Abu Ghraib

A Bright New Day - But What Now, President Obama?

Andy Worthington | Posted 11.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: Geneva Conventions, Us Constitution, Obama Election Day, Election Day, President Obama, Guantanamo, CIA Torture, David Addington, Military Commissions Act, Barack Obama, Abu Ghraib, Dick Cheney, Barack Obama 2008, HuffPost Election Reaction, Election Reaction, Barack Obama President, Politics News
Andy Worthington

Millions of Americans have proved that they are hungry for change and have elected a president whose very identity bridges a divide in American society.

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Sustained Focus and Effort: Sports Clichés, the Election and Our Place in the World

Sean Hartofilis | Posted 10.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: Phil Jackson, Basketball, 2008 Election, Sarah Palin, Barack Obama, Voting, John McCain, Sustained Focus and Effort, Air Jordan, Chicago Bulls, Abu Ghraib, Iraq War, Michael Jordan, Bush Administration, Sports Metaphors Politics, Sport Metaphors, Guantanamo Bay, Hurricane Katrina, Us Foriegn Relations, Politics News
Sean Hartofilis

Our democracy has given us an opportunity to start again with renewed focus and effort. The past has happened. We must remember it and learn from it.

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Gitmo Gotcha, You Betcha

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 10.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: Surveillance, Nsa, Civil Rights, Terrorism, Wiretapping, Torture, Gitmo, Bush Administration Torture, Guantanamo Bay, Waterboarding, Extrajudicial Renditions, Detention Without Trial, Suspension of H, Yaser Esam, Extrajudicial Detention, Abu Ghraib, Politics News
Jeff Schweitzer

Illegal conduct implemented at Gitmo has now metastasized to the shores of the United States. Where is the outrage?

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The Art of Torture

John Feffer | Posted 10.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: Torture, Abu Ghraib, Politics News
John Feffer

Reposted from Foreign Policy In Focus The pictures from Abu Ghraib have achieved iconic status. The hooded man on the box, his arms outstretched, has...

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Powell's Tortured Endorsement

Charles J. Brown | Posted 10.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Geneva Conventions, Colin Powell, United Nations, Guantanamo, George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Barack Obama, Abu Ghraib, Dick Cheney, War Crimes, Human Rights, Jane Mayer, John Ashcroft, Condoleezza Rice, Security Council, Bush Administration, George Tenet, Election 2008, Torture, Convention Against Torture, Unsc, Politics News
Charles J. Brown

Powell endorsed Obama and I was moved by his statement, particularly his challenge to Republicans about their demonization of Islam. Despite this, I don't welcome his endorsement.

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No Soup For Yoo: Our Right to Refuse Service to the Constitution's Torturers

David Quigg | Posted 10.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: The Dark Side, War on Terror, Cia, Terrorism, Jack Goldsmith, Guantanamo, George Bush, John Yoo, Abu Ghraib, Dick Cheney, Enhanced Interrogations, Alberto Mora, Waterboarding, Jane Mayer, David Addington, Torture, Politics News
David Quigg

Reading The Dark Side, as I just have, forces a stomach-turning, jaw-clenching reckoning with Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, CIA kidnappings, secret prisons, waterboarding, and a shameful list of other soul-shattering abuses.

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America Needs Obama To Recreate Our National Narrative

John Rember | Posted 10.10.2008 | Home

Read More: Henry Paulson, Bush Administration, r.d. Laing, Economic Crisis, National Narrative, Michael Mukasey, Free Market, Election 2008, Campaign 2008, Biden Obama, Barack Obama, John McCain, Abu Ghraib, Torture, Home News
John Rember

How to explain an administration that nationalizes the banking system even as it praises the free market? How to explain a financial system that turned debt into wealth, and wealth into debt? How is it that most people don't even know which country their house belongs to?

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US Detainee Abuse Drove Prisoner To Brink Of Insanity, New Documents Show

AP | PAMELA HESS | Posted 10.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: Prisoner Abuse, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, Human Rights, Black Sites, Politics News

WASHINGTON — A U.S. military officer warned Pentagon officials that an American detainee was being driven nearly insane by months of punishing i...

