Richard Kim, a frequent Nation contributor, is writing a book on sex and
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Pop Torture

Posted December 10, 2005 | 12:11 PM (EST)


"It is not accidental that in the torturers' idiom the room in which the brutality occurs was called the 'production room' in the Philippines, the 'cinema room' in South Vietnam, and the 'blue lit stage' in Chile...having as its purpose the production of a fantastic illusion of power,...

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