Torture

Zero Dark Thirty & the Question of Torture

January 2013
Tom Reifer

It is high time Americans recognize that: “If torture is not wrong, nothing is wrong.”

Secrets, Lies, & Propaganda

January 2013
Tom Reifer

After the US embrace of torture after 9/11 it was only a matter of time before Hollywood decided to make a tribute to America’s liberal culture of torture for the big screen; Zero Dark Thirty

Torture: Immoral, illegal, counterproductive, and un-American

May 2011
Peter Weiss

Resorting to lawlessness in 'the war against terror' only serves to undermine the very values that made American society strong in the first place.

This shameful abuse of Bradley Manning

March 2011
Daniel Elsberg

The WikiLeaks suspect's mistreatment amounts to torture. Either President Obama knows this or he should make it his business.

The Torturer in the Mirror

September 2010
Tom Reifer

When is torture ever an effective tool of government? Despite Obama promises to end torture (and close Guantanamo), this ineffective, inhumane and unacceptable practice still continues with complicity from the highest levels of the US government.

Secrecy, Torture & Human Rights: US War Crimes, European Complicity, and International Law

May 2010
Tom Reifer

Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan's role in defending torture and rendition under the Obama administration raises serious concerns about the ongoing failure of the US government to end its own practice of extreme human rights abuses throughout the world.

The Pinochet Cases and the Invasion of Iraq

September 2004
Saul Landau

September has become Generalissimo Augusto Pinochet Ugarte's cruelest month.