As Gore Vidal said once, “we are the United States of Amnesia.” We are. We don’t read. We don’t know other languages. We don’t study our own history. Our history is the history of an idea – an imperfect idea. Al Jazeera’s Fault Lines hosted a fantastic debate of various experts discussing the Bush legacy [...]
Read more →First, it was Christopher Hitchens that took the challenge to prove that waterboarding was not torture. His view changed after 15 seconds being waterboarded. Then, Sean Hannity said on his show that he would be waterboarded for charity taking the debate about torture to a sick level – as if it was a comedy. Now, [...]
Read more →I saw this movie today and have to recommend it to anyone who wants to see the consequences of torture. Taxi to the Dark Side is a 2007 documentary film directed by American filmmaker Alex Gibney, and produced by Eva Orner and Susannah Shipman, which won the 2007 Academy Award for Documentary Feature. The film [...]
Read more →As the final days tick down on the worst President of the United States, it seems that history has already started judging his legacy. Today’s Guardian has a couple of interesting pieces both about the Bush White House. David Miliband, UK Foreign Secretary, writes that: The terrorist attacks in Mumbai seven weeks ago sent shock [...]
Read more →He has been called the Edward R. Murrow of this generation. He is been verbally attacked by the Conservative Republican camp for using his voice without fear to tell the truth about the failures of this American presidency. He should be called a hero and honored for standing up to a “government” that has used [...]
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