evening-edition-jim-bovard-int Click on the above to hear the MP3 of my recent interview on torture on the Jamaican radio station. (We had a phone problem, so I come on about 3 minutes into the program). I’m the guy on the show without an accent. I appreciate all the effort that Tara of Newstalk FM93 made […]
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On Jamaican Radio tonight (8/25) on Torture Prosecutions
I will be on the the Evening Edition, a radio program in Kingston, Jamaica, this evening (Tuesday, 8/25) from 7:45 to 8:00 Eastern time. We will discussthe torture investigations and the high criminals who got away. You can listen live here. [Newstalk 93 FM Jamaica] +*** UPDATE: The hosts were very good but the phone […]
Iran’s Worst Barbarism: Honesty About Torture
The current government is Iran is a bunch of damn rascals and thugs, and there are boatloads of questions about the honesty of their last election. The regime’s brutal crackdown on protestors reveals its true character. (But the Iranian government is not novel in this sense: the Syrians have been as brutal with their dissidents, […]
Triple-Hoot Headline: “US Seeks Prison Reform in Afghanistan” [Torture]
This is the headline a Voice of America article gave to a story on the New York Times’ article yesterday on how the Pentagon realizes that prison abuses in Afghanistan are fueling the Taliban. Life is unfair. You beat a few innocent prisoners to death – hanging them from the ceiling by chains, etc. – […]
Torture and Political Science
Amazing how few political scientists responded to the last 5 years of revelations about torture by the U.S. government. But perhaps this merely continues that profession’s perennial habit of ignoring the dark side of Leviathan. British historian Thomas Macaulay noted in his 1837 essay on Francis Bacon that “he who first treated legislation as a […]
Honest Torture Investigations?
Ice hockey in hell? And an honest investigation into all the illegal surveillance schemes uncorked since 2001? Topless female ice hockey in hell. But I would be very happy to be proven wrong on this. The Washington Post noted that the Obama administrationc could appoint a prosecutor who “may look into whether CIA interrogators operated […]
Obama’s Ludicrous Declaration on Torture Day
Alas, my idealistic hopes have once again been crushed like a bug. President Obama issued his statement on the United Nations International Day in Support of Torture Victims. I wonder if Obama’s ghostwriter was wearing hip boots when this statement was put together. The opening of his statement could have been recycled from the George […]
