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 […]