For exposing war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan, Pvt. Chelsea Manning suffered nearly seven years in prison, an ordeal President Obama finally is ending but without acting on the crimes she revealed. After overseeing the aggressive prosecution and near-seven-year incarceration of Army…Read More »
News Analysis By MLTF member Marjorie Cohn Reprinted with permission from Truthout.org For many years after the Vietnam War, we enjoyed the “Vietnam syndrome,” in which US presidents hesitated to launch substantial military attacks on other countries. They feared intense opposition…Read More »
News Analysis | Marjorie Cohn President Barack Obama escalated the drone war he has conducted for the past five and a half years by declaring his intention to “degrade and ultimately destroy” the Islamic State, also known as ISIS, or ISIL. Since…Read More »