"When the Nazis came to power in Germany in 1933 and proceeded to carry out their savagery, many in the outside world asked how this could have happened in the land of Goethe and Beethoven. Would the people of other societies as readily accept tyranny? Sinclair Lewis, in 1935, imagined Americans turning to dictatorship under the pressures of economic distress in the Depression. He called his novel, ironically, It Can't Happen Here."
This is the opening paragraph to Anthony Lewis's extremely compelling article in The Nation.
Lewis cogently puts a case for how the US Administration has clearly sanctioned torture and been actively involved in it. It makes for sad reading - and highlights the hypocracy, and dishonesty, of George Bush and his Administration.
Meanwhile, for an intersting take on how things are travelling for Bush & Co in Washington listen to this most interesting interview by Fran Kelly on ABC National Radio's Breakfast program this morning of James Fallows, national correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly.
This is the opening paragraph to Anthony Lewis's extremely compelling article in The Nation.
Lewis cogently puts a case for how the US Administration has clearly sanctioned torture and been actively involved in it. It makes for sad reading - and highlights the hypocracy, and dishonesty, of George Bush and his Administration.
Meanwhile, for an intersting take on how things are travelling for Bush & Co in Washington listen to this most interesting interview by Fran Kelly on ABC National Radio's Breakfast program this morning of James Fallows, national correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly.
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