by Robin Kirk | Mar 14, 2015 | featured, Robin Kirk
(from the April issue of Sojourners) There’s no better sequel to the Senate Select Intelligence Committee’s executive summary of the torture report than Mohamedou Ould Slahi’s just-published Guantánamo Diary (Little, Brown and Company). This...
by Robin Kirk | Feb 4, 2015 | featured, Robin Kirk
Like so many, I felt horror at the death of Jordanian pilot Muath Al-Kaseasbeh, apparently burned alive by Islamic State militants. In a slick and gruesome video, the militants celebrate the atrocity while also making the specious claim that they chose this...