The Normalization of Torture
Slavoj Zizek, post modernist philosopher and ADHD commentator on everything from Lenin to David Lynch, would be an unusual contributor …
Category Archives: Torture
Good One Gone
It’s hard to imagine, from our comfortable lives, what Rufina Amaya witnessed, what she experienced during the witnessing; it’s hard …
Art for Life’s Sake
We have linked you to Fernando Botero’s amazing paintings before. Some of them are now on display at US Berkeley, …
Torture: The Word Not Spoken
Peter Steinfels, the NY Times religion reporter, points out what no one talked about on the campaign trail: Torture. He …
No Sex, No Scandal. Sorry
No sex, no scandal. Sorry. A British soldier has become the first to admit to a war crime after pleading …
Waterboarding: Approved by US Congress
David Corn, at his website, provides this painting done by a Cambodian man who experienced the torture, along with some …
Democrats for Torture
Friend sends on this new website in progress Democrats For Torture They can add certain Senators as of today: Carper, …
Torture: Canada Too
Eric Margolis is smokin’ mad and with reason. Prisoners taken in the dead of night to [Stalin’s] Lubyanka [prison] were …
Torture: A Moral Sickness
“It still haunts me, the first time — it was in Chile, in October of 1973 — that I met …