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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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
It looks like some kind of sci-fi blob from outer space, but it’s actually a high-speed photograph of a nuclear explosion. It was captured less than 1 millisecond after the detonation using a rapatronic camera, which is capable of exposure times as brief as 10 nanoseconds (one nanosecond is one billionth of a second). The photograph …
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Oct 19 2014
Dear Editor, I, too, would like to thank First Church of Nazarene (on lovely, picturesque, bench-free Central Avenue) for its field of little white crosses. My first thought was that the miniature Flanders Fields was a reminder of all the people we killed during our precious-moment wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. …
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