Articles tagged with: Obama Administration
By William Fisher
NEW YORK, May 12, 2010 (IPS) – In a major decision overturning a George W. Bush-era policy that has been continued by the administration of President Barack Obama, a federal court ruled that …
By Paul Koring
In shackles and flanked by military guards, Omar Khadr will be taken this week from the razor-wire-ringed Guantanamo Bay prison compound where he has spent almost a third of his life to a …
By ANDREA ELLIOTT
When President Obama took the stage in Cairo last June, promising a new relationship with the Islamic world, Muslims in America wondered only half-jokingly whether the overture included them. After all, Mr. Obama …
(Image: Lance Page / t r u t h o u t; Adapted: lancefisher, jacsonquerubin, orehouse727, Jefferson Bernardes)
By Jason Leopold
The Obama administration has lowered another legal barrier shielding …
Muslim Advocates welcomes the Obama administration’s announcement rescinding its policy of targeting travelers from 14 primarily Muslim countries for mandatory enhanced screening. Since this misguided policy was implemented in January, Muslim Advocates had been …
By David S. Cloud
The Obama administration will announce Friday a new screening system for flights to the United States under which passengers who fit an intelligence profile of potential terrorists will be searched before boarding …
“The Obama Administration and International Law”
Keynote Speech at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law
Harold Hongju Koh
Legal Adviser, United States Department of State
March 24, 2010
Thank you, Dean …
From The Montreal Gazette
What the U.S. government should have learned from the Christmas Day bomber is to react vigorously when it is warned about an Islamicist extremist about to fly into the United States. Instead …
By Mark Potok
The radical right caught fire last year, as broad-based populist anger at political, demographic and economic changes in America ignited an explosion of new extremist groups and activism across the nation.
Hate groups stayed …
By Gloria Galloway
The Conservative government will not ask for Omar Khadr to be repatriated from an American detention centre in Cuba despite a Supreme Court ruling that his rights have been violated, the Foreign Affairs …
By Gar Pardy
The Supreme Court has spoken its last words on Omar Khadr. Regrettably it is a political decision and one that has little to do with justice, fundamental or temporal. Surprisingly all nine justices …
By Andy Worthington
With a stunning lack of sensitivity, President Barack Obama’s Guantánamo Review Task Force chose the anniversary of the president’s failed promise to close the prison to announce its conclusions regarding the eventual fate …
PRESS RELEASE
London, January 20 2010
After more than five years of waiting, the American State Department has decided, in a document signed by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, to lift the ban that prohibited …
New York Times, November 11, 2009
Editorial
A National Disgrace
Two courts, one in Italy and one in the United States, ruled recently on the Bush administration’s practice of extraordinary rendition, which is the kidnapping of people and …
