‘Imagine the Worst’: Why a Guantanamo Prosecutor Withdrew From the Case
By Jess Bravin, The Atlantic, 11 February 13 Lieutenant Colonel Stuart Couch truly believed Mohamedou Ould Slahi was guilty. He also believed that Slahi’s interrogators had broken the law – tormenting...
View ArticleThe Answer Is No
by Lisa Longo, 3/10/13 This entire “debate” actually just annoys me, what is the real issue here? This debate was on my Facebook page last night, and this blog is mostly comments from that debate. It...
View ArticleThe Boston bombing produces familiar and revealing reactions
by Glenn Greenwald, The Guardian (UK), 4/16/13 …The rush, one might say the eagerness, to conclude that the attackers were Muslim was palpable and unseemly, even without any real evidence. The New York...
View ArticleBin Laden is dead but…
by Nathaniel Smith, Politics: A View from West Chester, 4/24/13 On May 2, 2011, I posted a blog entitled “‘Bin Laden Is Dead,’ motives for 9/11, & his ‘Letter to the American people’.” As I pointed...
View ArticleMilitarists mire America deeper in Afghan war
by Jim Hightower, 12/2/14 Only a few months ago President Obama announced the good news that our combat role in Afghanistan – the longest war in American history – would finally end by January 1. But...
View ArticleThe Forgotten Futility of Torture – An Analysis (18 December 2014)
by Lawrence Davidson, To the Point Analyses Part I – Futility It has long been known that torture does not work. One can go back to the Enlightenment. In 1764 Cesare Beccaria published his...
View ArticleCivilization and Barbarism: It Takes a Life Cult to Beat a Death Cult
By John Grant, This Can’t Be Happening, 2/20/15 We have to address the political grievances terrorists exploit. – Barack Obama All week, the bully-in-chief of cable news, Bill O’Reilly, has been...
View ArticleAn Essay On the Future: Alienation, Despair and American Greatness
by John Grant, This Can’t Be Happening, 12/14/2015 Give me an adequate army, with power to provide it with more pay and better food than falls to the lot of the average man, and I will undertake,...
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