Take an opportunity to sign a petition and document of support against the atrocities that the Chinese occupiers are conducting against the subjugated Tibetan People.  Click HERE.

Amnesty International is concerned that China’s history of flagrant human rights abuses will continue in this time immediately prior to the Olympic Games as China seeks to remove dissidents from the ‘public’ eye.  Visit Amnesty International and learn how you can help.

The European Union Parliament passed a resolution yesterday calling for all European countries to boycott at least the opening ceremonies in Beijing this upcoming august 8th.  The resolution further demands that China re-open negotiations with the Dalai Lama regarding the controversy surrounding Tibet which has been unlawfully occupied by the Chinese for the […]

The University of Georgia hosted a roundtable discussion this week that was comprised of the 5 former Secretaries of State; Henry Kissinger, James Baker, Warren Christopher, Madeleine Albright and Colin Powell.  During the discussion they quickly reached a consensus that the detention/torture facility at the US Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay should be […]

I think we all know where our ex-AG stood on waterboarding, he knew damn well it was illegal torture.  Our newest AG doesn’t seem to be able to make that leap of intellect.  After three months of ‘review’, Mukasey still can decide if simulated drowning, condemned by every civilized nation, is actually torture.
It’s kind […]

  A brilliant Op/Ed piece from my local Seattle Times:

Democracies don’t torture
By Robert Crawford Special to The Times
Torture has re-entered the public domain. From Attorney General Robert Mukasey’s equivocation about waterboarding at his confirmation hearings to the current controversy over the CIA’s destruction of interrogation videotapes, […]

In a brilliant and twisted turn of events, Canada has placed both the US and Israel on their list of countries who torture prisoners as well as classifying some of the more common techniques that the US uses as torture.
We’ve officially become the bad guys to at least one normal democratic nation.
Canada places U.S., […]

From about 1478 through 1834, in both Spain and Mexico, the black garbed priests of the inquisition used three methods of interrogation:

The prisoner could be hung by his wrists from a pulley, repeatedly hoisted and dropped.
He could be tied to a rack and stretched.
Or he could be waterboarded.

Utilizing the incredibly detailed records […]

There is a very interesting article in the Eugene, Oregon, Register-Guard that put the appointment of Justice Department prosecutor John Durham in a new perspective.  The basic question posed was this:  Did Mukasey find so much evidence of wrongdoing at all levels of our current administration, that even a jaded party hack like himself […]

The Baltimore Sun has a spiffy piece which reflects on Mukasey and his attempt to thwart a Congressional probe into the CIA tape fiasco, who Alberto had Pledged his Allegiance to (and the result isn’t shocking to me!), and the controversy itself over the legality of waterboarding as a torture interrogation device.

Tapes and cover-ups redux
January […]