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What Do Torture and Porn Have in Common? More Than You Might Think.

Susannah Breslin | Posted 02.12.2009 | Media

Read More: Susannah Breslin, Pornography, Video Games, Obscenity, Porn, Sex, Abu Ghraib, Wired Magazine, Torture, Wired, Media News

While many Americans have seen photos from Abu Ghraib, many have turned a blind-eye to their country's position on torture. Video games encourage us to engage deeply with complicated questions, torture among them.

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Obama on Torture: Don't Stop Thinking About Tomorrow

Ari Melber | Posted 02.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Aclu, Nsa, change.gov, Bob Fertik, Ccr, Obama, Spying, Geneva Conventions, Gitmo, Barack Obama, Abu Ghraib, Patrick Fitzgerald, Obama Torture Commission, Torture, Politics News

This answer tracks the language of many torture apologists (and advocates) in Washington, who posit a choice between protecting the country today and second-guessing the past.

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Obama Prompted To Prosecute Bush

New York Times | Posted 02.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bush Administration Torture, Special Prosecutor, Patrick Fitzgerald, George W. Bush, Obama, Abu Ghraib Abuse, Abu Ghraib, Politics News

With few exceptions the transition period has been a model of presidential goodwill and cooperation. Apparently, the curious users who have been submi...

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Joe Klein Proposes Bush Memorial In Washington: Statue Of Hooded Abu Ghraib Prisoner

Time | Joe Klein | Posted 02.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bush Guantanamo, Bush Prisoner Abuse, Joe Klein, Bush Abu Ghraib, Bush Torture Abu Ghraib, Bush Joe Klein Monument, George Bush, Bush Torture, Abu Ghraib, Politics News

"This is not the America I know," President George W. Bush said after the first, horrifying pictures of U.S. troops torturing prisoners at the Abu Ghr...

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If Terrorism Is a Cancer, Treat It Like One

Deepak Chopra | Posted 01.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Cancer, Terrorism, Inflammation, Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, Politics News

In the spirit of President-elect Obama's call for unity, the present divide between opponents and supporters of the war in Iraq needs to be healed. O...

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Making His List: Presidential Pardons and Torture

Allen Keller | Posted 01.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abuse, Human Rights, War on Terror, Presidential Pardons, George W. Bush, Guantanamo, Waterboarding, Bush Pardons, Torture, Abu Ghraib, Politics News

At their essence, human rights, including a ban on torture, are about respecting human dignity. They are guiding principles for how and what governments ought and ought not do.

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Clint and Cheney: a Tale of Two Dicks

Arianna Huffington | Posted 01.18.2009 | Politics

The VP and Eastwood's character are both gruff, prickly, taciturn, sandpaper-voiced men, given to conservative views, macho posturing, and a narrow view of right and wrong. And they both always seem on the verge of telling people around them to go f**k themselves. Read More Will The Madoff Debacle Finally End The "Who Could Have Known?" Era? Iraq. Fannie Mae. Citigroup. Bernie Madoff. When you look at the elements that were crucial to the creation of each of these debacles, it's amazing how much in common they all have. And not just in how they began but in how they ended: with those responsible being amazed at what happened, because...who could have known? Read More Watch: Arianna Talks New Media and Politics with Ashton Kutcher

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Cheney's Confession Should Lead to Criminal Investigation of Bush's Torture Policies

Mitchell Bard | Posted 01.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Jonathan Karl, Impeachment, Bush War Crimes, Countdown With Keith Olbermann, George W. Bush, Cheney Impeachment, Keith Olbermann, Eric Holder, Abu Ghraib, Dick Cheney, War Crimes, Cheney War Crimes, Evan Wallach, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Eric Holder Marc Rich, Bush Impeachment, Rod Blagojevich, Dennis Kucinich, Guantanamo Bay, Bill Clinton Impeachment, Washington Post, Cheney Torture, Bush Torture, Waterboarding, ABC News, World War II, Eric Holder Elian Gonzalez, Torture, Politics News

If the Bush administration would have at least acted like they might have done something wrong, maybe we could have moved on. But if Cheney is going on national TV to endorse torture, he has tied the hands of the country.

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Reckoning Renditions to America's Allies

Frank Naif | Posted 01.16.2009 | World

While it's true that Guantanamo has been a blow to US prestige and moral leadership, the policy of rendition has unnecessarily complicated relations between the US and long-time allies.

