How Obama compares to Bush on torture
For all the talk of reversing Bush-era excesses, has Obama actually been any better when it comes to torture, surveillance and detention? As his reelection campaign ramps up, President Obama has touted his winding down of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. He’s also kept up the tough talk about the broader war against Al Qaeda. In [...]
How a Nobel Prize-winning president is leading the charge in a new type of warfare… Could Barack Obama’s presidency mark the beginning of an era of surgical, undercover, technological warfare? Following the debacle of Iraq and what has become a quagmire in Afghanistan, the United States has increasingly been pursuing a policy of [...]
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Mitt Romney’s wealth may prove his undoing should he become the Republican presidential candidate… It is no secret that Mitt Romney comes from money. The G.O.P. candidate, who recently accepted the endorsement of billionaire businessman Donald Trump, has disclosed that his personal wealth is somewhere between 190 and 250 million dollars. In other [...]
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Human Rights Watch renews calls for the closure of Guantanamo after ten years… On January 11, 2002, the United States brought the first 20 prisoners to the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, marking the beginning of a program of indefinite detention without charge or trial of terrorism suspects that has lasted 10 years. Since then, a [...]
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The United States needs to reassess its use of unmanned drones… The Wall Street Journal reports that a U.S. unmanned aerial drone strike inYemen on May 25, 2010, hit the wrong target. The United States thought that it was striking at Al-Qaeda. Instead, the strike killed one of the political enemies of Yemen’s [...]
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As the US departs, is Iraqi President Nouri al-Maliki the new face of despotism? On Sunday the last convoy of U.S. troops left Iraq and crossed over the border into Kuwait. This withdrawal brings to an end a nearly nine-year-long military campaign which had, ostensibly, the objective of liberating Iraq from the dictatorship [...]
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Barack Obama should veto National Defense Authorization Act… Reported congressional changes to a defense authorization bill, aimed at averting a presidential veto, fail to address fundamental flaws in the bill’s proposed treatment of terrorism suspects held by the US, Human Rights Watch said today. President Barack Obama had previously threatened to veto the [...]
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