01.06.2009 10:01 pm

MINK column: Human pride, more than greed, has spawned financial disaster

ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH

It’s tempting to see our deepening economic crisis through the prism of the culture of greed that flourished under the let-markets-run-wild ideology of the outgoing Bush administration.

To be sure, any administration that lets private companies rip off the military in wartime…

Waterboarding show and tell

By Eddie Roth

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Christopher Hitchens, the tough minded journalist and social critic, undergoes ~~torture~~ waterboarding for Vanity Fair and talks and writes about the experience.

Read some commentary about his effort here.

Original documents on torture of prisoners

By Eric Mink

ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH

For anyone interested in diving into the torture pool, which was the subject of my oped column of April 9, there’s no shortage of original documents on the subject. Here are links to a few that are mentioned in the column –…

MINK column: Human pride, more than greed, has spawned financial disaster

Waterboarding show and tell

Original documents on torture of prisoners

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