Learning to Love Torture, Zero Dark Thirty-Style On January 11th, 11 years to the day after the Bush administration opened its notorious prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Zero Dark Thirty, Kathryn Bigelow’s deeply…
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During the last few days, events have unfolded in connection with the establishment of new evidence of unlawful activities against the so-called «opposition» in Russia (1), which have caused a furious reaction from…
The School of the Americas One part of this almost unbelievable US torture scandal is the little-known U.S. Army “School of the Americas”, located in Fort Benning, Georgia, which trains Latin American military officers and…
On May 31, 2010, the Israeli right-wing government sent armed military troops to illegally board in international waters Gaza aid ships of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla organized by the Free Gaza Movement and the Turkish…
The US Justice Department ended a four-year probe into the CIA’s controversial, and at times brutal, treatment of detainees, closing two final homicide investigations without filing charges. The decision sparked outrage among human rights supporters….
I became aware of torture as a U.S. policy in 1969 when I was serving as a USAF combat security officer working near Can Tho City in Viet Nam’s Mekong Delta. I was “informed” about…
You can get your copy of “The United States and Torture: Interrogation, Incarceration, and Abuse” with a minimum contribution to Truthout by clicking here. Marjorie Cohn – a law professor and past president of the…
[Editor’s note: This article was published by The Internationalist in May 2004 at the height of US invasion of Iraq. This article may remind the world of “The Hideous Face of U.S. Imperialism in Iraq”…
Vietnam Cu Chi Tunnels Open Trap I have visited bizarre places; yet, few of them compare to the Cu Chi Tunnels near Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon is the First Quarter of this…
DCI/Palestine “is a national section of the international non-government child rights organisation and movement (dedicated) to promoting and protecting the rights of Palestinian children,” according tointernational law principles. On December 28, it submitted a complaint [PDF] to several UN…