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“Too trapped in a war to be at peace, too damaged to be at war”: Phoenix Army Vet’s Last Words

September 12, 2014July 17, 2013 by Daniel Somers

OCCUPIED TUCSON CITIZEN The suicide on June 10 of producer and singer/guitarist Daniel Somers of the Phoenix rock band Lisa Savidge has gained international attention due to the lengthy suicide note he left behind. In the note, Somers, a U.S. Army veteran from 2003 to 2006, described the suffering he has endured in the wake …

Doublethink USA: Dick Cheney vs John Kiriakou

September 12, 2014April 19, 2013 by Richard Grover

Black and white picture. Posterized Dick Cheney on the left framed by the words above, "ORDER OR PERFORM TOTURE"; below, "LOOK FORWARD NOT BACKWARD". On the right a posterized image of John Kiriakou is framed by the words above, "EXPOSE CIA TORTURE"; below, "LOOK BACKWARD GO TO PRISON"

OCCUPIED TUCSON CITIZEN I think John Kiriakou may have gotten the shorter end of the stick.

Zero Dark Thirty

September 13, 2014March 8, 2013 by Robert Guard

photo of Dick Cheney rendered through a filter making the image look aged and crack. Superimposed on his forehead to look like the shape of his brain inside, is a drawing of two figures waterboarding a third figure in an orange jumpsuit

OCCUPIED TUCSON CITIZEN One part nerdy, one part torture porn, Zero Dark Thirty is a cold, amoral view of torture interposed with the more mundane and methodical practices of intelligence gathering, analyzing, and debating. Kathryn Bigelow (director) and Mark Boal (producer) are talented film-makers and manage to sustain a vision and an emotional tension from …

Do the Texas one-percenters rule our nation?

September 13, 2014December 10, 2012 by Greg Evans

Painting of three men, arm in arm, the man in the middle holding a hammer. The faces of George W Bush, Dick Cheney, and a third are roughly superimposed onto the three men. At the bottom reads, "Oil Men Drill It Deeper"

OCCUPIED TUCSON CITIZEN For all the talk of the one percent, there is surprisingly little discussion of exactly who constitutes this privileged group. They are all very rich, to be sure, but there are considerable divisions and differences among them: the Kennedy brothers (JFK, RFK, and Teddy), for example, clearly had different political outlooks and …