The War on Whatever
CJ Hopkins
The War on Whatever is not meant to be won. It is meant to be continuous, which it is. Like the never-ending war in Orwell’s 1984, it is waged by...
WATCH: Torturing the Truth
We all know that torture is bad, but are we really aware of how much of the narrative of the past two decades was constructed on torture testimony? Do...
Gina Haspel and the Normalising of Torture
Kit Knightly
Gina Haspel is almost certainly going to be the next director of the CIA. This shouldn't happen, but it will.
For those unfamiliar: Haspel was deputy head of the Agency...
Fifteen Years of the “War on Terror”
Rebecca Barrigos from redflag.org.au September marks 15 years since the US state turned the tragedy of the World Trade Centre attacks into a justification for years of brutality and...
Human Rights Watch Reports U.S. Government Tortured Children
by Paul Craig Roberts, via Information Clearing House Human Rights Watch (HRW) has just released its report, “Extreme Measures: Abused Children Detained As National Security Threats.” From my reading of...
US Officials Responsible for Torture Should Be Prosecuted Under Nuremberg Protocols
by Rebecca Gordon, book excerpt, via TruthOut With the Nuremberg tribunal after World War II, the United States helped establish the international principles guiding the prosecution of war crimes....
