Product Description: An expert witness in legal cases involving rules of engagement and the US military murder of prisoners, Prof. Stjepan Mestrovic exposes profound contradictions and systemic flaws that confuse criminal brutality and heroism, making victims of soldiers like Sergeant Michael Leahy who won a purple heart but also was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2009...read more

Product Description: Michael Keller was once a software executive from Florida. Then came September 11, 2001. A few weeks after the al-Qaeda attacks on America, he joined the Army National Guard and was deployed to Iraq in November of 2005. In this revealing collection of e-mails and photographs, Keller shares his first-hand experiences in the War on Terror...read more

Product Description: “International journalism at its best.”—Stephen Kinzer“Every conflict spawns a handful of journalists who are willing to not only brave the war zone but to seek out the stories ignored by the press pack. The Iraq War has brought us Dahr Jamail...read more

Product Description: Torture and the Twilight of Empire looks at the intimate relationship between torture and colonial domination through a close examination of the French army's coercive tactics during the Algerian war from 1954 to 1962. By tracing the psychological, cultural, and political meanings of torture at the end of the French empire, Marnia Lazreg also sheds new light on the United States and its recourse to torture in Iraq and Afghanistan...read more

Product Description: A definitive reference work for activists and citizens interested in taking part in the worldwide effort to speak out against the war in Iraq and against the abuse of power. "In February 2003-weeks before an illegal war was initiated against Iraq-millions of people protested in the streets of the world...read more

A collection of essays draws on a variety of documents--from the Geneva Convention protocols to executive-branch papers justifying circumvention of international law--to examine the legality of the Iraq War and occupation and to look at the possibility that the United States has been responsible for war crimes.

Under the rule of Saddam Hussein, the prison of Abu Ghraib (the Father of the Raven) was a place of ill omen, notorious for horrific suffering and torture and mass executions. After the invasion of Iraq, the U.S. military made Abu Ghraib one of the major detention centers for Iraqis suspected of sympathizing with the resistance. The revelations since April 2004 of systematic torture and sexual humiliation of Iraqi detainees at Abu Ghraib have not easily been assimilated into the mythology of the U.S. “war on terror.” The Language of Empire focuses on the response to these revelations in the U.S. media, in congress, and in the larger context of U.S. global politics and ideology. Its focus on the media is a prelude to showing how the language of multiculturalism, humanitarianism, and even feminism have been hijacked in the cause of an illegal and brutal imperialist war.The media have colluded with the Bush administration in manipulating images of the U.S. occupation of Iraq in such a way as to present it as a clash between civilization and barbarism, and in selectively using legal and procedural issues to distract from the basic criminality of the invasion itself. The circuitous logic through which U.S. imperialism presents itself as a defender of legality and democracy is exposed for all to see in this important and timely work.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and author of The Price of Power provides an eye-opening look at the political crises that resulted from the September 11th attacks, in an unflinching look behind the public story of the Bush Administration's 'war on terror,' America's involvement in Iraq, and the Abu Ghraib prison scandal. Reprint. 75,000 first printing.

The torture memos and reports which U.S. government officials wrote to prepare for and legitimize coercive interrogation, including techniques many would label as torture, are brought together in this collection of documents. 25,000 first printing.

Presents a collection of essays that cover the issues surrounding Abu Ghraib Prison.

Amazon.com Review: When the Abu Ghraib torture scandal broke in April 2004, Americans and the rest of the world were stunned. President George W. Bush condemned the abuse of Iraqi prisoners by U.S. soldiers and blamed it on a few bad apples who, he said, had "dishonored our country and disregarded our values...read more