Torture

CIA Working With Palestinian Security Agents Known For Torturing Hamas Supporters

guardian.co.uk | Ian Cobain | Posted 12.18.2009 | World

Read More: General Intelligence Service, Palestine, Central Intelligence Agency, Cia, Hamas Fatah, Israel-Palestine, CIA Torture, Fatah, Hamas, Israel, Preventive Security Organisation, Torture, World News

Palestinian security agents who have been detaining and allegedly torturing supporters of the Islamist organisation Hamas in the West Bank have been w...

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Downtown Dispatch: Fear and Anxiety Grip Lower Manhattan as It Braces for the Terror Trials

Julie Menin | Posted 12.18.2009 | New York

Read More: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Militray Tribunal, New York, Eric Holder, Terrorism, Torture, KSM Trial, 9/11, Lower Manhattan, World Trade Center, Ksm, New York News
Julie Menin

Emotions bubbled to the surface in lower Manhattan this week. Neighborhood activists lambasted Eric Holder's decision to hold the KSM trial in the shadow of the World Trade Center site.

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Gitmo Show Trial And Tell

Danielle Celena Belton | Posted 12.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Guantanamo, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Gitmo Detainees, Gitmo, Closing Guantanamo, Military Commissions, Torture, Politics News
Danielle Celena Belton

What do you call a trial where the outcome is rigged from the inception? If you're a right-winger and obsessed with keeping Guantanamo Bay open, it's called a military commission.

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What Will The KSM Trial Really Mean?

Slate | Dahlia Lithwick | Posted 12.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: ACLU Torture, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Eric Holder Attorney General, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Trial, Obama Justice Department, Obama, Ksm, Eric Holder, Torture, Politics News

For close to a year now, the Obama administration has been playing judicial Whac-a-Mole over accountability for Bush administration torture policies. ...

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Supreme Court Rejects Guantanamo Detainees' Torture Case

AP | Posted 12.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Supreme Court Guantanamo Ruling, Supreme Court Guantanamo, Rasul v. Myers, Asif Iqbal, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo Torture, Guantanamo Appeal, Shafiq Rasul, Jamal Al-Harith, Gitmo Detainees, Rhuhel Ahmed, US Supreme Court, Torture, Politics News

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has refused to take up an appeal from former Guantanamo Bay detainees who say they were tortured and denied relig...

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Julian Hattem

ACLU Criticizes Obama Torture-Prosecution Policy

HuffingtonPost.com | Julian Hattem | Posted 12.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Ben Wizner, Aclu, American Civil Liberties Union, Bush Administration Torture, Obama Nobel Peace Prize, President Obama, Obama Administration, CIA Torture, Nobel Peace Prize, Obama, Jameel Jaffer, Barack Obama, Torture Memos, Torture, Politics News

On the same day that President Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize, the nation's foremost civil liberties group criticized his administration's refus...

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Vets with PTSD: When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again--Tell Him to 'Think Positively

Bryant Welch | Posted 12.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Military Psychology, Resilience Psychology, Resiliency, Ptsd, Torture, Authentic Happiness, Positive Psychology, Seligman, Politics News
Bryant Welch

Johnny was a Vietnam War vet and one of my first patients. There was no question his life as a "normal young American," much less his life as a robust young Marine, was over.

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Keeping Our Promise to Human Rights

Jamil Dakwar | Posted 12.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, Women's Rights, Americans With Disabilities Act, Human Rights, Detention, President Obama, Human Rights Day, Guantanamo, Torture, Extraordinary Rendition, Politics News
Jamil Dakwar

Seven months ago, the US issued a list of human rights commitments and pledges in support of U.S. candidacy for membership in the U.N. Human Rights Council. The decision to join the was the right thing to do.

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Condoleezza Rice's Smoking Gun

Sebastian Doggart | Posted 12.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Bush Administration Torture, The Smoking Gun, Bush Administration, Karl Rove, Condoleezza Rice, American Faust: From Condi to Neo-Condi, CIA Torture, Waterboarding, Bush Era, Condi Rice, Torture, Courting Condi, Video, Politics News
Sebastian Doggart

When I began investigating Condoleezza Rice four years ago, I had no idea she was complicit in torture.

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Mexican Army Accused Of Torture By Amnesty International

AP | Posted 12.10.2009 | World

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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Gunmen killed a university student in the deadly Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez, prosecutors said Wednesday. Chih...

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Thomson Prison Will Likely Be Next Stop For Gitmo Detainees, Says Obama Administration

Washington Post | Peter Slevin and Peter Finn | Posted 12.06.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Durbin, Afghanistan, Interrogation, Terrorism, 9/11, Obama, Gitmo, Detainees, Illionois, Enemy Combatants, Thomson Prison, Chicago, Iraq, Cuba, Torture, Chicago News

CHICAGO -- Despite opposition from congressional Republicans, the Obama administration is signaling that a state prison in rural Thomson, Ill., will p...

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The Failure of the Federalist, No. 10

Shahid Buttar | Posted 12.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Secrecy, War Crimes, Supreme Court, Foia, Congress, Central Intelligence Agency, Cia, Torture Photos, National Security, Accountability, Barack Obama, Torture, Politics News
Shahid Buttar

Will President Obama serve as the beacon of hope in government that he pretended to be throughout last year's campaign, or did he merely pander to the public in order to pursue his personal ambitions?

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Canada Accused Of Torture Collusion

Eric Margolis | Posted 12.01.2009 | World

Read More: Canada Torture, Canada, Canada Afghanistan, Afghanistan, Afghanistan War, Torture, World News
Eric Margolis

In light of recent reports, Canadian military men and high government officials are now trying to slander the messenger and lie or bluff away their serious misdeeds -- some of which may constitute war crimes.

