Senators decry KBR’s shoddy work and ask why the company continues to win contracts. By Jeremy Scahill May 20, 2009 The Department of Defense paid former Halliburton subsidiary KBR more than $80 million in bonuses for contracts to install electrical wiring in Iraq in 2007-2008. The award payment was for the very work that resulted in the electrocution [...]

The Torture Memos and Historical Amnesia By Noam Chomsky May 19, 2009 The torture memos released by the White House elicited shock, indignation, and surprise. The shock and indignation are understandable. The surprise, less so.

New ‘prisoner abuse’ photographs emerge despite US bid to block publication Graphic photographs of alleged prisoner abuse, thought to be among up to 2,000 images Barack Obama is trying to prevent from being released, emerged yesterday. By Alex Spillius in Washington 14 May 2009 The shocking images of inmates in Iraq and Afghanistan were published just a day after [...]

¿Existe algún tipo de lógica detrás de las justificaciones para el uso de la tortura en prisioneros? Fuente: puppetgov.com

Someone in the White House tried to deep-six Philip Zelikow’s anti-torture memo. Welcome to the latest Bush-era whodunit. By Nick Baumann and David Corn Wed May 6, 2009 Who in the George W. Bush White House tried to shred a memo challenging the use of torture?

By Doug Ireland 04/30/2009 As the murder campaign targeting Iraqi gays intensifies, a leading Arabic television network last week revealed the use of a horrifying new form of lethal torture against Iraqi gay men – anti-gay Shiite death squads are sealing their anuses with a powerful glue, then inducing diarrhea, which leads to a painful and agonizing death. [...]

By PETER BAKER and SCOTT SHANE WASHINGTON — Pressure mounted on President Obama on Monday for more thorough investigation into harsh interrogations of terrorism suspects under the Bush administration, even as he tried to reassure the Central Intelligence Agency that it would not be blamed for following legal advice. Mr. Obama said it was time to admit [...]

To proclaim the torturers as heroes...is to spit in the face of those who suffered from this program of