Dec 29 2014
I usually like Ray Warner’s thoughtful, measured essays on the issues of the day, but he really missed it by a mile on this one. First of all, there is absolutely no evidence that torture works. There is only hearsay by the proponents of torture. These are people who are, in fact, international war …
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Dec 27 2014
My horrible right-wing past: Confessions of a one-time religious right icon By Frank Schaeffer, Wednesday, Dec 24, 2014 05:58 AM CST I am a white, privileged, well-off, 61-year-old former Republican religious right-wing activist who changed his mind about religion and politics long ago. The New York Times profiled my change of heart saying that to my former friends …
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Dec 24 2014
Torture and the Truth By Jane Mayer, December 22, 2014 (issue of The New Yorker) It’s hard to describe it as a positive development when a branch of the federal government releases a four-hundred-and-ninety-nine-page report that explains, in meticulous detail, how unthinkable cruelty became official U.S. policy. But last Tuesday, in releasing the long-awaited Senate …
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Dec 19 2014
Meet Alfreda Bikowsky, the Senior Officer at the Center of the CIA’s Torture Scandals By Glenn Greenwald and Peter Maass, 12/19/2014 11:28 AM NBC News yesterday called her a “key apologist” for the CIA’s torture program. A follow-up New Yorker article dubbed her “The Unidentified Queen of Torture” and in part “the model for the lead character in ‘Zero …
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Dec 19 2014
The Unidentified Queen of Torture By Jane Mayer, December 18, 2014 For the past eight months, there has been a furious battle raging behind closed doors at the White House, the C.I.A., and in Congress. The question has been whether the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence would be allowed to use pseudonyms as a …
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Dec 17 2014
On torture, can we handle the truth? We’d better start trying By Carmen Fowler Laberge, December 17 at 3:13 PM In the movie “A Few Good Men,” Col. Nathan Jessup (Jack Nicholson) barks at Lt. Daniel Kaffee (Tom Cruise): “You want me on that wall, you need me on that wall. We use words …
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Dec 17 2014
Once again language is distorted in order to hide US state wrongdoing By Robert Fisk, Sunday 14 December 2014 Thank God for Noam Chomsky. Not for his lifetime of eviscerating assaults on our political hypocrisy, but for his linguistics. Long before I knew him, undergraduate Fisk laboured at his university linguistics course, where Chomsky’s …
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