War on Terrorism

The Reichstag Fire Next Time

By Masha Gessen,

When each day brings more news than we are used to seeing in a week, and the kind of news that only the most catastrophic imagination can accommodate, we find…

Life After Guantánamo

By Pardiss Kebriaei,

In 2008, I became the lawyer for Abdul Nasser Khantumani and his son Muhammed, two men who were being held at Guantánamo Bay Naval Base, in Cuba. When the United…

European Court Condemns CIA Extraction Techniques as Torture

By Scott Horton, on December 14, 2012

A European human rights court hands down the first binding decision against Bush-era rendition techniques Read More

The Warrior Class

By Charles Glass,

The Intelligence Factory

By Petra Bartosiewicz,

When I first read the U.S. government’s complaint against Aafia Siddiqui, who is awaiting trial in a Brooklyn detention center on charges of attempting to murder a group of U.S.…

The War We Can’t Win

By Andrew J. Bacevich,

By Andrew J. Bacevich, in the August 15 issue of Commonweal. Bacevich is a professor of international relations at Boston University and the author, most recently, of The Limits of…

Teen Beat

From a February 2003 video recording of an interrogation by Canadian officials of Omar Khadr, a Canadian national accused of killing a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan and currently held at…

Inhuman Resources

From the minutes of a Counter Resistance Strategy Meeting, held October 2, 2002, at Guantánamo Bay. The minutes, which paraphrase comments and questions from the meeting, were released June 17…

Disaster Capitalism

By Naomi Klein,

10. Diplomacy

By Anne-Marie Slaughter,

From the Forum “Undoing Bush” On a rainy day in 1945, soon after U.S. troops had entered the German concentration camp at Dachau, the American commanding officer mounted a stage.…

9. The Military

By Edward Luttwak,

From the Forum “Undoing Bush” It has always been the case that failed wars damage armies and sometimes break them. So it is with Iraq, unless remedies intervene soon enough.…

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