• Books
    • Books:War
    • Fiction:War
    • Books:History
    • Books:Science
    • Fiction:America
    • Fiction:Arabic
    • Fiction:Vietnam
  • Movies
    • Movies:War
    • Movies:WW I
    • Movies:WW II
    • Movies:America
    • Movies:France
    • Movies:Italy
    • Movies:Documentary
  • Poetry
  • Climate Change
  • War
    • WW I Timeline
    • War:WW I
    • War:WW II
    • War:Vietnam
    • War:Iraq
  • Travel Reports
  • Photos
  • The Last Dog Watch: Storm Warnings

All In One Boat ~ And Heading Through the Straits of Messina

All In One Boat

Archive for the ‘Torture’ Category

  • Goya’s Ghosts

    01 Apr 2017

    Having carried some of the images of Francisco Goya’s Disasters of War in my mind from an early age, it…

    Continue reading »

  • Empire Then, Empire Now

    11 Dec 2015

    Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee My rating: 4 of 5 stars I’ve been re-reading this justly famous novel…

    Continue reading »

  • The Wound: Algeria then, Afghanistan now…

    03 Dec 2015

    The Wound /Des Hommes, is an absolutely remarkable novel from Laurent Mauvignier, his seventh [now up to eleven] in the…

    Continue reading »

  • Exit the Glories of Empire

    13 Jun 2013

    Rumors of the glorious British Empire persist, the benevolence of the colonial rule, the improvement in the lives of the…

    Continue reading »

  • The Gatekeepers: An Israeli Documentary

    03 Apr 2013

    The Gatekeepers, an Israeli documentary by Dror Moreh is a coup most film makers could only dream of: not only…

    Continue reading »

  • Zero Dark Thirty: Normalizing Torture

    02 Feb 2013

    I have posted previously that after a thorough examination of reviews and opinions about Kathryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty, I…

    Continue reading »

  • The Devil You Don’t Know: Going Back to Iraq — Zuhair Al-Jezairy

    09 Jun 2011

    Iraq is, in the words of Zuhair al-Jezairy in The Devil You Don’t Know, his memoir/reportage of returning  there after 25…

    Continue reading »

  • In The Country of Men – Hisham Matar, Libya

    10 May 2011

    The news from Libya this month is increasingly grim.  It turns out it is extremely difficult merely to protect civilians.…

    Continue reading »

  • Torture Applause

    18 Jun 2007

    Read this at your own risk. “From the moment a soldier enlists, we inculcate loyalty, duty, honor, integrity, and selfless…

    Continue reading »

  • Fear Up Harsh

    11 Jun 2007

    Tony Lagouranis was a soldier. An American soldier. An American soldier who tortured Iraqis. He conducted mock executions, forced men…

    Continue reading »

  • Monstering

    08 Jun 2007

    I heard Tara Mckelvey, the author of Monstering: Inside America’s Policy of Secret Interrogations and Torture in the Terror War,…

    Continue reading »

  • Enhanced Interrogation

    30 May 2007

    The phrase “Verschärfte Vernehmung” is German for “enhanced interrogation”. Other translations include “intensified interrogation” or “sharpened interrogation”. It’s a phrase…

    Continue reading »

« Older Articles

  • Quotes

    • On Life and Death
    • On Time
    • On War
    • Workers, Unions and Organizing in Literature
  • Subscribe to us via Email

    Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

    Join 60 other subscribers

  • Search Here

  • Tag Cloud

    Books· Books:Fiction· Books:History· Books:Memoir· Books:Nonfiction· Books:Science· Books:Translation· Books:War· China· Climate Change· Drought· Egypt· Essay:Will Kirkland· Essays· Fiction· Fiction:American· Fiction:Arabic· Fiction:War· Fiction:WW I· Fiction:WW II· France· History· Iraq· Japan· Movies· Movies:Africa:North· Movies:America· Movies:Documentary· Movies:France· Movies:Italy· Movies:Middle East· Movies:War· Movies:WW I· Movies:WW II· Music· Novels· Poetry· Poetry:Will Kirkland· Review· Science· Spain· Translation· Travel Reports· Turkey· Vietnam· War· War:Iraq· WW I· WW I Timeline· WW II·
  • Categories

  • Books in the Backpack

  • blog roll

    • ! The Last Dog Watch
    • .Ara Guler (Turkey) Photographs
    • .Will Kirkland Photos
    • Bridge of Hearts
    • California League of Conservation Voters Blog
    • Climate Arc
    • Earth Policy Institute
    • Finding Time to Write
    • How Stuff Works
    • Junk
    • Kutub: A Reading Group
    • Open Secrets
    • Siegfried Sassoon War Journals
  • Books

    • Finding Time to Write
  • Energy

    • Flex Your Power
    • International Global Forum
    • The Solar Server
  • Environment: Action

    • Acterra
    • Blue Energy Group
    • Climate Arc
    • Climate Solutions
    • Earth Policy Institute
    • Ecological Buddhism
    • International Rivers
    • Junk
    • Rocky Mountain Institute
    • UCS Action Page
    • Union of Concerned Scientists
    • Western Climate Initiative
  • Environment: Blogs

    • California League of Conservation Voters Blog
    • Climate Arc
    • Junk
  • Environment: Documents

    • Climate Change: BBC NEWS
    • Discovery of Global Warming
    • Environmental Rollbacks
    • IPCC Assessment Report on Global Warming
    • Resources for Climate Change
    • Wangari Maathai: Nobel Peace Prize Speech
  • Environment: Organizations

    • Baiji Foundation — Freshwater Diversity
    • Center for Biological Diversity
    • Dispatches from the Vanishing World
    • Green Cross International
    • Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
    • International Global Forum
    • International Rivers
    • Quaker Earthcare Witness
    • Surfrider Foundation
    • The Species Alliance
    • Weather and Climate.net
  • Pieces of Peace

    • Bridge of Hearts
  • Politics:Blogs

    • RobertScheer
  • Politics:Documents

    • It Takes (Apart) a Village or Too Much of a Good Thing
  • Public Policy

    • Climate Solutions
    • Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
    • IPCC, Climate Change 2007, Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability
    • Open Secrets
    • Resources for Climate Change
    • The Drum Major Institute for Public Policy
    • Western Climate Initiative
  • Religion: Documents

    • UU World: The Fundamentalist Agenda
  • Science and Technology

    • How Stuff Works
  • War & Empire:Blogs

    • Healing Iraq
    • War In Context
  • War & Empire:Documents

    • National Security: Principles to Live By
    • Siegfried Sassoon War Journals
  • War & Empire:Organizations

    • National Security Whistleblowers Coalition
    • The International Crisis Group
  • Back Issues

  • ♣ Subscribe

    • Entries (RSS)
    • Comments (RSS)
  • Member of The Internet Defense League

All In One Boat is proudly powered by WordPress and Château Theme by Ignacio Ricci