Laura Flanders - Laura Flanders is the host of RadioNation with Laura Flanders.
She is the author of Bushwomen: Tales of a Cynical Species, an investigation into the women in George W. Bush's Cabinet, The W Effect: Sexual Politics in the Age of Bush, an essay collection compiled by Flanders, appears in June, 2004, from the Feminist Press.
Flanders writes regularly for the Nation, Ms. Magazine and Znet. Her op-ed pieces have appeared in The San Francisco Chronicle.
Donald Glascoff - Executive Producer
Bill Goodman - Legal director for the Center for Constitutional Rights
Alfred McCoy - Alfred W. McCoy is a historian and current Professor of History in the "Center for Southeast Asian Studies," at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He received an undergraduate degree from Columbia University and his PhD in Southeastern Asian history from Yale University.
Humanity and Torture: Effective Interrogation or Brutality?
As part of a three-part series on "Humanity and Torture," being sponsored by the Wolfson Center for National Affairs at The New School, this panel will address difficult questions in the context of recent controversies about use of torture in interrogations of Al Qaida prisoners and others engaged in or suspected of terrorism since 9/11. As torture appears to become routine in the world in which we live, is there a "torture gene"? If terror is the enemy, is torture the response? Is torture ever morally permissible?- The New School