CIA Torture Report

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Bank Torture

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Cheney Torture

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The Top 5 Planks of a 2016 GOP Platform: Torture, War, Bank Corruption and Paid-For Elections

Juan Cole / Truthdig Dec 13, 2014 This week, the release by the Senate of a report on torture as practiced in the zeroes by the CIA, along with Thursday night’s dramatic vote on an omnibus spending bill, laid bare the shape of the GOP platform in 2016. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Moral Compass

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Torture

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W.W.C.D.

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Former CIA Interrogator Glenn Carle: Torture Is Unamerican

Staff / Truthdig Dec 12, 2014 This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: CIA veteran Glenn Carle takes us behind the scenes of a black site prison, Juan Cole says there isn't a Mideast backlash, and Kasia Anderson revisits "Zero Dark Thirty". Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Russell Brand: We Need to Know That People Are Being Pointlessly Tortured Around the World

Natasha Hakimi Zapata / Truthdig Dec 11, 2014 The "Trews" host weighs in on the Senate Intelligence Committee's CIA torture report and the right-wing media's response. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

China Now Has the World’s Largest Economy, Not That It Wanted the Title

Staff / Truthdig Dec 11, 2014 The time has come to ponder the implications of China overtaking the U.S. as the largest economy in the world earlier than previously projected; U.K. scientists have made a finding that could help us better treat obesity; meanwhile, perhaps what is most telling about the torture report is not what we can read, but what we can't. These discoveries and more after the jump. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

How Twisted Up Do You Have to Be to Deny Our Actions?: Stewart and Colbert React to CIA Torture

Natasha Hakimi Zapata / Truthdig Dec 11, 2014 Fortunately, there are two TV pundits who are, at the very least, trying to help Americans process the ignominy of CIA torture without resorting to blatant denial. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Cheney’s Torture Anthem

Mark Fiore / Truthdig Dec 11, 2014 Even though Dick Cheney isn’t the only one responsible for the stain of torture on the United States, he’s the most, shall we say, colorful? Dig deeper