Stories tagged "torture"

Ragdoll torture game, almost an infinite amount of levels to throw around the doll and even a donkey...

Let us talk this Labor Day about slave labor in the United States. No, not the antebellum kind before the Civil War but the slavery that persisted well into the 20th century, the slavery that was integral not only to the southern economy but slaves owned

evidence of widespread torture, judicial corruption and the seemingly bizarre decision to try the 58 defendants en masse.

America needs to stand behind Dr. Halima Bashir, a young Darfuri woman whom the Sudanese authorities have tried to silence by beatings and gang-rape.

Cindy McCain also addressed Obama's acceptance speech at last week's Democratic convention, saying she took umbrage at comments that McCain has lived a lavish life and can't relate to ordinary Americans. Visit www.washingtonpost.com/.

People are ready for a big change away from Bush-McCain politics, according to a new article from Yes! Magazine, titled Our Own Agenda: 10 Policies for a Better America, which compiles the results of a number of polls and surveys on a host of issues.

Changing the long-accepted rules on interrogation required concerted action. From left: Undersecretary of Defense Douglas J. Feith, then vice-presidential counsel David S. Addington, then White House counsel Alberto Gonzales, President George W. Bush, and

The author , Christopher Hitchens catches his breath after undergoing his first waterboarding session.

"There are the bloodstains on the wall, and here it is dried on the floor," says Abu Muhanad as he walks through a torture chamber in a Baghdad mosque where more than two dozen bodies have been found.

In all the discussion of John McCain's recently recovered memory of a religious epiphany in Vietnam, one thing has been missing. The torture that was deployed against McCain emerges in all the various accounts.