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What the U.S. Torture Program Looked Like to the Tortured By Carol Rosenberg © Abu Zubaydah, Courtesy Mark P. Denbeaux Caution: This article contains graphic details that may be distressing for some readers. December 06, 2019 " Information Clearing House " -   One shows the prisoner nude and strapped to a crude gurney, his entire body clenched as he is waterboarded by an unseen interrogator. Another shows him with his wrists cuffed to bars so high above his head he is forced on to his tiptoes, with a long wound stitched on his left leg and a howl emerging from his open mouth. Yet another depicts a captor smacking his head against a wall.   They are sketches drawn in ca...

This is extremely long - 5079 words - and completely obscene. If you're still questioning how evil capitalism is, I don't know what could convince you, if not this. I'm putting up just the executive summary here because the charts won't paste in, so follow the URL for the rest, which is  here and at the end of the summary. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Introduction and Executive Summary The United States runs the by far biggest and most bloated healthcare sector in the world when measured as a share of the total economy. Its annual value was $3.7 trillion, amounting to 17.9% of GDP (2018). That is nearly double the average of developed Western countries (as a share of GDP). The enormous expense does not buy Americans any better health than the Europeans get for half the price, in fact the health outcomes are far inferior in the US. In life expectancy, the US has fallen down to 33 rd place, even overtaken by Cuba. Exorbitant prices on drugs, medi...

Hillary Clinton on Sunset Boulevard Martin Sieff December 5, 2019 The ravening narcissism that can never, ever be satisfied – The sense of Humanity only as a vague adoring audience “Out There” in an imaginary – endless auditorium – The tantrums – The rages – The petulant behavior of a spoiled brat – The bewilderment that the world could possibly go on without her. Billy Wilder understood it all. Nearly 70 years ago Wilder one of the greatest movie directors and scriptwriters who has ever lived made the definitive biography of Hillary Clinton, future First Lady, Senator, Secretary of State and Twice (so far and counting) Presidential candidate of the United States when she was only three years old : For Hillary Clinton is  Norma Desmond . And her address is not in upstate New York but in a rotting, eerie old Hollywood mansion with a swimming pool and a dead body floating in it – Street address: “Sunset Boulevard.” This wonderful genius insight is not mine: ...