Más de 100 de los 166 detenidos en Guantánamo se están dejando morir de hambre. 33 de ellos están siendo alimentados a la fuerza. “Te atan con correas a una silla sujetándote fuertemente las muñecas, las piernas, la frente y la cintura”, dijo Fayiz Al-Kandari a su abogado, el teniente coronel Barry Wingard. Al-Kandari, un [...]

The Swedish novelist Henning Mankell tells of an experience in Mozambique during the civil war horrors there 25 years ago, when he saw a young man walking toward him in ragged clothes.

What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You It’s true that, last week, few in Congress cared to discuss, no less memorialize, the 10th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq.  Nonetheless, two anniversaries of American disasters and crimes abroad — the “mission accomplished” debacle of 2003 and the 45th anniversary of the My Lai massacre — were at least noted in [...]

If, as Fyodor Dostoevsky wrote, “the degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons” then we are a nation of barbarians. Our vast network of federal and state prisons, with some 2.3 million inmates, rivals the gulags of totalitarian states. Once you disappear behind prison walls you become prey. Rape. [...]

Introducción de Tom Engelhardt A veces, el mundo puede ser visualizado como algo muy simple, en blanco y negro. Permítanme darles un ejemplo. Imaginen que los iraníes secuestran a un ciudadano estadounidense en un tercer país. (Si prefieren, pueden reemplazar a los iraníes por militantes de Al Qaeda o por norcoreanos o chinos.) Lo acusan de [...]

De cómo Latinoamérica se ha convertido en la única zona libre de gulags estadounidenses dedicados a torturar por todo el planeta El mapa nos revela la historia. Para ilustrar un nuevo informe incriminatorio: “Globalizing Torture: CIA Secret Detentions and Extraordinary Rendition” [Globalizando la tortura: las detenciones secretas y las entregas extraordinarias de la CIA], recientemente publicado [...]

Waterboarding Americans and the Redefinition of Torture Try to remain calm — even as you begin to feel your chest tighten and your heart race.  Try not to panic as water starts flowing into your nose and mouth, while you attempt to constrict your throat and slow your breathing and keep some air in your [...]

How a Washington Global Torture Gulag Was Turned Into the Only Gulag-Free Zone on Earth The map tells the story.  To illustrate a damning new report, “Globalizing Torture: CIA Secret Detentions and Extraordinary Rendition,” recently published by the Open Society Institute, the Washington Post put together an equally damning graphic: it’s soaked in red, as if [...]

Saludos queridas almas: Me uno al llamado de varios grupos a nivel nacional para que la Asamblea Legislativa apruebe una reforma que endurezca las sanciones por maltrato a los animales. Creo que esta reforma es necesaria, y tras de que los diputados fueron tan irresponsables en no aprobarla en sesiones ordinarias, ahora viene el PAC a [...]

Many have pointed out that Kathryn Bigelow’s film endorses torture. But why has such a film been made now?       Here is how, in a letter to the LA Times, Kathryn Bigelow justified Zero Dark Thirty’s depicting of the torture methods used by government agents to catch and kill Osama bin Laden: