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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
These pictures were first published by the Australian media. Since a number of Middle Eastern households and certainly Middle Eastern governmental and academic institutions have internet access, I suspect the people of the Middle East have already seen them. Salon isn't publishing these pictures to stir up the enemy. They're already stired up. Salon is publishing them for Americans to see what atrocities have been carried out in their name. Torturing has consequences for the torturers too. Keeping Americans in the dark about it isn't going to change that. When the next airplane is driven into the next American skyscraper, we might have a clearer understanding for some of the reasons for it.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
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