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Subject: Torture

  • Chevron's Prince of Darkness

    By John GeluardiThe Chevron Corporation has exposed its pestilent underbelly by hiring William J. Haynes II, a Department of Defense attorney who compiled lists of violent interrogation techniques for shadowy U.S. detention centers. Chevron hired Haynes on as its chief corporate council in April, two months before the Senate Arms Services Committee (SASC) completed a bipartisan investigation that found Haynes' actions at the Department of Defense "deeply troubling." In 2002 Haynes recomm

    December 24, 2008
  • Top of the Trash Heap

    July 11, 2007
  • Frog Eyes

    The Folded Palm

    October 6, 2004
  • Freedom for a Transsexual

    January 19, 2000
  • Human Rights Watch: Pelosi Has Some 'Splaining To Do About Torture Briefing

    Oh, that waterboarding...Oh, for a return to the days when a troupe of miscreants breaking into Democratic Party headquarters was the source of our national angst -- and not nightmarish, government-sanctioned torture techniques. A memo released yesterday by the Director of National Intelligence and the CIA reveals that Nancy Pelosi was explicitly briefed -- in 2002 -- that "Enhanced Interrogation Techniques" (i.e. "torture") was being used against specific terror suspects such as Zayn al-Abidin

    May 8, 2009
  • Outside the bedroom, BDSM practitioners can't take punishment

    May 13, 2009
  • The torture memos and Berkeley's law-school schedule

    August 12, 2009