Quantcast
Channel: Torture – Hooper's War – Peter Van Buren
Browsing latest articles
Browse All 50 View Live

John McCain, Human Rights and Our National Mental Illness

There’s that lay definition of mental illness where you come to believe you’re the only sane person left in the room. I think that’s where I am right now. In last week’s address to State Department...

View Article



Gina Haspel — As if Nuremberg Never Happened

Nothing will say more about who we are — across three administrations, one who demanded torture, one who covered it up, and one who seeks to promote its bloody participants — than whether or not Gina...

View Article

On The BBC Defending Not Torturing People

I joined fellow whistleblower and former chief Guantanamo prosecutor Colonel Morris Davis on the BBC’s World TV recently to speak out against torture. Because most “journalism” these days defines...

View Article

Torture and the Destruction of the Human Being Shaker Aamer by the United States

The Bush and Obama administrations have gone to extraordinary lengths to hide America’s archipelago of secret prisons and systems of torture. For all the empty talk of “transparency” being high-fived...

View Article

Torture and the Company We Keep

A new poll finds majority of Americans — 59 percent — believe torture was justified after the 9/11 attacks. Look around you at the company you keep. The people who support torture, six out of ten, are...

View Article


You Can Play the Home Torture Game

Jealous that CIA torturers get all the fun? Want to virtually torture someone right from your own desktop? Want to encourage your kids to see torture as fun and help desensitize them? Why not play the...

View Article

America, the Boxer

Today’s guest post is reprinted by permission from the Facebook page of one Rick Sullivan. I don’t know Rick except via Facebook, but here he eloquently sums up an awful lot of what I, and perhaps...

View Article

Christmas in the White House Basement

Hold the fat bastard down! Answer me punk! Is it true that you give toys to every child in the world? Even the ones whose moms and dads are terrorists? Hah, that’s material support. Hit him with the...

View Article


Senator Mark Udall: Disclose the Full Torture Report

As a member of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, I am proud to post this appeal from our group for Senator Mark Udall to release the full text of the Senate Torture Report. Senator Mark...

View Article


Federal Judge Says U.S. Must Release Abu Ghraib Photos

The few photos publicly seen of the abuses American soldiers committed inside the Abu Ghraib prison are only a tiny portion of the whole (former Senator Joe Lieberman said in 2009 that there were...

View Article

Child, Imprisoned by U.S. in Guantánamo at Age 15, Granted Bail in Canada

History will remember us, but not well, and not as good and as just. For we were the most powerful nation on earth, and we imprisoned a child named Omar Khadr in an off-shore penal colony, in the 21st...

View Article

Today is the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture

Today is the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture. In honor of the victims and with hatred for the torturers, including the United States of America, I am re-running an older article that...

View Article

The Destruction of Tariq Ba Odah by the United States of America

Tariq Ba Odah has been convicted of nothing. He has nonetheless spent 13 years inside Guantanamo living in a cage, and he is dying. The United States refuses to release him. He now weighs only 75...

View Article


For 13 Years: Torture of the Human Being Shaker Aamer by the United States

Shaker Aamer was just released, after 13 years in captivity, from Guantanamo, and returned to Britain. His wife lives there, and he has permanent residence there. He was never charged with anything by...

View Article

Never Again? DeSantis and Torture

During a press conference at the Museum of Tolerance in West Jerusalem in April, Ron DeSantis was questioned about a former detainee’s claim that as a naval attorney at Guantanamo DeSantis watched as...

View Article

Browsing latest articles
Browse All 50 View Live




Latest Images