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Sunday Reading

I'm about to head out for the day, but here's some good reading.

  • The LA Times Magazine has a four page article, The Lone Ranger, on Tom DeLay nemesis, Texas DA Ronnie Earle.
  • Naomi Klein in the Nation explains why torture works, using Maher Arar as an example. Hint: It's not because torture uncovers the truth. As we mentioned yesterday, David Cole's article on the Patriot Act is another good read.

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    Re: Sunday Reading (none / 0) (#1)
    by Randinho on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 12:59:04 PM EST
    Elaine Scarry's excellent book, The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World explores much of the reasoning why torture is used: not to extract information, but to destroy the world of the torture victim and replace it with the torturer's world.