Jan 05 2015
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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Dec 30 2014
A timely reminder of the bloody anniversary we all forgot By Robert Fisk, Sunday 28 December 2014 Every month, my London mail package thumps on to my Beirut doorstep with An Cosantóir inside. It’s the magazine of the Irish Defence Forces – surely the glossiest-paged journal of any army, let alone one of the …
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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 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 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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