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Denial — from the highest levels of government to mainstream media still reluctant or refusing to even say or print the word torture to a public which still embraces torture despite its barbarity and inefficacy — is the order of the day when it comes to facing America’s tortured history. Our nation’s failure to honestly examine its darkest deeds raises the all-too-real prospect of their repetition, a chilling possibility that seems likelier than ever given Trump’s choice of Haspel, someone accused of torturing for torture’s sake — and enjoying it. Torture is the play of sadists. It is a criminal aberration. There has also been a strong element of racism in US state-sponsored torture. CounterpunchA Brief History of American Torture Brett Wilkins | editor-at-large for US news at Digital
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Mike Norman considers the following as important: genocide, torture, US history
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Denial — from the highest levels of government to mainstream media still reluctant or refusing to even say or print the word torture to a public which still embraces torture despite its barbarity and inefficacy — is the order of the day when it comes to facing America’s tortured history. Our nation’s failure to honestly examine its darkest deeds raises the all-too-real prospect of their repetition, a chilling possibility that seems likelier than ever given Trump’s choice of Haspel, someone accused of torturing for torture’s sake — and enjoying it. Torture is the play of sadists. It is a criminal aberration. There has also been a strong element of racism in US state-sponsored torture. CounterpunchA Brief History of American Torture Brett Wilkins | editor-at-large for US news at Digital
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Denial — from the highest levels of government to mainstream media still reluctant or refusing to even say or print the word torture to a public which still embraces torture despite its barbarity and inefficacy — is the order of the day when it comes to facing America’s tortured history. Our nation’s failure to honestly examine its darkest deeds raises the all-too-real prospect of their repetition, a chilling possibility that seems likelier than ever given Trump’s choice of Haspel, someone accused of torturing for torture’s sake — and enjoying it.Torture is the play of sadists. It is a criminal aberration. There has also been a strong element of racism in US state-sponsored torture.
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A Brief History of American Torture
Brett Wilkins | editor-at-large for US news at Digital Journal