Tag Archives: Abu Ghraib

The Torture Time Bomb

Posted on October 20, 2008 by Team VCS

October 18, 2008 – As the US presidential election reaches a climax against the background of the financial crisis, another silent, dark, time bomb of an issue hangs over the two candidates: torture. For now, there seems to be a … Continue reading →

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Oct 15, Torture News: White House Wrote Secret Memos Endorsing CIA Torture Tactics

Posted on October 15, 2008 by Team VCS

Waterboarding Got White House Nod October 15, 2008 – The Bush administration issued a pair of secret memos to the CIA in 2003 and 2004 that explicitly endorsed the agency’s use of interrogation techniques such as waterboarding against al-Qaeda suspects … Continue reading →

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Oct 7, VCS Mentioned in Editorial Column About Torture: Even Blind Justice Sees Through the Bush Administration

Posted on October 7, 2008 by Team VCS

October 6, 2008 – Justice may be blind, sometimes deaf and too often dumb, but every once in a while it still gets something right. The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit recently ordered the government to … Continue reading →

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One Million Weapons to Iraq; Many go Missing

Posted on October 4, 2008 by Team VCS

September 22, 2008 – Clandestine gun suppliers, funded by the U.S. and Iraqi governments, have flooded Iraq with a million weapons since 2003, charges a new Amnesty International investigation. Because of faulty or non-existent government tracking systems, many of those … Continue reading →

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Psychiatrists Protest Pentagon Interrogations

Posted on September 29, 2008 by Team VCS

September 26, 2008 – The nation’s leading organization of psychiatrists says the Pentagon has reneged on an agreement not to use psychiatrists in interrogations of detainees at Guantanamo and other detention sites. In a  letter to Defense Secretary Robert Gates, … Continue reading →

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U.S. Military Reviewing Friendly-Fire Incident Where Six Iraqi Army Soldiers Killed

Posted on September 4, 2008 by Team VCS

September 3, 2008, Baghdad – U.S. troops mistakenly killed six members of Iraq’s security forces Monday, Iraqi officials said, further straining relations between the U.S. military and the Iraqis they are paying to secure the country. The pre-dawn confusion in … Continue reading →

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Rights Group Wants US Officials Probed for Ordering Torture

Posted on July 30, 2008 by Team VCS

July 25, 2008, Washington, DC – A Nobel-prize-winning rights group said US officials committed war crimes by ordering what the group says was torture of detainees, and called for them to be probed and prosecuted. “There must be a complete … Continue reading →

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Editorial Column: ‘Justifying’ Torture, Two Big Lies

Posted on July 22, 2008 by Team VCS

July 19, 2008 – One can assume that former Attorney General John Ashcroft didn’t mean it to be funny, but his testimony on Thursday before the House Judiciary Committee might strike one as hilarious, were it not for the issue … Continue reading →

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Editorial Column: Welcome Home, Soldier – Now Shut Up

Posted on June 28, 2008 by Team VCS

June 27, 2008 – There are two kinds of courage in war – physical courage and moral courage. Physical courage is very common on the battlefield. Men and women on both sides risk their lives, place their own bodies in … Continue reading →

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How Boris Johnson Became a War Criminal

Posted on June 24, 2008 by Team VCS

June 24, 2008 – Well, I suppose we should be grateful for one thing. It seems that a Western politician is finally going to pay the price for his involvement in the Iraq war. After five years of disaster and … Continue reading →

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