Via Matt Welch at Reason, on the recently discovered FBI torture memos: The FBI memos, which included more graphic descriptions of detainee abuse (including "strangulation, beatings, [and] placement of lit cigarettes into the detainees ear openings"), bore an uncanny...
The Daily Yomiuri, the leading newspaper in Japan, has chosen Antiwar.com as their favorite website of 2004. They choose six favorites, and Antiwar.com is listed first: For news and opinion related to conflicts around the world, Antiwar.com (www.antiwar.com) continues...
There are approximately 3 million Kurds living in Iraq. 1.7 million of them have signed a petition requesting independence, which was handed to the UN Wednesday, December 22. A Referendum Movement in Kurdistan spokesman says a delegation from their organisation has...
Yesterday the Israelis adopted measures to "facilitate" the Palestinian elections. One might wonder how arresting Mustafa Barghouti fits the Israeli definition of election facilitation. Maybe they mean that they're facilitating the election of a specific candidate? At...
(see 10 for introduction) 1 next In his 108th Capital Times column of the year, Associate Editor John Nichols pays homage to Jack Newfield and advocacy journalism. It appears that Nichols' promotion of Russ Feingold is modeled on Newfield's of Bobby Kennedy. Newfield...
BBC reports: BBC News spoke to Dr Saleh Hussein Isawi, the acting director of the Falluja general hospital, who accompanied some of the refugees into the city.I was there, inside the city - about 60% to 70% of the homes and buildings are completely crushed and...
Ansar Al-Sunna has posted a video of the attack on the US base FOB Marez in Mosul. Astonishingly, they filmed the actual explosion, then drove around the base in order to get a good shot of the gaping hole in the tent. They introduce the tape with a segment in which...
I received some comments on "The Economics of Oil." T. Gillin wrote: There is another dimension to the peak oil debate, at least insofar as foreign policy is concerned. Whether or not "peak oil" or more "price elastic" views of the oil supply situation is "right" or...
The Bull****er-in-Chief's Christmas radio address contained a rather stange passage; "During the holidays, we also keep in our thoughts and prayers the men and women of our Armed Forces, especially those far from home, separated from family and friends by the call of...
I've got to admit it -- RAWA has always had the most respect from me as a group of women who, at the risk of their own lives, did what they could to bring education and medicine to the children and women of Afghanistan during the reign of the Taliban. Now, since the...
