Already, thousands of our readers have signed a letter and contacted the White House urging a new way forward in Afghanistan. I encourage you to read it and to endorse this message if you have not done so already.
Tough-guy Rudy Giuliani and touchy-feely David Paterson are in unlikely and violent agreement: making Manhattan Ground Zero for the Khalid Sheik Mohammed trial is a very bad idea.
International drug prohibition, headed by the United States, has, in effect, created a global mechanism that is in the process of eating our civilization alive. Fortunately, we can reverse it with a pen stroke.
The Senate committee hearing on Islamic terrorism staged today by Sen. Joseph Lieberman is an example of flawed, biased, or discredited scholarship be...
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, 11/18/09 - Legal proceedings, such as they are, rumbled to life again today at Guantanamo Bay. Pre-trial issues in the case of M...
The aftermath of 9/11 led to a US foreign policy fixation on terrorist roots in the Mideast. Meanwhile, the Pacific Rim got the cold shoulder, alienating friends in the region and damaging strategic interests.
The upcoming trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed has revealed that a whole lot of people have totally and utterly forgotten the way our system of justice is designed to operate.
Had the FBI been allowed to know that Hasan had bought tactical weapons, there's a good chance he could have been caught before killing 13 and wounding 29.
In the final weeks of the 2008 election, one of the religious leaders closest to Palin hinted that the Alaska governor might soon get an unexpected career boost... from a terrorist attack.
(INT. NEW YORK SOUTHERN DISTRICT COURTROOM - 2010 - Judge Rittenhouse (Margaret Dumont) is behind the bench, as U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara (Zeppo) an...
Friday the 13th has a reputation for being the scariest of day-of-the-week/date combinations. The Obama administration selected last Friday (the 13th ...
After the announcement that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other 9/11 defendants will stand trial in New York, right wing panic set in. Countless Re...
It doesn't take a genius to figure out there's no closer-to-home place to strike a population than its food supply.
Beyond the merits of Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to try Khalid Shaikh Mohammed in federal criminal court in Manhattan is the fact that it was his decision.
In a classic Mad Magazine cartoon (that I dimly recall), the Lone Ranger and Tonto are surrounded by a horde of hostile Indian warriors. The Lone Ran...
While the problem of unemployment in the Arab world seems insurmountable, there are a number of initiatives being implemented and proffered in the region to begin to put a dent in the problem.
Development and humanitarian assistance can no longer be an afterthought; they must be central to any strategy the U.S. government puts forward in Afghanistan.
Since 2001, 195 cases of terrorism have been uneventfully prosecuted in civilian courts, with 91% ending in convictions, But this little factoid surely won't stop Republicans from exploitative political posturing.
The most pragmatic method of determining the guilt or innocence of criminals like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed has always been in criminal court. Rush Limbaugh and his ilk are very wrong about this.
it should indeed be a jury of New Yorkers, the community who was most adversely impacted by the horrific events of September 11th, who decide Mohammed's fate.
Put on your fear flack jackets because the right wing attacks are a-coming. So if you haven't heard yet - it's official. So-called 9/11 mastermind Kh...
