Today saw the release of the first ever footage from inside Guantanamo bay: a rather innocuous but still haunting interrogation of a 16 year old Canadian boy.
Interrogator: You know I’m not a doctor but I think you’re getting good medical care.
Boy: No I’m not, you’re not here. (Sobbing) I lost my eyes. I lost my [...]
Normally around lunchtime at Yamura I’ll either have paid for and be semi enjoying my school lunch or on my way to 7-11 where I pick up some tasty pre-prepared lunchtime rice+meat thing. Every day I walk to the 7-11 is a day I pass a curious Italian Trattoria. Today I didn’t just pass it, [...]
If my Japanese students were to ask me why United States troops are in Iraq, or why we bombed the country and sent troops there, what should I tell them?
How would you answer if I asked the question? It’s an important question. Why did my country instigate an unnecessary war that has killed (conservatively) 71,000 [...]
Brad Spangler writes:
I want to get waterboarded. In order to call attention to this heinous practice and make it the subject of broader public condemnation, I believe it needs to be shown to people. I’m volunteering in order for it to be so shown — online, as a video. These are the sort of dark [...]
Lynne F Stewart put a lot on the line by helping an accused terrorist communicate with his followers in Egypt. How long before people like Stewart are labeled enemy combataints and disappeared?
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October 17, 2006
Lawyer, Facing 30 Years, Gets 28 Months, to Dismay of U.S.
By JULIA PRESTON
Lynne F. Stewart, the radical defense lawyer, was sentenced [...]
