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the war against torture

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Tortured Confessions: The Rumpus Interview with Justine Sharrock

  • Maddie Oatman
  • June 15, 2010
In her book Tortured: When Good Soldiers Do Bad Things, journalist Justine Sharrock takes a close look at low-ranking soldiers who engaged in acts of torture.
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  • Features & Reviews

Emails From Gitmo, Read With a Drawl

  • Hans Kulla-Mader
  • October 26, 2009
At the website for the PEN American Center they’ve posted the audio and a transcription of Jonathan Ames reading FBI emails from Guantanamo Bay. There is something strangely enlightening about…
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Lynndie England Sues Tortured Biographer

  • Steven Tagle
  • September 14, 2009
Former Army reservist Lynndie England, the international face of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, is suing her biographer for seizing control of what was intended to be a shared copyright.…
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Dirty Pictures

  • Jeffrey Felshman
  • July 9, 2009
21-year-old student Jesse Graves started putting up graffiti to promote environmental awareness nearly two years ago, and has never been harassed or arrested.  Many of his pieces remain intact on…
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Dick Cheney or Sith Lord?

  • Joshuah Bearman
  • May 19, 2009
Larry Wilkerson, Colin Powell’s former chief of staff calls the former VP a “Sith Lord” and then takes him to the mat:
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Total Torture Tutorial

  • Joshuah Bearman
  • April 27, 2009
Mixing up your OLC memos? Can’t keep your enhanced interrogations straight? Foreign Policy, which not too long ago implemented a generally improved web redesign, has this very useful (and terrifying)…
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Torture Memos Set To Music

  • Isaac Fitzgerald
  • April 23, 2009
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Private Sector Detention

  • M. Rebekah Otto
  • February 16, 2009
Last week Pennsylvania judge Mark A. Ciavarella Jr. plead guilty to illegally prosecuting minors, in order to get kickbacks from privately-run juvenile detention centers. Children were sentenced to three months incarceration for…
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WWJD (What Will Jack (Bauer) Do)?

  • Ross Tuttle
  • February 4, 2009
WWJD (What Will Jack (Bauer) Do)? During the presidential campaign, many people worried that a president Obama wouldn’t be able to create new jobs. But I don’t think anyone ever…
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Fiction Used to Justify Real Torture

  • Isaac Fitzgerald
  • January 13, 2009
Jack Bauer, that torturing hunk of manliness whose bad days involve more nuclear weapons and sexy double agents than hangovers and parking tickets is back
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How Western Pop Music is Being Used as ‘Touchless Torture’ by the American military

  • Julie Greicius
  • December 8, 2008
From Frieze Magazine: “As reported by the BBC, the Guardian, the Associated Press, Newsweek, The Nation, Mother Jones, SPIN and others (while mocked by right-wing columnists from the Chicago Tribune…
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