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Antony Loewenstein

Independent journalist, author and film-maker

Who supports crushing children’s balls?

Posted on December 18, 2008

Torture never works.

(Yet some of the “leading” conservative forces in the US continue to defend its use.)

Tags: Bush administration, torture, United States, war on terror
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