All Articles on Dick Cheney
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Views Bradley Manning Headed To Prison, While Those Who Authorized Torture Go Free FORT MEADE, Md. -- Bradley Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison on Wednesday for releasing 700,000 documents about the United States' worldwide diplomacy and wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Manning was a 25-year-old Army private first class at the time of his arrest. He saw himself as an... Read more |
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Views A Case That Challenges Government Immunity Court cases are often cures for insomnia, but every so often a lawsuit is an eye-opening journey through the looking glass. One of those is suddenly upon us - and we should be thankful because it finally provides an unfiltered look at our government. You may not know about this case, but you should... Read more |
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Views The Sham Debate over Detention In the current semi-public debate between the Senate Intelligence Committee and the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, all useful details about the issues in question regarding the CIA’s interrogation program remain classified by both sides. This discussion would be almost laughable if not for the... Read more |
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Further Snowden vs. the Dragons, the Media, the Vitriol, the Administration and (An Ever-Snarling) Cheney When Dick Cheney slithered out of his cave Sunday to call Edward Snowden a traitor - a claim, given its slimy source, Snowden promptly called "the highest honor you can give an American" - it was only the latest in an ongoing, vengeful, bizarre and often irrelevant campaign of vitriol by... Read more |
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News Transcript: Today's Live Q&A With NSA Leaker, Edward Snowden Snowden: 'Truth is coming, and it cannot be stopped' 'Being called a traitor by Dick Cheney is the highest honor you can give an American' Read more |
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Views Russian vs. U.S. Human Rights The pot calls the kettle black. —Cervantes, Don Quixote de la Mancha The magic number is 18. That is the number each country has selected to express its disapproval of the actions of the other. Vladimir Putin said of the United States’ action: “This, of course, poisons our relationship with the... Read more |
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Views The Other Face Of Political Violence Likely lost amid all lachrymose coverage of the act of political violence in Boston yesterday will be the release of a magisterial, non-partisan report concerning the decade of political violence organized and executed by the American government, and concerning the subsequent shameful abandonment... Read more |
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Views The Sociocide of Iraq by Bush/Cheney Ten years ago George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, as war criminals, launched the sociocide of the people of Iraq – replete with embedded television and newspaper reporters chronicling the invasion through the Bush lens. That illegal war of aggression was, of course, based on recognized lies, propaganda... Read more |
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Views Statutes of Limitations Are Expiring on Some Bush Crimes Americans have been facing a number of momentous deadlines, including the expiration of the Bush tax cuts and the “sequester” of $1 trillion from federal programs. But another critical deadline is fast approaching without attracting much notice. Statutes of limitations applicable to possible crimes... Read more |
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Views Tomas Young and the End of the Body of War Tomas Young was in the fifth day of his first deployment to Iraq when he was struck by a sniper’s bullet in Baghdad’s Sadr City. The single bullet paralyzed him from the chest down, and changed his life forever. Now, nine years later, at the age of 33, Tomas has decided to end his life. He... Read more |