Grit by any other name is torture

Angela Duckworth and her "academic" mentor Martin Seligman helped develop torture models that the CIA uses in places like Iraq. The very same elements of these torture models were taken from Duckworth et al. to establish the horrific "no excuses" policies of corporate charter school chains like KIPP. Both Duckworth and Seligman are monsters, and that the corporate media continues to provide them a platform is a testament to the pervasiveness of neoliberal ideology. Dr. Jim Horn and others have written quite a lot about Duckworth and her ilk at SchoolsMatter.

Grit by any other name is torture

Hend addresses the repugnant "Does torture work?" question

This might be the most important tweet I've seen in 2014:

"Does torture work?" as a question needs to be put in the bin with "Is slavery commercially feasible?" & "Can genocide help overpopulation?"

— Hend (@LibyaLiberty) December 10, 2014

Hend addresses the repugnant "Does torture work?" question

Hersh: children raped at Abu Ghraib, Pentagon has videos

So much for Rumsfeld's 'fraternity pranks.' They all need to be marched out on the Hague.

Hersh: children raped at Abu Ghraib, Pentagon has videos

Bush's Handiwork

Chris Floyd's galleries show the graphic horrors of Bush's crimes committed for his masters, the Bourgeoisie. Iraq, and Abu Ghraib part II.

Bush's Handiwork

More on the monster

Pinochet's Death Spares Bush Family
The Crimes of Augusto Pinochet

More on the monster

The Darkest Corner of the Mind

George Monbiot's piece on U.S. torture horrors, with the acknowledgment of the same practices having been perfected in the U.S. prison system. The article was also published in The Guardian as Routine and systematic torture is at the heart of America's war on terror. The ending passage is awesome:

President Bush maintains that he is fighting a war against threats to the "values of civilised nations": terror, cruelty, barbarism and extremism. He asked his nation's interrogators to discover where these evils are hidden. They should congratulate themselves. They appear to have succeeded.

The Darkest Corner of the Mind