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A Message to Barack Obama: Don't Forget Cheney and Addington

Andy Worthington | Posted 09.29.2008 | Politics

Read More: Geneva Conventions, John McCain, Combatant Status Review Tribunals, Guantanamo, CIA Torture, Bagram, David Addington, Military Commissions Act, Presidential Debates, Barack Obama, Abu Ghraib, Dick Cheney, Politics News
Andy Worthington

Obama the presidential candidate has been almost silent on the crimes of the current administration.

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It's the Democracy, Stupid: Campaigns of McCain and Palin Show How They Would Govern

Mitchell Bard | Posted 09.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain Lies, Issues, John McCain, Oil Tax Breaks, Palin Bridge to Nowhere, Rick Davis, George W. Bush, Governing Vision, James Carville, McCain Offshore Drilling, Lipstick on a Pig, 2008 Election, Mccain Spain, Oil Companies, Randall Scheunemann, Barack Obama, Palin Teleprompter, Obama Celebrity, Abu Ghraib, Iraq Intelligence, Iraq War, George Will on Mccain, Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Sarah Palin, Oil Prices, Guantanamo Bay, Jimmy Carter, Hurricane Katrina, Waterboarding, Constitution, Pailn Pregnant Daugther, Politics News
Mitchell Bard

The disconnect between McCain's words and his actions, all in an effort to distort his record, is the central approach to his campaign. And it smells a lot like the last eight years of Bush.

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Ambassador for All War Crimes Except Our Own

Charles J. Brown | Posted 09.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: Geneva Conventions, John Bolton, John Yoo, Human Rights Watch, Sri Lanka, Guantanamo, George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Iraq, Madeleine Albright, Dick Cheney, War Crimes, Condoleezza Rice, International Criminal Court, Timothy Flanigan, David Scheffer, Stephen Cambone, William J. Haynes, David Addington, Yugoslavia, Michael Chertoff, State Department, War on Terror, Jane Mayer, John Ashcroft, George Tenet, Cambodia, Clint Williamson, Alberto Gonzales, Rwanda, Torture, Icty, Ictr, George Bush, United Nations, 9/11, Human Rights Abuses, Convention on Torture, Abu Ghraib, Icc, Politics News
Charles J. Brown

The Office of War Crimes Issues doesn't just tell other countries to do as we say and not as we do. The Administration has actually made OWCI complicit of its own war crimes apparatus.

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Abu Ghraib To Reopen, Museum Planned

Reuters | Posted 09.03.2008 | Home

Read More: Abu Ghraib Museum, Baghdad, Iraq, Abu Ghraib, Abu Ghraib Abuse, Home News

BAGHDAD - Iraq plans to renovate and reopen Abu Ghraib prison, the notorious site of executions and torture under Saddam Hussein and later of a U.S. p...

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Company Tied To Abu Ghraib Kinda Worried About Politics Now

Footnoted | Michelle Leder | Posted 08.28.2008 | Business

Read More: War Profits, War Money, Warwire, Department of Defense, War, Abu Ghraib, Business News

Caci, for those who don't remember, has been a major beneficiary of the current Administration. Over the past five years, Caci's revenues have doubled...

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Jason Linkins

Here's Why I Am With Joe Biden

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Biden and Torture, Joe Biden, Abu Ghraib, Politics News

Karl Miller -- a terrific blogger and thinker who I've been fortunate enough to get to know through my extracurricular activities -- has got a post up...

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Obama Announces European Treaty

Sean Carman | Posted 07.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Barack Obama Hype, Obama Berlin, John McCain, Obamamania, United Nations, Barack Obama Germany, Barack Obama, Barack Obama President of the World, Nicolas Sarkozy, Abu Ghraib, Barack Obama Berlin, Obama Germany, Barack Obama France, Obama Hype, Barack Obama Sarkozy, 236.Com, Politics News
Sean Carman

The Obama campaign is looking into a possible run at the German chancellorship, depending on the result of the American presidential campaign.

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McCain's Cigarette Gaffe: A Cold Blood Commander-In-Chief?

Omid Memarian | Posted 07.10.2008 | Politics

Read More: Reagan, The U.S., Foriegn Policy, John McCain, Guantanamo, Al-Qaeda, Gaffe, Soviet Union, Mccain. Cigarette, Anti-Americanism, Iran, M.E.K, Gross Joke, Saddam Hussein, Symore Hersh, Afghanistan, Abu Ghraib, Politics News
Omid Memarian

Unlike most of veterans who respect human lives due to their profound and extraordinary experiences at wars, McCain's joking about people's lives is a disastrous trait for a president.

