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	<title>Guantánamo Blog</title>
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		<title>The arguments against torture come from all sides</title>
		<link>http://blogs.kent.ac.uk/guantanamo/2009/10/13/the-arguments-against-torture-come-from-all-sides/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.kent.ac.uk/guantanamo/2009/10/13/the-arguments-against-torture-come-from-all-sides/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:23:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Rowlandson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Torture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dick Cheney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guantanamo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guantanamo Detainees]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.kent.ac.uk/guantanamo/?p=264</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If all the moral, ethical and practical considerations against torture that I have examined in the various posts are inconclusive, I&#8217;ve now been sent an article from the highly specialist journal Trends in Cognitive Sciences that examines in medical terms how stress resulting from torture or enhanced interrogation techniques so impair the memory of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Torture and detention. An invitation for readers to comment&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://blogs.kent.ac.uk/guantanamo/2009/09/25/torture-and-detention-an-invitation-for-readers-to-comment/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.kent.ac.uk/guantanamo/2009/09/25/torture-and-detention-an-invitation-for-readers-to-comment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 10:07:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Rowlandson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Guantanamo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Torture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[abuse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guantanamo Detainees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Terrorism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.kent.ac.uk/guantanamo/?p=249</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here follows an email debate in response to this blog. First the email to me, then my response, then (apologies for the length) his/her response, then my response, etc.
Please, if you&#8217;re interested in the arguments, post a comment.
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Dear William,
    I&#8217;ve taken a look at the blog and regret to say that, although I am in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Truth commission? – ‘This is not Latin America!’</title>
		<link>http://blogs.kent.ac.uk/guantanamo/2009/09/17/truth-commission-%e2%80%93-%e2%80%98this-is-not-latin-america%e2%80%99/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.kent.ac.uk/guantanamo/2009/09/17/truth-commission-%e2%80%93-%e2%80%98this-is-not-latin-america%e2%80%99/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:53:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Rowlandson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Guantanamo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Torture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[abu ghraib]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[abuse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dick Cheney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eric Holder]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Garzon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guantanamo Detainees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Terrorism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.kent.ac.uk/guantanamo/?p=244</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Garzón aviva la causa de Guantánamo. El juez desoye al fiscal y apremia a Estados Unidos para que aporte información. Acepta otras tres acusaciones populares (Público.es).
What a tangled web: the dictatorship of Francisco Franco, the Dirty War in Argentina, property scams and political corruption in Marbella, the political violence of Henry Kissinger, the atrocities of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Torture and the medical profession</title>
		<link>http://blogs.kent.ac.uk/guantanamo/2009/09/16/torture-and-the-medical-profession/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.kent.ac.uk/guantanamo/2009/09/16/torture-and-the-medical-profession/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:05:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Rowlandson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Guantanamo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Torture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[abu ghraib]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[abuse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[doctors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guantanamo Detainees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Waterboarding]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.kent.ac.uk/guantanamo/?p=234</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A soldier is trained to kill. A medical doctor is trained to heal. Whilst a soldier is also trained to engage in peace-time operations such as well-digging, road-building, bridge-building etc. a medic is in no way trained to engage in killing (unless in his/her capacity as a soldier, not a medic).
One can find a slim [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Change of blog name</title>
		<link>http://blogs.kent.ac.uk/guantanamo/2009/09/16/change-of-blog-name/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.kent.ac.uk/guantanamo/2009/09/16/change-of-blog-name/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 10:25:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Rowlandson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Guantanamo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Torture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guantanamo Detainees]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.kent.ac.uk/cuba/?p=227</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The initial rationale behind the blog was to report a 3-week trip to Havana in July. It was originally called CubaBlog.
