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Waterboarding is Torture... Period (Links Updated # 9)

... by CIA agents in Europe, held and tortured in an Afghan prison for four months, and then released in a case of mistaken identity and ... you alone and find a guy they can more easily bully and break and use. Not for information, but to control. Stockdale, McCain, and the ...

Blog entry - Oct 31 2007 - 1:30pm - 215 comments - 0 attachments

Prison Break

... Prison Break: Maybe the Army's Not So Hidebound Afterall by Fred Kaplan at Slate ...

Blog entry - May 11 2008 - 6:53am - 3 comments - 0 attachments

The Sarposa Prison Break (2008)

... The Sarposa Prison Break (Kandahar, Afghanistan, 2008) by Captain Nils N. French, Canadian Army, ...

Blog entry - Apr 25 2011 - 5:45pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Rethinking Revolution: Introduction

... currently arguing, then what I am suggesting is that we break it down into different phases for examination. Civil right movement ... members and paying cheap wages he was complaining in prison about how the importation of Chinese sandals was killing his Iraqi ...

Blog entry - Dec 6 2011 - 9:05am - 68 comments - 0 attachments

UPDATED: The strange case of Raymond Davis, a 'strategic corporal' in Pakistan

... ISI scheming have failed to do, namely cause a fundamental break in relations between the United States and Pakistan. Click below to ... with unlikely stories about Davis - that he howls in his prison cells when the five-times daily call to prayer rings out; that the CIA ...

Blog entry - Feb 21 2011 - 2:00pm - 95 comments - 0 attachments

25 April SWJ Roundup

... Leaks Lift Lid on World's Most Controversial Prison - The Guardian WikiLeaks Unveils Details on Inmates at ... Escape from Kandahar Prison - BBC News Taliban Break More than 450 Inmates Out of Prison - Associated Press Insurgents ...

Blog entry - Apr 25 2011 - 4:19am - 0 comments - 0 attachments

To Design or Not to Design (Part Two)

... in. To reveal the structure of a Foucaultian "psychic prison" is potentially very dangerous for those who have explored "outside the ... bottom line is that while I attempt in this series to break through the barrier I see between conceptual and detailed planning ...

Journal Article - Mar 11 2011 - 9:14am - 72 comments

Torture at The Library of Congress

... criminal who was dishonorably discharged, but she's out of prison and on stage at the Library of Congress. You may recall many of the ... as the Scots released the Lockerbie bomber! You guys can break out the champagne. No doubt soon enough they'll be a special ...

Blog entry - Aug 12 2009 - 1:00pm - 67 comments - 0 attachments

26 April SWJ Roundup

... of Jail - Washington Post Taliban Breach Afghan Prison; Hundreds Free - New York Times Hundreds Escape from Kandahar ... in Brazen Afghan Jailbreak - Reuters Prison Break May Lead to Military and Political Setback - New York Times ...

Blog entry - Apr 26 2011 - 4:41am - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Mexico: A Mosaic Cartel War

... in Mexico and the spillover into the US--namely, how do we break the mutually reinforcing dynamic before an issue of public safety becomes ... Currently we have the problem suppressed, but barely. Prison populations are off the chart. Statistics vary, but I see reports of up ...

Journal Article - Jun 12 2011 - 10:44am - 49 comments