Article: Tomgram: Maha Hilal, The Torture That Just Won t End - To this day I feel humiliation for what was done to me The time I spent in Abu Ghraib it ended my life. I m only half a human now. That s what Abu Ghraib survivor Talib al-Majli had to say about the 16 months he spent at that notorious prison in Iraq after being captured and detained by American troops on October 31, 2003. In the wake of his release, al-Majli has continued to suffer a myriad of difficulties[.]
Article: Tomgram: Karen J. Greenberg, Whose Power? Not Ours - This week marks the 22nd anniversary of the opening of the Guanta namo Bay detention facility, the infamous prison on the island of Cuba designed to hold detainees from this country s Global War on Terror. It s an anniversary that s likely to go unnoticed, since these days you rarely hear about the war on terror and for good reason[.]
Article: Tomgram: Karen Greenberg, The Last Prisoners? - For 18 years, I ve been writing articles for TomDispatch on the never-ending story of the Guanta namo Bay Detention Facility. And here s my ultimate takeaway (for the moment): 21 years after that grim offshore prison of injustice was set up in Cuba in response to the 9/11 attacks and the capture of figures supposedly linked to them[.]
Article: The American Psychological Association Takes Another Step Backward - In some cases, operational psychologists are called upon to inflict harm, to dispense with informed consent, and to operate in a covert manner such that external oversight by professional boards becomes difficult or impossible. They re eager to have the APA s official blessing of this weaponization of the profession because it s a step toward achieving greater recognition and legitimacy for this kind of work.