Codex Seraphinianus, Hallucinatory Encyclopedia

Doublethink in the Republican Party

"At the Camp War Horse detention centre in Baguba, north of Baghdad, it is a surreal scene: US soldiers handing out cash to freed prisoners along with a note saying 'You have not been mistreated.'

'Have you been mistreated?' the governor asks the detainees, dressed in orange boilersuits. 'No. We have never been tortured,' chorused those behind bars as some 50 soldiers stood nearby...

One interrogator explained his methods for getting prisoners to talk.

"I try to build a relationship and get their view point, and make them comfortable... I try to be friendly and open-minded," he said.

Bring in... the comfy chair!

Cultural Theorist Trading Cards

A leftist intellectual defends the war in Iraq

Very interesting and informative article on the systematic causes of the torture of Iraqi prisoners, written by the man who first published the torture photos in the New Yorker (and, incidentally, who also exposed the My Lai massacre in Vietnam), Seymour Hersh.

Revealing blacked-out documents (such as those released under the Freedom of Information Act)

Meet Anton Chekov

America and the Nazi Book Burnings

Transcript of Bush and Cheney's testimony before the 911 Commission, obtained from a secret recording of the meeting.

"Military intelligence has encouraged and told us 'Great job.'

They usually don't allow others to watch them interrogate. But since they like the way I run the prison, they have made an exception."

Torture of Iraqi prisoners

UN Human Rights Norms for Businesses

"Compassionate Coercion"

Diary of a Real American

Hitler vs Stalin

Word of the day:

perseveration: Uncontrollable repetition of a particular response, such as a word, phrase, or gesture, despite the absence or cessation of a stimulus, usually caused by brain injury or other organic disorder.

Who was Georges Bataille?

A Structured Approach to Hard Disk Encryption

"With the ratification of HR 3077... professors whose ideological principles may not support U.S. practices abroad can have their appointments terminated, any part of a course's curriculum containing criticisms of U.S. foreign policy can be censored, and any course deemed entirely anti-American can be barred from ever being taught."

They're Made Out of Meat