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Women Maoists in India face harassment and torture in rebel ranks and...
By Daphne Holmes: Maoist women in India face a sexism double whammy: in mainstream Indian culture, and within the alternative Maosit culture to which they have dedicated their lives. All too many women...
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CIA Torture Report released: ‘torture doesn’t work’
By Charlie de Rivaz: A few hours ago the Senate Intelligence Committee released parts of the long-awaited 6000-page ‘CIA Torture report’. The report has revealed the extent and the brutality of the...
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The tortured narrative of a nation at war: USA & the CIA Torture Report
By Tyrell Mayfield: Photo: Wikipedia What is more important: truth or trust? Are they mutually exclusive? Does one require the other? These are the questions that America is struggling with as it finds...
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Did torture cost American lives?
By Christopher D. Kolenda: US soldier in Iraq. Photo: US Army (creative commons) “The enemy is the enemy, until he becomes my prisoner,” I remember Lieutenant General Hal Moore saying, “then he is my...
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Gender and the War on Terror
By Caroline Cottet: Specialist Lynndie England holds an Iraqi detainee on a lead at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, 2003. Photo: Wikipedia. When making sense of the people and things around us, it is often...
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Punishing the cowboys: Blackwater, justice, and easier wars
By Charlie de Rivaz: A Blackwater helicopter flies over the Republican Palace in Baghdad, Iraq, December 2007. Photo: jamesdale10 (CC 2.0) On Monday, four former employees of Blackwater, the notorious...
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