Tag: TORTURE

Yesterday, Wikileaks published its long awaited 'Iraq War Logs,' a collection of nearly 400,000 classified military documents covering the controversial war in Iraq. According to the Guardian, the logs consist of verified first-hand accounts from coalition soldiers on the ground, and give a chilling "glimpse into the secret history of the war that the United States government has been privy to ...

Just last month, the Pentagon confirmed that its 'pain ray' weapon had been sent to Afghanistan. However, nobody would say whether or not the non-lethal device, also known as the Active Denial System, had been tested or deployed. Now, according to BBC News, Raytheon's 'pain ray,' which uses a focused invisible beam to generate an intolerable burning sensation, is being carried by U.S. troops in ...

The Internet may have its share of silly material, but every so often it provides us with crucial information that might not otherwise see the light of day. The word "torture" has been thrown around in the media lately. While the recently released documents detailing the waterboarding of U.S. detainees is disturbing, a video of torture practices that was recently smuggled out of the United Arab ...

Researchers at California's Santa Clara University have replicated a controversial mid-century psychological experiment that tests subjects for their willingness to harm others for the sake of following orders, Reuters reports. Largely known as the Milgram Experiment, this early foray into social psychology, while capturing the public imagination since its findings were published in 1961, has ...

Like us, you're worried about the coming robot invasion. But who isn't? Well, certainly not the artist who recreated a Guantanamo Bay-style waterboarding torture scene with robots out in New York's Coney Island. He's got his 'bots under strict control. The installation, just steps from the location of the famous annual July 4 hot dog eating contest and the Cyclone roller coaster, depicts robots ...

We may normally think of Tasers as being non-lethal, but a rash of recent "taser"-ings in the United States and Canada have ended with a bit of death for the victim of the low voltage electric weapon. It's led to a slew of bad press, but now a committee at the UN is getting in on the Taser-bashing party by declaring the ubiquitous stun-gun a form potentially lethal form of torture. Three young ...