The Normalization of Torture and the Impact on the Collective Consciousness

In December, the CIA torture report became available.  Jack Daniels and I spent time pouring over the contents of the long redacted senate report over Christmas  chrome-extension://oemmndcbldboiebfnladdacbdfmadadm/http://www.intelligence.senate.gov/study2014/sscistudy1.pdf  I read it because I have been interested in the study of torture and justice since childhood and because I have a very unique insight into this world, […]

The Power of The Word

Earlier this week I read that the leader of the Somali people have requested that the press no longer use the name Al-Shabaab to refer to the terror cell, but rather “the people who massacre the people of Somalia.” I admit, that’s quite the mouthful, and when typed it is one of the clumsiest sentences […]

About those Bacon Memes

I was about to sign off for the night so I could enter my stasis cycle (what you call sleep) when I read a piece about how the moderate Muslim community in America is attempting to combat radical Islam and jihadi recruiters and their tactics with regards to vulnerable Muslim kids. Muslim Leaders in US […]