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Headline Tag: Pop Culture Rating: Good Hits: 275 Comments: 3 America: The Gift Shop America: The Gift Shop If American foreign policy had a gift shop, what would it sell? An online installation by Philip Toledano. User: IAmDeK Oct 28, 2008 3:37 PM
Headline Tag: Science Rating: Amazing Hits: 892 Comments: 0 TED: How Ordinary People Become Monsters TED: How Ordinary People Become Monsters Philip Zimbardo, PhD knows how easy it is for nice people to turn bad. In this talk, he shares insights and graphic unseen photos from the Abu Ghraib trials. Then he talks about the flip side: how easy it is to be a hero, and how we can rise to the challenge. RT 23:10, Filmed Feb 2008, Posted Sep 2008. User: spam_vigilante Sep 27, 2008 9:24 AM
Headline Tag: Television Rating: Amazing Hits: 531 Comments: 4 Bush: The Constitution is Just a Piece of Paper Bush: The Constitution is Just a Piece of Paper Keith Olbermann interviews Jonathan Turley a constitutional law expert who pointing out the high numbers of George Bush's staff are former criminals who have no respect for the law or the Constitution of the United States. Sep 21, 2008 12:37 PM
Headline Tag: Television Rating: Amazing Hits: 1324 Comments: 1 Back in Black: Betrayal of Trust Back in Black: Betrayal of Trust Lately, the institutions in which Americans put their trust are getting harder and harder to trust. User: TheNextDylan Jul 5, 2008 10:33 AM
Headline Tag: Television Rating: Amazing Hits: 549 Comments: 4 Human Rights Report Confirms Bush Guilty of War Crimes Human Rights Report Confirms Bush Guilty of War Crimes The Massachusetts-based Physicians for Human Rights reached that conclusion after two-day clinical evaluations of 11 former detainees, who had been held at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and in Afghanistan. The detainees were never charged with crimes. "We found clear physical and psychological evidence of torture and abuse, often causing lasting suffering," said Dr. Allen Keller, a medical evaluator for the study. In a 121-page report, the doctors' group said that it uncovered medical evidence of torture, including beatings, electric shock, sleep deprivation, sexual humiliation, sodomy and scores of other abuses. The report is prefaced by retired U.S. Major Gen. Antonio Taguba, who led the Army's investigation into the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal in 2003. "There is no longer any doubt that the current administration committed war crimes," Taguba says. "The only question is whether those who ordered torture will be held to account." Over the years, reports of abuses at Abu Ghraib and allegations of torture at Guantanamo prompted the Bush administration to deny that the U.S. military tortures detainees. Since only 11 detainees were examined "the findings of this assessment cannot be generalized to the treatment of all detainees in U.S. custody," the report says. However, the incidents documented are consistent with findings of other investigations into government treatment, "making it reasonable to conclude that these detainees were not the only ones abused, but are representative of a much larger number of detainees subjected to torture and ill treatment while in U.S. custody." Four of the men evaluated were arrested in or taken to Afghanistan between late 2001 and early 2003 and later were sent to Guantanamo Bay, where they were held for an average of three years before being released without charge, the report says. The other seven were detained in Iraq in 2003 and released within a year, the report says. All the subjects told examiners that they were subjected to multiple forms of torture or ill treatment that "often occurred in combination over a long period of time," the report says. Among the ex-detainees was an Iraqi in his mid-40s, identified only as Laith, whom U.S. soldiers took into custody in October 2003 and who was released from Abu Ghraib in June 2004. According to the report, Laith was subjected to sleep deprivation, electric shocks and threats of sexual abuse to himself and his family. "They took off even my underwear. They asked me to do some movements that make me look in a very bad way so they can take photographs. ... They were trying to make me look like an animal," Laith told examiners, according to the report. According to the report, Laith said the most "painful" experiences involved threats to his family: "And they asked me, 'Have you ever heard voices of women in this prison?' I answered, 'Yes.' They were saying, 'Then you will hear your mothers and sisters when we are raping them.' " The examiners concluded in the report that "Laith appears to have suffered severe and lasting physical and psychological injuries as a result of his arrest and incarceration at Abu Ghraib prison." Another detainee, Youssef, was