kellyramsey + torture 69
Report: Nonlethal Weapons Could Target Brain, Mimic Schizophrenia (Sharon Weinberger, Wired)
february 2008 by kellyramsey
report: "it seems possible that this technology could be developed to the point where words could be transmitted to be heard like the spoken word, except hat it could only be heard within a person's head."
torture
police-state
february 2008 by kellyramsey
Collective Unconscionable (Arthur Levine, Washington Monthly)
january 2007 by kellyramsey
"Why, then, was the leadership of the APA, an organization representing one of the most liberal professions imaginable, so willing to essentially acquiesce with a conservative administration’s efforts to torture prisoners?"
torture
academia
interest-groups
january 2007 by kellyramsey
What Really Interests George Bush (Jonathan Schwarz @ A Tiny Revolution)
december 2006 by kellyramsey
"It's tempting to joke that Bush acts like this because there are no stupid questions, and thus he feels he shouldn't ask any. But to be fair, there's at least one subject that Bush really IS curious about: ..."
gaaaah
torture
december 2006 by kellyramsey
Traditional Christian Values and Torture (Brian Tamanaha @ Balkinization)
september 2006 by kellyramsey
TVC: "We encourage all of our supporters and affiliated churches to contact their elected representatives and let them know we support President Bush's efforts to update our methods of interrogating terrorist detainees"
torture
religion
gaaaah
september 2006 by kellyramsey
Mr. President, You Need Clarity? Here's your Clarity: George W. Meet Maher Arar, Please (Steve Young, Huffington Post)
september 2006 by kellyramsey
"If President Bush needs clarity to interpret the Geneva Conventions anti-torture provisions - and he really means it - the next visitor to the Oval Office should be Maher Arar,"
torture
september 2006 by kellyramsey
The GOP's tortured logic (Mark Benjamin @ Salon)
september 2006 by kellyramsey
"last week's GOP turnabout becomes all the more startling when you realize that some of the very Republicans who now say the War Crimes Act needs to be amended were among those who helped write it 10 years ago."
torture
september 2006 by kellyramsey
Canadian Inquiry Finds Torture Survivor Maher Arar Completely Innocent, Criticizes U.S. For 'Rendition' to Syria (Democracy Now!)
september 2006 by kellyramsey
"The judge wrote, "I am able to say categorically that there is no evidence to indicate that Mr. Arar has committed any offence or that his activities constituted a threat to the security of Canada.""
torture
september 2006 by kellyramsey
Outsourcing Torture (Jane Mayer, New Yorker)
september 2006 by kellyramsey
"When Arar described his experience in a phone interview recently, he invoked an Arabic expression. The pain was so unbearable, he said, that “you forget the milk that you have been fed from the breast of your mother.”"
torture
september 2006 by kellyramsey
Torture Is Torture (Eugene Robinson @ Washington Post)
september 2006 by kellyramsey
"It's past time to stop mincing words. The Decider, or maybe we should now call him the Inquisitor, sticks to anodyne euphemisms. He speaks of "alternative" questioning techniques, and his umbrella term for the whole shop of horrors is "the program.""
torture
september 2006 by kellyramsey
Canadian wrongfully kidnapped, tortured, panel finds (Lindsay Beyerstein @ Majikthise)
september 2006 by kellyramsey
"The American policy of extraordinary rendition poses an ethical dilemma for Canadian officials. Is it ethical to pass along inconclusive or fragmentary evidence... knowing that these tips might get one of your citizens kidnapped and tortured?"
torture
police-state
september 2006 by kellyramsey
Bush followers distort history to justify their radical changes (Glenn Greenwald @ Unclaimed Territory)
september 2006 by kellyramsey
"Claims that the enemy we face poses a unprecedented, mortal threat- and that they operate beyond all bounds of decency, humanity, and civilized norms- is something that we have heard (often accurately) about all sorts of enemies over the last 100 years,"
torture
september 2006 by kellyramsey
None Dare Call It Gulag (@ The Temple of Ultor)
september 2006 by kellyramsey
"The quotes interspersed with the items are from [spoiler]... And those are just the techniques they're willing to admit they use."
