Call The White House (202) 456-1111 U.S. Capital switchboard (202) 224-3121 It diminishes us as a nation and as a people to permit our leaders to torture. Call Washington DC and let the WhiteHouse and Congress know that torture is wrong. Duration : 0:9:57
MIT’s Rebecca Saxe, Part 5 of Unlocking the Secrets and Powers of the Brain http://discovermagazine.com/events/unlocking-the-secrets-and-powers-of-the-brain/ Duration : 0:5:23
Has no regrets. What do you call this man? Duration : 0:2:51
Scott Horton, a human rights lawyer and writer on national security issues based in New York, tells Al Jazeera’s Shihab Rattansi a new senate report links the White House to the abusive techniques used in US prisons in Iraq and Afghanistan. Duration : 0:3:25
(Warning, Graphic Photos) The torture isn’t over and the story isn’t over for the victims. Artist, Daniel Heyman, flew to the Middle East to witness and record the testimony of former victims of torture at Abu Ghraib through his artwork. Attorney Susan Burke and a number of other concerned Americans have brought a suit against [...]
O’Reilly thinks media must exercise “restraint” in showing graphic images such as those that came out of Abu Ghraib – O’Reilly thinks that they give strength and comfort to the enemy. I argue that American democracy is best served by media that provide the fullest possible information – including graphically violent images. Mark Bowden, author [...]
EX FIDE VICTORIA!DEO JUVANTE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Te9TAFKfwwE Epilogue to ‘My Country My Country’ by Laura Poitras. The entire movie documents the 2005 Iraqi Elections. Dr Riyadh seen here, is the main protaganist in the movie, although he might say more acurately, it is his family or even the people of iraq who should be honored with that [...]
In his testimony to the US Congress, General David Petraeus pointed to what he claims is his army’s success in Iraq’s Al Anbar province. Once an Al Qaeda heartland, General Petraeus says that with the help of local sunni tribes, Al Qaeda has now been forced out of Anbar.But, as Josh Rushing discovered on a [...]
Shelley Langdale, Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, delves deep into to details of Daniel’s work and gives us insight into what she feels makes this work so powerful. She is joined by Jacqueline van Rhyn, curator for an exhibition currently at the Print Center that features Daniel’s prints and [...]
MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann: Interviews Abu Ghraib Former Commander Army Reserve Brigadier General Janis Karpinski about new information about the incident – 04/22/09 Duration : 0:6:42
