The daily news on methods of US torture and the Bush administration’s legal justifications for its routine use as an instrument of national power can, at times, make it seem that our watchdogs were always on the ball. Then reality snaps back in place. So...
Dreams die hard and a recent article from the journal IEEE Spectrum is a showcase for scientists trying to keep their electromagnetic pulse bomb projects alive for the Dept. of Defense. A week or two ago DD revisited the phenomenon of US electromagnetic pulse crazies...
Today’s Los Angeles Times frontpage story on the Bush administration’s torture documents was curious for one thing. It didn’t use the word torture until almost the very end of the story (and not on the front page). Near the end, it reads: “The memo outlined...
“The methods [in the torture memos included] keeping detainees naked for long periods, keeping them in a painful standing position for long periods, and depriving them of solid food,” reported AP today. “Other tactics included using a plastic neck collar to slam detainees into walls,...
Authors
- Richard Andres
- Linda Bishai
- Tim Brown
- James Jay Carafano
- Christopher Chivvis
- Sam Cohen
- Walton Cook
- Ed Corcoran
- Ralph Cossa
- Council on Foreign Relations
- Gareth Evans
- Nikolas K. Gvosdev
- Brian Michael Jenkins
- Stephen Larrabee
- Arthur G. Martirosyan
- Mackenzie Eaglen
- Ali Nader
- Aram Nerguizian
- Ori Nir
- Jim Phillips
- RSIS
- Paul Saunders
- David Schenker
- Ghassan Schbley
- Mark Schneider
- Daniel Serwer
- George Smith
- Scott Snyder
- Alexander Thier
- Rosemary Freitas Williams
- Elizabeth Zolotukhina
