Posts Tagged ‘Torture’
Afghan-Taleban Set High POW Treatment Standards
Not My Tribe | By Eric Verlo | 20 July 2009 Afghan Taliban set high POW standard There it is. The Afghans have captured a POW, we’ve been been sent his image in RGB with a personal message to the American public. US military spokesmen are calling the video a violation of the laws of war. Secretary of State Clinton is calling it “just [...]
Afghanistan: Marines’ Mission Doomed to Failure
New America Media, News Analysis, Sonali Kolhatkar, Posted: Jul 17, 2009 Editor’s Note: Just two weeks into July, the month is already the deadliest for NATO troops in Afghanistan. The high casualty count is at least partially the result of Operation Khanjar, the largest U.S. Marine Corps ground offensive in years. But NAM contributor Sonali [...]
US trapped in ‘bitter war’?
Al Jazeera's Clayton Swisher spent two weeks embedded with the US military along the northeast Afghan border with Pakistan, where the Taliban has US troops on its heels. As part of a special series, he asks if US claims of success in the region stand up to scrutiny. When Barack Obama, the US president, hosted Hamid Karzai, the Afghan [...]
Bagram: The New Guantánamo
Bagram Detainees Treated 'Worse Than Animals' From Anti-War.com | by William Fisher, June 27, 2009 An investigation by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has revealed that former detainees at the U.S. Bagram airbase in Afghanistan were beaten, deprived of sleep and threatened with dogs. (more...)
Chomsky on The Torture Memos
Torture has been routine practice from the early days of the Republic By Noam Chomsky, June 2009 The torture memos released by the White House in April elicited shock, indignation, and surprise. The shock and indignation are understandable—particularly the testimony in the Senate Armed Services Committee report on the Cheney-Rumsfeld [...]
Feingold to Obama: Prolonged Detention “Likely Unconstitutional”
While publicly supporting US President Obama against former Vice President Cheney, Senator Feingold, a Democrat member of the Senate Intelligence, Judiciary and Foreign Relations Committees, has written the following letter to Obama defending civil liberties. Meanwhile, Obama is also drawing fire from the right: distinguished neo-conservative [...]
US Tortured Uighur Muslims and Allowed Chinese to Interrogate them at Guantanamo Bay
Daphne Eviatar reports that while the Republicans in Congress are up in arms about the possibility that a handful of Uighurs will be released into the United States, it’s worth noting that these Chinese Muslims could have some disturbing stories to tell about their treatment at Guantanamo Bay. (more...)
American Scholars and Professionals Involved in Torture
In a commentary, renowned Bulgarian-French literary critic, Tzvetan Todorov, reflects on what the Torture Memoranda reveal about how not just the immediate soldiers involved, but American professionals from various fields, were involved with torture practices. "Besides the lawyers legitimating the deeds," Todorov writes, "psychologists, [...]
