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It’s wrong. It’s anti-American. It doesn’t even work.

Tell Congress to Take Torture off the Table
Congress needs to send a clear message to the Bush administration: cruel interrogation techniques – including mock execution, forced nakedness and induced hypothermia – are morally wrong and have to stop.
Important legislation that sets one humane standard for ALL government agencies [...]

Sign the Human Rights First Petition.

I want a U.S. President who will not allow torture to happen again in America’s name. All U.S. personnel must uphold the absolute ban on torture and cruel treatment with no exceptions. I do not tolerate “outsourcing” torture or holding prisoners in secret.
Join other Americans for Human Rights and stand [...]

Hayden’s involvement in the NSA domestic spying program does not recommend him. I find Hayden very personable, and he seems also to be a very capable man, but there are gaps in his statements - especially about the timeline of the spying program - that bother me.
I am even more troubled by what he [...]

A question to the so-called “religious right” who want to abolish separation of church and state altogether:
How would you feel if the religion expressed on the national stage were some equally skewed version of Islam, or Wicca, or … ( - insert your personal choice for “least appealing religious path” here - for me it’s [...]

KBR, the engineering and construction subsidiary of Halliburton Co. was awarded a $385 million 1-year contract (with 4 1-year options) from the Department of Homeland Security to establish “temporary detention and processing capabilities to expand existing ICE Detention and Removal Operations Program facilities in the event of an emergency influx of immigrants into the U.S., [...]

Applause to West Point Graduates Against the War for honor and courage. Their stated purpose is “to help reclaim the honor of the United States Of America.”

Instilled by the Cadet Honor System with a fundamental, longstanding respect for truth, we graduates of the United States Military Academy believe that honor [...]

Listen to Neil Young’s new album, Living with War.
Visit the blog.
Don’t need no ad machine
Telling me what I need
Don’t need no Madison Avenue War
Don’t need no more boxes I can see
Covered in flags but I can’t see them on TV
Don’t need no more lies
Don’t need no more lies
Don’t need no more lies

Click on the track [...]