Articles by Charles Davis
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America, Nation of Torturers: Stop Saying “This Isn’t Who We Are” — Here’s the Real Truth
Charles Davis - Salon,
22 Dec 2014
Terrible findings in the torture report “are not who we are,” John Kerry claims. Well, here’s a U.S. history lesson.
→ read full articleLet George W. Bush Discuss His Legacy However He Likes… from The Hague
Jodie Evans and Charles Davis – Common Dreams,
29 Apr 2013
Kill a few, they call you a murderer. Kill tens of thousands, they give you $500 million for a granite vanity project and a glossy 30-page supplement in the local paper.
→ read full articleNicaragua’s ‘Revolutionary’ Drug War
Charles Davis – Al Jazeera,
4 Jun 2012
Ortega’s fixation on getting support for the ‘war on drugs’ may simply be an attempt to appeal to social conservatives. It’s been left to the likes of Guatemalan President Perez Molina – a former general elected last year on a platform of going after drug traffickers with an “iron fist” – to state the obvious: the status quo isn’t working. “We have to talk about decriminalisation of the production, the transit and, of course, the consumption” of drugs, he recently told CNN en Espanol, stating something that previously only ex-heads of state have had the courage to say.
→ read full articleNo Justice for Bradley Manning
Charles Davis – Al Jazeera,
26 Dec 2011
Other young soldiers thinking of telling the truth about America’s wars must by now have surely gotten the message: if you see something, don’t say something. Meanwhile, Manning couldn’t be faulted for wondering why he did not just take a cue from his commander-in-chief and kill some innocent foreigners like a good American boy. Instead of facing a lifetime in prison, he might have been up for a medal.
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