Torturing Children: Bush's Legacy and Democracy's Failure

The torture of children under the Bush administration has gone relatively unpublicized.

Nowhere is there a more disturbing, if not horrifying, example of the relationship between a culture of cruelty and the politics of irresponsibility than in the resounding silence that surrounds the torture of children under the presidency of George W. Bush - and the equal moral and political failure of the Obama administration to address and rectify the conditions that made it possible. Full Story »

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by Dwight Rousu - Aug. 9, 2009

Giroux tells details of Bush administration child abuse that includes egregious torture of children. Along with Obama administration failure to desist and failure to prosecute, this is a horrific indictment of our culture and politics. Strongly and movingly written.

This is not merely a political and ethical matter, but also a matter of how we take seriously the task of educating ourselves more critically in the future. More »

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