I read the news today.
Herman Wallace has been held in solitary confinement for 41 years. His cell is six feet by nine feet.
California prisoners are launching a hunger strike over solitary confinement conditions.
Prisoners in Washington State will join them.
DC District Court judge Gladys Keppler has declined to intervene in a Guantanamo Bay emergency request. Hunger strikes at Guantanamo have been going on for eight years. The current hunger strike has been going on for five months.
Afghanistan has detained an American suspect in torture. The shadowy American-created paramilitary outfits involved in the torture use humanitarian mine clearing operations as cover. The war in Afghanistan has been going on for more than eleven years.
The Wall Street Journal says that in national security cases before secret courts, "relevant" does not have to mean "relevant".
The New York Times says, among other things, that common law can be secret, foreign intelligence collection can mean domestic intelligence collection, and that to a degree never before known, "special needs" can trump the 4th amendment.
And the Washington Post tells us about the shadowy military propaganda campaigns.
Last year, however, two USA Today journalists were targeted in an online propaganda campaign after they revealed that the Pentagon’s top propaganda contractor in Afghanistan owed millions of dollars in back taxes.
The Pentagon conducts online propaganda operations against journalists. To defend the Pentagon’s top propaganda contractor.
Oh boy.