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Decades Are Only "From Hell" If We Make Them

Will Bunch | Posted 11.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: 1960s, Time Magazine, Ronald Reagan, Decades, Afghanistan, Guantanamo, 9/11, 2000s, Osama Bin Laden, Iraq War, Minneapolis Bridge Collapse, Peak Oil, Financial Crisis, Jimmy Carter, Hurricane Katrina, 1970s, Torture, Politics News
Will Bunch

In the 2010s, I don't think we can afford to sit around watching CNBC and waiting for the Decade Gods to automatically turn everything green as some sort of karmic balance for the awfulness of the 2000s.

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The Rom Houben Tragedy And The Case For Active Euthanasia

Jacob M. Appel | Posted 11.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Terri Schiavo, Rom Houben, Law, Culture Wars, Hoax, Liberals, Belgium, Civil Rights, James Randi, Euthanasia, Religion, Politics, Human Rights, Conservatives, Dalton Trumbo, Right to Die, Health, Coma, Ethics, Arthur Caplan, Morality, Technology, Jean-Dominique Bauby, Medicine, Bioethics, Torture, Politics News
Jacob M. Appel

If one believes that the prevention of suffering may sometimes justify the withdrawal or withholding of care, then the very fact that Houben was conscious for twenty-three years might call more convincingly for such action.

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Tony Blair's Cautionary Tale For Obama

William Bradley | Posted 11.24.2009 | World

Read More: Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, George W. Bush, Iraq, Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, Torture, Al Qaeda, Israel, Palestine, Cia, Pakistan, European Union, Cool Britannia, Britain, Robert Harris, Roman Polanski, World News
William Bradley

Under Blair, Britain "modernized" as "Cool Britannia," and indicators on the economy, the environment, and crime improved. Then came Iraq, the war too far.

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CIA Secret Prison Found At Horseback Riding School In Lithuania

ABC News | Brian Ross And Matthew Cole | Posted 11.18.2009 | World

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The CIA built one of its secret European prisons inside an exclusive riding academy outside Vilnius, Lithuania, a current Lithuanian government offici...

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American Faust: The Must-See Film Premiere in Denver This Weekend

Nathan Havey | Posted 11.18.2009 | Denver

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Nathan Havey

His scathing portrayals of Rice focus largely on the human rights consequences of Bush administration policies, responsibility for which, Doggarts' films lay at the feet of the former Secretary of State.

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Beyond Guantanamo: Torture Thrives in Connecticut

Jacob M. Appel | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Geneva Conventions, Medical Ethics, Law, Rape, Arthur Caplan, Physicians, Crime, American Medical Associaton, Prisoners, Civil Rights, William Coleman, Guantanamo, Connecticut, Edward Blanchette, World Medical Association, Human Rights, Health, Doctors, Prisons, Medicine, Bioethics, Torture, Politics News
Jacob M. Appel

In the case of Coleman v. Lantz, Connecticut has argued for the right to force feed a hunger-striking inmate in an excruciatingly painful manner.

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Fort Hood: A Harbinger of Things to Come?

Bryant Welch | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Fort Hood, Military Shootings, The Psychology of Optimism, Nidal Malik Hasan, Military Mental Health, Psychology, Martin Seligman, Positive Psychology, Ptsd, Torture, Politics News
Bryant Welch

If we can identify the real problem that caused the tragedy at Ford Hood we can possibly prevent such episodes in the future. Our troops have been through enough.

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Pat Quinn, Dick Durbin Try To Build Support For Gitmo Inmates' Relocation To Thomson Prison In Illinois

AP | DEANNA BELLANDI | Posted 11.16.2009 | Chicago

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CHICAGO — Gov. Pat Quinn and U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin on Sunday tried to build support and counter criticism of a proposal to sell a prison in rura...

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"Golden Shield" Doesn't Cover Condi's Torture Role

Coleen Rowley | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Spanish Judge Baltasar Garzon, Bush Administration Torture, Jay Bybee, Condoleezza Rice, John Yoo, Beth El Synagogue, CIA Torture, Robert Delahunty, Torture Memos, Torture, Golden Shield, Politics News
Coleen Rowley

It was Condoleezza Rice who verbally approved the CIA's request to subject the first alleged al-Qaeda terrorist to waterboarding in July 2002.

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Bush DOJ Official Agrees "Torture Memo" Lawyers Should Be Investigated

Nan Aron | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics

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Nan Aron

A change in leadership does not eliminate the need to examine our system and learn from our history, even when -- especially when -- our Department of Justice was corrupted to the point of sanctioning torture.

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What Obama Is Up Against

Russ Baker | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Central Intelligence Agency, Henry Kissinger, Ronald Reagan, Military Industrial Complex, Harry Truman, President Obama, George W. Bush, Obama, Bob Woodward, Bush Administration Torture, Robert Gates, George H.W. Bush, Richard Nixon, National Security, Gerald Ford, Nancy Pelosi, Congressional Oversight, Fdr, Hamid Karzai, Bill Clinton, Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Afghanistan War, Iraq War, Bush Administration, Dwight Eisenhower, Cia, Military Spending, Stanley McChrystal, Jimmy Carter, Prescott Bush, Allen Dulles, Lyndon Johnson, Iraq, Torture, Politics News
Russ Baker

We Americans harbor a quaint belief that a new president takes charge of a government that eagerly awaits his next command. But that's not how things work at the top, especially where "national security" is concerned.

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NY man charged with torturing kitten, making video

AP | Posted 11.03.2009 | Home

Read More: Joanne Cichy, Rascel Williams, Halloween Killing, Rascal Williams, Rascell Williams, Torture Kitten, Rascell-Williams, Torture, Crime, Home News

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Police are accusing a 22-year-old upstate New York man of hanging his girlfriend's four-month-old kitten with a belt and making...

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