Was The American Civil War Fought over Slavery? Absolutely!
Colonel Ty Seidule, Professor of History at the United States Military Academy at West Point, settles the debate once and for all. Was the Civil War About Slavery?New Video! “Was the Civil War About Slavery?”What caused the Civil War? Did the North care about abolishing slavery? Did the South secede because of slavery? Or was […]
A Message to George W. Bush and Dick Cheney From a Dying Veteran
The Last Letter A Message to George W. Bush and Dick Cheney From a Dying Veteran To: George W. Bush and Dick Cheney From: Tomas Young I write this letter on the 10th anniversary of the Iraq War on behalf of my fellow Iraq War veterans. I write this letter on behalf of the 4,488 […]
Torture: The Bush Administration on Trial
By Andy Worthington While Rodriguez — like John Yoo, Jay S. Bybee and senior Bush administration officials, up to and including the president — have never been criminally prosecuted, it is uncertain whether, overall, the apologists for torture are winning. Despite their protestations over the years, they have no proof that torture worked. :::::::: […]
Enhanced Interrogation: A Non-Thing
Herman Cain, Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry claimed they would reinstate illegal programs that have been dismissed by experts as ineffective and illegal. They have sought to foster the ignorance in the Republican party that comes with a belief in a non-thing. This non-thing is called, “enhanced interrogation”. Each of these people continue an insult […]
CIA: Detainee’s Torture Drawings, Writings, “Should They Exist,” to Remain Top Secret
Wednesday 5 October 2011 by: Jason Leopold, Truthout (Image: JR / t r u t h o u t) In 2002, not long after he was subjected to so-called “enhanced interrogation techniques” by Bruce Jessen and James Mitchell, psychologists under contract to the CIA, high-value detainee Abu Zubaydah made about ten drawings depicting the torture he endured […]
Author of Torture Memos Admits Some Techniques Were Not Approved By DOJ
Thursday 15 July 2010 by: Jason Leopold, reprinted from TruthOut.org (make sure to support TruthOut with a donation today) Jay Bybee, who as a senior Justice Department lawyer signed two memos in 2002 authorizing CIA interrogators to torture “war on terror” prisoners, told a congressional panel that more than a half dozen other brutal methods […]
Accountability for Designing Torture
Intro and Interview with Jim Cox PhD – Forensic Psychologist Segment 1 Interview with Joseph Margulies – Lawyer/Professor of Law Segment 2 Audio reading of complaint filed Segment 3 Interview with Andy Worthington about complaint, BP, and World Cup Segment 4 TO listen in: CLICK HERE Copy of Complaint PDF: CLICK HERE
Saturday, June 26, 2010 Show-Oil, Judges and Jobs-Maher Arar and James Yee
Intro and Kate Gordon from Center for American Progress Segment 1 Rep. Gene Green Segment 2 Maria Lahood (Center for Constitutional Rights) Segment 3 James Yee Segment 4 Op-Ed on Dick Cheney Segment 5 TO listen in: CLICK HERE
An Interview with Captain James Yee
James Yee is a former US. Army chaplain who was subjected to arrest, confinement and charges of sedition, aiding the enemy, spying, espionage, and failure to obey a general order. The charges were later reduced then dropped. But it raised the question about the U.S. attitude towards its own loyal service members who were also […]
Saturday, June 12 Radio Show-Scott Horton
Scott Horton Listen Here Democracy Now segment with PHR from this show Listen Here ABCNews and Liz Cheney-Made ya look Listen Here Op-Ed on British Reaction to U.S. reaction to BP destruction Listen Here CSPAN audio of U.S. Helsinki Commission on torture from Dec 2007 Listen Here TO listen in: CLICK HERE