Forces of darkness have changed the nature of the blog into an examination of torture and an assessment of the past, present and future of Guantánamo. As such, it has now changed its name to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Torture prohibition as moral absolute</title>
		<link>http://blogs.kent.ac.uk/guantanamo/2009/09/15/torture-prohibition-as-moral-absolute/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.kent.ac.uk/guantanamo/2009/09/15/torture-prohibition-as-moral-absolute/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:22:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Rowlandson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Guantanamo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Torture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[abu ghraib]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bagram]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guantanamo Detainees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Terrorism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Waterboarding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Žižek]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.kent.ac.uk/cuba/?p=222</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Žižek drives a hard bargain:
In a way, those who refuse to advocate torture outright but still accept it as a legitimate topic of debate are more dangerous than those who explicitly endorse it. Morality is never just a matter of individual conscience. It thrives only if it is sustained by what Hegel called “objective spirit,” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rendition, secret detention and the absence of habeas continue wholesale under Obama</title>
		<link>http://blogs.kent.ac.uk/guantanamo/2009/09/15/rendition-secret-detention-and-the-absence-of-habeas-continue-wholesale-under-obama/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.kent.ac.uk/guantanamo/2009/09/15/rendition-secret-detention-and-the-absence-of-habeas-continue-wholesale-under-obama/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 09:38:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Rowlandson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Guantanamo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Torture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[abu ghraib]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[abuse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bagram]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dick Cheney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guantanamo Detainees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Habeas corpus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Terrorism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.kent.ac.uk/cuba/?p=215</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Rather than attempt to summarise his article, here is Andy Worthington&#8217;s latest piece concerning Bagram: Obama Brings Guantánamo And Rendition To Bagram (And Not The Geneva Conventions)
For those pressed for time, here is Andy&#8217;s poignant conclusion:
The upshot of all this is disastrous for those who hoped that President Obama would not only accept, but would positively embrace [...]]]></description>
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		<title>They must be terrorists &#8211; after all, they&#8217;re in Guantanamo&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://blogs.kent.ac.uk/guantanamo/2009/09/14/they-must-be-terrorists-after-all-theyre-in-guantanamo/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.kent.ac.uk/guantanamo/2009/09/14/they-must-be-terrorists-after-all-theyre-in-guantanamo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 13:55:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Rowlandson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Guantanamo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Torture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[abuse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guantanamo Detainees]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.kent.ac.uk/cuba/?p=208</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It is the quite astonishing, perhaps even wilful ignorance, of so many that perpetuates the conflict. 
Andy Worthington, a journalist who has worked exhaustively on documenting the incarceration without trial of the Guantanamo detainees, published an article in the Guardian on September 11th entitled Remember 9/11, remember Guantánamo.  The article is one of the Comment is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The &#8216;ticking bomb scenario&#8217; and its tortured logic</title>
		<link>http://blogs.kent.ac.uk/guantanamo/2009/09/11/the-ticking-bomb-scenario-and-its-tortured-logic/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.kent.ac.uk/guantanamo/2009/09/11/the-ticking-bomb-scenario-and-its-tortured-logic/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:52:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Rowlandson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Torture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[abu ghraib]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[abuse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Terrorism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Waterboarding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Žižek]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.kent.ac.uk/cuba/?p=205</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Despite the fact that for more than half a century the argument of the ‘ticking bomb scenario’ has been shown to be ridiculous and utterly contrary to reality, it seems that the very neatness of its twisted logic ensures its perpetuation by those sympathetic to the use of torture. Such neatness, embroiled with a crass [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cheney &#8211; investigation into torture &#8216;offends the hell out of me&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://blogs.kent.ac.uk/guantanamo/2009/09/06/cheney-investigation-into-torture-offends-the-hell-out-of-me/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.kent.ac.uk/guantanamo/2009/09/06/cheney-investigation-into-torture-offends-the-hell-out-of-me/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2009 13:47:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Rowlandson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Torture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[abuse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[crooksandliars]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dick Cheney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guantanamo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guantanamo Detainees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[john amato]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liz Cheney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Terrorism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Waterboarding]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.kent.ac.uk/cuba/?p=189</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Dick Cheney: Torture investigation &#8216;offends the hell out of me&#8217;
Astonishing stuff. Torture doesn’t bother Cheney in the least, but investigations into torture are an abomination, that set a terrible, terrible precedent. The irony of his claims is stark, even down to his use of the same expressions that have been used by critics of torture [...]]]></description>
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