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SHARE Saturday, December 29, 2012 To Torture, Or Not To Torture?
Obama's stand on torture has been disappointing. It is about time our government realized that torture inflicts moral damage on our society, as severe as the pain felt by the people who are physically and psychologically tortured. Our reputation has been stained and tarnished enough.
(9 comments) SHARE Saturday, December 8, 2012 What Life Looks Like Under a National Security State
Total surveillance society, as predicted by George Orwell more than a half-century ago, has finally arrived. If Orwell were alive today he would have regretted that his prediction fell short of accurately portraying the total surveillance society that he had envisioned. For that he must be rolling over in his grave.
(2 comments) SHARE Saturday, December 1, 2012 The U.N. Has Little to Celebrate on November 29
The recent conflagration confirms that the militarily superior Israel can rely on political impunity, ignore U.N. resolutions, but it cannot bring peace to the long suffering country. The United Nations, which made all this possible in 1947, has little to celebrate.