Dec 29 2014

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…  [more]

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Dec 27 2014

This is ISIS minus the beheadings

My horrible right-wing past: Confessions of a one-time religious right icon

By Frank Schaeffer, Wednesday, Dec 24, 2014 05:58 AM CST   I am a white, privileged, well-off, 61-year-old former Republican religious right-wing activist who changed his mind about religion…  [more]

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Dec 24 2014

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…  [more]

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Dec 19 2014

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…  [more]

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Dec 19 2014

“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…  [more]

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Dec 17 2014

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):…  [more]

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Dec 17 2014

They had flown through the air

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.…  [more]

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