The Illegal(?) Assassination of Osama Bin Laden
May 19, 2011
Op-ed by Marjorie Cohn, editor of The United States and Torture. When he announced that Osama bin Laden had been killed by a Navy Seal team in Pakistan, President Barack… READ MORE
Tag: The United States and Torture
The Times Book Review is Torture?
March 28, 2011
Anis Shivani, a champion of university presses and one of the most badass commentators on the publishing industry as a whole, wrote a scorching condemnation today of the New York… READ MORE
American Prisoners Facing Guantanamo Tortures
March 5, 2011
Missed this one from a few weeks back. Lance Tapley, a contributor to The United States & Torture, writes a long piece at AlterNet about the frequency with which American… READ MORE
Egypt Tortured for the U.S.
February 11, 2011
That’s the argument Margaret Cohn makes in her post at the SALT Blog: Torture is commonplace in Egypt, according to Korayem. Indeed, Omar Suleiman, Egypt’s intelligence chief whom Mubarak just… READ MORE
The Rally to Restore Awareness
November 2, 2010
Marjorie Cohn, editor of The United States and Torture: Interrogation, Incarceration, and Abuse, blogs in response to the Rally to Restore Sanity about the need to stay informed in order… READ MORE