When I wonder what’s gone wrong with the USA in recent years, I often come back to the idea that many of my countrymen have succumbed to a sort of mass narcissism. US news outlets and public figures seem to believe that they have; when any sort of anti-Americanism anywhere in the world makes news, [...]
All posts tagged torture
Chronicles, January and February 2010
Posted by acilius on January 31, 2010
http://losthunderlads.com/2010/01/31/chronicles-january-and-february-2010/
The Nation, 15 February 2010
Ramon Fernandez was a French fascist who actively collaborated with the Nazis during their occupation of France. His son, Dominique Fernandez, has written a biography of his father. The Nation‘s review describes this biography as the culmination of Dominique Fernandez’ life’s work, his attempt to comprehend what his father did and why he did it. Anyone [...]
Posted by acilius on January 30, 2010
http://losthunderlads.com/2010/01/30/the-nation-15-february-2010/
The Atlantic Monthly, October 2009
Mark Bowden starts his piece, “The Story Behind the Story,” by recounting TV coverage of the announcement that President Obama had nominated Sonia Sotomayor to the US Supreme Court. Within minutes of the announcement, Bowden turned on Faux News and was impressed by the depth of their reporting. He then turned to MSNBC, which was [...]
Posted by acilius on September 22, 2009
http://losthunderlads.com/2009/09/22/the-atlantic-monthly-october-2009/
Seven recent issues of The Nation
Ever since I started writing here, I’ve been referring to “Mrs Acilius.” Until last month, that was a bit of an exaggeration, as I had not actually married the lady in question. We tied the knot 12 May. So lately, I’ve had things on my mind other than this blog. That’s why I haven’t been posting “Periodicals [...]
Posted by acilius on June 18, 2009
http://losthunderlads.com/2009/06/18/seven-recent-issues-of-the-nation/
The Nation, 18 May 2009
It was William Wordsworth who asked “Where are they now, those wanton boys/ for whose free range the daedal earth/ was filled with animated toys/ and implements of frolic mirth;/ with tools for ready wit to guide,/ and ornaments of seemlier pride,/ more fresh, more bright, than princes wear;/ for what one moment flung aside,/ [...]
Posted by acilius on May 1, 2009
http://losthunderlads.com/2009/05/01/the-nation-18-may-2009/
Water Torture
Torture- I mean “enhanced interrogation”- for charity . . Being asked the same question 183 times in 1 month while being bound and asphyxiated might be 183 times as unpleasant as this . .
Posted by CMStewart on April 28, 2009
http://losthunderlads.com/2009/04/28/water-torture/
The Nation, 11 May 2009
The recent release of Bush-era “torture memos” occasions an argument to the effect that those responsible for the writing of those memos and the implementation of the procedures described in them must be held to account. This must be done, less to honor a duty to the past than to establish a precedent for the future: As [...]
Posted by acilius on April 24, 2009
http://losthunderlads.com/2009/04/24/the-nation-11-may-2009/
Torture Memo Set to Music
Via Alison Bechdel’s website, a way to take some words that have become all too familiar and give them back their power to shock us. Here’s the artist’s website.
Posted by acilius on April 20, 2009
http://losthunderlads.com/2009/04/20/torture-memo-set-to-music/
Victoria Fontan
Victoria Fontan in Baghdad The 16-31 March issue of Counterpunch features an article by Victoria Fontan, a scholar in “Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies,” a growing subfield of Peace Studies. Fontan studies conditions under which people who have been humiliated are more likely than others to become terrorists. She has interviewed members of several violent groups in Lebanon and Iraq. In this article, [...]
Posted by acilius on April 16, 2009
http://losthunderlads.com/2009/04/16/victoria-fontan/
New Year, Old Right
The latest issues of my two standard “paleocon” reads, The American Conservative and Chronicles, include fewer really noteworthy articles than average. The election of Mr O as president and a solidly Democratic Congress freed them to turn from the constant struggle to show how they differ from the Bush/ Cheney Right and toward standard-issue conservative territory, denouncing government spending, [...]
Posted by acilius on January 9, 2009
http://losthunderlads.com/2009/01/09/new-year-old-right/
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