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Shoe Fetishism...The Arab Way!

Faisal J. Abbas | Posted 01.16.2009 | World

Read More: George Bush, Shoe Fetish, Journalist, Iraq, Media, Facebook, Wikipedia, Seymour Hersh, Abu Ghraib, Shoe Tossing, The Dark Knight, Arab, Middle East, Nikita Khrushchev, Sy Hersh, Muntazer Al-Zaidi, Shoe, World News

If our journalists in the Arab world were as good at investigating and writing stories as they were in shoe tossing, we would have perhaps uncovered a whole series of Abu Ghraibs or even more horrific stories.

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A History of Music Torture in the "War on Terror"

Andy Worthington | Posted 01.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Ruhal Ahmed, Dr. Dre, Trent Reznor, Cia, Donald Vance, Britney Spears, Music Torture, Nine Inch Nails, Eminem, Afghanistan, Terrorism, Rage Against the Machine, George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Guantanamo, Tom Morello, David Gray, David Addington, Drowning Pool, Binyam Mohamed, Metallica, Pamela Anderson, Abu Ghraib, Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, Guantanamo Music Torture, Dark Prison, Bob Singleton, William J. Haynes II, Iraq, Sere, Deicide, Politics News

U.S. military personnel were ordered to keep prisoners awake by blasting ear-splittingly loud music at them -- for days, weeks or even months on end -- at prisons in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay.

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Bush Ducks Flying Shoes -- Any Footwear for Donald Rumsfeld?

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 01.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Shoe-Throwing Incident, Torture, Rod Blagojevich, Iraqi Journalist Throws Shoes, George W. Bush, Iraq War, Donald Rumsfeld, Iraq Press Conference, Iraq, Shoes Thrown at Bush, War Crimes, White House Press Corps, Abuse of Detainees, Abu Ghraib, Politics News

There are not enough shoes in the world to express adequately the outrages the world has endured from the Bush administration over the past eight years.

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Flag International: Global Perspectives On The American Flag

Lauri Lyons | Posted 01.10.2009 | World

Read More: Europe, Election Day, 9/11, Multicultural, Globalization, Iraq, America, England, Politics, Freedom of Speech, Muslims, First Amendment, American Flag, Ireland, Italy, Germany, Americana, Belgium, Homeland Security, European Union, Melting Pot, Barack Obama, Abu Ghraib, France, Patriot Act, u.s. Foreign Policy, Patriotism, Obama Election Day, Iraq War, Religion and Politics, Identity, International Relations, Holland, Spain, World News

What is America? Growing up, I have been able to view the country from several perspectives: Black, female, first-generation American, and a former military child.

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A Bright New Day - But What Now, President Obama?

Andy Worthington | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Geneva Conventions, Us Constitution, Obama Election Day, Election Day, President Obama, Guantanamo, CIA Torture, David Addington, Military Commissions Act, Barack Obama, Abu Ghraib, Dick Cheney, Barack Obama 2008, HuffPost Election Reaction, Election Reaction, Barack Obama President, Politics News

Millions of Americans have proved that they are hungry for change and have elected a president whose very identity bridges a divide in American society.

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Sustained Focus and Effort: Sports Clichés, the Election and Our Place in the World

Sean Hartofilis | Posted 11.24.2008 | Politics

Our democracy has given us an opportunity to start again with renewed focus and effort. The past has happened. We must remember it and learn from it.

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Gitmo Gotcha, You Betcha

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 11.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: Surveillance, Nsa, Civil Rights, Terrorism, Wiretapping, Torture, Gitmo, Bush Administration Torture, Guantanamo Bay, Waterboarding, Extrajudicial Renditions, Detention Without Trial, Suspension of H, Yaser Esam, Extrajudicial Detention, Abu Ghraib, Politics News

Illegal conduct implemented at Gitmo has now metastasized to the shores of the United States. Where is the outrage?

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Powell's Tortured Endorsement

Charles J. Brown | Posted 11.17.2008 | Politics

Powell endorsed Obama and I was moved by his statement, particularly his challenge to Republicans about their demonization of Islam. Despite this, I don't welcome his endorsement.

