I have an article up at Prospect Magazine considering Hillary Clinton’s continued support for a no-fly zone in Syria. If elected, would she really risk a military confrontation with Russia and the Syrian government? Read more here.
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Has Obama Banned Torture?
I have an op-ed up at Al Jazeera America today analyzing the new anti-torture provisions in the 2016 NDAA (an annual military spending bill in the US that also addresses policy issues). Has President Obama stopped torture, as he promised in 2008, and what more needs to be done? To read the piece, click here.
Story at VICE News: The Bush Administration Whistleblower Who Says the US Has Not Closed the Door on Torture
VICE News recently published my interview with Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff to US Secretary of State, Colin Powell during the George W Bush administration. The story can be accessed here. Wilkerson discusses torture and the recently-released Senate Torture Report. He makes some startling new disclosures that the CIA held and interrogated rendition detainees on the British territory of Diego Garcia.
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