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From the Los Angeles Times, June 5, 2006: The Pentagon has decided to omit from new detainee policies a key tenet of the Geneva Convention that explicitly bans “humiliating and degrading treatment,”...
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John Kerry (Democrat): This bill gives an administration that lobbied for torture exactly what it wanted. No, this administration did not lobby for torture. It lobbied for a free and unfettered hand in...
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From a March 8, 2007 article by Andrew Buncombe in The Independent: Campaigners have condemned the Bush administration’s plan to proceed with secret proceedings [Combatant Status Review Tribunals...
View Articlea prayer for good friday
Lord Jesus, forgive us for all the ways we deny you … … by remaining quiet in the shadows, not daring to speak our faith in the public arena … by quietly going about our own business, while neglecting...
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Writing in Sojouorners magazine (In the prison-industrial complex, is there hope for redemption?), Nancy Hastings Sehested, a Baptist minister and prison chaplain, describes a North Carolina...
View Articlethe president we want … in a word
We hosted a pre-caucus house party this evening at our home during which I asked our guests to express what it is they are looking for in a presidential candidate in one word. Their answers make quite...
View Articleshame on burger king!
From a UCC Justice and Peace Action Network newsletter: You probably also know that after much work and a successful boycott, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) won an agreement with Taco Bell...
View Articleat our worst … and best
Three Iraqis and a Jordanian filed federal lawsuits Monday alleging they were tortured by U.S. defense contractors while detained at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq in 2003 and 2004. The lawsuits allege...
View Articlesharing the wealth?
A good editorial in the latest issue of The Christian Century: American Pie In the course of discussing tax policy with an unlicensed Ohio plumber, Barack Obama suggested that “spreading the wealth...
View Articlekilling bin laden
Yes, Osama bin Laden did evil things. Yes, he despoiled the image of God that was put in him as well as in each of us. But if we allow his choices to change our choices, to make us people ready to kill...
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