CODEPINK interview with filmmaker Sebastian Doggart: Accountability, Obama, Condoleezza Rice & Taking Action! By Nancy Mancias Sebastian Doggart is an independent filmmaker and director of the documentary American Faust: From Condi to Neo-Condi Why is it important to hold our elected officials accountable? We have a rule of law for our society and when our [...]
CODEPINK Interview with FBI Whistleblower Coleen Rowley: Accountability, Bradley Manning, Thomas Drake & Taking Action! By Nancy Mancias Coleen Rowley is a former FBI agent and whistleblower. In 2002, she was awarded TIME “Person of the Year” along with two other female whistleblowers. Why is it important to hold our elected officials accountable? There can’t [...]
War Criminal of the Week: Bye, Bye Jay Bybee By Nancy Mancias “An individual placed in a box, even an individual with a fear of insects, would not reasonably feel threatened with severe physical pain or suffering if a caterpillar was placed in the box.” - Jay Bybee Judge Jay Bybee counseled the White House [...]
“The war against terrorism is a new kind of war. In my judgment, this new paradigm renders obsolete Geneva’s strict limitations on questioning of enemy prisoners and renders quaint some of its provisions.” –Alberto Gonzales, memo to Pres. Bush, Jan. 2002 During his time as U.S. Attorney General under President George Bush, Alberto Gonzales along [...]
Warmonger Tony Blair Launches New Book By Nancy Mancias Removing Saddam will be a blessing to the Iraqi people. Four million Iraqis are in exile; 60% of the population dependent on food aid. Thousands of children die every year through malnutrition and disease. Hundreds of thousands have been driven from their homes or murdered. -Prime [...]
War Criminal of the Week: Back to School with Robert Delahunty By Nancy Mancias Robert Delahunty was a Bush legal lackey who helped re-write the United States rules of engagement in a post-9/11 world. While working in the Department of Justice, Delahunty co-wrote legal opinions on interrogation, detention and extraordinary rendition with his partner in [...]
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
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