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#FeminismNotMilitarism: Peace Groups Blast Biden's DNI Pick Over Links to Drones, Torture, and Mass Surveillance

Former Deputy National Security Adviser Avril Haines (standing, center) has ben picked as President-elect Joe Biden's Director of National Intelligence. (Photo: Pete Souza/White House)

'This Is How a Torturer Ended Up Running the CIA': Biden Reportedly Hopes to Avoid Probes Into Trump Crimes

Brett Wilkins, staff writer

President-elect Donald Trump photographed near President Donald Trump at Trump's January 20, 2017 inauguration in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Paul J. Richards/AFP/Getty Images)

Mirroring Obama's choice to "look forward" not back, one critic said this a "preview of an epic failure" by the President-elect

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'Reckless Incompetence and Intentional Cruelty': House Issues Scathing Report on Trump Migrant Family Separation Policy

Brett Wilkins, staff writer

A child, age 2, from Honduras cries as U.S. Border Patrol agents detain her family near the U.S.-Mexico border in McAllen, Texas on June 12, 2018. (Photo: John Moore/Getty Images)

The "inhumane" policy was "driven by an administration... determined to go to...

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Critics Call Upcoming Pentagon Visit by Indonesian Defense Minister—Accused of Horrific Atrocities—a 'Human Rights Catastrophe'

Brett Wilkins, staff writer

Indonesian Defense Minister and former Kopassus general Prabowo Subianto during a visit to Natuna air base on February 5, 2020. (Photo: Muhammad Fahmi Dolli/Andalou Agency via Getty Images)

Prabowo Subianto—who led a notorious commando unit implicated in genocidal...

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Two officers and their supervisor at Oklahoma County Jail in Oklahoma City are facing charges of cruelty and conspiracy for allegedly torturing inmates with the popular children's song "Baby Shark." (Photo: Getty Images)

'On the Level of Guantánamo': Oklahoma Jail Guards Accused of Torturing Inmates With 'Baby Shark' Song

A U.S. airstrike hits a neighborhood in densely-populated Mosul, Iraq on July 9, 2017 (Photo: Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP/Getty Images)

With Focus on Assange, Belmarsh Tribunal Puts 'US War Crimes on Trial'

The Trump administration on Wednesday announced sanctions targeting International Criminal Court Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda and Phakiso Mochochoko, the court's prosecution jurisdiction division director. (Photo: ICC)

'Full Frontal Attack on Rule of Law': Trump Sanctions Top ICC Officials Probing US War Crimes in Afghanistan

New reporting by the New York Times that border officials suggested using a "microwave weapon" to deter migrants prompted fierce outrage Wednesday.

'Unconscionable, But Unsurprising': Trump Border Officials Proposed 'Heat Ray' Weapon to Deter Migrants

Protesters stand near an intersection not far from the Terre Haute Federal Correctional Complex to protest where death row inmate Wesley Ira Purkey was scheduled to be executed by lethal injection. (Photo: Jeremy Hogan/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Adding to 2020 Death Toll in US, Trump Has Overseen More Federal Executions This Year Than in Previous 56 Years Combined

'Moral and Intellectual Bankruptcy': Trump Seizes on Bush-Era Torture Memo Author John Yoo's Call for Extralegal Executive Authority

Abe Bonowitz of Death Penalty Action, an execution abolitionist group, protests near the Terre Haute Federal Correctional Complex where death row inmate Wesley Ira Purkey was scheduled to be executed by lethal injection on July 15, Purkey was killed the following morning. (Photo: Jeremy Hogan/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

In Another Dead-of-Night Ruling, US Supreme Court's Right-Wing Majority Approves Execution of Man With Dementia

Bill Pelke of Anchorage, Alaska expresses his opposition to the death penalty during a protest near the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Indiana where Daniel Lewis Lee was scheduled to be executed on July 13, 2020. Lee was ultimately killed the following morning after an overnight decision from the U.S. Supreme Court. (Photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images)

In Dead-of-Night Ruling, Supreme Court's Right-Wing Majority OKs First Federal Execution in 17 Years

President Donald Trump makes a statement with Attorney General William Barr in the Rose Garden of the White House on July 11, 2019 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Report Exposes Trump DOJ's Secretive Efforts in Obtaining Drugs to Resume Federal Executions

Then-President George W. Bush addresses the nation during his State of the Union address from Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. on January 20, 2004.

'Belongs in The Hague': Online Disgust Follows Glowing Praise for George W. Bush's Covid-19 Message

Former military intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning speaks to the press ahead of a Grand Jury appearance about WikiLeaks, in Alexandria, Virginia, on May 16, 2019.

Chelsea Manning's Lawyers Demand Her Release, Decry 'Punitive' Incarceration

'Critical Moment' as Two Key Architects of CIA Torture Program Testify Under Oath in Guantanamo Bay

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Secrecy Inc: Activists Sue CIA Over Spying On Classified Report On Covert Torture Program

Because no one has yet been held accountable for U.S. torture practices widely deemed "sadistic and terrifying," two open-government and FOIA activists are suing the CIA for its continued secrecy about its alleged secret surveillance of Senate lawmakers secretly investigating secret Bush-era torture. Welcome to the most transparent - and Kafkaesque - administration in history.

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MPower Change

MPower Change Organizing Director Ishraq Ali Releases Statement on President-Elect Biden's Nomination of Avril Haines as National Security Advisor...

Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR)

Appeals Court Rules GTMO Torture Victim Should Be Seen by Independent Medical Experts

Amnesty International - USA

Advocates Call for ICE Not to Deport a Pastor to Dangerous, Deadly Conditions

ACLU

Survivors of U.S. Torture and Rendition to be Heard Before International Tribunal

Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR)

Close Guantánamo, End Torture

Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR)

Rights Attorneys Ask Court to Vacate 2006 Conviction and LWOP Sentence After Khashoggi Revelations

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Daniel J. Jones, Scott Roehm

Message to Joe Biden: No Torturers in the Next Cabinet

Matthew Duss

Only a Reckoning With the Disastrous Legacy of the So-called 'War on Terror' Can Heal the United States

Lisa Mullenneaux

The Raft of the Medusa

Nozomi Hayase

Assange’s US Extradition Hearing Resumes Monday; Public Needs to Step up to Fight this War on Journalism

Jonathan Cook

For Years, Journalists Cheered Assange’s Abuse. Now They’ve Paved His Path To a US Gulag

Karen Greenberg

Missing in Action: Accountability in Trump's America

Asadullah Haroon

'Give Me Freedom or Give Me Death': 13 Years Without Trial at Guantanamo, My Hunger Strike Is All I Have Left

Nozomi Hayase

Assange’s US Extradition Hearing Opens Monday: Fight for the Free Press Is Now On

Rebecca Gordon

Impunity Guaranteed for Torturers (and Presidents)

Chris Hedges

What Is Happening to Assange Will Happen to the Rest of Us