Torture

John Brennan's past may not be so easily forgotten in a world looking for accountability.

And a prominent forensic pathologist criticizes Guantanamo officials for failing to more closely monitor another detainee before his death from cardiovascular disease in 2011.

The prisoners, many of whom have been cleared for release, refused food when guards started to seize their personal items, such as books, family photos, letters and legal mail.

The US should head the UN human rights rapporteur's demand to release information about CIA programs under Bush.

The international community - including the US - must stand on the side of justice and the Haitian people.

‘We might very well have a significant problem with the body of evidence that we were able to present as to his guilt,’ said Couch.

Nick Turse, author of the best-seller Kill Anything That Moves, talks to Truthout about the US Military's concerted effort over decades to cover up its torture and atrocities to …

This week's Progressive Pick is a top-selling investigation of the American war on Vietnamese civilians and the enduring legacy of atrocities that government secrecy cannot erase.

Toshio Meronek's review of Prisons Will Not Protect You highlights the emphasis by the book's contributors that the Corrections Department isn't in the business of correcting oppression.

Forty percent of Palestine's male population is, or has been, imprisoned in Israeli jails.