U.N. Torture Convention

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When and how did America lose her soul?

America has lost her soul. You feel something is missing, the kind of sense of community that we used to have–20 or 30 or 40…

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REPRISE: “A time to break silence”: Dr. King on the Vietnam war, and President Carter on America’s human rights violations

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President-elect Trump, foreign policy, and the defense of core American values

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International Law and the Descent toward Barbarism: MSF —“Wars are being fought as in ‘barbarian times’

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Torture is an issue which defines America as a nation

  We now have the published Executive Suumary of the Senate Select Committee on Inteligence Torture Report. In one of Senator Diane Feinstein’s finest acts…