torture | torture
Apr.21.2009
Waterboarding is for amateurs.
This weekend, I visited the reconstruction of a medieval castle in Calistoga, imported by vintner Daryl Sattui brick-by-brick from Europe. It included a dungeon with an anatomically correct rack -- did you know they not only stretched people, there was also a roller...
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Apr.17.2009
This issue of torture is just very difficult to swollow. As it is very difficult to swollow that a poor man was killed by police brutality in London during the G20 and also that CIA is still attempting to murder left wing leaders in latin America as apparently just happened with Morales of...
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Mar.26.2009
Upon independence in 1960, the former French region of Middle Congo became the Republic of the Congo. A quarter century of experimentation with Marxism was abandoned in 1990 and a democratically elected government took office in 1992. A brief civil war in 1997 restored former Marxist President...
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Mar.25.2009
About the book:
Freedom of press the sitting duck is about journalists who get killed because of their works buy bandits who like controlling the press in fear of them being exposed to the audience.
Genre:
It is a book of poetry:
Details:
Time after time, journalists are killed for their...
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Mar.07.2009
We humans are good at condemning other people's sins of omission. There's a whole publishing industry around how much the average German knew about Nazi atrocities, for instance, calibrating ordinary people's exact degree of culpability for what was done in their names. But it's much harder to...
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Feb.25.2009
It's official! Everybody's favorite senator, (second only to Senator Ted Kennedy, of course), Patrick Leahy, announced that Congress is moving forward with forming the Senate Judiciary Committee version of the 9/11 Truth Commission, a formal inquiry into the misadventures of the Bush...
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Feb.22.2009
Remember Abu Ghraib? Well, that's what it used to be called anyway.
As of now, the infamous prison is to be known as Baghdad Central Prison.
The newly rennovated facility (at least what journalists were allowed to see) includes a sewing room, exercise equipment, computers, a library...
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Feb.04.2009
Maybe you happened to catch our illustrious former vice president, Dick Cheney, interviewed earlier today by Politico, when he publicly admitted to endorsing "enhanced interrogation techniques," specifically referring to waterboarding. Cheney was arguing for what he considers effective...
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Jan.28.2009
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-henry-sterry/dick-cheney-shopping-hi...
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Jan.05.2009
Barack Obama's decision to select Leon Panetta to be the next director of the Central Intelligence Agency was a stroke of brilliance. Panetta will not only add dignity, but moral decency to the position.
Yes, Panetta is an "unconventional" choice, a word Caroline Kennedy used to...
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