Archive for the ‘Torture’ Category
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Empire Then, Empire Now
11 Dec 2015Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee My rating: 4 of 5 stars I’ve been re-reading this justly famous novel…
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The Wound: Algeria then, Afghanistan now…
03 Dec 2015The Wound /Des Hommes, is an absolutely remarkable novel from Laurent Mauvignier, his seventh [now up to eleven] in the…
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Exit the Glories of Empire
13 Jun 2013Rumors of the glorious British Empire persist, the benevolence of the colonial rule, the improvement in the lives of the…
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The Gatekeepers: An Israeli Documentary
03 Apr 2013The Gatekeepers, an Israeli documentary by Dror Moreh is a coup most film makers could only dream of: not only…
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Zero Dark Thirty: Normalizing Torture
02 Feb 2013I have posted previously that after a thorough examination of reviews and opinions about Kathryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty, I…
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The Devil You Don’t Know: Going Back to Iraq — Zuhair Al-Jezairy
09 Jun 2011Iraq is, in the words of Zuhair al-Jezairy in The Devil You Don’t Know, his memoir/reportage of returning there after 25…
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In The Country of Men – Hisham Matar, Libya
10 May 2011The news from Libya this month is increasingly grim. It turns out it is extremely difficult merely to protect civilians.…
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Torture Applause
18 Jun 2007Read this at your own risk. “From the moment a soldier enlists, we inculcate loyalty, duty, honor, integrity, and selfless…
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Fear Up Harsh
11 Jun 2007Tony Lagouranis was a soldier. An American soldier. An American soldier who tortured Iraqis. He conducted mock executions, forced men…
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Monstering
08 Jun 2007I heard Tara Mckelvey, the author of Monstering: Inside America’s Policy of Secret Interrogations and Torture in the Terror War,…
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Enhanced Interrogation
30 May 2007The phrase “Verschärfte Vernehmung” is German for “enhanced interrogation”. Other translations include “intensified interrogation” or “sharpened interrogation”. It’s a phrase…
