Recent Posts Tagged With 'war on terror'

• Afghanistan, Eight Years On

  Posted on Thursday October 8th, 2009 at 11:41 in United States, war on terror, afghanistan, taliban, bin-laden, 9 11, headline, us foreign policy, military occupation

  Invading Afghanistan was a clear war crime, despite the tendency to term it the “good war” by so-called antiwar voices in the West. Instead of treating the 9/11 attacks as a unique crime and cooperating with the international community to...

• Bush’s Standards

  Posted on Wednesday September 9th, 2009 at 18:51 in United States, pakistan, war on terror, al-qaeda

  Mr Keller was not an obvious choice for the job — he spoke no Middle Eastern languages, and was not an expert on al-Qaeda or Pakistan. (more…)...

• Good

  Posted on Tuesday September 8th, 2009 at 09:14 in bush, war on terror, justice, racial profiling, ashcroft

  In what is being hailed as an unprecedented ruling, a federal appeals court has concluded that the George W. Bush administration’s first attorney general, John Ashcroft, can be held personally responsible for the wrongful detention of an innoce...