What a story. Perhaps the CIA is training private companies how to waterboard and torture disloyal employees: In the midst of two wars and the fight against Al Qaeda, the CIA is offering operatives a chance to peddle their expertise to private companies on the side — a policy that gives financial firms and hedge…
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What was Israel’s involvement at Abu Ghraib?
This story requires far more investigation (something that has been sorely lacking in the last years): The former American military chief of the notorious Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq reiterates the Israeli involvement in the US-run facility, where hundreds of Iraqi suspects were tortured and sexually abused by US soldiers and interrogators. Shedding further light…
John Yoo allowed to breeze through an interview without seeing balls being crushed
Bush administration lawyer John Yoo, a key architect of the torture regime, is given a pretty soft interview by Jon Stewart. Is it too much to expect that Yoo would be faced with some of the horrific acts of torture allowed to occur under his watch? The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs…
When will our reporters actually travel past Jerusalem?
Another story ignored by the Western press: Defence for Children International/Palestine Section (DCI/PS) on Wednesday submitted 13 cases to the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture for investigation. The cases relate to the ill-treatment, and in some cases torture, of Palestinian children being held at the notorious Al Jalame Interrogation and Detention Centre near Haifa, in…
Torture and mayhem in Sri Lanka
CNN’s Becky Anderson talks with the UN Special investigator investigating war crimes in Sri Lanka and discusses the lack of justice and transparency of Colombo’s government:
We train and torture Palestinians and wonder why they hate us?
Sometimes, a story about Palestine speaks volumes about the ways in which Washington truly views the region (such as this classic 2008 tale of a US-backed, attempted coup against the ruling Hamas party). This piece in the London Guardian is both utterly unsurprising and brutally frank. This is the West’s vision for a Palestinian future?…
This is how the IDF fights
The Public Committee Against Torture in Israel released the following statement this week: The Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI) released today [2 December 2009] a new report which exposes the shifts in Israel’s combat doctrine as evidenced in the prosecution of operation “Cast Lead” and from numerous public oral and written statements made…
Crushing balls has become an American favourite
Salon’s Glenn Greenwald: With the new [poll] numbers, it’s virtually impossible to find a country with as high a percentage of torture supporters as the… U.S. has.
Why the Right backs torture, endless war and Jesus
Andrew Sullivan explains why he cannot support the Republican Party, Christianism and extremism: I cannot support a movement that claims to believe in limited government but backed an unlimited domestic and foreign policy presidency that assumed illegal, extra-constitutional dictatorial powers until forced by the system to return to the rule of law. I cannot support…