torture
April 22, 2009
- Full disclosure: This piece was written immediately after the Abu Ghraib story broke. It was meant for an anthology on America and torture but never published. Think its a good moment to share it what with the new torture memos being released: Pentagon says response to controversial ad overwhelming By: Jeffrey DahmerWASHINGTON, April 1: Pentagon officials announced today that the response to a ...
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April 21, 2009
- I received a note from the Center for Justice and Accountability that I wish to share with my readers. I was particularly pleased since in the past I had criticized such kind of human rights activists for only becoming active with torturers and wrongdoers in the "third world" thus participating in the propaganda on the superiority of Western rule of law....So Here is the message. ...
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April 21, 2009
- Waterboarding is for amateurs.This weekend, I visited the reconstruction of a medieval castle in Calistoga, imported by vintner Daryl Sattui brick-by-brick from Europe. It included a dungeon with an anatomically correct rack -- did you know they not only stretched people, there was also a roller bar in the middle of the table with spikes in it? Then there was the spiked chair, which seemed not ...
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April 17, 2009
- This issue of torture is just very difficult to swollow. As it is very difficult to swollow that a poor man was killed by police brutality in London during the G20 and also that CIA is still attempting to murder left wing leaders in latin America as apparently just happened with Morales of Bolivia. Obama has been capable to bring the traditional wasp hypocrisy to another echelon of ...
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March 26, 2009
- Upon independence in 1960, the former French region of Middle Congo became the Republic of the Congo. A quarter century of experimentation with Marxism was abandoned in 1990 and a democratically elected government took office in 1992. A brief civil war in 1997 restored former Marxist President Denis SASSOU-NGUESSO, and ushered in a period of ethnic and political unrest. Southern-based rebel ...
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March 25, 2009
- About the book: Freedom of press the sitting duck is about journalists who get killed because of their works buy bandits who like controlling the press in fear of them being exposed to the audience. Genre: It is a book of poetry: Details: Time after time, journalists are killed for their works by criminal groups who don’t like the truth. Journalists are often victims of violence in ...
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March 7, 2009
- We humans are good at condemning other people's sins of omission. There's a whole publishing industry around how much the average German knew about Nazi atrocities, for instance, calibrating ordinary people's exact degree of culpability for what was done in their names. But it's much harder to admit the same faults in our own and our neighbors' behavior. As in many societies, the common culture ...
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February 25, 2009
- It's official! Everybody's favorite senator, (second only to Senator Ted Kennedy, of course), Patrick Leahy, announced that Congress is moving forward with forming the Senate Judiciary Committee version of the 9/11 Truth Commission, a formal inquiry into the misadventures of the Bush administration. Some of the topics on the menu include torture, violation of FISA law by warrantless ...
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February 22, 2009
- Remember Abu Ghraib? Well, that's what it used to be called anyway.As of now, the infamous prison is to be known as Baghdad Central Prison.The newly rennovated facility (at least what journalists were allowed to see) includes a sewing room, exercise equipment, computers, a library, outdoor recreational areas, greenhouses and a barber shop."We turned it to something like a ...
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February 4, 2009
- Maybe you happened to catch our illustrious former vice president, Dick Cheney, interviewed earlier today by Politico, when he publicly admitted to endorsing "enhanced interrogation techniques," specifically referring to waterboarding. Cheney was arguing for what he considers effective legislation like the USA Patriot Act, and warrantless electronic surveillance of private citizens. ...
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