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U.S. Torture: Old Wine, New Bottles | Mickey Z.
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Mickey Z. -- World News Trust
Dec. 15, 2014
“The object of terrorism is terrorism. The object of oppression is oppression. The object of torture is torture. The object of murder is murder. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?”
- Orwell
I very recently wrote about U.S. hypocrisy, vis-a-vis torture, and I’ve written about it as far back as 2002, but suddenly… it’s back in the news.
As if it’s news.
As if it’s surprising.
As if it’s an anomaly.
So let’s re-start this mini-history lesson by once again harking back to the Nicaraguan contras of the 1980s…
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