links for 2006-09-19

• The persuaders

  When does coercion become torture? Since September 11 new methods of interrogation have been deployed to counter the threat of terrorism - but how far should we go?

  (tags: torture cia interrogations detainees terrorism)

• Catastrophe

  The abuse of prisoners began long before the sickening images which have outraged the world appeared.

  (tags: torture cia interrogations detainees terrorism)

• The Global Struggle Against Torture: Methods of torture and ill-treatment

  At the heart of the attack on the prohibition on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment in the “war on terror” has been the attempt to designate different types of treatment simply as “coercive” interrogation techniques…

  (tags: torture cia interrogations detainees terrorism law)

• Professor McCoy Exposes the History of CIA Interrogation, From the Cold War to the War on Terror

  A new expose gives an account of the CIA’s secret efforts to develop new forms of torture spanning fifty years. It reveals how the CIA perfected its methods, distributing them across the world from Vietnam to Iran to Central America…

  (tags: torture cia interrogations detainees terrorism)

• ‘Nobody is talking’

  The evidence of two new books demonstrates that 9/11 created the will for new, harsher interrogation techniques of foreign suspects by the US and led to the abuses in Guantánamo, Iraq, Afghanistan and beyond.

  (tags: torture cia interrogations detainees terrorism)

• Torture, American Style

  With this 24-page pamphlet, Historians Against the War makes available a series of articles that seek to broaden the discussion of the use of torture as an instrument of U.S. policy.

  (tags: torture cia interrogations detainees terrorism)

• Torture Archives of the Progressive Review

  An updated compendium of stories appearing in the mainstream media about torture.

  (tags: torture cia interrogations detainees terrorism)

• The Experiment

  The military trains people to withstand interrogation. Are those methods being misused at Guantánamo?

  (tags: torture cia interrogations detainees terrorism military)

• PBS | FRONTLINE: the torture question: transcript

  FRONTLINE exposes the dark secrets behind “The Torture Question.”

  (tags: torture cia interrogations detainees terrorism)

• ‘A man with little sympathy for other faiths’

  Pope Benedict is being portrayed as a naive, shy scholar who has accidentally antagonised two major world faiths in a matter of months. In fact he is a shrewd and ruthless operator, argues Madeleine Bunting - and he’s dangerous.

  (tags: catholicism religion ideology politics vatican pope-benedict-xvi ratzinger islam judaism)

• Previous pope apologies

  Some instances in which the papacy admitted errors or apologised for actions of the Roman Catholic Church.

  (tags: religion catholicism vatican pope apologies)

• President Kennedy, The Fed And Executive Order 11110

  On June 4, 1963, a little known attempt was made to strip the Federal Reserve Bank of its power to loan money to the government at interest.

  (tags: jfk john-f-kennedy federal-reserve banking government politics democrats)

• John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum

  The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum is dedicated to the memory of our nation’s thirty-fifth president and to all those who through the art of politics seek a new and better world.

  (tags: history government libraries archives presidents jfk john-f-kennedy)