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Amy Goodman is the host of Democracy Now, one of the only news sources in our country that offers real truth..unvarnished. Democracy Now is a news show on public radio and public access TV. To find out how to watch or listen to Democracy Now where you live go to this link. You can also stream audio and video over the Internet at this link.

In this piece, Amy and her brother, Mother Jones columnist David Goodman, trace the US-Syria torture connection.

Since September 11, 2001, the extraordinary rendition program has morphed into a global round-up. Suspects are being abducted around the world and dumped in places like Guantanamo Bay in Cuba and Bagram, Afghanistan. These two off-shore American prisons now hold over 1,000 people. Many of these prisoners have never been charged and they languish out of view and outside protection of the law. Others, like the German citizen Khaled el-Masri, have been kidnapped by the U.S. and tortured only to be found to have no ties whatsoever to terrorism…

When President Bush made torture a centerpiece of his foreign policy, he bound himself intimately to the world’s worst human rights abusers. When it comes to torture, as Maher Arar learned, Syria and the U.S. are fellow travelers at the “crossroads for terrorism.”

Just makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside…