkel, David Paterson, David Petraeus, economic crisis, electoral politics, Ethan McCord, Ethiopia, Federal Reserve, Gareth Porter, gay marriage, GOP, Ground Zero Mosque, Guantanamo Bay, Gulf oil spill, healthcare, Horn of Africa, India, Iran, Iraq, Iraq elections, Iraqiya, ISI, Israel, John Bolton, media, Middle East, military contractors, military industrial complex, MP Nunan, News Corp, Nick Clegg, Norman Solomon, nuclear weapons, Obama, Pakistan, Pakistani Taliban, PSCs, Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Ramzi Binalshibh, Republican Party, Republicans, Scott Horton, Somalia, State of Law, Taiwan, three strike statutes, TTP, UK, UN, Wikileaks, Xe
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Daily Briefing—11th Aug 2010
Posted: 11 August 2010 by Editors in Daily BriefingTags: 14th Amendment, Afghanistan, Ahmadinejad, ANC, ANP, Blackwater, Bush tax cuts, Calfornia, China, civil liberties, climate change, COIN, Colombia, counterinsurgency, Czech Republic, DPRK, economic crisis, FARC, fascism, Federal Reserve, fiat money, Flynt Leverett, free press, Freedom Flotilla, Gareth Porter, Gaza, Gaza blockade, global warming, Greenland, Guantanamo Bay, Hillary Mann Leverett, home foreclosures, HUD, humanitarian aid, IDF, illegal immigration, imperialism, India, Iran, Iraq, Iraq War, Israel, Ivan Eland, Japan, Jeff Stein, Jeffrey Goldberg, journalism, Justice Department, Kashmir, labor unions, Lebanon, Lew Rockwell, Manmohan Singh, Mavi Marmara, Mehdi Karroubi, national debt, North Korea, Obama Administration, Omar Khadr, Pakistan, PCHR, private military contractors, right to strike, Ron Paul, solar energy, South Africa, State Department, Tim Arango, trade deficit, US citizenship, USD, Venezuela, War, War on Terror, West Bank, yen
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Khadr Show-’Trial’ Blacked Out of NY Times, So Obamaphiles Won’t Care (Video)
Posted: 10 August 2010 by Editors in International Affairs, National News, Political ScienceTags: Afghanistan, al-Qaeda, al-Qaida, Asim Qureshi, Bagram Air Base, Bush Administration, civil liberties, criminal justice, electoral politics, fascism, Geneva Conventions, Guantanamo Bay, human rights, Ibrahim Ahmed Mahmoud al-Qosi, international law, law, libertarian, mainstream media, military commissions, MSM, Newspeak, NY Times, Obama, Obama Administration, Omar Khadr, Osama bin Laden, rendition, Sunny Hundal, Teymoor Nabili, Todd Kent, torture, US, War, War on Terror
The first military commission of a detainee renditioned to the U.S. detention center at Guantánamo Bay under the Obama Administration opened Tuesday. Omar Khadr, a Canadian citizen, was kidnapped eight years ago in Afghanistan at the age of 15 by the U.S. military, threatened with rape in detention at the U.S. air base at Bagram, transferred to Guantánamo where he was tortured until he confessed that he threw a grenade that killed a U.S. soldier. Monday evening, Texas A&M at Qatar associate professor Todd Kent noted that it will likely not be a political issue for the Adminsitration because the mainstream media is downplaying it, though criminal justice is a large part of the president’s avatar, at Al Jazeera English’s “Inside Story”—which focused on the coming so-called ‘trial’ (23:41):
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