From Ferguson to CIA Torture Cells

By from the Political Committee of Solidarity Two current high-profile stories–police killings of Black people and the secret torture prisons run by the U.S. military and CIA in the “war on terror”– might seem separate and distinct. In truth, the path between them is short. A system that tortures prisoners abroad will murder people at home, and the targeted populations are not randomly chosen. There are several common elements:
1. Dehumanization. In order to subject someone to waterboarding, sleep deprivation, freezing, or stretching…

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