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Hitchens grossly understates the case against the CIA
Since its creation in 1948 the CIA has been home to murderers, torturers, vigorous opponents of democracy and equally vigorous supporters of blood soaked tyranny. The easiest examples are the takeover of the South Vietnamese occupation from the French in 1955 (you know where that led), collusion with the Greek Colonels, Franco and Pinochet's ...
Posted to Fighting Words by anarch on December 11, 2007
Echoes of the steps between silences
If you think about prisons and monasteries, it is tempting to say the main difference, after the amenities, is the condition of choice. But you wonder if ''corrections'' couldn't learn from, shall we say, rejections, as in rejecting the world. What if Benedictine abbots were allowed to use their knowledge and principles to design, say, a medium ...
Posted to Well-Traveled by zeitguy on June 15, 2007