Here are a few more, Arianne: "The Dervish and the Offensive Stranger" "The Czar's Sililoquy" "King Leopold's Sililoquy: A Defense of His Congo Rule" I'd also suggest a still-(painfully)relevant discussion point excerpted below from Jim Zwick's Confronting Imperialism:Essays on Mark Twain and the Anti-Imperialist League. The U.S. military's use of waterboarding began during the Philippine-American War. Euphemistically called the "water cure," it was said to be a form of torture the U.S. military "inherited" from the Spanish. They had used it since the Inquisition. In his 1902 essay "A Defense of General Funston," Mark Twain wrote: Funston's example has bred many imitators, and many ghastly additions to our history: the torturing of Filipinos by the awful "water-cure," for instance, to make them confess -- what? Truth? Or lies? How can one know which it is they are telling? For under unendurable pain a man confesses anything that is required of him, true or false, and his evidence is worthless. Mark Twain and other anti-imperialists were protesting the U.S. military's use of waterboarding and other forms of torture one hundred years before their recent use in the "war on terror." Randy Abel Yantai, China