fifteen minutes on Paris Hilton ... Here are a couple of stories your local news outlet probably did not cover:

TortureJoseph Cannon, Cannonfire | June 8, 2007

Yesterday, my local news station spent nearly fifteen minutes on Paris Hilton. Your news outlet probably did the same. We had a national dialogue on Paris Hilton -- which (Americans being what they are) soon became, in private, a national dialogue on the do-ability of Paris Hilton.

That's what we care about, y'see.

What we don't care about is torture -- torture committed by Americans and funded by taxpayers. Here are a couple of stories your local news outlet probably did not cover: ...

... Two Roman Catholic priests, Jesuit Fr. Steve Kelly and Franciscan Fr. Louie Vitale, are willing to go to prison to expose the fact that young soldiers at Fort Huachuca are being trained to torture. ..

... Psychologists play a large role in American torture: Robert Lifton, as I recall, once did a study on the Nazi doctors. How is it that men (and women) trained to heal could become accessories to evil?

Two years ago, after a leaked report from the International Committee of the Red Cross criticizing the role of health professionals in U.S. interrogations, the American Psychological Association formed its Presidential Task Force on Psychological Ethics and National Security (PENS). There were nine voting members. Six of them were connected to the military. At the time, the identities of the panelists were secret. The PENS panel endorsed the continued participation of psychologists in military interrogations. ...