EXTRAORDINARY RENDITIONS:
The Stations of the Cross
Ten Madison artists take on the issue of torture in an exhibition currently on view at the Commonwealth Gallery, 100 South Baldwin Street, Madison.
The Guantánamo “Suicides”
New evidence suggests that the Obama administration failed to investigate seriously—and may even have continued—a cover-up of the possible homicides of three prisoners at Guantánamo in 2006. Scott Horton reports in Harper's magazine.
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| “An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws. He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.” - Thomas Paine |
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Still Beating Your Wife?
Taking a year to close down Gitmo is like saying "I've decided to stop beating my wife. Over the course of the next year, all wife-beating procedures will be phased out."
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HOPE IS
THE DOPE
December 1, 2009
Obama commits thousands more troops to the "graveyard of empires." |
Obama’s Failure To Close Guantánamo By January Deadline Is Disastrous
President Obama’s admission in China that he will miss his self-imposed deadline for the closure of Guantánamo is disastrous for the majority of the 215 men still held, and for those who hoped, ten months ago, that he would move swiftly to close this bitter icon of the Bush administration’s lawless detention and interrogation policies in the “War on Terror.” |
