The CIA, Torture, and American “Democracy”
January 11, 2015 9:04 pm Leave your thoughts
The Senate report on CIA torture reads like a Stephen King novel, a transcript from the Nuremberg trials, or Josef Mengele's notes from Auschwitz
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Niall Ferguson on Kissinger’s ‘World Order’ [Part Two]
January 11, 2015 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
"Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet, seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace." (Alexander Pope, Essay on Man)
Half of Shas
January 10, 2015 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
The Shas party has split into two. Opinion polls show that both parts are hovering around the 3.12% threshold which is now necessary for entering the Knesset, after the minimum was raised by the last Knesset
Why leaving fossil fuels in the ground is good for everyone
January 9, 2015 8:21 am Leave your thoughts
As a new report is published on the need to limit fossil fuel production to stop dangerous global warming, the UK is poised to pass an act committing governments to extracting as much oil out of the ground as possible, writes George Monbiot.
U.S. cops kill at 100 times rate of other capitalist countries
January 7, 2015 11:38 pm Leave your thoughts How many people are killed every year by the police in the U.S?
If you found treasure worth thousands would you declare it?
January 6, 2015 11:20 am Leave your thoughts It's a morality tale for our times: three old rogues had two options. They could reveal their find or say nothing, and share it, writes George Monbiot.
Dehumanisation in war
January 3, 2015 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
The murder of Baha Mousa springs to mind as a line in the sand where we may have publicly turned a corner for soldiers being exposed for abusing innocent civilians
Sacred Cows for slaughter
January 1, 2015 11:20 pm Leave your thoughts
A few thoughts from Felix McHugh to great 2015