Defense Secretary Robert Gates has used powers granted to him by a controversial new law to block the court-ordered release of numerous photos of deta...
Michael Jones | Posted 11.09.2009 | Entertainment
My theory is that Hollywood decided to remake Ishtar. The reason, I can only guess: global warming. It's causing everything else these days.
Naomi Wolf | Posted 11.04.2009 | World
Recently I have been in touch with Binyam Mohamed, who was released from Guantánamo in February -- after seven years' captivity without charges.
Allison Kilkenny | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics
It is not cliche or radical to demand the U.S. hold our own torturers (at all levels) to the same level of accountability as British mining corporations.
AP | MARK SHERMAN | Posted 10.10.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Congress is set to allow the Pentagon to keep new pictures of foreign detainees abused by their U.S. captors from the public, a mov...
Jon Soltz | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics
From Generals MacArthur to Shinseki, history has taught us that trying to pressure your commander-in-chief from the outside almost never results in a change of opinion from the president.
Jameel Jaffer | Posted 11.24.2009 | Politics
Five years after Abu Ghraib, the Defense Department is still withholding photographs showing prisoners being abused at other facilities, as well as interrogation directives used by special forces.
Bob Giloth | Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics
ACORN wrongly gave advice to people who were trying to take advantage of public and private funds for illegal purposes. Were they breaking the law or the public trust? In either case, not Abu Ghraib by a long shot.
AP | JASON KEYSER | Posted 11.16.2009 | World
CAMP BUCCA, Iraq — The U.S. military on Wednesday closed Camp Bucca, an isolated desert prison that was once its largest lockup in Iraq, as it m...
AP | SAMEER N. YACOUB | Posted 11.11.2009 | World
BAGHDAD — Abu Ghraib prison inmates rioted for a second straight day Friday to demand better conditions, setting fire to mattresses and seizing ...
Anis Shivani | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics
Lennon's unusual, very ambitious novel brings us closer to the terror protagonist than any post-9/11 novel yet.
Navi Pillay | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics
I hope there is a swift examination of the various allegations of abuse made by former and current detainees in Guantanamo and other US-run prisons.
Robert Koehler | Posted 09.27.2009 | Politics
William Calley has apologized for his role in the My Lai massacre; now it's time to atone.
Attackerman | Spencer Ackerman | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics
As we dig through the latest rounds of torture disclosures, it's instructive to remember a moment from June of 2004. In the aftermath of the Abu Ghrai...
Andy Ostroy | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics
Democrats not only own the White House, but also have an overwhelming majority in the House and a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate. Yet oddly they're still acting as if they're on the outside looking in.
Jonathan Kim | Posted 09.24.2009 | Entertainment
In light of a new report set to be released today from the CIA, I want to take another look at Standard Operating Procedure, Errol Morris' documentary about torture at Abu Ghraib.
Andy Ostroy | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics
The hypocritical Republican crybabies at Fox are outraged over a heated exchange last Thursday between Obama's press secretary Robert Gibbs and their White House correspondent, Major Garrett.
Daniel Bruno Sanz | Posted 09.10.2009 | Politics
Inheritance is White, poor credit scores, Black. A missing woman is White and a fugitive on the loose is Black.
Salon | Glenn Greenwald | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics
The Washington Post Editorial Page -- keeper of all establishment Washington wisdom -- today advocates that low-level CIA interrogators who went beyon...
nytimes.com | WILLIAM QUINN | Posted 08.26.2009 | World
DESPITE demands by human rights advocates that photos documenting abuse of military detainees be made public, the Senate last month passed legislation...
Carol Smaldino | Posted 08.13.2009 | World
With a kind of paranoia, we deny and project parts of ourselves: in the meantime over the course of history we have felt justified in blaming, hating, fearing, conquering and even torturing.
Bob Edgar | Posted 07.30.2009 | Politics
What if, instead of sentencing Bernie Madoff today to spend the rest of his life in prison, a judge decided that we should let the criminal mastermind "move forward" and enjoy his golden years?
Allen Keller | Posted 07.27.2009 | Politics
We owe torture survivors, and we owe ourselves truth and accountability.
Andy Worthington | Posted 07.27.2009 | Politics
Sadly, our celebrity-obsessed world is unlikely to pay much attention to the International Day in Support of the Victims of Torture, as the death of Michael Jackson dominates headlines.
The Plumline | Posted 07.18.2009 | Politics
On Friday, there may be a major development in the torture wars: The CIA is set to release portions of a 2004 report that reportedly found no proof th...
Mother Jones | Nick Baumann | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics