The CIA, torture, history and American exceptionalism

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] entice the jobless young as much as comfort the affluent who will never get near combat, then we retreat into the placidity of entertainment while our heroes kill and torture and steal to enrich their masters on our behalf. This Orwellian (and even Heinleinian) reality was obvious from the first moments 9/11 turned into […]

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Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] business. As late as 2000, for example, Pence had denied any link between smoking and cancer: ‘despite the hysteria from the political class and media, smoking doesn’t kill’ (p. 94). Now a cynic might well believe that this particular example of his hostility towards science was somehow informed by the fact that his brother […]

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