Human Rights Archives - Samuel Warde, Writer

CIA Personnel Openly Wept After Witnessing Torture Overseen By Trump’s Pick To Head The CIA

By Samuel Warde on March 17, 2018 Basic Human Rights, Black Ops, Black Sites, Extraordinary Interrogation, Geneva Convention Violations, Homeland Security versus basid human rights, Human Rights, Interrogation Techniques, Secret Prisons, Torture Homeland Security, Human Interest, Human Rights

Trump vowed during his campaign to bring back outlawed interrogation techniques like waterboarding and “much worse,” and his new pick to head the CIA has a troubling history of overseeing these inhumane practices. America’s debate over the use of torture took front stage in the wake of Trump’s nomination of Gina Haspel to head the CIA. […]

Tom Cotton Suggests Critics Of Indiana Law Should Be Grateful State Doesn’t Execute Gays (VIDEO)

By Kimberley Johnson on April 2, 2015 Human Rights, Indiana, LGBT Community, Tom Cotton Religious Intolerance, Republican Logic, Right Wing Hatred, Right-Wing Myths

Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) recently appeared on CNN and urged critics of Indiana’s religious “freedom” law to get a “perspective” and then he did what every Republican does to deflect the issue – he suggested that we compare the United States to Iran and then we’ll all see just how great we have it in […]

‘I Get A Thick Book Full Of Death, Destruction, Strife, And Chaos’ – Obama On Foreign Policy – VIDEO

By Samuel Warde on February 10, 2015 Barack Obama, Democracy, Foreign Policy, Human Rights, Human Rights Abuses, Interviews, Videos Barack Obama, Foreign Policy, Interviews, Videos

President Obama defended his foreign policy during a far-reaching interview, published by Vox on Monday. In the second part of the interview, Obama told Vox’s Matthew Yglesias that foreign policy was a balancing act between realism and idealism when it comes to developing relations with countries with a history of abuses of democracy and human […]