Dec 13 2014

But this is our injustice

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 …  [more]

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Dec 12 2014

I think people do nasty things in the dark

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…  [more]

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Dec 11 2014

Calling to America

A (redacted) poem for the torture report

By , Wednesday 10 December 2014 13.54 EST               TOP SECRET //████████//NOFORN What are we to do after the white noise, after the wallings,…  [more]

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Dec 09 2014

Conscious and repeated subversion of law and justice

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…  [more]

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Dec 09 2014

It was about the delivery of pain

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…  [more]

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Dec 07 2014

Overhaul of governments and institutions

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…  [more]

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Nov 25 2014

Cult of the flying spittle

  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…  [more]

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