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The Water Torture, woodcut from Joost De Damhoudere's Praxis Rerum Criminalium, a guide to criminal law as it stood in the 16th century.Proof of Torture
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 amazon.com
You can read some of the official documents discussed in Administration of Torture here:
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 essential part of your holiday tradition?
Read Tara Parker-Pope's New York Times blog, "Well"
Read Tara Parker-Pope's New York Times article on the consequences of overeating
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 with Diane Williams, Jerome Rothenberg, and Jonathan Baumbach
Tuesday, November 20 at 7 pm
Pierogi Gallery
177 North 9th Street, Williamsburg
Lost Paradise is available for purchase at amazon.com
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. She covered the PKK for more than eight years for both The Christian Science Monitor and Reuters and is the author of Blood and Belief.
Blood and Belief is available for purchase at amazon.com
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Congress is getting ready to a vote on whether to make tobacco subject to FDA regulation. You can listen to a segment we did in May about the bill and what it would mean for the cigarette companies.
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Barack Obama, Circa 2004
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Listen to President-Elect Barack Obama on the Leonard Lopate Show in November 2004. He had recently won a seat in the U.S. Senate, and only a few months before, his rousing speech during the 2004 Democratic National Convention catapulted him into the national spotlight.
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