Canada’s Shameful Scapegoating of Omar Khadr by Andy Worthington

by Andy Worthington Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.andyworthington.co.uk April 28, 2012 Last week, the Canadian government received a formal request for the return of Omar Khadr from Guantánamo Bay. Julie Carmichael, an aide to Public Safety Minister Vic Toews, told the Globe and Mail, “The government of Canada has just received a completed application for [...]

Ten Years of Torture: On Anniversary of Abu Zubaydah’s Capture, Poland Charges Former Spy Chief Over “Black Site” by Andy Worthington

by Andy Worthington Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.andyworthington.co.uk March 30, 2012 Ten years ago, on the evening of March 28, 2002, the Bush administration officially embarked on its “high-value detainee” program in the “war on terror” that had been declared in the wake of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, when Zayn al-Abidin Muhammad [...]

It Is Time We Recognised the Blair Government’s Criminality by John Pilger

Dandelion Salad by John Pilger www.globalresearch.ca www.johnpilger.com February 17, 2012 In the kabuki theatre of British parliamentary politics, great crimes do not happen and criminals go free. It is theatre after all; the pirouettes matter, not actions taken at remove in distance and culture from their consequences. It is a secure arrangement guarded by cast [...]

Glenn Greenwald and Noam Chomsky: With Liberty and Justice for Some (2011)

Dandelion Salad www.c-spanvideo.org Oct. 29, 2011 Former constitutional rights lawyer, Glenn Greenwald contends that the United States has a two-tiered judicial system, one for the “haves”and one for the “have-nots.” Mr. Greenwald presents his argument by tracing the evolution of judicial inequality, from President Richard Nixon’s pardon for the Watergate scandal to what the authors [...]

Andy Worthington and GITMO Protesters Speak outside U.S. Supreme Court + Guantánamo Forever?

with Andy Worthington Featured Writer Dandelion Salad www.andyworthington.co.uk January 14, 2012 BasilOwens on Jan 14, 2012 On the tenth anniversary of the Guantanamo Bay Prison Camp, Andy Worthington, along with several attorneys and a former navy prison guard – Speak outside of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington D.C. on January 11, 2012.