We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Monday, March 19, 2012

Widespread torture of [US arrested] prisoners in Afghan jails: report

Click here to access article from Al Akhbar and AFP. 

The horrifying practices of torture of Iraqi prisoners by US personnel in recent years in Iraq apparently has not altered much for our Afghan prisoners, except that now we outsource the torture to Afghan collaborators. 
Torture in Afghan prisons is widespread with detainees arrested by US troops regularly tortured after being transferred to Afghan custody, a new report has said.
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