After Newtown: Turning Schools Into Prisons
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Outrage over the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre may or may not spur any meaningful gun control laws, but you can bet your Crayolas that it will lead to more seven-year-olds getting handcuffed and hauled away to...
(5) Comments | Posted April 16, 2012 | 3:40 PM
Do the WikiLeaks War Logs Reveal War Crimes -- Or the Poverty of International Law?
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Anyone who would like to witness a vivid example of modern warfare that adheres to the laws of war -- that corpus of regulations developed...
(11) Comments | Posted January 19, 2012 | 10:02 AM
Bradley Manning, Washington, and the Blood of Civilians
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Who in their right mind wants to talk about, think about, or read a short essay about... civilian war casualties? What a bummer, this topic, especially since our Afghan, Iraq, and other ongoing wars...
(27) Comments | Posted July 7, 2011 | 1:23 PM
Four Reasons Why Pfc. Bradley Manning Deserves the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Not a Prison Cell
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We still don’t know if he did it or not, but if Bradley Manning, the 24-year-old Army private from Oklahoma, actually supplied...
(254) Comments | Posted February 10, 2011 | 11:57 AM
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Bradley Manning, a 23-year-old from Crescent, Oklahoma, enlisted in the U.S. military in 2007 to give something back to his country and, he hoped, the world.
For the past seven months, Army Private First Class Manning has been held in solitary confinement in the Marine...
(18) Comments | Posted November 4, 2010 | 4:10 PM
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When I was down in Guantánamo a few months ago, a veteran German journalist let it slip that she didn’t much care for the place. “This,” she confided in me, and many of the other journalists there as well, “is the worst place I have ever visited in my entire career.”
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(195) Comments | Posted February 26, 2013 | 10:24 AM