TPP on trade ,,, Dr. John Leso /on torture

Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz warned that the TPP presented "grave risks".^[91] Organized labor in the United States argues that the trade deal would largely benefit big business at the expense of workers in the manufacturing and service industries.^[92] The Economic Policy Institute and the Center for Economic and Policy Research have argued that the TPP could result in further job losses and declining wages.^[93][94] Noam Chomsky warns that the TPP is "designed to carry forward the neoliberal project to maximize profit and domination, and to set the working people in the world in competition with one another so as to lower wages to increase insecurity."^[95]

wikipedia on Tpp
and this is from DemocracyNow.org  today

Psychology Body Rejects Torture Case Against Guantánamo Bay Doctor

  

   

The American Psychological Association has rejected a complaint against a psychologist involved in the torture of prisoners at Guantánamo Bay. Dr. John Leso took part in the interrogation of Mohammed al-Qahtani, whose terror charges were later dropped because of the brutality he endured. Speaking to Democracy Now! in 2011, Dr. Steven Reisner of the Coalition for an Ethical Psychology said Leso helped design the harsh techniques applied during Qahtani’s interrogation.

Dr. Steven Reisner: "The increasingly harsh techniques included isolation, sleep deprivation, extreme cold, sexual and religious humiliation — the whole gamut of techniques used individually and together. And the interrogation lasted for about a month and a half."

In its decision, the American Psychological Association did not deny Leso’s involvement in torture, saying only, "we have determined that we cannot proceed" with the case. A number of Leso’s colleagues had campaigned for his censure.