Leaked files reveal details of interrogations of “high-risk” detainees, but suggest many innocents were also rounded up. The United States released dozens of so-called “high-risk” detainees from the Guantanamo Bay prison facility and held more than 150 innocent men for years, according to new reports about a trove of leaked military documents. The more than 700 classified military [...]

Consternación no es un término suficiente para describir la decisión del juez Richard Goldstone de retractarse de parte del Informe de 2009 sobre presuntos crímenes de guerra en Gaza. El documento, conocido como Informe Goldstone, fue compilado después de una exhaustiva investigación dirigida por el juez sudafricano y tres otros investigadores de [...]

Estos artefactos dispersan municiones de gran potencia en una amplia zona, no pueden ser lanzadas con precisión y suponen un grave riesgo para la población Las fuerzas del líder libio, Muamar Gadafi, han atacado con bombas de racimo de fabricación española y con proyectiles tierra-tierra zonas residenciales de Libia, según testimonios de testigos y [...]

Los dirigentes israelíes apenas han ocultado su júbilo ante el artículo de opinión que el pasado viernes publicó el juez sudafricano Richard Goldstone en el Washington Post, en el que volvía a considerar las conclusiones de la investigación que las Naciones Unidas le ordenaron hacer sobre el ataque de Israel [...]

Is the U.S. Army acting like the Mafia in seeking to imprison 23-year-old Private Bradley Manning for the rest of his life? Is the primary aim of the abuse being dished out to Manning that of deterring other U.S. soldiers who might be tempted to put conscience, compassion, and commitment to [...]

I have watched mothers and fathers keening in grief over the frail corpses of their children in hospitals in Gaza and rural villages in El Salvador, Bosnia and Kosovo. The faces of these dead children, their bodies ripped apart by iron fragments or bullets tumbling end over end through their small, [...]

Introducción del editor de Tom Dispatch El gobierno de Obama llegó al poder proclamando políticas «brillantes como el sol». Sin embargo, cuando WikiLeaks sacó a plena luz del día parte de la ropa sucia del gobierno de EE.UU., sus funcionarios reaccionaron de manera automática y, en el caso de Bradley Manning, punitiva, ya [...]

An Opening Statement for the Defense of Private Manning 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 [...]

A sprawling crime scene. That is what Gaza felt like when I visited in the summer of 2009, six months after the Israeli attack. Evidence of criminality was everywhere-the homes and schools that lay in rubble, the walls burned pitch black by white phosphorus, the children’s bodies still unhealed for lack [...]

WASHINGTON, DC — Back in October, the military apparently wiped an Afghan village off the face of the Earth because it was too far gone to save. The story was reported this week. Taliban had run the civilians out of town and so thoroughly booby-trapped the village, Tarok Kolache, that troops felt entering it meant [...]