The Leonard Lopate Show: Proof of Torture

The Leonard Lopate Show

Proof of Torture

Tuesday, November 20, 2007

The Water Torture, woodcut from Joost De Damhoudere's Praxis Rerum Criminalium, a guide to criminal law as it stood in the 16th century.

The White House has insisted that torture at Abu Ghraib was an isolated aberration. Official documents prove that's not true. Also, a conversation with one of the Netherlands' most famous writers. On Backstory, all about the PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party). Plus: just in time for Thanksgiving, tips on how to avoid overeating.

Administration of Torture in the Bush White House

The Bush administration insisted that the torture at Abu Ghraib was an isolated aberration. The official documents tell a very different story. Jameel Jaffer and Amrit Singh have co-authored Administration of Torture: A Documentary Record from Washington to Abu Ghraib and Beyond.

Administration of Torture is available for purchase at ...

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Overeating and Other Health Issues

Thanksgiving Day turns into Overeating Day for many of us. Tara Parker-Pope writes about overeating in her latest entry in "Well," her health and wellness blog for the New York Times.

Weigh in: Do you have a strategy to avoid overeating at Thanksgiving? Or is eating til it hurts an ...

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Cees Nooteboom, Dutch Novelist

Cees Nooteboom is one of the Netherlands' most famous writers. His latest novel translated into English is Lost Paradise; it's about a chance encounter between an embittered Dutch literary critic and a young Brazilian woman who's survived a gang rape.

Event: Cees Nooteboom will be at a Brooklyn Rail-sponsored reading ...

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Backstory: The Kurdistan Workers Party

There are an estimated 28 million Kurds and the PKK (The Kurdistan Workers Party) hopes to unite them in an independent Kurdistan. It is considered to be a terrorist organization by the United States, NATO and EU countries. Aliza Marcus explains the PKK’s origins and how the movement became radicalized. ...

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