CIA-linked private military contractor Evergreen Defense & Security Services offered to post sentries at Oregon election offices on Tuesday, “detaining troublemakers” and making sure voters “do not get out of control.” Danger Room
Tomorrow is not a test. The emergency broadcast system works fine. Everything up until now has been preparation. All those times that I chose Abraham Lincoln over Thomas Jefferson, the hot dog over the hamburger were practice. This is the real deal. The first official step into my civic duties. I can’t wait. I’ve been [...]
The legitimacy of torture as an investigative tool is the latest in a progression of disturbing and horrific topics the news media is now presenting to its audience, like the potential of an Ebola attack on an American city or a terrorist nuclear strike, the kind that, as an article in The Economist [...]
Christian Davenport is a professor of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland. Beyond that, he is also an activist and a consultant. He is particularly interested in in violence and conflict and the governments affiliated with them. I asked him a few questions on the media’s role in torture. It was my first attempt [...]
Waterboarding is a hotly contested technique that simulates drowning by pouring water into somebody’s mouth. This video was made for Al Gore’s TV channel, Current. Watch out, it’s pretty graphic.
The United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in December of 1948: Whereas disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind, and the advent of a world in which human beings shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief and freedom from fear [...]