detained by U.S. soldiers nearly seven years ago when he tried to enter Afghanistan from neighboring Pakistan without a passport, the report says. He initially was held in an Afghan prison, where he describes "being stripped naked, being intimidated by dogs, being hooded and being thrown against the wall on repeated occasions," the report says. A few months later, he was taken to the Guantanamo Bay facility, where he was subjected to interrogators who would enter his cell and force him to lie on the floor with his hands tied behind his back to his feet, the report says. Youssef said the interrogators wanted him to confess of involvement with the Taliban, the report says. Based on its investigation, the report calls on the U.S. government to issue a formal apology to detainees subject to torture and ill treatment by the military since fall 2001 in Afghanistan, Iraq, Guantanamo Bay and elsewhere. Jun 26, 2008 12:30 PM
Headline Tag: Politics Rating: Amazing Hits: 715 Comments: 11 George W. Bush Blames Torture Policy on U.S. Troops George W. Bush Blames Torture Policy on U.S. Troops REPORTER: I mean, you've talked a lot about freedom. I've heard you talk about freedom -- I think every time I've seen you. GEORGE W. BUSH: Yes. REPORTER: And yet there are those who would say, look, let's take Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib and rendition and all those things, and to them that is the, you know, the complete opposite of freedom. GEORGE W. BUSH: Of course if you want to slander America, you can look at it one way. But you go down -- what you need to do -- I think I suggested you do this at a press conference -- if you go down to Guantanamo and take a look at how these prisoners are treated -- and they're working it through our court systems. We are a land of law. REPORTER: But the Supreme Court have just said that -- you know, ruled against what you've been doing down there. GEORGE W. BUSH: But the district court didn't. And the appellate court didn't. REPORTER: The Supreme Court is supreme, isn't it? GEORGE W. BUSH: It is, and I accept their verdict. I don't agree with their verdict. And it's not what I was doing down there. This was a law passed by our United States Congress that I worked with the Congress to get passed and sign into law. REPORTER: But it looked like an attempt to bypass the Constitution, to a certain extent. GEORGE W. BUSH: This was a law passed, Adam. We passed a law. Bypassing the Constitution means that we did something outside the bounds of the Constitution. We went to the Congress and got a piece of legislation passed. REPORTER: Which is now being struck down, I think. GEORGE W. BUSH: It is, and I accept what the Supreme Court did, and I necessarily don't have to agree with it. My only point to you is, is that yes, I mean, we certainly wish Abu Ghraib hadn't happened, but that should not reflect America. This was the actions of some soldiers. ______ Help place the blame where it belongs -- on George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice, David Addington, Stephen Hadley, etc. -- at http://www.michaelmoore.com/ Jun 19, 2008 3:06 AM
Headline Tag: Television Rating: Amazing Hits: 381 Comments: 1 The Human Behavior Experiment: From Stanford to Abu Ghraib The Human Behavior Experiment: From Stanford to Abu Ghraib I can't think of a worst thing for somebody who is in charge of an environment like that or in charge of people who work in an environment like that to say "It's time to take the gloves of and go to the dark side." Dec 21, 2007 6:24 PM
Permanent Tag: Politics Rating: Ok Hits: 110 Comments: 0 Abuse Grows Hatred Abuse Grows Hatred This viral from the International Committee of the Red Cross highlights the issue of wartime prisoners and how the treatment of those prisoners at places like Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay fuel hatred. User: spam_vigilante Aug 7, 2006 9:58 AM
Permanent Tag: Music Rating: Good Hits: 1423 Comments: 0 Jihad Jerry: Army Girls Gone Wild Jihad Jerry: Army Girls Gone Wild Abu Ghraib music video by Jihad Jerry and the Evildoers. User: theEDUCATOR Mar 2, 2006 8:02 AM
Permanent Tag: Politics Rating: Ok Hits: 181 Comments: 1 Investigate Human Rights Investigate Human Rights Bush Administration Officials describing Amnesty Internationals take on Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib. User: apathetic Jun 8, 2005 12:42 PM
Unmoderated Tag: Politics Rating: Ok Hits: 353 Comments: 3 A Funny Thing Happened... A Funny Thing Happened... ... on the way to Abu Ghraib. User: spam_vigilante Sep 17, 2004 11:34 AM
Unmoderated Tag: Politics Rating: Ok Hits: 417 Comments: 2 Three Strikes; Is He Out Yet? Three Strikes; Is He Out Yet? How many chances to properly say Abu Ghraib? User: spam_vigilante Sep 6, 2004 6:25 PM
 
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