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Category Archives: Torture
Oklahoma!
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our Mission Statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 19 March 2018 NO, NO, OKLAHOMA! לֹא תִּרְצָח The last time Oklahoma hogged the global limelight – … Continue reading
Posted in China, Economics, Egypt, Europe, Germany, Globalisation, Hong Kong, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Justice, Pakistan, Politics, Religion, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Torture, UK, Uruguay, USA
Tagged Also Sprach Zarathrustra, Amnesty International, Beheading, Choctaw, Clayton Lockett, Council of Europe, Crucifixion, death penality, European Union, Exodus, Fred Zinnemann, Friedrich Nietzsche, gas chambers, Gordon MacRae, Hitler, Holocaust, Jesus Christ, King James version, Mary Fallin, Moses, Mount Sinai, Nazis, nitrogen gas, okla humma, Oklahoma, Old Testament, Oliver Cromwell, Red Indians, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Shirley Jones, Texas, Thou shalt not kill, Tulsa, Twin Towers, US Eighth Amendment, Virginia, World War II
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Torture and the United States
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 6 November 2013 The ancient Greek physician Hippocrates, who was born on the island of Kos … Continue reading
Posted in Germany, Health, Japan, Torture, USA
Tagged Abu Ghraib, Camp Bagram, Dr Gerald Thomson of Columbia University, Guantánamo Bay, Hippocrates, Hippocratic Oath, Leonard Rubenstein, Mandy Rice-Davies, renditions, Taskforce on Preserving Medial Professionalism, Third Reich, torture
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Secret courts and partitocracy
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 13 March 2013 We have frequently criticised the stranglehold over political life exercised by the leaders … Continue reading
Posted in Afghanistan, Iraq, Justice, Politics, Torture, UK
Tagged Joe Stalin, Mao Zedong, UK Liberal Democrats, UK secret courts
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Royalty and rendition
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 12 March 2013 Charles, Prince of Wales, heir to the British throne, and his wife, Camilla, … Continue reading
Posted in Jordan, Torture, UK, USA
Tagged Abu Qatada, Duchess of Cornwall, King Abdullah II, Prince of Wales, Queen Rania, rendition
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Torture film big hit in US
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 14 January 2013 TORTURE FILM IS BOX OFFICE HIT IN US AND CANADA Zero Dark Thirty, … Continue reading
Posted in Canada, Pakistan, Torture, USA
Tagged Christopher Gelpi, Gary Younge, Jessica Chastain, Kathryn Bigelow, Osama bin Laden, Zero Dark Thirty
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Guantanamera
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 11 January 2013 Technical note: readers can hear a version of Guantanamera sung by singer Julio … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Torture, USA
Tagged Emma Lazarus, Guantanmera, Guantánamo, Liu Xiaobo, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Shaker Aamer, Statue of Liberty
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Time to begin the begin
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 31 December 2012 We began the year with a bang. We are ending it with a … Continue reading
Posted in Greece, Syria, Torture, UK, USA
Tagged Auld Lang Syne, Hellas, Not with a bang but a whimper, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Robert "Rabbie" Burns
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Torture “now routine”
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 22 October 2012 It is becoming increasingly evident that torture is now routinely used by the … Continue reading
Posted in Iraq, Torture, UK, USA
Tagged Abu Ghraib, Baha Mousa, Colonel Nicholas Mercer, Corporal Donald Payne
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Progress, what progress?
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 12 May 2012 It can’t be denied that since the days of homo sapiens human beings … Continue reading
Posted in China, Politics, Russia, Torture, UK, UN, USA
Tagged dictatorship, homo sapiens
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International law = imperialism
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 3 May 2012 “Imperialism didn’t end. Now we call it international law.” This is the headline … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Torture, UK, UN, USA
Tagged decolonisation, IMF, International Criminal Court, World Bank
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