Transparency records reveal senior trade officials held dinners and strategy meetings with the notorious lobbying firm even as controversy over its Epstein links deepened, says SOLOMON HUGHES
So, there you have it. The CIA tortured hundreds if not thousands of people and hid behind the egregious euphemism of “enhanced interrogation.” Quelle surprise!
In further shock news Pontiff wears funny hat and ursine mammals defecate in arboreal surroundings.
The evidence published this week by a US Senate committee was indeed damning — as far as it went — detailing as it did, waterboarding, sleep deprivation, beatings and rectal force feeding among numerous other charming techniques routinely employed by the spooks.
Newly revealed documents reveal that MI5 taught Brazilian secret police the techniques deployed by the 1964-85 military dictatorship in horrific prisons like Rio de Janeiro’s House of Death. SARA VIVACQUA reports
Legal frameworks designed to safeguard women are too often weaponised against them, reinforcing male power and entrenching injustice. The FiLiA Ending MVAWG Team highlight some of the issues
GUILLERMO THOMAS enjoys a survey of the current state of the CIA (aka Langley) from an expert and insider of sorts



