A movement is stirring in Washington for an inquiry into Bush administration malfeasance that would be modeled after the famous Church Committee investigation of the...

BOGOTA, Jul 22 (IPS) - The body of trade unionist Guillermo Rivera, who was missing since April, was finally found after 84 days of desperate searching by his family...

    Islamabad, Pakistan - Pakistan's intelligence agencies and police have disappeared hundreds of Pakistanis, including children as young as 9, as...

Quoted in a New York Times article today, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) compares Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) discussions of bird watching while entertaining his fellow...

The first Guantanamo war crimes trial has begun. Salim Hamdan — Osama bin Laden's former driver — is accused of helping al-Qaida. Hamdan has denied the...

Attorney General Michael Mukasey angered Democratic senators when he made an unexpected call for Congress to step in and legislate detainees rights, rather than waiting...

Denials of waterboarding "cannot be believed."     Britain can no longer believe what Americans tell us about torture, an MPs' report to be...

Actually, I know very little about Billy Sunday, so I don't really have any thoughts on him. About him. Whatever.I am thinking about how nice it'll be to eat and drink...

Quoth the Raven: This is a little device that I designed for the simple purpose of being discreetly annoying. It waits for a predetermined amount of time, and then it...

During a hearing before the House Judiciary Committee today, former Attorney General John Ashcroft falsely claimed that waterboarding has “consistently” been...

In March 2002, detainee Abu Zubaydah, described as a “first test subject for harsh interrogation techniques,” underwent waterboarding while in U.S. custody....

NEW YORK, Jul 21 (IPS) - As the long-awaited trial of Guantanamo detainee Salim Ahmed Hamdan opened this week at the U.S. naval base in Cuba, human rights groups filed...

Today, during a hearing before the House Judiciary Committee, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) dismissed the torture of prisoners at Guantanamo and other U.S. detention...

Did the CIA start using torture before the DOJ authorized it in the infamous torture memos? That's what it sounded like according to former Attorney General John...

As we've reported , former Attorney General John Ashcroft was on the Hill yesterday, testifying before the House Judiciary Committee. Ashcroft's testimony called into...

If this doesn't set the tone for former Attorney General John Ashcroft's testimony before the House Judiciary Committee on interrogation methods at Guantanamo, I don't...

Fans of horror movies can get their violent stress relief with The Torture Game 2. It’s a bit disconcerting that anyone can take the simplistic animated body and...

The New York Times reported this weekend that “[f]elons are asking President Bush for pardons and commutations at historic levels as he nears his final months in...

This weekend I went to see the remake of Halloween and the movie got me to thinking. It wasn't the profoundly inept movie which spurred my thinking but the content....

You have to admire the Spanish. Not content to rest on that whole “we discovered the new world” thing, they have now achieved another first in the annals of...