Torture, Aggressive War & Presidential Power: Thoughts on the Current Constitutional Crisis

Tom Reifer

October 2009

This article analyses the intersection of torture, aggressive war and Presidential power in the 21st century, with particular attention to the current US Constitutional crisis and related international humanitarian/human rights law.

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Tom Reifer

Associate Professor of Sociology and an Affiliated Faculty in the Ethnic Studies programme, as well as a member of the Advisory Committee of the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice, at the University of San Diego, California

Tom Reifer is currently Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of San Diego and publishes widely on global peace and social justice issues. He has also been a long-time activist in the anti-nuclear movement as well as a rank and file trade union activist. His specialty is the study of large-scale, long-term social change and world-systems analysis.

He is currently working on a series of book projects, including September 11th: Terrorism & the Globalization of Human Rights; Blown Away: US Militarism, Hurricane Katrina and the Challenges of the 21st Century, and Violence, Profits & Power.