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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Dec 13 2014
Marcel Ophuls, Director of ‘The Sorrow and the Pity,’ Wants to Tell Israelis Some ‘Unpleasant Truths’ By Robert Mackey, December 10, 2014 Ever since 1969, when his four-and-a-half-hour documentary about the Nazi occupation of France, “The Sorrow and the Pity,” was banned from French television, the filmmaker Marcel Ophuls has had an uneasy relationship …
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Dec 12 2014
After Torture Report, Our Moral Authority As a Nation Is Gone By Nick Gillespie, 12.11.14 By now, we’ve all glossed The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence’s “Study of the Central Intelligence Agency’s Detention and Interrogation Program or skimmed summaries of it, hunting for the sickest parts the same way we fast-forwarded through “Two Girls, …
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Dec 11 2014
A (redacted) poem for the torture report By Brian Turner, Wednesday 10 December 2014 13.54 EST TOP SECRET //████████//NOFORN What are we to do after the white noise, after the wallings, the rough takedowns and deprivations of sleep, nudity, rectal rehydration and rectally infused feedings, the President’s daily briefings, …
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Dec 09 2014
America’s shame and disgrace The Guardian editorial, Tuesday 9 December 2014 14.49 EST President Ronald Reagan signed the United Nations convention against torture in 1988 and the United States ratified it six years later in 1994. Seven years after that, in 2001, the US nevertheless started to use torture on a systematic basis. That …
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Dec 09 2014
Dick Cheney Was Lying About Torture By Mark Fallon, December 08, 2014 It’s official: torture doesn’t work. Waterboarding Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind of 9/11, did not in fact “produce the intelligence that allowed us to get Osama bin Laden,” as former Vice President Dick Cheney asserted in 2011. Those are among the central …
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Dec 07 2014
How ISIS Should Shape Our View of the Church and Its Mission Globally By Martin Accad, December 4, 2014 I’ve been blogging and speaking much about ISIS in recent months. Last July, as we were beginning to get to grips with the savagery of the group, I tried to call us all, as people who …
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