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Active Voice Radio Presenting Social Justice Authors Who Practive What They Preach Torture: The current, public discussion of torture concerns the cold and real use of it as a military strategy. This is not in some esoteric sense or philosophical argument, it is far more serious than that. The question we, as a country, are faced with today is weather or not the United States Military or other agencies of our government, such as the CIA, can engage in the torture of other human beings as part of common strategic practice. The use of torture does not come out of a vacuum, but has been a well-studied technique. In this AVR we speak with Marnia Lazreg. She teaches sociology at Hunter College and her newest book Torture and the Twilight of Empire: From Algiers to Baghdad looks at the French-Algerian war of the late 1950s and early 1960s in which the French employed torture as a common strategy of their occupation. Join us for a fascinating and well researched look at the topic of Torture.