Rules of Disengagement examines the reasons men and women in the military have disobeyed orders and resisted the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. It takes readers into the courtroom where sailors, soldiers, and Marines have argued that these wars are illegal under international law and unconstitutional under U.S. law. Through the voices of active duty service members and veterans, it explores the growing conviction among our troops that the wars are wrong. While the Obama Administration's pledge to remove all American troops from Iraq by the end of 2011 is encouraging - and in no small...
Rules of Disengagement examines the reasons men and women in the military have disobeyed orders and resisted the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan...
Waterboarding. Sleep deprivation. Sensory manipulation. Stress positions. Over the last several years, these and other methods of torture have become garden variety words for practically anyone who reads about current events in a newspaper or blog. We know exactly what they are, how to administer them, and, disturbingly, that they were secretly authorized by the Bush Administration in its efforts to extract information from people detained in its war on terror. What we lack, however, is a larger lens through which to view America's policy of torture -- one that dissects America's long...
Waterboarding. Sleep deprivation. Sensory manipulation. Stress positions. Over the last several years, these and other methods of torture have beco...
Do cameras influence courtroom proceedings? What effect, if any, do they have on the participants in the trial? What implications do televised trials have on due process? What, in short, is the future of the camera in the courtroom?
Do cameras influence courtroom proceedings? What effect, if any, do they have on the participants in the trial? What implications do televised trials ...
Torture has been a topic of national discussion ever since it was revealed that -enhanced interrogation techniques- had been authorized as part of the war on terror. The United States and Torture provides us with a larger lens through which to view America's policy of torture, one that dissects America's long relationship with interrogation and torture, which roots back to the 1950s and has been applied, mostly in secret, to -enemies, - ever since.
The United States and Torture opens with a compelling preface by Sister Dianna Ortiz, who describes the unimaginable...
Torture has been a topic of national discussion ever since it was revealed that -enhanced interrogation techniques- had been authorized as part of the...
