Tariq Ba-Odah, a detainee at the U.S. prison facility at Guantánamo Bay, has never been charged with a crime. Eight years ago, he went on hunger strike and now weighs less than 75 pounds. Cleared for release by a multi-agency review board in 2009, he remains behind bars.
In October 2009, Luqman Ameen Abdullah, an imam at a mosque on Detroit's West Side, was fatally shot by law enforcement more than 20 times. The FBI claimed he was armed; supporters suspect a cover-up.
Walker's choice of Kevin Hermening as a counselor raises serious questions about Walker's understanding of foreign policy and civil liberties issues.
Saturday's "National Security Action Summit" in New Hampshire is hosted by the Center for Security Policy, a think tank led by notorious anti-Muslim conspiracist Frank Gaffney.
The retired general known for his progressive views says in the wake of the Chattanooga shooting, "If these people are radicalized and they don't support the United States and they are disloyal to the United States … it's our right and obligation to segregate them from the normal community for the duration of the conflict."
Retired Army Gen. Mike Flynn, a top intelligence official in the post-9/11 wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, says in a forthcoming interview on Al Jazeera English that drones do more harm than good.
Opponents of a proposed bill designed to counter violent extremism say it would threaten "freedom of speech, association, and religion," while doing little to actually combat terrorism.
The exclusion of Iranian voices from U.S. media coverage has distorted how Iran is perceived, depicting its citizens as primitive, irrational, apocalyptic religious fanatics.
Law professor Wadie Said, in a new book, delves into the ways unwarranted terrorism cases have eroded the rule of law.
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