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Sex Crimes in the White House

Naomi Wolf | Posted 07.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Lynndie England, Sexual Torture, Condoleezza Rice, CIA Torture, Sex Torture, Torture and Democracy, Condoleezza Rice Torture, Sexual Abuse, Abu Ghraib, Abu Ghraib Abuse, Politics News
Naomi Wolf

The sexualization of torture from the top basically turned Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo Bay into an organized sex-crime ring in which the trafficked sex slaves were US-held prisoners.

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Confronting and Ending the Politics of Humiliation: Part 1, From the Warsaw Ghetto to Guantanamo Bay

Stephen Ducat | Posted 07.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, Bush Administration Torture, Psychology of Torture, Bush Administration, Politics of Humiliation, Politics News
Stephen Ducat

Those who comprise the current Republican administration are certainly not the first political rulers to deploy humiliation as a psychological weapon against those it perceives as a threat.

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Abu Ghraib Inmates Sue Contractors, Claiming Torture

AP | DAVID DISHNEAU | Posted 07.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: Private Contractors, Defense Contractors Iraq, Abu Ghraib Torture, Abu Ghraib Lawsuit, Abu Ghraib, Torture, Abu Ghraib Abuse, Politics News

HAGERSTOWN, Md. — Three Iraqis and a Jordanian filed federal lawsuits Monday alleging they were tortured by U.S. defense contractors while detai...

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Live Tyrannized and Die Anyways

David Quigg | Posted 06.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Rudy Giuliani, New Hampshire, Barack Obama, Terrorism, Antonin Scalia, Guantanamo, Supreme Court, Election 2008, Newt Gingrich, Constitution, John McCain, Torture, Abu Ghraib, Habeas Corpus, Civil Liberties, Warantless Wiretapping, Patriot Act, Mccain Habeas Corpus, Politics News
David Quigg

In the interest of saving America from bin Laden, we have shown a terrifying willingness to strip away more and more of the founding virtues that make America worth saving in the first place.

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General Who Probed Abu Ghraib: Bush Officials Committed 'War Crimes'

McClatchy Newspapers | Warren P. Strobel | Posted 06.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Warwire, Anthony Taguba, Abu Ghraib Abuse, Iraq War, Iraq Warwire, Abu Ghraib, Politics News

The Army general who led the investigation into prisoner abuse at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison accused the Bush administration Wednesday of committing "wa...

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Rupert Everett: British Soldiers Are Whiny Wimps

Huffington Post | Posted 06.08.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Richard Burton, Rupert Everett, Abu Ghraib, Entertainment News

Outspoken British actor Rupert Everett, 49, has given a new interview in England, where he calls UK troops "wimps," among other things. The "My Best ...

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New York Times Lends Legitimacy To Pentagon Policy on Iraq Inmate Abuse

Tom Hayden | Posted 06.02.2008 | Media

Read More: New York Times, Iraq, Prison, Abu Ghraib, Media News
Tom Hayden

Rubin's rosy picture is contradicted by the same unnamed advocates who point out that there are "underlying legal problems with the detentions themselves and the lack of legal rights afforded to detainees."

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My Conversation with Retired Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez

Charlie Rose | Posted 05.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Coalition Forces, Ricardo Sanchez, Commander, Iraq, Charlie Rose, Abu Ghraib, Politics News
Charlie Rose

2008-05-17-crbutton.jpg Retired Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez was commander of coalition forces in Iraq at the time of the abuses took place at Abu Ghraib. After the scandal broke, Sanchez resigned from the army without a promised promotion.

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The Smoking Gun

Errol Morris | Posted 05.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Standard Operating Procedure, Missing CIA Torture Tapes, CIA Torture, Abu Ghraib Photos, John Yoo, John Yoo Memo, Abu Ghraib, Bush Administration Torture, Abu Ghraib Torture, Errol Morris, Bush Torture, Waterboarding, Abu Ghraib Abuse, Errol Morris Abu Ghraib, Torture, Politics News
Errol Morris

There are smoking guns for our prisoner abuse everywhere but people pretend they don't exist. How many torture memos does an administration have to promulgate before the public gets the idea they are promulgating torture?

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