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Robert Scheer: Hope Burning

2012-05-31T04:08:09Z

So now we have Rambo Obama, a steely warrior who, according to a lengthy leaked insider account in The New York Times, hurls death-dealing drones at a...

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Jimmy Soni: National Security As Culture War: Why Civil Libertarians Lose the Argument

2012-05-29T13:30:45Z

Why is Guantanamo still open? Why has there been no public accounting for the use of torture? Why does President Obama successfully claim the right to assassinate American citizens living abroad? And why do civil libertarians lose arguments of this sort time and again?

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Boy Locked In Filthy Coal Bunker Every Night For A Year

2012-05-28T17:19:40Z

An English couple who locked their 11-year-old son in a converted coal bunker every single night for a year will spend two years in prison, a judge or...

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German Girl Kept Like An Animal For 8 Years

2012-05-28T11:05:58Z

Bosnian police say they rescued a 19-year-old German woman who was held against her will for eight years, forced to eat pig feed and pull her captors ...

Read more: German Girl Held 8 Years, Kept Like an Animal, Kidnapping, Germany Crime, Slavojka Marinkovic, Milenko Marinkovic, Bosnia Crime, German Girl Held Captive, Torture, Video, Crime News

Chris Kelly: War Movie Marathon

2012-05-28T02:55:46Z

Does torture fit with historical American values? One need only look to the filmography of the great Dana Andrews for the answer.

Read more: 9/11, Dana Andrews, Torture, Guantanamo, Enhanced Interrogations, American Torture, George W. Bush, Abu Ghraib, Politics News

Bill Moyers: On Memorial Day Weekend, America Reckons With Torture

2012-05-24T16:21:36Z

If we really want to honor the Americans in uniform who gave their lives fighting for their country, we'll redouble our efforts to make sure we're worthy of their sacrifice; we'll renew our commitment to the rule of law, for the rule of law is essential to any civilization worth dying for.

Read more: Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Dilma Roussef, Abu Zubaydah, 9/11, Guantanamo, Susan Crawford, Mohammed Al-QahtaniX Reckoning With Torture, South Africa, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Torture, Memorial Day, Memorial Day 2012, War on Terror, Politics News

Eric Ehrmann: Brazil Amps Up Human Rights as Spike Joints in to Chill Favela Fever

2012-05-22T16:55:20Z

Brazil's human rights conundrum is likely to continue with Dilma's recent approval of closer military, intelligence and security cooperation with Washington, ostensibly linked to the World Cup and the Rio Olympics.

Read more: Carlos Liscano, Human Rights, Lula, Red Comando, Dilma Rousseff, Spike Lee, Brazil, Public Diplomacy, Torture, Barack Obama, World News

Rev. Richard L. Killmer: An Apology to Maher Arar -- Moving Beyond the Season of Fear

2012-05-21T16:14:55Z

On Monday, May 21, the National Religious Campaign Against Torture joins with Amnesty International USA and the Center for Constitutional Rights in delivering more than 60,000 names of people who have signed statements urging President Obama to issue a formal apology to Arar.

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Bianca Jagger: Why Tibet Matters

2012-05-14T08:40:45Z

The Tibetans are standing up to the vast and expanding power of the Chinese state with nonviolent resistance through religious practice, song, literature and even self-immolation.

Read more: Lobsang Sangay, Self Immolation, Human Rights, Templeton Prize, Bianca Jagger, Tibet, Protest, Free Tibet, HH the Dalai Lama, China, Prime Minister David Cameron, Torture, Monks, Religion-and-Culture, President Barack Obama, Cultural-Identity, Vietnam, Un-Special-Rapporteur, World News

Man Allegedly Locked Woman In Camper, Tortured Her With Torch, Stun Gun

2012-05-09T12:57:09Z

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. — Arkansas authorities say a woman who was allegedly held against her will and tortured before escaping went with her alleged ...

Read more: Arkansas, Sabrina Morton, Video, Woman Abducted and Tortured, Abduction, Kidnapping, Tennessee, Battery, Jason Ripley Arrested, Jason Ripley, Torture, Crime News

Andrea Prasow: Justice on Trial

2012-05-09T12:25:50Z

The U.S. cannot un-torture Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. It cannot redo the detention of these men in a way that is humane and just. There is, however, the chance to ensure that the court in which they are judged is not a further perversion of the values Americans claim to hold dear.

Read more: Guantanamo Bay, Torture, Military Commissions, 9/11 Trials, Military Tribunals, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Trial, Guantanamo Detainees, Politics News

Joshua Kors: Q&A With Jim Gaffigan: 'Hot Pocket' Comedian Reaches Out to Our Wounded Soldiers (VIDEO)

2012-05-08T12:55:43Z

Jim Gaffigan recently spoke with me about why he's reaching out to military families, why becoming famous has been both a blessing and a curse, and why his stand-up doesn't need swear words to hit home.

