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
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
Elliot Hughes recounts allegations of torture while being detained in Ramsey County Jail. Hughes was detained during an RNC08 protest after reportedly colliding with a police bicycle on accident. He was sent to Regions Hospital for treatment and later released without charges. We are actively investigating these claims. Stay tuned for more. Duration : 0:6:27
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 [...]
Is Obama going against his own principles and convictions? Is he caving into those who believe that our fight against radical Jihad Muslims is a life and death fight, and that the future of our country is at stake? What kind of a man is he to think that he has the right to hold [...]
The private sector may be crumbling, but the US military, the biggest and most destructive government program in history, is open for business. The US Army is running an ad on its website for anyone interested in working as an Internment/Resettlement Specialist. Just take a look at what these frightening job responsibilities include: Internment/Resettlement (I/R) [...]
A review of the U.S. premier of Fernando Botero’s complete Abu Ghraib series at American University’s Katzen Arts Center in Washington. Duration : 0:1:44
At an October 11, 2006 Debate at Congregation B’nai Israel in Bridgeport, CT, Chris Shays states that what happened in Abu Ghraib was a sex ring, not torture. Duration : 0:2:9
Janis Karpinski, the former commander of Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison who was demoted in the wake of the revelations of abuse there, tells Al Jazeera about her reaction to a report that says senior Bush administration officials were involved in approving torture. Duration : 0:4:49
November 2005 As the ‘hooded man’ in the infamous Abu Ghraib pictures, Haj Ali became an icon of everything that was wrong with the US occupation. He tells his story and we hear from other prisoners “They stretched my hands in this position and attached the wires to them”, states Haj Ali. “It felt like [...]
