#falling empire

[huntress1013]

From the NYT

Really? REALLY?

Yes, this is exactly the Trump you chose and voted for. He said exactly what he would do when he would come to power. Stop deluding yourself and stop lying to yourself. It is pitiful.

[protoslacker]

Consistent with the CIA’s original devil’s bargain, the government continues to refuse to take the risk that all the grisly details about what the United States did to Abu Zubaydah would emerge during a trial. As Karen Greenberg, director of the Center on National Security at Fordham Law School, wrote: [I]n every trial lurks the possibility that the public would hear the details of the government’s abuse of prisoners, and discover just how far from traditional American ideals, and the Constitution, justice had stray

Charles R. Church at Lawfare. What Politics and the Media Still Get Wrong About Abu Zubaydah

[protoslacker]

‘I didn’t know who I was any more’: how CIA torture pushed me to the edge of death

Abu Zubaydah has been held by the US without charge for 20 years. His own words and images depict the relentless and illegal abuse he has suffered

I will have to come back to this, probably a number of times. It is very difficult to read Abu Zubayadah’s telling of his torture. If we can listen to one who has descended into hell and returned, perhaps we can act to counter the leading of  others to hell. I am ashamed of my country. This depravity is still being lauded by too many and the consequences of excusing such deprvity bodes ill.

[because--palestine]

[whofreedu]

Denial

[areslovesyou]

Sometimes sickly people sicken me. The thought of my self ending up like them some day sickens me. When people that help you and they feel the need to remind you that you would have perished if it weren't for them... That sickens me. When people talk more about why they can't instead of attempting, sickens me. This perishing country sickens me. We all know what happens to a great power like Rome in the end. This world sickens me. Fuck this shit, because it sickens me to my core and I want to destroy everything that gets under my skin.

[findingfrancis]

The interlude and conclusion of Falling Empire, adapted to become the finale of the 15-minute set we had at the Battle. Derek’s drums were thirsty.