1. An economy of stagflation and bubbly unReal Estate
(Newsletter)

...guage of Torture Op_ed By Sheldon Richman    Monday, 17 December 2007 Is waterboarding, known during the Spanish Inquisition as tortura del agua, really torture or not? The question seem...

2. The Goldstone bombshell
(Opinions/Features)

...sity, stood up like one person, in order to rebuff the plot, as it has learned to do in the thousand years of pogroms, Spanish inquisition and Holocaust. A siege mentality, the ghetto mentality. The i...

3. I Got Your God, Right Here
(Opinions/Humor)

...able'? You mean, like the fucking CRUSADES? I guess they did make a lot of people uncomfortable. How about the goddamn Spanish Inquisition, you pompous jumped-up charlatan? How about the fucking holoc...

4. Freedoms, use them or lose them!
(Editor/Editorial)

... deviation from capitalism or individualism – the way we define them – as sacrilegious; down and out heresy.  The Spanish Inquisition of 1478 had been de facto transplanted to America, in both ca...

5. US: Senate Should Reject Bradbury Nomination
(Opinions/Bulletin)

...f water to enter the lungs of the victims, nor did they jump on the victims' distended bellies, as was done during the Spanish Inquisition, and by the Japanese soldiers prosecuted after World War II. ...

6. U.S. Soldiers Will Pay the Price for Bush’s Torture Policy
(Opinions/Politic)

...prove very convincing to his torturers. Moreover, keep in mind that this form of torture stretches all the way to the Spanish Inquisition and that people who have utilized it have been prosecuted for...

7. Torturing the Language of Torture
(Opinions/op-ed)

Is waterboarding, known during the Spanish Inquisition as tortura del agua, really torture or not? The question seems to answer itself, but the Bush administration says No. Its critics disagree, notin

8. Michael Mukasey: Another Loyal Bushie
(Editor/Editorial)

...ck and thumbscrews, water boarding is the most iconic example of torture in history. It was devised, I believe, in the Spanish inquisition. It has been repudiated for centuries." Mukasey made the...

9. 'Worse' Than Guantanamo
(Opinions/Daily)

..., and yet, for some reason, the people who are designing Guantanamo think we should carry on breaking them, as did the Spanish Inquisition. It’s very odd. MICHAEL RATNER: That’s correct. I mean, it’s...

10. Human Rights Watch World Report 2006
(Action/HRO)

...ericans held abroad, while CIA Director Porter Goss asserted that “waterboarding,” a torture method dating back to the Spanish Inquisition, was simply a “professional interrogation technique.”  ...