Lethality Beyond the Pale
by Nick Turse
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In those first minutes, they’ll be stunned. Eyes fixed in a thousand-yard stare, nerve endings numbed. They’ll just stand there. Soon, you’ll notice that they are holding their arms out at a 45-degree angle. Your eyes will be drawn to their hands and [...]
From Walking Libraries and a God Named “Word” to What Sherlock Holmes Never Said
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[The following passages are excerpted from Eduardo Galeano’s new book, Children of the Days: A Calendar of Human History (Nation Books).]
Memory on Legs
(January 3)
On the third day of the [...]
Jeremy Scahill, Blowback Reporter
by Tom Engelhardt
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Chalmers Johnson’s book Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire was published in March 2000 — and just about no one noticed. Until then, blowback had been an obscure term of CIA tradecraft, which Johnson defined as “the unintended consequences of policies [...]
The Trillion-Dollar Concept That No One Can Define
by Mattea Kramer and Chris Hellman
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Imagine a labyrinthine government department so bloated that few have any clear idea of just what its countless pieces do. Imagine that tens of billions of tax dollars are disappearing into it annually, black hole-style, since it can’t pass a [...]
Waterboarding Americans and the Redefinition of Torture
by Nick Turse
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Try to remain calm — even as you begin to feel your chest tighten and your heart race. Try not to panic as water starts flowing into your nose and mouth, while you attempt [...]
Posted by Ira Chernus at 9:24am, December 20, 2012.
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