Torture, Absolute Power, and the Lucifer Effect

Torture, Absolute Power, and the Lucifer Effect Robert Koehler: The awkward part of what went on in Guantanamo, for defenders of the military bureaucracy, is that these torture procedures produced no information of any value. We sold our soul to the devil and got nothing in return. READ MORE SHARED FROM

WEDNESDAY, 8 JULY 2015 Torture, Absolute Power, and the Lucifer Effect Robert Koehler: The awkward part of what went on in Guantanamo, for defenders of the military bureaucracy, is that these torture procedures produced no information of any value. We sold our soul to the devil and got nothing in return. READ MORE Friend on Facebook Follow on Twitter Forward to a Friend Killing Crabs and Arabs David Swanson: The distancing of killing doesn't just make it easier. It also hides important considerations behind gleaming temptations. READ HERE Trump Trumps Truth with Media Help; O'Reilly Orbits Trump's Star Larry Wines: We need to look beyond Donald Trump's doubling-down on his nasty, insensitive, dehumanizing remarks, simply because the worst of those remarks still isn't being noted. READ HERE Prop 13: Let's Make It Fair The ACLU-SoCal Pasadena/Foothills Chapter and the Pasadena Area League of Women Voters present “Closing Prop 13 Commercial Property Tax Loopholes”--a free public forum. READ MORE Moral Panic Over a Pier Shooting Jonathan Simon: Sadly, the punitive storm that has arisen around the receent San Francisco shooting is a reminder of the powerful hold crime panic journalism--and hyperventilating crime warrior politicians like Dianne Feinstein--have on our public policy. READ HERE

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