Tag: Torture
Democrats Confirm Torturer as Director of CIA
Please, let us not hear again about America liberating other nations and defending human rights, or having a moral conscience, or being a light unto the world.
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Worst Possible Pick for U.S. Ambassador to South Korea
The man set to become US Ambassador to South Korea, Admiral Harry Harris, oversaw the abuse of prisoners at a CIA camp in Gutantanamo and has blood on his hands.
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Crackpot Criminality From Abu Through Zubaydah
The story of the CIA’s operation that captured Abu Zubaydah is a tale of crackpot criminality.
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A Portrait of the CIA in Prison
John Kiriakou’s whistleblowing on the state of US prisons and government’s efforts to silence him is as valuable as his opposition to CIA torture.
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Open Guantanamo!
The deep state is running the torture centers, as presidents come and go.
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Why Release the Torture Report Now
Obama professes to be against torture, but has done everything in his power to prevent accountability, including withholding the torture report.
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Yes, Dubya, Now I Miss You
The expectation that the government at least try to produce evidence to support its claims is now absent, such as with Russia’s alleged hacking of the DNC.
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Why Flag Burning Matters: Drones and Our National Religion
Our government is breaking down the rule of law and stripping away our rights in the name of protecting us.
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Human Rights Watch Reports That US Government Tortured Children
Is America the beacon of hope to the millions of peoples who have been killed, maimed, and displaced by America’s wars during the past 15 years?
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Murder Is Washington’s Foreign Policy
The US government has become an unaccountable, lawless, criminal organization and is a danger to the entire world and its own citizens.
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The Rise of the Inhumanes
Try to imagine what has happened to America when Harvard and Berkeley law professors create legal justifications for torture.
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Review of James Risen’s ‘Pay Any Price: Greed, Power and Endless War’
“Pay Any Price” is an enlightening read the repercussions that the global war on terror and its associated power, greed, and secrecy has had on our daily lives.
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Terrorism, Torture, and the Problem of Evil in Our Time
A review of Richard Jackson’s novel “Confessions of a Terrorist”
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American Exceptionalism and American Torture
Do Americans and the world need yet another reminder that the United States is a leading practitioner of torture? Yes.
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Britain’s Newfound Imperial Nostalgia
Imperial nostalgia on one hand, and musings of national security seem to have transformed the UK and US into the most stalwart allies of dictatorial regimes.
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Whitewashing CIA torture: “We are [not so] awesome” after all
“This is not who we are,” said Obama. But what if this is exactly who we are?
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The Dog That Didn’t Bark: Middle East Reaction to the Torture Report
The biggest casualty of the Senate’s torture report will be American “soft power.”
Read MoreTorturer on the Ballot
Before he ran for office, Jerry Cannon ran the U.S. death camp at Guantanamo and, according to a witness, was personally responsible for ordering torture.
Read MoreHas the United States Ever Set a Bad Example?
Anti-American terrorists have made it explicitly clear that their actions were in retaliation for Washington’s decades of international abominations.
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Washington Is Humanity’s Worst Enemy
The US government is the most corrupt government on earth.
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