It’s rare to associate a PR person with heroism. But that’s what I’d call the successful management of a public health crisis, an unsolved crime, and a brand/PR disaster all at the same time. An object lesson in Doing the Right Thing. RIP Larry Foster.
It doesn’t matter that torture doesn’t provide accurate, actionable intelligence. It doesn’t even matter that it’s illegal, and a war crime. Torture is a moral abomination. A strong, clear light needs to be shone on what U.S. officials did, and those responsible need to be held accountable. President Obama’s desire to “turn the page” is essentially a failure to deal with a cancer that’s eating away at what this country is supposed to stand for.
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2013/03/obamas-transparency-test.html
Graham Hancock’s now-legendary TED talk, given at Whitechapel in January of this year and pulled from the TED site in March (they later put it back up, but in a dusty side pocket someplace). I have to thank TED for censoring this talk, because if they hadn’t I might never have heard of Graham. Six months after watching this video for the first time, I was sitting next to him in a noisy restaurant in Peru, just hours after participating in a ceremony like the one he describes, and comparing notes with him about the experience. More about that soon.
Eddie Selover 
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