Things That Go Bump in the Night: The President and His Perverts

Chris Floyd, Empire Burlesque

Arthur Silber is back and, as usual, loaded for bear in "New Barbarians of the Middle Ages, and the Living Dead." Here, he features a long take from a recent article by Slavoj Zizek on one of the most shocking developments of our shocked-and-awed days: the widespread acceptance of torture as "business as usual" for the American State. Especially as evidenced in the "serious" discussions about the "confessions" waterboarded and beaten out of extremist operative Khalid Shaikh Mohammed. As Zizek puts it...

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