Sanchez gives the salute
BBC - The top US general in Iraq authorised interrogation techniques including the use of dogs, stress positions and disorientation, a memo has shown.
The document was obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union through the US Freedom of Information Act.
The September 2003 document is signed by the then commander of US forces [...]
Sad, sad news. Paul Hester, former Split Enz and Crowded House drummer was found hung in a park in Melbourne at the weekend:
SMH - Australia’s entertainment industry was in mourning today for former Crowded House drummer Paul Hester who hanged himself in a Melbourne park.
The 46-year-old father-of-two was found dead at Elsternwick Park in [...]
Although it has to be said that there are a lot more Chinese people in Australia than Americans.
Australia may have voted little Johnny back in (and surprise surprise he lied again) but they don’t like the company he keeps:
ABC - A survey of Australian attitudes to foreign policy has revealed more than two-thirds [...]
Naomi Klein interviewed Giuliana Sgrena in her hospital bed and discovered even more holes in the US version of events. Holes as big as the one made in Sgrena’s lung by a four inch long tank bullet when her car was fired on from behind, in fact. Democracy Now interviewed Klein on Friday. [...]
An extract of the third installment of Raw Story’s interview with former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter:
Congressional Catch-22
Raw Story’s Larisa Alexandrovna: Paul Wolfowitz stated prior to the Iraq invasion that Iraqi reconstruction would pay for itself. It seems that Mr. Wolfowitz, now charged with handling the World Bank, miscalculated. What is going on with the [...]
After the so-called election I thought perhaps Ralph Nader had a point, perhaps he knew something I didn’t know regarding the disturbing links between Kerry and Bush, but no. He is, after all, just completely off his rocker. De Lay, Frist and Nader. What an unholy trinity of moral zombies. [...]
The Bush Administration is fomenting more disaster. Once again the Bushies show their true colours by giving a dictatorship - Pakistan’s President General Pervez Musharraf, seized power in a 1999 coup - the power to obliterate its democratic neighbour:
BBC - The US government has approved the sale of F-16 fighter jets to [...]
An excellent commentary in the SF Gate by Mark Morford. I for one strongly identify with the sentiments expressed - these days I have to ask myself at least once a day - what the hell is going on, what have we become? And I don’t just mean America, I mean all of [...]
12thharmonic Radio Volume One “War is a Racket”:pokeeye:
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The defence appears to be its ok because everyone was doing it:
Aljazeera - Private First Class Willie Brand of the 377th Military Police Company is charged with involuntary manslaughter, maiming, assault, maltreatment and false swearing.
The Cincinnati man is accused of killing an Afghan civilian identified only as Dilawar at the main US detention facility in [...]
From the Independent via The Agonist. Every now and again I read something that makes me nostalgic for England:
Yet another nail was hammered into the coffin of the GM food industry in Britain yesterday when the final trial of a four-year series of experiments found, once more, that genetically modified crops can be harmful [...]
