The CIA and The Banality of Haspel
It would be hard to find someone with more experience to run the CIA. And that's why she's a terrible choice.
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As Midterms Near, New Polls Show Democrats Stalling
With six months to go before the midterm election, new national polls are showing that the Democratic Party's much-touted momentum to gain control of the House has stalled out. The latest numbers tell us a lot about the limits of denouncing Donald Trump without offering much more than a return to the old status quo.
In U.K., Old Money Makes Way for Wealthy Refugees
A survey conducted in the United Kingdom found that residents are seven times more willing to admit they've contracted a sexually transmitted disease than answer questions about their salary or reveal their household income. That the subject of money is taboo for the British does nothing to diminish their interest in who among them has it.
Hogan Gidley’s Big Lie: We Are Now Respected, We Are Now Feared, We Are Now Beloved
Sweet jesus, I don't know what they're passing around in the West Wing, but it's some serious stuff for people to be this out of touch with reality. Or they've just taken a page about of Goebbel's book on " The Big Lie ": "If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.
Dick Cheney Denies Waterboarding Is Torture, Says He’d ‘Do It Again’
This is what happens when you don't hold people accountable for war crimes in the first place. They wind up on Fox "news" pushing for the United States to engage in more of them.
How the Saudis Took Donald Trump for a Ride
It's another Trump affair - this time without the allegations of sexual harassment , the charges and counter-charges, the lawsuits, and all the rest. So it hasn't gotten the sort of headlines that Stormy Daniels has garnered, but when it comes to influence, American foreign policy, and issues of peace and war, it couldn't matter more or be a bigger story .
Oliver North Knows Who Are The REAL Criminals: Those Parkland Kids
Boy, it's been a hell of a week for the NRA's new president, Oliver North, hasn't it? If the notion of celebrating a convicted gun runner for terrorists as the head of the NRA wasn't enough, Oliver North hit the ground running and setting up exactly who the enemy is. Horrifyingly, he's decided it's the teenagers who survived the Parkland, Florida school shooting.
The politics of assisted reproduction, explained
This Mother's Day, many women around the globe are struggling to have children, turning to a variety of approaches to overcome infertility. Meanwhile, lawmakers, medical professionals and activists have been in a heated public debate about the complex morals and politics of abortion and assisted reproductive technologies , also called ART.
Kelly’s “Family Separation” recalls Slave Era…
John Kelly, White House chief of staff, is an immigrant-hating bigot, as demonstrated by a long series of Draconian statements and measures that would have embarrassed most normal people into a lifetime vow of silence in their wake. Kelly bizarrely defended Confederate slave drivers of the 1860s as having lived at a time before the evils of slavery were apparent to moral people.
Iran: Trump’s Broken Deal
Trump's "Broken Deal", his irrational decision to withdraw from the JCPOA, or simply called Iran's Nuclear Deal, has hardly any other motives than again launching a provocation for war. The decision goes against all reason.
Kansas law now forbids police from having sex with people in custody
Officers talk with a woman arrested for possession of heroin before putting her in the back of a police cruiser at a local park in Nashua, NH on Wednesday, August 16, 2017. CREDIT: Ian Thomas Jansen-Lonnquist for The Washington Post via Getty Images As of this week, it is illegal for police in Kansas to have sexual relations with people they've detained in a traffic stop, or are otherwise holding in custody.
Mueller investigating funds used for Trump inauguration
Trump's inaugural festivities, despite being historically smaller in scope, cost almost double the previous record. CREDIT: SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images Robert Mueller is looking into the curious case of Donald Trump's record inaugural fundraising, according to a report by ABC News.
How Costa Rica Gets It Right
"Like citizens of a few other countries, Costa Ricans have made clear that inequality is a choice, and that public policies can ensure a greater degree of economic equality and equality of opportunity than the market alone would provide," Stiglitz writes. SAN JOSA< - With authoritarianism and proto-fascism on the rise in so many corners of the world, it is heartening to see a country where citizens are still deeply committed to democratic principles.
WaPo Positions Support for Torturer as Vote for Feminism
Central Intelligence Agency Deputy Director Gina Haspel is sworn in before the Senate Intelligence Committee during her confirmation hearing to become the next CIA director in the Hart Senate Office Building May 9, 2018 in Washington, D.C. As the war over Gina Haspel's nomination to lead the Central Intelligence Agency has waged on this week, we've been gifted an incredible batch of corporate media apologias for the CIA's decades-long legacy of torture, extrajudicial killings and civil liberties violations.
UN: Saudi-led Coalition inflicts 60% of Yemen Deaths, Injuries
Some 236 civilians were killed in Yemen in April making it the deadliest month for the war-torn state this year, a United Nations briefing note revealed today. "The month of April was the deadliest month for civilians in Yemen so far this year, with a sharp increase in casualties.
AT&T Admits ‘Mistake’ In Hiring Trump Lawyer, Top Company Lobbyist Steps Down
AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson called his company's decision to hire Donald Trump's personal lawyer a "big mistake." AT&T's top lobbyist is stepping down.
Transcript: White House Chief Of Staff John Kelly’s Interview With NPR
White House Chief of Staff John Kelly is pictured at President Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Fla. last month.
My Language
My language is Bengali but I don't know it very well. I can speak well enough but I can barely read.
Trump needs to take a ‘hands off’ approach when it comes to Robert Mueller
Why am I not surprised that Trump's GOP sycophants and cronies will most likely throw him under the wheels of the bus if he continues to fire nasty verbiage in Robert Mueller's direction? This reality show mastermind, who is the first U.S. President caught up inside an exploding fireworks factory of salacious scandal with none other than a porn queen, has all the grace of a Louisiana cottonmouth. But it seems Trump's big wish is to go down in history as a great military leader, and he plans to utilize "his generals" to grow these laurels for himself.
Answer yes or no. Do you believe in hindsight those techniques were immoral?
Wednesday President Donald Trump's nominee to lead the CIA Gina Haspel had a testy exchange with Sen. Kamala Harris at her confirmation hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee. HARRIS: Thank you.