One of the most obnoxious features of American political discourse is the self-righteous tone American pundits often adopt. About how the U.S. is a moral leader and...

A 26-year-old doctor who exposed the torture of jailed protesters in Iran died of poisoning from a delivery salad laced with an overdose of blood pressure medication,...

Phillip Carter, the top detainee affairs policy appointee at the Pentagon, has quit his post after just seven months on the job, a Defense Department spokesman said...

A dark cloud continues to gloom over the media industry in Uganda as government of the National Resistance Movement (NRM,) headed by dictatorial General Yoweri...

Obama Should Replace Failed Embargo With Effective Multilateral Policy By José Miguel Vivanco, Americas director at Human Rights Watch (Washington, DC) - Raúl...

WHEN Arsen Butayev was seized on a street in broad daylight last month and held captive with four other men, including his younger brother, he must have known a...

The number of deliberate attacks against homosexual men in Iraq has risen precipitously this year at the hands of Iraqi militias and death squads, according to a report...

A short while back I reported on how the Tunisian regime of Ben Ali was ecstatic that the Obama administration may transfer Gitmo detainees to the country. Tunisian...

The Ben Ali government has informed the Obama administration that it will do its part for the international community and take in all Tunisian nationals at the...

I really don’t get what all the fuss is about. The way it’s portrayed, you’d think the moment a detainee was moved out of Guantanamo Bay,...

In the Terminator series, the all-important date is August 29, 1997. Of course, to all but the most devoted conspiracy theorist, that Judgment Day was fiction. But it...

Some argue that water boarding is: 1) not torture 2) not a crime 3) effective. If that’s the case why don’t we use it in the schools? If a kid comes to school late...

Now, here is some of that all-America, Apple Pie, Christian “values”: The Age - Australia More than half of people who attend services at least once a...

There isn’t an Arab leader who irritates me more than King Abduallah of Jordan. He isn’t the worst leader in the region; Abduallah of Saudi Arabia is more...

One of the poll promises of President Obama challenging that the horrendous Guantanamo Bay Prison in Cuba was contently signed. The executive orders were signed in a...

Let me begin by informing you I don’t generally hang out reading girly blogs. Okay, so maybe I am subscribed to a few, but definitly not the Miss Universe site;...

“The prison is officially open and we have received inmates. Hundreds are present”... This was the statement given by the director general of the reopened...

Driving into work today I was listening to a local radio station and every 20 minutes or so they give the news headlines. One of this morning’s headlines was a...

It is official. According to a bipartisan Senate report, then Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and President George W. Bush bear responsibility for the torture and...

Recently released video from NTD TV shows life on the inside of the notorious Masanjia Labor Camp, also known as “Ideology Education School of Liaoning Province”....