IPS Writers in the Blogosphere

Currently viewing the tag: "Guantanamo"

Obama Condemns Indefinite Detention (And His Own Record)

From On May 1, 2013 · Leave a Comment

via Lobe Log

by Charles Davis

US President Barack Obama today condemned the Guantanamo Bay prison camp run by US President Barack Obama, channeling the moral outrage last heard on the 2008 campaign trail.

“The idea that we would still detain forever a group of individuals that have not been tried, that is contrary [...]

Continue Reading →

Seven Easy, Onscreen Steps to Making U.S. Torture and Detention Policies Once Again Palatable

From On January 10, 2013 · Leave a Comment

By Karen J. Greenberg

via Tom Dispatch

On January 11th, 11 years to the day after the Bush administration opened itsnotorious prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Zero Dark Thirty, Kathryn Bigelow’s deeply flawed movie about the hunt for Osama bin Laden, opens nationwide. The filmmakers and distributors are evidently ignorant of [...]

Continue Reading →

The Election and the Anti-War Left

From On November 10, 2012 · Leave a Comment

via Lobe Log

In the wake of President Obama’s decisive election victory, we’ve seen a fair amount of commentary about how it demonstrates the powerlessness, or spinelessness, of the anti-war left. Some of this commentary (like this piece by Jason Brennan) comes from libertarians and anti-interventionists who are genuinely concerned about Obama’s [...]

Continue Reading →

Unfinished Business Awaits Obama’s Second Term

From On November 8, 2012 · Leave a Comment

via IPS News

Several critical issues of unfinished business in the Middle East face President Barack Obama as he begins his second term. Washington must become more engaged come January because these issues will directly impact regional stability and security and U.S. interests and personnel in the region.

The issues include the Syrian [...]

Continue Reading →

Bulgaria Bus Bombing: Should Iran be the Only Suspect?

From On July 20, 2012 · Leave a Comment

via Lobe Log

Almost immediately after the bombing of a Bulgarian bus filled with Israeli tourists in the resort city of Burgas that killed at least 5 Israelis and injured dozens of people, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu identified the perpetrator(s) as having carried out the attack at the behest of Iran.

[...]

Continue Reading →

Symptoms of the Bush-Obama Presidency

From On August 18, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Reposted by arrangement with Tom Dispatch

The Saved and the Sacked

By David Bromwich

Is it too soon to speak of the Bush-Obama presidency?

The record shows impressive continuities between the two administrations, and nowhere more than in the policy of “force projection” in the Arab world. With one war half-ended [...]

Continue Reading →

Graham: We Should Capture Suspected Terrorists In Order To Interrogate Them Indefinitely

From On July 7, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Posted with permission of Think Progress

The Obama administration’s transfer of a Somalian terrorism suspect to New York for trial in civilian courts after two months of secret detention and interrogation aboard a naval ship brought down a harsh conservative response. Among the chief critics, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said the administration [...]

Continue Reading →

Weekly Standard, Rove Make the Case for Israel-al Qaeda Linkage

From On January 5, 2011 · 36 Comments

In their zeal to undermine or discredit Obama in any way they can, the neo-conservative Weekly Standard and former top Bush adviser Karl Rove have been indirectly making the case that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the single, most important recruitment tool of Al Qaeda and presumably other violent Islamist groups based in the borderlands of [...]

Continue Reading →