Psyche, Science, and Society

Thoughts by Stephen Soldz on war, peace, politics, psychoanalysis, and research methods

OPR report as whitewash of the torture program

David Cole, in a New York Review of Books blog post, raises an issue missing in most commentary on the OPR report, that responsibility for providing cover for the Bush administration torture program extends far beyond John Yoo and Jay Bybee. Their successors at the Office of Legal Counsel, while sanctimoniously criticizing their slipshod legal [...]

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Lt. Col. David Frakt: I was an al-Qaida attorney

Lt. Col. David Frakt, JAG attorney, finally comes clean about his al-Qaida sympathies: Confessions of a terrorist sympathizer A volunteer attorney for Guantanamo detainees comes clean: You got me, I’m shilling for al-Qaida By David Frakt What you might have seen: Last Thursday night, Rachel Maddow exposed a group of al-Qaida sympathizers who had served as lawyers on [...]

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Benjamin: Waterboarding for dummies

Mark Benjamin has put together all the chilling details on the CIA’s application of waterboarding from the publicly released documents. The details make clear that CIA waterboarding bore little relationship to that used in the Navy SERE School. BTW, Jeffrey Kaye recently revealed an internal JPRA memo showing that the agency decided that waterboarding was [...]

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Iceland set to become beacon of press freedom

If all goes well, Iceland may be about to make history. No, I don’t mean the refusal of the populace to get saddled with Icesave bank’s $5 billion debt. Rather, I’m referring to the Icelandic Modern Media Initiative [IMMI], which combines the world’s best legislation to protect press and information freedom into one press freedom [...]

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Keep America Afraid: The Cheneys

Human Right First has two videos on the Cheney & Cheney campaign to Keep America Afraid (TMT):

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God Only SEEMS Nonexistent!

In case you ever wondered why God allows horrors in the world: [H/t Effect Measure.]

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Neal Katyal on Colbert

I missed this at the time. Great. [Neal Katyal was attorney in the Hamdan case. Ge is now the Principal Deputy Solicitor General of the United States. He is one of the attorneys being smeared by Liz Cheney.] The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c

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Scoundrel Time: Rachel Maddow on the Al Qaeda Everyone

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy And then this followup: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

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Physicians for Human Rights statement on American Psychological Association ethics changes

Physicians for Human Rights has issued a statement on the American Psychological Association’s dropping of the infamous 1.02 “Nuremberg Defense” from its ethics code: American Psychological Association Closes Loophole in Ethics Code, but More Code Reforms Needed Media Contacts: Stephen Greene sgreene [at] phrusa [dot] org 617-909-9160 Benjamin Greenberg bgreenberg [at] phrusa [dot] org 617-510-3417 Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) applauds last [...]

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Alexander: Thiessen is just Courting Fear

I just posted an appeal for protest of the Washington Post’s hiring of torture promoter Mark Thiessen. In a Slate piece today, former Air Force interrogator Matthew Alexander dissects Thiessen’s dangerous nonsense. Read Alexander’s article and then sign the Media Matters for America petition: Courting Fear A former military interrogator unpacks the errors and fear-mongering in Marc [...]

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