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Recounting of U.S. torture program investigation is dry as Senate testimony
"...U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee into the CIA’s use of torture in the wake of 9/11. Burns specializes in docudrama-like..."
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Nov. 15, 2019 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
The Hightower Report
The horrors of war just keep unfolding
"...spin machine is in full twirl over the U.S. torture scandals in Iraq!..."
June 11, 2004 News Column by Jim Hightower
Letters at 3AM
The United States military is moving inevitably toward reinstating the draft
"...The shameful news of American torture at Abu Ghraib prison, and all its implications, has..."
May 14, 2004 Column by Michael Ventura
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Our readers talk back.
"...of treatment. It is cruel and unusual punishment – torture, which is a crime. A crime is: harm to..."
July 14, 2006 Column
Unspeakable Acts, Ordinary People: The Dynamics of Torture
"...Unspeakable Acts, Ordinary People: The Dynamics of Tortureby John Conroy..."
March 31, 2000 Books Review by Bruce McCandless
The Mauritanian
Gitmo torture drama can't decide on head or heart
"...him was unusable because it only existed because of torture...."
Feb. 12, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker
Goodbye, Butterfly
Low-budget revenge thriller makes parents' hands bloody
"...the two righteous revengers engage in a little light torture...."
Feb. 5, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker
Detroit
The 1967 riots are brought to life in this docudrama
"...of city cops storm the building, and proceed to torture the dozen people (10 black men and two young..."
Aug. 4, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Letters at 3AM: Obama's May 23 Speech
Obama deftly weaves vagueness, misdirection, and a few outright lies
"...Obama: "We unequivocally banned torture, affirmed our commitment to civilian courts, worked to align..."
May 31, 2013 Column by Michael Ventura
Discomfort Zone
How far can Rubber Repertory push you?
"...none are more aptly named or on-the-nose than the Torture Circle, which they unveiled in a 2009 workshop. "It's..."
April 13, 2012 Arts Feature by Dan Solomon
The Devil's Double
Saddam Hussein's decadent and monstrous eldest son Uday forced Latif Yahia to serve as his body double, and this movie recounts his experience.
"...Uday is an unbridled maniac whose lust for women, torture, and expensive goods knows no bounds – Not even..."
Aug. 12, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
A Serbian Film
Notorious for its disturbing content, this film has been slightly edited for its American theatrical debut.
"...Or is it a vile and contemptible piece of subtorture-porn excrement, a sick movie about, for, and by jaded..."
May 13, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Poser: My Life in 23 Yoga Poses
Two memoirs explore new parenthood and old childhoods with still-open wounds
"...observations through other (very different) prisms: yoga and state-sanctioned torture. ..."
Feb. 18, 2011 Books Review by Kimberley Jones
Antichrist
Lars von Trier lives to affront again. Chaos, indeed, reigns.
"...Fangoria magazine or awaiting the umpteenth reiteration of Saw's torture porn slurry. Ironically, Antichrist contains graphic, and I mean..."
Nov. 20, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Point Austin: Work in Progress
Susan Herman of the ACLU on the long fight for liberty and justice
"...to close Guantánamo, that he intended to stop using torture, and that he intended to have the government remain..."
Aug. 7, 2009 News Column by Michael King
Frontier(s)
This French torture-porn picture features cannibalistic neo-Nazi hoteliers who torture their guests.
"...reviewed at press time. Originally rated NC-17, this French torture-porn picture is being released unrated in a few theatres..."
May 9, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
The Hightower Report
Authorizing Torture; and Fencing Off Our Democracy
"...it, contact the Sierra Club: 415/977-5500 or www.sierraclub.org. AUTHORIZING TORTURE..."
May 2, 2008 News Column by Jim Hightower
The Hightower Report
Democrats Suckered on Water-Boarding; and Sanctioning Corporate Autocracy
"...confirmation hearing when he refused to categorize water-boarding as "torture." Unpleasant, yes; torture – well, maybe not...."
Feb. 22, 2008 News Column by Jim Hightower
Parallax View: The Political Economy of Images
Friday-Sunday, as part of Cinematexas 11
"...Parallax's final program, Torture Express: The Rising Cost of "Freedom," sheds light on..."
Sept. 22, 2006 Screens Feature by Wells Dunbar
Leadership Does Not 'Support the Troops'
"...it's started. We've learned that two U.S. soldiers were tortured to death by their captors in Iraq. This is..."
June 26, 2006 Postmarks
The Hightower Report
Take Cheney away; and IBM's plans for the middle class
"...policy that the U.S. government will not engage in torture. Even the Republican-controlled senate voted 90 to 9 against..."
Dec. 30, 2005 News Column by Jim Hightower
Government's Ambivalence Toward Prisoner Abuse
"...Editor, Our government’s ambivalence toward prisoner abuse and torture illustrates once again its schizophrenic nature. On the one..."
Jan. 21, 2005 Postmarks
Letters at 3AM
Justice sidestepped: Lane McCotter, the Bush administration's overseer for rebuilding Iraq's prison system, previously resigned from his job as Utah's top corrections officer because he was under investigation by the U.S. Justice Department for reports of abuse
"...states (Section 1, Article 17): "No physical or mental torture, nor any other form of coercion, may be inflicted..."
May 28, 2004 Column by Michael Ventura
Quills
"...seen to be using his own forms of physical torture to bend the insane inmates to his will. Quills..."
Dec. 29, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Return With Honor
"...narrowly on ex-captives' toenail-curling accounts of how they survived torture, solitary confinement, and wrenching loneliness -- experiences that many..."
June 4, 1999 Movie Review by Russell Smith
Military Hospitality
Austinites Warmly Received at "School of the Assassins"
"...-- have returned to their home countries only to torture and kill civilians and clergy members who dared to..."
Dec. 5, 1997 News Feature by Joshua Fisher
Behind the Mask
Fetish Nights
"...demonstration conducted by a local ensemble that calls itself Torture Technique. Into leather? Whips? How 'bout bootlicking and being..."
Sept. 19, 1997 Music Feature by Michael Bertin
Ricky Smith Tried to Escape Prison Three Times. Is 30 Years In Solitary Confinement Enough?
His last attempt was in 1993
"...the year) has been described as a form of torture that can lead to insanity. In 2011, the United..."
March 22, 2024 News Feature by Brant Bingamon
Letters at 3AM: An Arbitrary Nation, Part 5
Our Bill of Rights guarantees are breaking down in state justice systems across the country
"...car salesman [Khaled El-Masri] was an innocent victim of torture and abuse, in a long-awaited victory for a man..."
July 12, 2013 Column by Michael Ventura
The Scare Game
Drew Goddard and Joss Whedon on what went wrong with horror and where to go from here
"...think we're both a little more testy about the torture-porn version of horror," says Whedon. "It's that attitude of..."