torture
september 2006 by kellyramsey
Yoo vs. Yoo (@ The Anonymous Liberal)
september 2006 by kellyramsey
"These guys really are incredible, aren't they? It doesn't matter what they were arguing even five minutes ago. They're willing to turn on a dime and say the exact opposite thing if the need suddenly arises."
torture
september 2006 by kellyramsey
Matt Lauer Corners Bush on Torture (milt5658 @ YouTube)
september 2006 by kellyramsey
"First, Bush is all over Matt Lauer - check out the pointing and the aggressiveness. Then, when it's clear that Lauer's not buying it, he starts saying that he won't talk about what he's already been talking about."
torture
september 2006 by kellyramsey
Bush's torture rant with reporters in Rose Garden (Veredictum @ YouTube)
september 2006 by kellyramsey
"Olbermann's choice of video clips from Bush's press conference, today [15 Sep 2006], followed by some analysis by George Washington Univ. Law Professor Jonathan Turley."
torture
september 2006 by kellyramsey
TD Blog Interview with Dr. Steven Miles (@ The Talking Dog)
september 2006 by kellyramsey
S.M.: "Indeed in most cases, torture is used by authoritarian regimes with the intent of destroying civil society. To this end, journalists, activists, lawyers, teachers, students, labor organizers, and intellectuals are its primary targets."
torture
police-state
anti-intellectualism
september 2006 by kellyramsey
Torture (Lindsay Beyerstein @ Majikthise)
september 2006 by kellyramsey
Links to interviews and some discussion.
torture
september 2006 by kellyramsey
Call Cruelty What It Is (Tom Malinowski, Human Rights Watch @ Washington Post)
september 2006 by kellyramsey
"But before he [Bush] again invites America's enemies to use such "alternative" methods on captured Americans, he might benefit from knowing a bit of their historical origins and from hearing accounts of those who have experienced them."
torture
september 2006 by kellyramsey
Torture Taxi: On the Trail of the CIA's Rendition Flights (Democracy Now!)
september 2006 by kellyramsey
"The first book documenting the US government practice of extraordinary rendition has just been released. It's called "Torture Taxi: On the Trail of the CIA's Rendition Flights." "
torture
september 2006 by kellyramsey
Americans, Especially Catholics, Approve of Torture | via Warrenellis.com
march 2006 by kellyramsey
Jack Bauer, patron saint of expediency
torture
march 2006 by kellyramsey
Taking Prisoners to the Edge of Drowning 'Not Torture' Says FO | Scotsman
march 2006 by kellyramsey
"The equivocal statement has fuelled suspicions that Britain is turning a blind eye to practices by its allies that many international lawyers believe are illegal."
torture
march 2006 by kellyramsey
Gitmo Prosecutor Denies Detainees Tortured | Associated Press
march 2006 by kellyramsey
... and 2. the American headline
torture
march 2006 by kellyramsey
American Admits to Some Torture Tactics | Toronto Star
march 2006 by kellyramsey
1. the Canadian headline...
torture
march 2006 by kellyramsey
US Asks Court to Drop Ex-Detainees' Torture Suit | Reuters
march 2006 by kellyramsey
"The U.S. Justice Department asked a federal court on Monday to dismiss a lawsuit charging that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld bears responsibility for the torture of detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan."
torture
march 2006 by kellyramsey
Rights Group Says Iraq Torture Continues | AP
march 2006 by kellyramsey
"Detainees in Iraq are still being tortured receiving electric shocks and beatings with plastic cables despite U.S. promises to prevent such abuse after the Abu Ghraib scandal, a report by an international rights group said Monday."
torture
march 2006 by kellyramsey
U.S. Cites Exception in Torture Ban | Washington Post
march 2006 by kellyramsey
"Bush administration lawyers, fighting a claim of torture by a Guantanamo Bay detainee, yesterday argued that the new law that bans cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment of detainees in U.S. custody does not apply to people held at the military prison."
torture
march 2006 by kellyramsey
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