moral outrage
May 28 headline: ‘Tortured’ prisoners freed from Iraq hideout US and Iraqi forces freed 42 Iraqis “some of whom had been held and tortured for months” in a raid on an al-Qaida prison in Iraq, the US...
View Article“christian hate” should be an oxymoron!
I attach below an excerpt from a forwarded e mail I received the other day … … when I hear a story about a brave marine roughing up an Iraqi terrorist to obtain information, know this: I don’t care....
View Articlemary pipher takes a stand
Dr. Mary Pipher, a prominent psychologist and author, recently returned a Presidential Citation award she had received from the American Psychological Association, in protest over the Association’s...
View Articletorture is not a partisan issue
Torture is not a partisan issue. It is an issue of conscience. It’s not about citing extreme circumstances, but about applying a universal standard of human ethics. It’s not about finding ways to win...
View Articlejimmy carter speaks out on torture
President Jimmy Carter urges an unambiguous prohibition against the practice of torture. Until recent years the United States has been in the forefront of condemning torture and indefinite detention...
View Articleat our worst … and best
Three Iraqis and a Jordanian filed federal lawsuits Monday alleging they were tortured by U.S. defense contractors while detained at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq in 2003 and 2004. The lawsuits allege...
View Articleask the next president to ban torture
Three organizations (The National Religious Campaign Against Torture, Evangelicals for Human Rights, and The Center for Victims of Torture) are spearheading a joint effort to urge the next president to...
View Articlenational day of witness to ban torture
Religious leaders urge President-elect Obama to ban torture
View Articleturning the page on torture
It is sad that it has taken a change in administration to begin to turn the page on torture. A categorical ban on torture is an American value, not a debatable value of one party or another. Perhaps we...
View Articlezero dark thirty misleads about torture
From the National Religous Campaign Against Torture: Zero Dark Thirty is a work of fiction that depicts graphic acts of torture. The movie’s implication that the use of torture produced critical...
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