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...
Ignoring the Elephant at Gitmo: Yet Another 9/11 Crime
Kevin Ryan The dubious legal proceedings at the Guantanomo Bay (Gitmo) prison camp continue to promote the idea of justice for victims of 9/11. Unfortunately, these proceedings do not...
Follow Up: Alleged Torture of Julian Assange
Just a brief follow-up on a story we ran a few days ago, ALLEGED Chemical Torture of Julian Assange. This article generated a lot of discussion below the line,...
War Criminals Anonymous: A Play in One Act
Hope Kesselring Characters: Ned Diamond – Former Assistant Secretary of State, in his sixties, wearing a WCA T-shirt and camouflage shorts. Michelle Cardiff – CIA officer, about 40, wearing...
See what the two main American political parties have become
David Lindsay See what the two main American political parties have become. On any one or more of torture, Guantánamo Bay, mass surveillance, workers’ rights, consumer protection, environmental responsibility,...
Gina Haspel and Pinocchio from Rome
by Edward Curtin Being in Rome, Italy and thinking of Gina Haspel, the CIA nominee and admitted torturer who says her “moral conscience” has changed after the fact, seems...
Gina Haspel and the Normalising of Torture
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...
Lawlessness in Ukraine
by the Collective of Investigative Journalists, August 20, 2017 The Russians treated Nadiya Savchenko like a lady; the Ukrainians beat up women. August 13-14th,2017: Darya Mastikasheva the civil partner...
US, UAE operate network of torture chambers in Yemen
by Niles Niemuth , 27 June 2017, WSWS The United States and United Arab Emirates (UAE), in coordination with Yemeni proxy forces, are operating a network of torture chambers...
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...
Ukraine as a Threat to European Security
by Pyotr Vorobyov, via Strategic Culture On 28 June 2016, ten days before the start of the NATO Summit in Warsaw, hackers from an international collective known as Anonymous published a...
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....
The Caesar Photos and Impunity in Syria
by Steven Chovanec Western media are reporting headline claims that “new evidence supports claims about Syrian state detention deaths”, saying that “a leading rights group has released new evidence...
The Road to Guantanamo (2006)
Three young British Muslims tell the story of how they came to be in US custody at Guantánamo for over two years, and the horrors that awaited them there…
