#ABU GHRAIB

[vague-humanoid]

[paleosiberian]

[follow-up-news]

A U.S. jury on Tuesday awarded $42 million to three former detainees of Iraq’s notorious Abu Ghraib prison, holding a Virginia-based military contractor responsible for contributing to their torture and mistreatment two decades ago. The decision from the eight-person jury came after a different jury earlier this year couldn’t agree on whether Reston, Virginia-based CACI should be held liable for the work of its civilian interrogators who worked alongside the U.S. Army at Abu Ghraib in 2003 and 2004. The jury awarded plaintiffs Suhail Al Shimari, Salah Al-Ejaili and Asa’ad Al-Zubae $3 million each in compensatory damages and $11 million each in punitive damages. The three testified that they were subjected to beatings, sexual abuse, forced nudity and other cruel treatment at the prison.

[mourntomidnight]

Yt feminists, r*dfems: “Women are incapable of violence and rape, I swear it’s just men that do it!”

Also yt women:

[chaiaurchaandni]

saw someone on twitter, whose family is in gaza, say the same thing: her sister told her that israelis are executing palestinian men and boys aged over 16, abducting them, forcing them to strip. these are displaced civilians and survivors. some people are defending the forceful stripping by saying that the purpose is to ensure there's no bomber vest/weapons which is ridiculous bec if that was the purpose, why are they taking pictures like trophies and circulating them online? why do they even suspect civilian men and boys trying to find safety with their families to be wearing a bomber vest? israelis have been releasing videos of stripping and beating palestinians since oct 7 - many of the palestinians victimized this way have been from the west bank. palestinians held in israeli jails are also stripped and beaten in a way that is hauntingly reminiscent of american crimes in abu ghraib prison in iraq.

[nando161mando]

This is America's legacy

[cerebrodigital]

Hace 20 años... 💀

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[rwpohl]

das experiment, oliver hirschbiegel 2001

träume, rio reiser, himmel & hölle 1995

das bischen kram hatte er einfach stehen lassen und den schlüssel in den briefkasten seines vermieters geworfen. nun saß er in einem zug, lehnte mit der stirn an der scheibe des fensters in seinem abteil. die arbeiter, die nicht mehr benötigte gleise wegräumten, die sah er nicht.

abreise_fragment, notizen leipzig 2006

härtefall_kahla edit 2014

material buw: semesterausstellung blind faces, e-werk weimar 1997

[tilbageidanmark]

Lest we forget the enormous damage of the previous clown

[dorkusmalorkus666]

i think about those Iraqi people that were so brutally tortured at Abu Ghraib

i see the faces of those american soldiers smiling in front of those people and i pray to a god i no longer believe in for them to suffer

it makes me so sick and i cry every time

and i know its happening in Palestine rn

the american government is behind it so if course it is

we have seen clips of the iof’s brutality

now think about what theyre hiding

and its most likely been happening for years

i see photos of the victims of Abu Ghraib and i want fo grab those soldiers and shake them and scream in their faces until i get that metallic taste in my mouth

“but theyre human, unlike you!”

those soldiers stripped the victims of their humanity and in doing do forfeited their own

[gregdotorg]

Imagine being such a war criminal you made Richard Serra turn to figuration. Three times.

images: all Richard Serra, Stop Bush, from a 2004 Artforum portfolio; Stop BS, 2004, a drawing variation; Abu Ghraib, 2004, from the Kerry/Edwards fundraising print portfolio

[mindofsombre]

[cerebrodigital]

Sencillamente, demasiado...

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[rwpohl]

the crying game, neil jordan 1992 (german dubbed)

[albiandreams]

I've been somewhat obsessed with Paul Schrader's The Card Counter lately, so I got some of my thoughts on that film, the photos that inspired it, and the violence of white feminism out on my blog: