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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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 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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Nov 25 2014
Dear editor: On the week of celebrating Thanksgiving, this is a “thankful” response to George Lindholm’s letter (Saturday, Nov. 22). Yes! Thank you, George, for your alarming letter, which served as a strong reminder for why Christian conservatives must continue going in the “right” direction! Early on in your letter, you stated that the …
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Nov 10 2014
General Dan Bolger says what the US does not want to hear: Why We Lost By Spencer Ackerman, Monday 10 November 2014 00.01 EST Dan Bolger is not looking to add to the debate over the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. The retired three-star army general, out of patience with unresolved conflicts, means to end it. …
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Oct 31 2014
The Real Origins of the Religious Right By Randall Balmer, May 27, 2014 One of the most durable myths in recent history is that the religious right, the coalition of conservative evangelicals and fundamentalists, emerged as a political movement in response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling legalizing abortion. The …
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