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@lemmy.worldhttps://www.democracynow.org/2023/9/5/doing_harm_roy_j_eidelson_psychology
A military judge at Guantánamo has thrown out the confessions of Saudi man Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri because he had been tortured and waterboarded at secret CIA black sites in Afghanistan, Thailand, Poland, Romania and Morocco before being sent to Guantánamo. Psychologists James Mitchell and John Bruce Jessen, who were paid at least $81 million by the CIA to develop and then implement the CIA’s post-9/11 torture program, had waterboarded al-Nashiri at a CIA black site. We get response from Roy Eidelson and discuss his new book, Doing Harm, which investigates the American Psychological Association’s complicity in post-9/11 torture programs and the struggle to reform the psychology field. “We felt there was a lot at stake,” says Eidelson. “It took over a decade for us to bring change in terms of APA’s policy toward interrogation and detention operations.” As the U.N. calls for al-Nashiri’s release, Eidelson warns that APA leadership and military personnel are once again pushing guidelines that expand psychologists’ role in torture. “They want to expand the opportunities that are available for psychologists to work in this arena where 'do no harm' is, at best, secondary, and sometimes off the table entirely,” says Eidelson. “It feels as though APA is slipping — slipping back into positions that led to awful things.”
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The People of Lahaina demand answers and accountability after the devastating fires that claimed far too many lives.5UKIRC_vXLscib8w
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West Hartford Police released the bodycam of Mike Alexander-Garcia being mauled by a K9, and then shot in the back multiple times by police, to the public, without first warning his family.
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Deadly razor wire deployed along the Rio Grande by Gov. Abbott to ensnare and impale border crossers.
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