Blackwater has a new name and look. The infamous security company has been given a makeover, and if I’m correct, most Americans will forget. Former: Current: From a design perspective, the new website has a much lighter background, and the main area has a white background. As if to escape the old name decisively, the [...]
I had a vivid dream cycle last night, and though I can’t remember it all, one part of it is still with me. I was in a movie theater waiting for the show to begin. Behind me was a man and a woman. I thought I did not know them but when I turned to [...]
Following up on my last post and Dan’s comment, I will borrow from a far better wordsmith than myself: Five years after the Abu Ghraib revelations, we must acknowledge that our government methodically authorized torture and lied about it. But we also must contemplate the possibility that it did so not just out of a [...]
If you have not looked over the torture memos, please do so. Then, take a look at this video from Philip Zelikow, a high level State Department lawyer during the Bush administration. He authored a memorandum expressing grave concerns with the legal reasoning underlying those torture memos. While a copy of Zelikow’s memorandum is not [...]
The New Blackwater
Blackwater has a new name and look. The infamous security company has been given a makeover, and if I’m correct, most Americans will forget. Former: Current: From a design perspective, the new website has a much lighter background, and the main area has a white background. As if to escape the old name decisively, the [...]