One of the reasons the Senate “Torture Report” is so important, is that it forces Americans to confront the fascists and torture profiteers in their midst. Without this report, allegations of wrongdoing at the very top of the U.S. status quo can be easily dismissed as “conspiracy theory.” Hopefully now that we have some proof, we can start to meaningfully confront the cancer metastasizing within our society.
This post will be spilt into three separate parts, each of which will zero in on a separate aspect of what we have learned from the report. The first part goes back to an article in the Atlantic from 2007 titled:“Verschärfte Vernehmung.” Verschärfte Vernehmung in German translates to something like “enhanced interrogation”, and the article explains the disturbing similarities of what the U.S. government did to what the Nazis did in Germany a generation ago. First take a look at the following…
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