Friday, September 4, 2009

U.S. Government Suppressing Reports of Prisoner Deaths

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DoD has completely suppressed prisoner death reports from Afghanistan since 2004 and adopted a similar policy for Iraq in 2008. This is the ...
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NATO Airstrike Kills Dozens, Maybe 100s of Afghan Villagers

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From Derrick Crowe at The Seminal/FDL : From Reuters : KUNDUZ, Afghanistan (Reuters) - NATO forces in Afghanistan were investigating on Fr...

"Juvenal's Prayer"

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What's best, what serves us... leave it to the gods. We're dearer to the gods than to ourselves. Harassed by impulse and diseased de...
Thursday, September 3, 2009

More on PHR's Report "Aiding Torture," Steven Reisner on Democracy Now!

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Psychologist Steven Reisner, who co-wrote Physicians for Human Rights' (PHR) new examination of Bush-era torture on the complicity of me...
Monday, August 31, 2009

Bambi Meets Cheney

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Last Sunday, Dick Cheney made the television rounds, growling his by now stereotyped plea for the saving graces of torture. It would be Gran...

Broken Faith: How a Navy Psychologist Drove A U.S. Prisoner to Attempt Suicide

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Cross-posted from The Public Record Los Angeles attorney Robert A. Bailey, formerly a military JAG officer, and one of the lawyers in the Da...
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PHR Releases White Paper on Health Professionals Ethics & Human Rights Violations

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The following press release came out this morning from Physicians for Human Rights . It concerns an important new publication on the extent...
Sunday, August 30, 2009

Experiment in Terror: The Psychological Evaluation of Abu Zubaydah and Its Role in Designing Torture

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Originally posted at Firedoglake In part one of this article, we looked at why the psychological report on Abu Zubaydah was ever written, a...
Friday, August 28, 2009

Torture: The Real Reason for the Psychological Evaluation of Abu Zubaydah

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Originally posted at Firedoglake As someone who has conducted evaluations of torture victims, the “evaluation” of Abu Zubaydah is a fascina...
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