JOHN KIRIAKOU: Pardon Me for Being Angry
Biden spurned the author’s strong case for a pardon while extending it over his entire immediate family, a crooked judge and a slew of others.
The US and War Crimes in the War on Terror
By Melvin Goodman / CounterPunch “The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.” – Thucydides, 5th Century BC. For the past two decades, the International…
‘Victory for the Afghan People’ as US Judge Blocks 9/11 Families From Seizing Frozen Assets
"This money belongs to the Afghan people, and no one else," said Afghans for a Better Tomorrow, a coalition of Afghan-American community groups.
Bail Reform Helps Countless People. Why Don’t We Hear More of Their Stories?
Personal narratives can help the public understand the benefits of bail reform, but telling these success stories presents its own share of challenges.
Merrick Garland: Drop the Charges Against Julian Assange
By David Rovics / CounterPunch I turned on the news yesterday and there was Attorney General Merrick Garland somewhere in Ukraine, talking about being part of the effort to prosecute…
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John Kiriakou: Biden Is Denying CIA Torture Victims Their Day in Court
CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou comments on the legal case of five Guantanamo Bay torture victims and what its outcome could say about the US.
Biden Urged to Nominate Black Woman to Supreme Court as Breyer Says He’ll Retire
By Brett Wilkins / Common Dreams Reports that U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer plans to retire prompted progressives Wednesday to urge President Joe Biden to fulfill a campaign promise…
The Scandal of U.S. Prisons
The head of the U.S. Bureau of Prisons was forced to step down last week as scandals swept through the vast U.S. prison system.
Antitrust Suit Alleges 16 Elite Universities Colluded to Limit Financial Aid
By Julia Conley / Common Dreams Sixteen elite universities were sued in federal court late Sunday over an alleged price-fixing scheme in which plaintiffs say the schools formed a “cartel”…
House Progressives Endorse Adding 4 New Seats to Supreme Court
By Julia Conley / Common Dreams The push to reform the U.S. Supreme Court got a significant boost Wednesday as the Congressional Progressive Caucus voted to officially endorse the Judiciary…
Hedges: PEN America and the Betrayal of Julian Assange
Careerists and Democratic Party apparatchiks successfully leverage corporate money and backing to seize and deform historic rights organizations into appendages of the ruling class.
The Supreme Court, Abortion, and the New Dred Scott
The Mississippi decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization will open up a new battle ground in abortion rights that parallels Dred Scott.
Elizabeth Warren Supports Push to Expand Supreme Court
Sen. Warren and other supporters of the expansion plan would like to add four SCOTUS justices to the lineup.
‘The Color of Law’
By H. Patricia Hynes Editor’s note: This column appeared first on the Op-Ed page of the Greenfield Recorder. For many years, I worked in Boston public housing with teams of…
Hedges: The Execution of Julian Assange
He committed empire’s greatest sin. He exposed it as a criminal enterprise. He documented its lies, callous disregard for human life, rampant corruption and innumerable war crimes. And empires always…