Category: Foreign Policy

A mere image

On Satire – a response to the Charlie Hebdo attacks By Joe Sacco, Friday 9 January 2015 16.36 GMT   http://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2015/jan/09/joe-sacco-on-satire-a-response-to-the-attacks or http://bit.ly/1wCyUNj 

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Attack the essence

Critics of American Sniper Chris Kyle Threatened with Violence and Rape Fantasies By Hrafnkell Haraldsson, Sunday, January, 4th, 2015, 4:39 pm   ‘It was my duty to shoot the enemy, and I don’t regret it. My regrets are for the people I couldn’t save: Marines, soldiers, buddies. I’m not naive, and I don’t romanticize war. …

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Our present complacency with American torture

  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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License to circumvent accountability

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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Significant errors and malfeasance

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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“She should be put on trial and put in jail for what she has done.”

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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We believe in and follow one who was tortured

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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