What Torture Is and Why It's Illegal and Not "Poor Judgment"

by: Andy Worthington, t r u t h o u t | News Analysis

The waterboarding technique.
(Image: Lance Page / t r u t h o u t; Adapted: alumbis, *terry)

It's now over two weeks since veteran Justice Department (DOJ) lawyer David Margolis dashed the hopes of those seeking accountability for the Bush administration's torturers, but this is a story of such profound importance that it must not be allowed to slip away. Margolis decided that an internal report into the conduct of John Yoo and Jay S. Bybee, who wrote the notorious memos in August 2002, which attempted to redefine torture so that it could be used by the CIA, was mistaken »

Oil and hip hop don't mix.

Snake Oil Salesmen: Big Oil and Hip-Hop Don't Mix

by: Tolu Olorunda, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed

Rule No. 1 in hip-hop: don't knock the hustle. And KRS-One stated clearly in the first principle of The Hip-Hop Declaration of Peace, that among the nine elements fundamental to the kulture is street entrepreneurialism. It is hard, I understand, to speak ill of a rapper or MC making business moves to better their living and, in some cases, enrich the communities from which they emerged.

And Jay-Z laid the statutes down a decade and half ago: "Let's get »

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Clinton Call to Netanyahu: Israel Settlement Move a "Deeply Negative Signal"

by: Joshua Mitnick, The Christian Science Monitor

Tel Aviv, Israel - A day after Vice President Joe Biden ended a fence-mending trip marred by the Israel settlement issue, tension hung over the embattled city of Jerusalem both in the streets and in government offices.

Israeli police in the capital went on high alert for violent demonstrations after Friday prayers in East Jerusalem – and the military enforced a total closure on Palestinians in the West Bank. »

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