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A farmer and peace activist from the American heartland talks about his frontline battle against human rights abuses in Iraq -- long before the world learned of Abu Ghraib.
By Jeff Horwitz
May 28, 2004
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Infamous shock jock Michael Savage bombed in a bizarre, half-baked stage show this week, but his 6 million listeners just heard him call for the U.S. to murder millions of Arabs. Does the FCC care?
By Dave Gilson
May 20, 2004
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Steyn slams Bush for torture apology, Hagelin blames abuses on American porn culture; Savage calls for U.S. to kill "thousands" of Iraqi prisoners and drop an H-bomb on an Arab capital. Plus: Heartland hard-liners dub same-sex marriage licenses "death certificates."
By Mark Follman
May 19, 2004
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Defending the administration's enemy-combatant policy, the Justice Department told the Supreme Court that the U.S. doesn't torture prisoners. Just hours later, the Abu Ghraib story broke. Did the U.S. intentionally mislead the court?
By Tim Grieve
May 17, 2004
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I didn't get it till I saw the pictures!
By Arianna Huffington
May 14, 2004
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The Iraq torture nightmare: Taranto says beheading video shows who's really evil; Sullivan says team Bush humiliated U.S. unforgivably; Brooks calls for a whole new plan; Coulter declares women "too vicious" for military.
By Mark Follman
May 12, 2004
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CIA veteran Bob Baer says torture was forbidden when he worked for the agency. "Now contractors are sent out to torture people to death and then hide it."
By Mary Jacoby
May 12, 2004
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The Bush administration has created a gulag that stretches from Afghanistan to Iraq, from Guantanamo to secret CIA prisons around the world.
By Sidney Blumenthal
May 6, 2004
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Conservatives debate torture by the U.S. military in Iraq: Some call it "sickening" while others claim it could save lives. Plus: The clash of civilizaciones.
By Mark Follman
May 5, 2004
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A new book claims that Saudi princes and a Pakistani official knew Osama bin
Laden would strike America that day. But some critics say the whole story
could be a neoconservative fabrication.
By Mark Follman
October 18, 2003
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Thanks to CNN, journalists approaching military checkpoints are now presumed armed -- if not dangerous.
By Christopher Orlet
April 15, 2003
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Progressives have lots of arguments against the war on Iraq -- some of them compelling. But why aren't they burning to free Saddam's oppressed masses?
By Edward W. Lempinen
March 19, 2003
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An American nun who survived the torture chambers of Guatemala describes her ordeal and the fear and guilt that still haunt her.
By Donna Minkowitz
November 19, 2002
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To no one's surprise, captured members of the terror organization are proving close-mouthed. How far should the U.S. go to get them to talk?
By Raffi Khatchadourian
October 23, 2002
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Americans are debating whether torture should be used against terrorists. But the case of Israel shows that brutality in the name of morality doesn't pay.
By Flore de Préneuf
November 16, 2001
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How Vladimiro Montesinos' old nemesis helped force the former Peruvian spy chief out of comfortable exile in Panama -- and could compel him to face trial at home.
By Mark Schapiro
November 7, 2000
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Being a vegan doesn't make you a nut. But it does improve the world, a few animals at a time.
By Molly A. Scoles
March 30, 2000
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Why do torturers torture? An author goes in search of answers.
By Patricia Kean
March 15, 2000
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Roman Polanski's overwrought version of "Death and the Maiden" undermines the play's tidy message of tolerance.
By Charles Taylor
September 9, 1998
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Vaginal pears and iron maidens are child's play compared to the dreaded job of a family Web site copy editor.
By Matt Marinovich
August 4, 1997
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