By Peter T. Smith
It’s only one week until Americans choose their next president, but whether McCainmania or Obamarama takes the day, there’s one thing that we all should hope will come about shortly thereafter: the end of the American torture state.
Abdullah Almalki, Ahmad Abou El Maati and
Muayyed Nureddin leave a news conference
on Parliament Hill in [...]
Both Obama, McCain vowed to close prison at Guantanamo if elected
Michelle Shephard
National Security Reporter
GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA–A U.S. military judge has set Jan. 26 as the new date for Omar Khadr’s war crimes trial – six days after a new administration takes over the White House.
Army Col. Patrick Parrish granted the defence’s request [...]
FINALLY SOMEONE has! Personally, I think Powell doing it is that much sweeter!
On NBC’s Meet the Press this weekend, former Secretary of State Colin Powell formally endorsed Barack Obama in this year’s presidential election.
Pundits will spend the next few days debating whether or not this endorsement matters. In truth, his endorsement of a politician matters [...]
Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion said the leaders’ debate will give him a chance to talk to Canadians directly.
Trailing in the polls, he said the Conservatives have spent a lot on ads to show him in a negative light, but in the televised debates on Wednesday and Thursday, the public will see the reality.
He made the [...]
Joe Biden, Barack Obama’s vice-presidential running mate, has indicated that a new Democratic administration could pursue criminal charges against the Bush administration over the treatment of detainees in Guantanamo bay.
By Toby Harnden in St Paul
Mr Biden said at an event in Deerfield Beach, Florida;
If there has been [...]
The Only Good Muslim is the Anti-Muslim
For some, Barack Obama’s stature as a man of the left has fallen precipitously, like late autumn leaves shed by branches bowing to the will of winter.
Disappointment has often been self-inflicted. Supporters have dipped their pens deeply into the inkwell of Obama’s inspiring story and written their own lines [...]
By Andy Worthington, AlterNet
Biden doesn’t have clean hands when it comes to Iraq, but he’s been a leader in re-establishing the rule-of-law in Bush’s terror war.
In the end, then, it came down to this: Barack Obama needed a vice-presidential candidate with well-established Washington credentials, foreign policy experience and an ability to connect with blue-collar [...]
Joseph Logan
There are 360 children among the detainees, down from 500 in May. Many have been held for months, and some for more than a year, often without access to the educational services provided to children at one MNF facility. Those children referred to trial by the MNF are held at an Iraqi facility described [...]
By Carol Rosenberg | Miami Herald
For months now, John McCain and Barack Obama have peppered their campaign speeches with pledges to close the Guantanamo Bay prison camps. Both have cast the detention center as harmful to U.S. foreign policy and a source of international alienation. Both say they would move the terrorism suspects to U.S. [...]
Barack Obama’s recently unveiled plan for providing federal funds to social services run by religious organizations is an eager nod to evangelical churches–a faithful anchor of the GOP’s support base.
But Obama’s recent Christian courtships smack to some as shrewd political posturing as he distances himself from other communities that are less friendly with the political [...]
View Aligns Him With President
By Juliet Eilperin and Michael D. Shear
PEMBERTON, N.J., June 13 — Republican Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) on Friday forcefully sided with President Bush in condemning the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to grant access to federal courts for the detainees held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, potentially muddying his reputation as a critic [...]
“Sen. Obama applauds this decision, and he supports it,” McCain said. “I argue against it and will do what I can to at least narrow down some of the wide-open aspects of the Supreme Court decision.”
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