Trump & Co.: The Great Deceivers
Sean MurphyALLOW ME TO BE contrary for a moment. That rambling, semi-coherent, solipsistic rant (half campaign speech; half cry for attention) Trump delivered at the CIA fills me with hope and…
The Terror Card, Torture and You or, The Evil of Banality (Revisited)
6/09: Anyone who happened to miss this piece by Lakhdar Boumediene, entitled My Guantánamo Nightmare should check it out, here. Here is a taste of the sickening, yet predictable torment this…
Orwell, Kafka and Us or, It’s All Part of Der Process
Back in 2008 Roger Cohen wrote the following in the New York Times – the same newspaper that declined to use the word “torture” as a matter of editorial policy: Of the 770…