America’s Concentration Camps category archive
Republican Family Values, One More Time 0
Mike considers Donald Trump’s only significant accomplishment and how today’s events were presaged by a movie 50 years ago. (Warning: Language)
Throwing Away the Key 0
Sam Seder and Katherine Hawkins discuss the bizarre proceedings that masquerade as “justice” in President George the Worst’s most enduring legacy–the concentration camp at Guantanamo Bay.
You can read Katherine Hawkins’s article here.
No, History Is Not Repeating Itself 3
Persons who were not there are comparing what happened last week (and may continue to happen this and subsequent weeks) to 1968.
I can attest that the only similarity is in the size of the headlines. In 1968, despite the violence and assassinations, there was a feeling of optimism and hope, of persons standing up against the corrupt “system”–a corrupt war, racism and theft of labor, corrupt corporations fouling the air and the water, women subjected by social norms to the whims of men (who were as piggish then as they are now).
The feeling I sense today is desperation and loss, not optimism and hope: Persons attempting to fight off resurgent racism and a militarized “law enforcement” implicitly empowered to execute black and brown folks with impunity; a usurious economy built on leeching the blood from the poor and what’s left of the middle class; a world that will literally drown, becoming engulfed by water as the seas rise from climate change engendered by those willing to sit back and watch the rising tide from their enclaves on the hill; a political establishment held hostage by the forces of reaction, when it’s not actively abetting them.
Other than that, I reckon things are okay.
Shaun Mullen seems slightly more optimistic than I. Here’s a bit of what he wrote; follow the link for the rest:
Malpractice 0
About damned time (more at the link).
“I don’t think I have any other choice,” said Senior Judge Justin Quackenbush, after rejecting the claim of the psychologists’ lawyer that the two are immune from civil liability, according to the Huffington Post.
The lawsuit was first filed in a federal court in Spokane, Washington in October 2015 by Suleiman Abdullah Salim, a Tanzanian citizen, Mohamed Ahmed Ben Soud, a Libyan citizen, and the family of Gul Rahman, an Afghan citizen who froze to death at a secret CIA prison in Kabul. All three men allege that they were subject to some of the harshest physical and psychological torture methods while in CIA custody.
Psychologists James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen, the defendants in the case, were paid $81 million to help teach the CIA torture methods based on past experiments on dogs and were deeply involved in their implementation.
For a measly $81,000,000, they were complicit in throwing a veneer of science over sadism. But the persons truly responsible–those who wrote that $81,000,000 check–will, I am certain, never face any penalty, let alone anything remotely resembling justice.
BDSM, Bushie Style 0
I do think that some of Mr. Cousins’s personal criticism of President Obama is unduly harsh, if not in substance, certainly in tone; hindsight is always etc. and so on. I also suspect that this sheds some light on the deliberations that led to many of the choices that Cousins criticizes.
Torturous Reasoning 0
Shaun Mullen explores how the American Psychological Association sold out to psychopaths and sadists the very same persons it should have had under treatment.
Read it.
“Clinical Trials” 0
This is the signature legacy of President George the Worst:
Speaking of Legacies . . . 0
The bipartisan amendment reaffirms President Barack Obama’s prohibition of interrogation techniques such as waterboarding and sleep deprivation, which were developed by the CIA under the administration of his predecessor, George W Bush.
The measure passed in the Senate, 78-21.
It will no doubt fail in the House.
The Republican Party has become a vile and loathsome thing, a gibbering monster that slithers and twists in darkness.
Torturous Reasoning 0
Shaun Mullen looks at recently disclosed evidence that the American Psychological Association is complicit in torture and other war crimes. A nugget:
Read the rest, and weep.
