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Peace Charade

Secretary Hillary Clinton allows cameras to document peace talks: Photos via Yahoo!/AP: Full Transcript (Script): PEACE CHARADE – A “Peace Talks” Parody Location: In Front of White House Setting Side-by-side: To the far right, standing around or sitting at a desk: Netanyahu Clinton in the middle Abbas To the far left, behind bars, in a [...]

War Criminal of the Week: Back to School with Robert Delahunty

War Criminal of the Week: Back to School with Robert Delahunty By Nancy Mancias Robert Delahunty was a Bush legal lackey who helped re-write the United States rules of engagement in a post-9/11 world. While working in the Department of Justice, Delahunty co-wrote legal opinions on interrogation, detention and extraordinary rendition with his partner in [...]

CODEPINK Looking for DC Intern Focusing on Palestine Work

About CODEPINK CODEPINK is grassroots peace and social justice group that seeks positive social change through proactive, creative protests, and non-violent direct actions.  For the past eight years, CODEPINK activists have organized to end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, stop a new war with Iran, and support a peaceful solution to the Israel/Palestine struggle [...]

War Criminal of the Week: Erik Prince, the Great Escape Artist

By Nancy Mancias “I interned with the Bush administration for six months. I saw a lot of things I didn’t agree with — homosexual groups being invited in, the budget agreement, the Clean Air Act, those kind of bills. I think the administration has been indifferent to a lot of conservative concerns.” - 22-year old [...]

Karl Rove, Bringin’ Home the Bacon

$35,000 can buy you a luxury car, the world’s biggest “I’m sorry we discriminated against you” card, a college education and about a million other things INCLUDING a night with Karl Rove. For $35,000, the former top Bush Aide (aka Bush’s Brain, Turdblossom) will come and speak at your school, community center (though likely not [...]

War Criminal of the Week: Back to School with John Yoo

UPDATE Aug. 17, 2010: Click for video news coverage from KTVU of UC Berkeley protest against John Yoo (lots of Code Pinkers were on the scene!) In light of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, critics are arguing that abuses of Iraqi prisoners are being produced by a climate of disregard for the laws of war. - John Yoo John Yoo was Bush's Top Legal Lackey in helping to create the construct for torture. As Deputy Assistant Attorney General of the Office of Legal Counsel, John Yoo signed off on the legal opinions purporting the use of torture was legal as a part of the president's vast wartime powers. These legal opinions are most commonly referred to as the Torture Memo and have been a source of controversy and redesign of executive power.