<story><title>The Al-Qaeda Leader Who Wasn’t: The Shameful Ordeal of Abu Zubaydah</title><url>http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/176132/tomgram%3A_rebecca_gordon%2C_exhibit_one_in_any_future_american_war_crimes_trial/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jmnicolas</author><text>This article will not change anything. By the time our day end we will have been bombarded by so much other information that it will just be one more forgotten thing.&lt;p&gt;And there&amp;#x27;s so much things that are revolting that our brains are just shutting down as a self defense mechanism.&lt;p&gt;Sociopaths in power don&amp;#x27;t even need to hide anymore, they know they are hidden in the noise.&lt;p&gt;I mean look at Turkey : they help ISIS, they shoot Syrian refugees crossing the border, they kill their own Kurdish population and they denies a genocide ... barely a blip in the news.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>harryf</author><text>20 years ago it wouldn&amp;#x27;t have been news at all. Now it&amp;#x27;s hard to make things completely vanish. Its just the balance between scandals and outrage has shifted; far more scandals are floating to the surface in the Information Age and outrage has yet to catch up. But it will</text></comment>
<story><title>The Al-Qaeda Leader Who Wasn’t: The Shameful Ordeal of Abu Zubaydah</title><url>http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/176132/tomgram%3A_rebecca_gordon%2C_exhibit_one_in_any_future_american_war_crimes_trial/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jmnicolas</author><text>This article will not change anything. By the time our day end we will have been bombarded by so much other information that it will just be one more forgotten thing.&lt;p&gt;And there&amp;#x27;s so much things that are revolting that our brains are just shutting down as a self defense mechanism.&lt;p&gt;Sociopaths in power don&amp;#x27;t even need to hide anymore, they know they are hidden in the noise.&lt;p&gt;I mean look at Turkey : they help ISIS, they shoot Syrian refugees crossing the border, they kill their own Kurdish population and they denies a genocide ... barely a blip in the news.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>user_0001</author><text>yes, but we need Turkey. They are in Nato, they are on &amp;quot;our&amp;quot; side - thus we do not criticise (and if we do - very meekly).&lt;p&gt;The same as when they are &amp;quot;our&amp;quot; dictators, or &amp;quot;theirs&amp;quot;. Whether the government is murdering &amp;quot;communists in their 10s &amp;#x2F; 100s of thousands or whether the government is trying to improve the lot of the country&amp;#x27;s people via social programs at the experience of foreign (our) international businesses.</text></comment>