None Dare Call It Torture

Bush seeks congressional approval for Khmer Rouge techniques.

"The similarity between practices used by the Khymer Rouge and those currently being debated by Congress isn't a coincidence. As has been amply documented ("The New Yorker" had an excellent piece, and there have been others), many of the "enhanced techniques" came to the CIA and military interrogators via the SERE [Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape] schools, where US military personnel are trained to resist torture if they are captured by the enemy. The specific types of abuse they're taught to withstand are those that were used by our Cold War adversaries. Why is this relevant to the current debate? Because the torture techniques of North Korea, North Vietnam, the Soviet Union and its proxies--the states where US military personnel might have faced torture--were NOT designed to elicit truthful information. These techniques were designed to elicit CONFESSIONS."

Link Cleanup

I've added a couple and removed a few:

Truthout is a decent portal in the dictionary definition of the word (as in "marked by moral integrity, kindness, and goodwill...")

The Cool Hunter because its kind of cool if a tad commercial. Lots of design stuff.

Lenin's Tomb is on the trash-heap of history. Its a great blog and all, and has an intresting unreconstructed perspecrive.... but I can't quite deal with being two clicks away from the Hezbollah site. People who refuse to see a correlation between a state that bombs one set of non-combatants, and a quasi-state that lobs rockets at another set, are willfully blind. The IDF is guilty of war crimes. So is Hezbollah. In my highly sensitive and educated view, both can go fuck themselves.

Blue Pill Red Pill - boring.

Information Clearing House - redundant

We know your wishin' that we'd go away

But the Inquisitions here, and its here to stay!

Traditional Values Coalition Stands Up for the Traditional Value of Torture.

Cheney & Co. Cornered

What happens when a militarist cabal, which stole two elections and holds itself above domestic and international law, is challenged?

Tiger at Bay by Immanuel Wallerstein

How Dictators Arise

Through special courts, protective custody, demonization of the opposition, and fear.

"The overwhelming majority of Germans did not seem to mind that their personal freedom had been taken away, that so much of culture had been destroyed and replaced with a mindless barbarism, or that their life and work had become regimented to a degree never before experienced even by a people accustomed for generations to a great deal of regimentation.... The Nazi terror in the early years affected the lives of relatively few Germans and a newly arrived observer was somewhat surprised to see that the people of this country did not seem to feel that they were being cowed.... On the contrary, they supported it with genuine enthusiasm. Somehow it imbued them with a new hope and a new confidence and an astonishing faith in the future of their country."

- William Shirer