February 16, 2012
Reed College
A Conversation with Joshua E.S. Phillips and Darius Rejali
From Guantanamo to Abu Ghraib, the systematic abuse of prisoners by the United States military has constituted a shocking and widespread component of the wars waged in Iraq and Afghanistan. On February 16, Joshua E.S. Phillips, author of None of Us Were Like This Before: American Soldiers and Torture, will speak on the subject of torture with Darius Rejali, professor and chair of political science at Reed College and a nationally recognized expert on government torture and interrogation.
The lecture, sponsored by the David Robinson Memorial Fund for Human Rights and Reed’s political science department, is free and open to the public.
7.30pm – 9.00pm
Reed College
3203 SE Woodstock Blvd
Portland, OR 97202 United States
503-771-1112
Authors
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None of Us Were Like This Before
The legacy of torture in the “War on Terror,” told through the story of one tank battalion.
Blog
Talks on Torture by Joshua E.S. Phillips
Tune into the Firedoglake Book Salon on Saturday, February 18 at 2pm PST (5pm EST) to join author Joshua E.S. Phillips in an online discussion of his book None of Us Were Like This Before: American Soldiers and Torture. In real time, participants, led by TruthOut's Jason Leopold, will weigh in on Phillips' incisive account of how ordinary soldiers in a US tank battalion, ill trained for the responsibilities foisted upon them, descended into the degradation of abuse.
Joshua E.S. Phillips on uncovering the failures of the Detainee Abuse Task Force
Though the horrific images of prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib have been burned into the American cultural consciousness, what modes of redress are actually available to victims of US military torture? In an interview with Erika Eichelberger of the Nation Institute, Joshua E.S. Phillips discusses the grim shortcomings of the Detainee Abuse Task Force that he uncovered while researching his incisive investigation of American soldiers and torture, None of Us Were Like This Before. The DATF, Phillips explains, too often fails to properly investigate and resolve reports of torture: