Wednesday in the Age of Reason-Munchausen (1988)

https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2018/04/detainee-coercion-continues-with-lawyer-dismissal-televised-confessions/

https://boingboing.net/2018/04/26/weaponized-whuffie-2.html

normalizes brutality…
https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/apr/25/september-11-terrorist-held-for-over-a-decade-calls-for-fbi-to-be-held-accountable?__twitter_impression=true

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/04/trump-immensely-wealthy-countries-pay-protection-180425080106208.html

http://www.civilbeat.org/2018/04/its-time-to-make-uh-campuses-completely-smoke-free/?utm_source=Civil+Beat+Master+List&utm_campaign=e71d2073a6-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_04_25&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_51c2dd3cf3-e71d2073a6-401788261&mc_cid=e71d2073a6&mc_eid=b4b65c937c

https://www.mintpressnews.com/is-nicaragua-next-in-line-for-nato-style-regime-change/240901/

Iran
Libya
Syria
Venezuela
Ukraine

and many many many more.

http://news-maedian.blogspot.com/2016/12/one-crucial-word.html

“The higher, pretentious form of stupidity stands only too often in crass opposition to [its] honorable form. It is not so much lack of intelligence as failure of intelligence, for the reason that it presumes to accomplishments to which it has no right … The stupidity this addresses is no mental illness, yet it is most lethal; a dangerous disease of the mind that endangers life itself. … [S]ince the ‘higher stupidity’ consists not in an inability to understand but in a refusal to understand, any healing or reversal of it will not occur through rational argumentation, through a greater accumulation of data and knowledge, or through experiencing new and different feelings … We may say that the reversal of a spiritual sickness must entail a spiritual cure.”