Abu Ghraib
“Law & Order” episode makes case for prosecution of Bush administration torturers
By Patrick Martin, October 2, 2009
The season premiere of NBC’s crime drama “Law & Order” was a rarity for American television: an unsparing and essentially honest examination of the crimes being committed by the American governm...
Obama’s Abu Ghraib solution
By Bill Van Auken, August 13, 2009
Attorney General Holder has reportedly determined that only so-called rogue interrogators who went beyond the criminal methods approved by the Justice Department will be investigated for the systemati...
Torture photos: US soldiers raped, sodomized Iraqi prisoners
By Tom Eley, May 29, 2009
In an interview with the Daily Telegraph published Wednesday, former US General Antonio Taguba said that photographs the Obama administration is seeking to suppress show images of US soldiers raping a...
Senate torture report confirms Bush, top officials guilty of war crimes
By Bill Van Auken, December 13, 2008
A Senate Armed Services Committee report provides official confirmation that the infamous acts of torture at Abu Ghraib, Guantánamo and other detention centers were planned, ordered and orchestrated ...
Memos show Bush administration sanctioned torture
By Tom Eley, July 26, 2008
Justice Department and CIA memos recently obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union confirm once again that high-ranking members of the Bush administration sanctioned torture.
The genealogy of torture
Torture and Democracy by Darius Rejali
By Shannon Jones, May 29, 2008
Torture and Democracy, Darius Rejali, Princeton University Press: 2007, 880 pp., $39.50
An anti-democratic tirade
Former US commander blames “partisan” politics and “agenda-driven” media for Iraq debacle
By Barry Grey, October 15, 2007
In an extraordinary speech delivered October 12, retired Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, the top US commander in Iraq from June 2003 to June 2004, gave vent to deeply anti-democratic sentiments emerging wit...
Bush defends torture
By Barry Grey, October 6, 2007
President George Bush on Friday categorically defended his authorization of interrogation methods defined by international and US law and viewed the world over as torture.
Final act in cover-up of US atrocities
Military court acquits Abu Ghraib interrogations director of prisoner abuse
By Barry Grey, August 30, 2007
A military jury on Tuesday acquitted Lt. Col. Steven L. Jordan of all charges related to the torture of Iraqi detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad. Jordan is the only officer to face criminal...
Bush administration releases report on terror threat
A new pretext for American militarism and domestic repression
By Bill Van Auken, July 19, 2007
A new National Intelligence Estimate (NIE), a report that synthesizes the findings of Washington’s 16 separate spy agencies, warns that the US faces a “heightened threat environment”...
Former US general confirms high-level knowledge of Abu Ghraib torture
By Joe Kay, June 19, 2007
Former US Major General Antonio Taguba, who headed the first military investigation into torture at Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad, has now alleged that former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and othe...
Former detainees argue right to sue Rumsfeld over torture
By Kate Randall, December 11, 2006
Nine former detainees are seeking the right to sue outgoing Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and three other senior US Army leaders for torture suffered at US-run prisons in Afghanistan and Iraq. The...