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No Soup For Yoo: Our Right to Refuse Service to the Constitution's Torturers

David Quigg | Posted 11.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: The Dark Side, War on Terror, Cia, Terrorism, Jack Goldsmith, Guantanamo, George Bush, John Yoo, Abu Ghraib, Dick Cheney, Enhanced Interrogations, Alberto Mora, Waterboarding, Jane Mayer, David Addington, Torture, Politics News

Reading The Dark Side, as I just have, forces a stomach-turning, jaw-clenching reckoning with Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, CIA kidnappings, secret prisons, waterboarding, and a shameful list of other soul-shattering abuses.

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America Needs Obama To Recreate Our National Narrative

John Rember | Posted 11.10.2008 | Home

Read More: Henry Paulson, Bush Administration, r.d. Laing, Economic Crisis, National Narrative, Michael Mukasey, Free Market, Election 2008, Campaign 2008, Biden Obama, Barack Obama, John McCain, Abu Ghraib, Torture, Home News

How to explain an administration that nationalizes the banking system even as it praises the free market? How to explain a financial system that turned debt into wealth, and wealth into debt? How is it that most people don't even know which country their house belongs to?

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US Detainee Abuse Drove Prisoner To Brink Of Insanity, New Documents Show

AP | PAMELA HESS | Posted 11.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: Prisoner Abuse, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, Human Rights, Black Sites, Politics News

WASHINGTON — A U.S. military officer warned Pentagon officials that an American detainee was being driven nearly insane by months of punishing i...

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A Message to Barack Obama: Don't Forget Cheney and Addington

Andy Worthington | Posted 10.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: Geneva Conventions, John McCain, Combatant Status Review Tribunals, Guantanamo, CIA Torture, Bagram, David Addington, Military Commissions Act, Presidential Debates, Barack Obama, Abu Ghraib, Dick Cheney, Politics News

Obama the presidential candidate has been almost silent on the crimes of the current administration.

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It's the Democracy, Stupid: Campaigns of McCain and Palin Show How They Would Govern

Mitchell Bard | Posted 10.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain Lies, Issues, John McCain, Oil Tax Breaks, Palin Bridge to Nowhere, Rick Davis, George W. Bush, Governing Vision, James Carville, McCain Offshore Drilling, Lipstick on a Pig, 2008 Election, Mccain Spain, Oil Companies, Randall Scheunemann, Barack Obama, Palin Teleprompter, Obama Celebrity, Abu Ghraib, Iraq Intelligence, Iraq War, George Will on Mccain, Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Sarah Palin, Oil Prices, Guantanamo Bay, Jimmy Carter, Hurricane Katrina, Waterboarding, Constitution, Pailn Pregnant Daugther, Politics News

The disconnect between McCain's words and his actions, all in an effort to distort his record, is the central approach to his campaign. And it smells a lot like the last eight years of Bush.

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Ambassador for All War Crimes Except Our Own

Charles J. Brown | Posted 10.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Geneva Conventions, John Bolton, John Yoo, Human Rights Watch, Sri Lanka, Guantanamo, George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Iraq, Madeleine Albright, Dick Cheney, War Crimes, Condoleezza Rice, International Criminal Court, Timothy Flanigan, David Scheffer, Stephen Cambone, William J. Haynes, David Addington, Yugoslavia, Michael Chertoff, State Department, War on Terror, Jane Mayer, John Ashcroft, George Tenet, Cambodia, Clint Williamson, Alberto Gonzales, Rwanda, Torture, Icty, Ictr, George Bush, United Nations, 9/11, Human Rights Abuses, Convention on Torture, Abu Ghraib, Icc, Politics News

The Office of War Crimes Issues doesn't just tell other countries to do as we say and not as we do. The Administration has actually made OWCI complicit of its own war crimes apparatus.

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Abu Ghraib To Reopen, Museum Planned

Reuters | Posted 10.04.2008 | Home

Read More: Abu Ghraib Museum, Baghdad, Iraq, Abu Ghraib, Abu Ghraib Abuse, Home News

BAGHDAD - Iraq plans to renovate and reopen Abu Ghraib prison, the notorious site of executions and torture under Saddam Hussein and later of a U.S. p...

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Company Tied To Abu Ghraib Kinda Worried About Politics Now

Footnoted | Michelle Leder | Posted 09.28.2008 | Business

Read More: War Profits, War Money, Warwire, Department of Defense, War, Abu Ghraib, Business News

Caci, for those who don't remember, has been a major beneficiary of the current Administration. Over the past five years, Caci's revenues have doubled...

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