Human rights investigators are adding yet another alleged war crime to existing accusations of Israel’s war-time exuberance, as Amnesty International officials believe Israel’s military forces engaged in “wanton destruction” of civilian homes during the bloody assault on Gaza...

Cleitus the Black has an amusing post up at Elected Swineherd about parents who ask their children to honor the Geneva Conventions while playing violent video games such as Call of Duty. According to MSNBC:"Evan Spencer wanted to play 'Call of Duty: World at War.' So he asked his dad. Hugh Spencer w...

Written by Bashmilah at Huffington Post is this harrowing account of our war "on terror" or as has become obvious, our war "of terror:" "From October 2003 until May 2005, I was illegally detained by the U.S. government and held in CIA-run "black sites" with no contact with the outside world. On May ...

John "Loves Torture" Yoo is all upset - poor man - because he is not happy with President Obama. Penning a best-of-Bush-propaganda for the Wall Street Murdoch, Yoo writes the following (apparently his lawyer has not told him to shut up yet): During his first week as commander in chief, President Bar...

Though it will be hard enough to shut down Guantánamo Bay as Barack Obama has vowed to do, but the legal burdens will be much greater....

We have had years of Attorney Generals who won’t answer the question, “Is Waterboarding an act of torture?” Now Attorney General nominee Eric Holder has come out and said what is obvious: “Waterboarding is Torture.” In further confirmation testimony yesterday on the tre...

This is how insane the fair and balanced garbage has gotten: WASHINGTON - Attorney General-nominee Eric Holder Jr. forcefully broke from the Bush administration's counterterrorism policies Thursday, declaring that waterboarding is torture and pledging to prosecute some Guantanamo Bay detainees in U....

Wounded Gazan girl brought to hospital (Mohammed Abed/AFP-Getty) “Entirely consistent with international law,” says the IDF PR flack, of Israel’s use of white phosphorus in Gaza’s streets. Does international law countenance the use of such a weapon in an urban war zone densel...

What Definition Of Torture Should We Go By? Why talk about torture now? I heard a news brief on the radio Wednesday morning that there was going to be a committee hearing or symposium discussing the use of torture by the U.S. I did not catch who was holding it or exactly when, just that it was happe...

After arguing passionately over proposition 8, I feel that you all could use some humor.  This is my first attempt at humor in a long while.   It stops when I am depressed and I am trying to recover. I understand Michelle Obama got a grand tour of their new digs the other day and a little birdi...