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Vote in Congress TOMORROW!

By QuestionMain on | From questionmainstream.squarespace.com

Tomorrow, the U.S. House of Representatives will vote on whether to cut funding for the School of the Americas (SOA)/ WHINSEC. This notorious U.S. military training facility has had more than one name, but under its names, torture manuals have been used at the school, hundreds of its graduates of commited crimes including drug trafficking, torture, executions, and forces disappearences, all paid for by U.S. tax-payer dollars. The history is well documented and more information can be found...Read Full Story

From Triumph to Torture

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From triumph to torture Israel’s treatment of an award-winning young Palestinian journalist is part of a terrible pattern John Pilger The Guardian, Wednesday July 2, 2008 Two weeks ago, I presented a young Palestinian, Mohammed Omer, with the 2008 Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism. Awarded in memory of the great US war correspondent, the prize goes to journalists who expose establishment propaganda, or “official drivel”, as Gellhorn called it. Mohammed shares the prize of £5,000 with...Read Full Story

Pick up B-Ball and Torture

By pundito on | From likethedew.com

W hen George W. Bush was at Yale, he played intra-mural basketball. Decades later, a competitor from those glorified pick-up games could still remember what the man who became our president stood out for most: he played dirty. While most of the other intra-mural players were more interested in a friendly game, Bush threw elbows, shoved other players around beneath the basket and generally evinced a “win at all-costs” attitude that some of the other players found unseemly, according to a...Read Full Story

Israel Humiliating and Injuring Internationally Renowned Palestinian Journalist

By Mauritian on | From makkah.wordpress.com

BBC News Mohammed Omer says he was detained for four hours as he crossed from Jordan into the occupied West Bank on 26 June. [...] Mr Omer emailed the BBC the following day, saying he had “difficulty in breathing and pain in my chest” because of the treatment he received. He is now back in Gaza, where hospital doctors have diagnosed several broken ribs. [...] The journalist, 24, was returning from London, where he had received the Martha Gellhorn prize for journalism. He has also...Read Full Story

Inside the TAC: Gender and Torture Panel Speech

By EOTOWorld on | From eotoworld.com

On 21 October 2010, as part of a month long groundbreaking initiative spearheaded by the John Jay College of Criminal Justice Amnesty International Student Chapter to bring awareness to and challenge the perimeters of Torture, EOTO World participated in a panel session on Gender and Torture. The Torture Awareness Campaign (TAC) included a total of more than twenty organizations (including us), 12+ events and 70+ speakers. The following text is taken from part of a speech given by Executive...Read Full Story

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A community portal about Torture with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Torture is the infliction of pain intended to break the will of the victim or victims. Any act by which severe pain, whether physical or psychological, is intentionally inflicted on a person as a means of intimidation, deterrence, revenge, punishment, sadism, or to obtain confessions for propaganda or political purposes may be called torture. It can be used as an interrogation tactic to extract confessions. Torture is also used as a method of coercion or as a tool to control groups seen as a threat by governments. A moral definition of torture proposes that the sin of torture consists in the disproportionate infliction of pain.

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Eugene Robinson - Torture Is Torture - washingtonpost.com

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