by Lizzie Rajasingh | Jul 18, 2013 | Human Rights
With arms tied down and feet shackled, Yasiin Bey writhes in anguish as a feeding tube is shoved into his right nostril. Groaning in extreme discomfort as his handlers push the tube deeper, Bey—better known as Mos Def—breaks into sobs as he begs for the torment to...
by Steve Fake | Jun 12, 2013 | War & Peace
Director Rick Rowley and journalist Jeremy Scahill’s much talked about docu-thriller Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield opened on June 7th to strong positive reviews. A companion piece to Scahill’s book of the same name, Dirty Wars details the growing...
by Russ Wellen | May 22, 2013 | Democracy & Governance, Human Rights, War & Peace
We Have Met the Enemy Again and He Is Still Us I remember when an American friend came to Yemen and I took her to Abyan, and I was … afraid AQAP would recognize her as an American and might do something bad to her [said Yemeni activist Farea Al-Muslimi]. So...
by Michael Figura | May 15, 2013 | Human Rights, War & Peace
Cross-posted from the People’s Blog for the Constitution. As the hunger strike at Guantánamo has widened to include all of the men held there, President Obama recently announced that he would renew a push on Congress to close the prison and examine his...
by Jon Letman | May 3, 2013 | Uncategorized
One might imagine the ties between Minnesota and the Horn of Africa are tenuous at best, but the Midwest state has one of the largest Somali diaspora populations in North America, and Rep. Keith Ellison (from District 5, representing metropolitan Minneapolis) is one...
