Tag Archives: Colin Powell
A Guantanamo Detainee in Your Town? Two Massachusetts Towns Say ‘Yes’
By Steve Burns Since the opening of the U.S. military prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, a well-orchestrated propaganda campaign has stoked our fears of those held in the prison, who have been routinely referred to as the “Worst of the
Why Minorities Must Wise Up
Up until the late 1960′s it was hard to find a black American who was not a Republican. One of the very reasons for this was the country was still well aware that the Republican Party, from its inception, has
ACLU: Demand Accountability for Bush’s Top-Down Torture
George W. Bush acknowledged that he knew his top national security advisers discussed and approved specific details of the CIA’s use of torture. “I’m aware that our national security team met on this issue and I approved,†he said. He
The Torture Agenda
Since 9/11, the Bush administration and their legal sycophants in the Justice Department and right-wing think tanks such as the American Enterprise Institute and the Federalist Society, have claimed that the criminal regime in Washington has the legal right to
U.S. Diplomats Urge Closure of Gitmo
Five former secretaries of state met in Athens, Ga. recently to formulate bipartisan foreign policy suggestions for the next president. All five former secretaries (Powell, Kissinger, Albright, Baker and Christopher) agreed on two important recommendations: The U.S. should open a
