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Joseph Welch: “Have you no sense of decency, sir?” Groucho McCarthy: “That’s a ridiculous question. Of course I don’t! If I had some decency, I wouldn’t even know what to do with it.”
by Perlinator
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on Sat Feb 03, 2024 at 05:58 PM PST
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I offer you this guarantee: there’s an anniversary coming on October 7th that no one in this country is going to celebrate or,...
by TomDispatch
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on Mon Sep 10, 2018 at 12:12 PM PDT
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“America happens to be my client. Americans are who I care about. I have no fondness for the enemy, and I don't feel like I need to take care of their mental health needs.” — Bryce Lefever, former U.S. Navy clinical and SERE psychologist, member of the...
by Roy Eidelson
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on Mon Jul 23, 2018 at 07:49 AM PDT
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My daughter spent the last couple of years in the UK as a grad student. She’s back in the US, reluctantly b/c of January 20, 2017. Today her UK boyfriend came to visit for a week. Upon landing in Detroit, he got pulled in by customs b/c, they said,...
by Standard Deviant
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on Tue Mar 07, 2017 at 02:17 PM PST
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His name wasn’t mentioned once in the address, but it’s clear to whom President Barack Obama was speaking during his last planned speech on national security—the guy who has reportedly had only one national security briefing since his election last...
by lizbirge
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on Wed Dec 07, 2016 at 08:13 AM PST
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It is not surprising that the mainstream media asking the questions in the ongoing presidential debates are not asking deep questions of the Democratic candidates about the issue of torture.
The Obama Administration, of which Hillary Clinton was lon
by Valtin
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on Sun Mar 06, 2016 at 12:41 PM PST
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In a study, almost 70 percent of sleep-deprived people admitted to something they didn't do.
No surprise to those who have been paying attention to the interrogation tactics employed by PDs all o
by StanFlouride
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on Thu Feb 11, 2016 at 02:29 PM PST
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1st page of Army Field Manual's Appendix M
"There's truth that lives and truth that dies..." - Leonard Cohen
In a bizarre mixture of the sincere and the insincere, an ...
by Valtin
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on Sun Jun 14, 2015 at 02:49 PM PDT
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Apropos of nothing, I was purposefully poking around in some papers looking for a thing I'd done 10 years ago and was annoyed that it was missing.
So I shuffled and sifted and finally located the ...
by OleHippieChick
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on Sat Feb 07, 2015 at 01:23 PM PST
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I want my country to embrace the Geneva Convention and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, as well as having our military and the CIA adhere to the provisions of the US Army Field Manual on ...
by Karen Hedwig Backman
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on Sat Jan 17, 2015 at 11:38 AM PST
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Move over Jimmy Carter.
by thefarleftside
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on Fri Jan 09, 2015 at 12:41 PM PST
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If Said-Emin Ibragimov is telling the truth, he was tortured with knives and cigarrettes for two days by Putin's operatives for making statements opposing the regime. If a Russian citizen opposes ...
by wordmonkey
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on Wed Dec 31, 2014 at 08:46 PM PST
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If you are looking for a sledgehammer to crush Cheney's conceit that "torture worked," here's the story and the memo that sucks the air out of any apologist's arguments for torture. Forever and ...
by 8ackgr0und N015e
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on Wed Dec 10, 2014 at 05:14 AM PST
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Recently, I've argued in favor of peace between Israel and the Palestinian people. And I still desire peace. However, I made the mistake of equating Israel and Hamas, and believed that Israel was ...
by GAKeynesian
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on Wed Jul 30, 2014 at 11:02 PM PDT
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Absolutely brilliant and extraordinarily authoritative! I'm talking about Marcy Wheeler's debut article over at The / / Intercept , published just over an hour ago. Once again, if you have any ...
by bobswern
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on Thu Mar 13, 2014 at 03:04 PM PDT
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Glenn Greenwald just released a statement/essay on the nine hour detention of his significant other partner by British security officials as he changed flights to Brazil from Germany via London ...
by jpmassar
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on Sun Aug 18, 2013 at 12:30 PM PDT
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Although psychologists are better known for interpreting the dreams of others, sometimes we have nightmares of our own. The one recounted here took shape after I read the recent task force report ...
by Roy Eidelson
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on Mon Jul 08, 2013 at 08:09 AM PDT
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Geraldo Rivera's asshattery is certainly not news, but a statement he made about Michael Hastings one day after his death, and some of the responses to it are newsworthy.
Let's keep in mind the ...
by joanneleon
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on Wed Jun 19, 2013 at 05:19 PM PDT
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Charlie Savage claims the New York Times has obtained a five page, near final draft, policy document entitled "interrogation Techniques," which recommends that Mitt Romney rescind President Obama's ...
by HoundDog
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on Thu Sep 27, 2012 at 01:58 PM PDT
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In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein , written nearly 200 years ago, a young scientist brings to life a hideous monster made of body parts collected from slaughterhouses, dissecting rooms, and graveyards.
by Roy Eidelson
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on Thu Aug 30, 2012 at 06:22 AM PDT
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