torture | torture
Aug.31.2009
Welcome to the era of Deranged Debate, in which subjects utterly beyond the pale are treated as worthy of serious argument.Torture? Criminally barbarous at all times. An unmitigated evil under any circumstances. Contrary to every principle of civilization, and everything America stands for. And yet...
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Aug.09.2009
It looks like Attorney General Eric Holder is on the verge of appointing a criminal prosecutor to investigate waterboarding, and other illegal acts that were part of the interrogation policies put in place under the Bush administration. We've heard this for awhile now, but Holder appears to...
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Aug.09.2009
A unique strain of viral disease killed Iranian protesters who were being held in Kahrizak, a prison a few miles south of Tehran-- at least, according to General Ismail Ahmadi Moghaddam, the country's top police official. Symptoms of the previously unknown disease included broken bones, severe...
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Aug.08.2009
Here's another reason we love working at Red Room: Our jobs require reading the superb writing our community shares with us. Last Friday, for instance, one of the items on our collective to-do list here at Red Room HQ was "Read Red Room blog-topic-of-the-week entries." What a treat!
We...
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Aug.06.2009
There has been no shortage of news stories about how detainees have been treated at Guantanamo Bay, and Abu Ghraib before it. Likewise, there has been a lot of talk about so-called enhanced alternative interrogation techniques like waterboarding, sleep deprivation, and even dogs have been used as a...
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Aug.05.2009
These days political torture is being much examined in the news: its use by the recently defeated Republican Party team of George Bush, its purposes, its physical effects on those tortured, its success (or lack of same) as an investigative device. Questioning and torture, we have learned,...
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Jul.14.2009
I am the featured author today (7/14/09) on the Book Rix blog! Read my interview and find out more about me, my writing process and my new mystery novel, Lucid!
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Jun.04.2009
I had an unexpected call from a stand-up comic today who would like some writing help in editing and honing his material. If we go ahead with it, this would be a first for me, and, as such, offers a creative challenge that I would enjoy, provided we find a comfortable mode of working together (and...
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Jun.01.2009
The act is so depraved so violent, so sickening, one shudders at the thought of what else percolates in the minds of those perpetrating it. Some of the details get lost in the translations, but evidence coming out of Iraq in the form of photographs and first-hand accounts make the torture at Abu...
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May.24.2009
The opacity of oppressive regimes obscures truth and harsh realities.
But last month a video implicating Sheikh Issa bin Zayed al Nahyan, brother of the President of the United Arab Emirates, in the torture of an Afghani grain dealer was smuggled out of the country by a Houston businessman. ...
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