...is exactly what did not happen in the trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. After Barack Obama’s protestation against and signing of the National Defense Authorization Act in 2011, the trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and others at Guantánamo Bay charged with the 9/11 terror attacks was transferred out of civilian court in lower Manhattan, due to a provision in the law. Citizens were worried about security and about the possibility for KSM to spout pro...
Thursday evening, as part of the World Leaders Forum, United States Attorney General Eric Holder came home to Columbia to speak under Low’s rotunda. The Columbia College and Columbia Law alum first spoke about the Department of Justice’s efforts to fight financial fraud before he participated in a question and answer session with Columbia president Lee C. Bollinger where Holder discussed a wide range of issues from Holder’s time at Columbi...
Wikimedia Commons In the midst of a veritable hornet’s nest of scandals and bureaucratic intrigues that have rocked Washington in recent weeks, one issue has been dragged back into the spotlight: Guantanamo Bay. For several weeks, most of the complex’s detainees have conducted a mass hunger strike . Obviously frustrated with the criminal and political quagmire in which nearly all detainees find themselves, they seem to have decided to try so...
photo for CPR In the past weeks the Obama reelection campaign has revealed its primary strategy: to make the American people hate Mitt Romney. The flood of negativity recently reached a peak when Obama’s deputy campaign manager, Stephanie Cutter, suggested that a paperwork anomaly regarding when Romney ceased making executive decisions for Bain Capital either made him a liar or a felon. Frankly, this type of slander is simply unacceptable, and...
Jack Murphy, a political science major in the Columbia University School of General Studies, served for eight years in the United States Army before coming to Morningside Heights. He is managing editor of SOFREP.com, a special operations news and information site. His new book, Benghazi: The Definitive Report, co-authored with former Navy SEAL Brandon Webb, is among the first accounts of the September 11, 2012 attack on the American consulate i...
From Wikimedia Commons This past week, Scott Walker, the Republican governor of Wisconsin, trounced his Democratic challenger, Mayor Tom Barrett of Milwaukee, in a heavily publicized recall election. Only two years after being elected governor over Barrett, Walker faced recall due to public rage over his legislation that stripped public sector unions of most of their collective bargaining rights. Walker’s margin of victory over Barrett i...
Weihui Lu The numbers alone are striking. In 2011, the World Bank estimated the gross domestic product (GDP) of the state of Ecuador at approximately $67 billion. Chevron Corporation, by contrast, reported sales of $236.3 billion for 2011, with nearly $27 billion in profits alone. In the same year, a local Ecuadorian court ruling against Chevron in an $18 billion case over the company’s widespread pollution in the Ecuadorian rainforest marked an...
...009, Cuban President Raúl Castro, in 2009, went so far as to say, “we are willing to discuss everything… We could be wrong, we admit it.” But Cuba-US diplomatic relations have since broken down due to delays in the closing of Guantánamo and harsh language demanding immediate regime change. Lastly, the Honduran coup in June 2009, in which the Honduran military deposed democratically elected President Manuel Zelaya, was handled poorly by the Obama...
Illustration by Phyllis Ma In late April 2004, the news that American soldiers had abused detainees at Abu Ghraib prison arrived to the public in a string of shocking photos. The images that exposed the torture of prisoners were brutal and strange—and they were memorable, resistant to amnesia. On May 24, President Bush made a somber address about the news. He called the abuse “disgraceful conduct by a few American troops, who dishonored our co...
Having directed Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005) and having served as the Consulting Producer for Who Killed the Electric Car? (2006) and Executive Producer for No End in Sight (2007), Alex Gibney has found a formula to refresh the politico-documentary genre and penetrate Hollywood’s mainstream distribution. But even that penetration is merely a scratch. Taxi made its official debut at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival. Since then, it ha...
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