(1 comments)        Sunday, February 27, 2011
While condemning Libyan war crimes, US moves to protect its own war criminals
SHARE The US moved to protect its agents from possible prosecution for war crimes elsewhere, even as it moved to refer Libyan crimes to the International Criminal Court.

       Friday, May 14, 2010
Student Strikers in Puerto Rico Urgently Need Solidarity to Prevent Official Violence
SHARE Students at a campus of the University of Puerto Rico have been on strike against budget cuts for 23 days.

       Monday, March 29, 2010
Torture "an experiment," officials allege
SHARE Jason Leopold, in a new Truthout piece on the diaries of Abu Zubaydeh, provides further evidence that the CIA was explicitly conducting research through its enhanced interrogation program.

(1 comments)        Friday, March 26, 2010
Wikileaks alleges attack by US and Icelandic intelligence
SHARE Wikileaks accuses US and Icelandic intelligence of spying on them.

(3 comments)        Friday, January 1, 2010
The creation of a new "disease," osteopenia, to sell Merck's Fosamax
SHARE NPR recently had an amazing story by Alix Spiegel of how pharmaceutical company Merck help turn a research term, osteopenia, into a diagnosis "treated," often ineffectively, by Merck's drug Fosamax.

       Friday, December 11, 2009
Every Afghan airstrike kills the same number of "insurgents"
SHARE Anyone who paid close attention to the Iraq war knows that it was not just the Bush administration that routinely lied about the war. For virtually all claims made by the US military on contentious matters later turned out to be false.

(3 comments)        Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Obama official responsible for detainee affairs leaves suddenly
SHARE Following the resignation of White House Counsel Greg Craig, another Obama administration official involved in detainee policy and sympathetic to human rights is resigning "for personal reasons."

(1 comments)        Tuesday, October 27, 2009
It begins. Foreign service officer resigns in protest of Afghan policy
SHARE In a major development, foreign service officer stationed in Afghanistan, Matthew Hoh, a former Marine, has resigned in protest of US policy in that country.

       Monday, October 5, 2009
Government admits al Qahtani's torture was videotaped
SHARE In one of the Guantanamo habeas hearings, the government has admitted that it videotaped the interrogation of Mohammed al Qahtani in 2002-2003.

       Monday, August 17, 2009
Further details on SERE-JPRA role in development of CIA torture
SHARE In a 3-part series at Firedoglake, Jeff Kaye adds to our picture of the development of the CIA's "enhanced interrogation" program by taking a closer look at the other shareholders of Mitchell Jessen, and Associates. As has been previously noted by Kaye, all of them had long connections with the SERE program and with JPRA [Joint Personnel Recovery Agency], the SERE parent agency.

(2 comments)        Friday, August 14, 2009
Jancis Long, Psychologists for Social Responsibility President, resigns from American Psychological Association
SHARE During the American Psychological Association Convention in Toronto last week, Jancis Long, made her last act while President of Psychologists for Social Responsibility [www.PsySR.org]. That act was to resign her 30-year membership in the APA.

(1 comments)        Wednesday, August 5, 2009
APA referendum authors: Don't let democracy die in committee
SHARE In the lead up to the American Psychological Association convention in Toronto tomorrow, where the struggle against APA cover for psychologist participation in human rights abuses will continue for yet another year, the authors of last year's referendum -- adopted by 59% of voting members -- that condemned psychologist participation in detention sites outside of or in violation of international law, have issued an appeal to the membership to prevent the referendum's murder by committee:

       Monday, July 20, 2009
Music: Song of a U.S. Army Interrogator
SHARE John Crigler sings his original composition, Song of a U.S. Army Interrogator.

(2 comments)        Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Letter to Senate on health effects of indefinite detention
SHARE The Center for Victims of Torture, the Bellevue/NYU Program for Survivors of Torture, and Physicians for Human Rights have sent the following letter to Congress regarding the health effects of indefinite detention:

       Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Open Letter to American Psychological Association President, CEO, and Ethics Director: Stop Serving CIA/Pentagon
SHARE Psychologist Martha Davis has sent this Open Letter to the American Psychological Association President, CEO, and Ethics Director:

(2 comments)        Saturday, May 9, 2009
New York Times: Definition of "torture' depends upon who did it, not what was done
SHARE The New York Times has done excellent reporting and editorializing on US torture at times. Only they have steadfastly refused to call it "torture," arguing against critics that to use the "t" word would be to lose their objectivity.

(5 comments)        Saturday, May 2, 2009
Psychologists for an Ethical APA calls for American Psychological Association investigation and resigations
SHARE Psychologists for an Ethical APA has sent to following letter to the American Psychological Association's President and CEO, joining the call, initiated by Psychologists for Social Responsibility last week, for an independent investigation of "psychologists and psychological organizations" [read "APA"] complicit in abuse:

(8 comments)        Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Calling for a Boycott of Israel for its Treatment of Palestinians is not Anti-Semitic say Progressive Jews
SHARE Recently I posted an open letter: Progressive Jews say calling for Israeli boycott not antisemitic. The organizers of the letter have issued the following press release along with the following information for those Jews still wishing to sign:

       Tuesday, March 24, 2009
My latest chapter on the American Psychological Association: Closing Eyes to Atrocities
SHARE My latest book chapter, Closing Eyes to Atrocities: U.S. Psychologists, Detainee Interrogations, and the Response of the American Psychological Association is now available has just been published.

(6 comments)        Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Official kidnapping: Lawrence Wilkerson says Guantanamo contained many known to be innocent
SHARE Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell, has written a new piece Some Truths About Guantanamo Bay. In it Wilkerson describes some of the dirty secrets of the prison. Among these are the almost total absence of screening of who went there, the incredible lack of care in keeping records for possible criminal prosecution, and efforts within the administration to change some of these problems early on, efforts that were stymied by Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld and Vice President Cheney.