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Anthony D. Romero: The Shame of Guantánamo: A Close-Up View of Injustice

2012-05-07T17:55:39Z

I have now been to Guantánamo six times. Nothing I've seen has changed my view that the military commissions are unworkable. The system is set up to guarantee convictions and hand down death sentences, nothing more.

Read more: Guantanamo, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Barack Obama, Torture, Guantanamo Torture, Closing Guantanamo, Guantanamo Detainees, Politics News

Louis A. Ruprecht, Jr.: Images That Do Violence

2012-05-07T13:43:24Z

The Los Angeles Times exposé a couple weeks ago offers chilling testimony of how badly sentiments and moral judgments can slide out of kilter in time of war.

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Fahad Faruqui: Guantanamo: Using Religion As A Tool For Torture

2012-05-06T09:01:26Z

Speaking to former Guantanamo detainee 727 was like talking to a prisoner of Azkaban, that terrible prison guarded by soul-sucking Dementors from J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series.

Read more: Quran, Habeas Corpus Guantanamo, Faith, Torture, Islam, Guantanamo Bay, Terrorism, War on Terror, Geneva Convention, Religion News

Former Bush Official Wins Protection From Torture Lawsuit

2012-05-02T13:58:43Z

SAN FRANCISCO — An appeals court on Wednesday tossed out a convicted terrorist's lawsuit accusing a high-ranking Bush administration lawyer who ...

Read more: Video, OLC Memos, Jose Padilla, John Yoo Torture Memos, John Yoo, Enhanced Interrogation, Torture Memos, John Yoo Torture, Torture, Politics News

Glenn L. Carle: Hard Measures : Torture Is Humane

2012-05-01T18:21:59Z

Jose Rodriguez's book, Hard Measures, does not seem so much deluded as willfully misleading, an apologia for some of the most controversial choices made by the Bush administration and the CIA.

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Torture Didn't Help Find Bin Laden, U.S. Senators Say

2012-04-30T17:54:00Z

Two senators privy to classified information angrily dispute the claim by a former CIA official that the Bush administration's coercive interrogation ...

Read more: Video, Osama Bin Laden Death, Enhanced Interrogations, Bin Laden, Osama Bin Laden, Torture, Politics News

Barry Eisler: Interrogators Speak Out: Why Not a Torture Turing Test?

2012-04-30T11:14:40Z

It's hard to imagine that any American, Jose Rodriguez included, would argue waterboarding isn't torture if the tapes in question depicted Iranian or Chinese agents waterboarding captured American pilots.

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Mark Fallon: Interrogators Speak Out: Torture is Illegal, Immoral and Ineffective

2012-04-28T19:16:14Z

Every interrogation starts with analysis. That is, getting to know the detainee, researching their background, exploring their relationships with others, reviewing any available information and figuring out what makes them tick.

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Matthew Alexander: Interrogators Speak Out: America Is Morally Bipolar

2012-04-27T19:04:53Z

Another year, another round of the torture debate -- the pattern keeps repeating itself. Each year, the pro-torture advocates submit a new mouthpiece, and each year the anti-torture advocates offer up actual interrogators.

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Senate Investigation Finds Little Evidence That 'Torture' Is Effective

2012-04-27T01:00:00Z

* Techniques said not to produce intelligence coups * "Water-boarding," sleep deprivation among techniques * Republicans...

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Jim Clemente: Interrogators Speak Out: Did Torture 'Work?'

2012-04-26T18:54:27Z

Another round of torture debates is soon to ensue on the one-year anniversary of the killing of Osama bin Laden. Jose Rodriguez, the former CIA agent notorious for destroying 'the torture tapes,' will release his new book, Hard Measures, on the same date.

Read more: Guantanamo, Enhanced Interrogations, Torture, Guantanamo Detainees, High Value Interrogation Group, Waterboarding, Torture Memos, Jose Rodriguez Hard Measures, Torture Tapes, Interrogators, Politics News

Ilana Teitelbaum: 'Garden of Bones': A Geek Girl Watches Game of Thrones

2012-04-25T13:35:57Z

There are spoilers ahead for "Garden of Bones," the latest bone-sawing, chest-devouring, rape-with-a-sceptre-ing(?) episode of Game of Thrones.

Read more: George R.R. Martin, History, Television, Garden of Bones, Game of Thrones, Torture, Fantasy, Books News

Supreme Court Finds Palestinian Authority Immune From Torture Lawsuit

2012-04-18T12:58:00Z

WASHINGTON -- The family of a Palestinian American killed while in the Palestinian Authority's custody cannot sue the organization, the Supreme Court ...

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