Month: June 2005

Muskrat Love as torture?

According to Alternet the music of Christina Aguilera has been used as a torture device at Guantanamo Bay. Specifically, during a grueling, 20-hour interrogation of Mohammed al-Qahtani, suspected of being the 20th hijacker on...

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Bushco Fails to Oust ElBaradei

Chalk one up for the good guys.  The Bush administration has failed in its attempts to unseat Mohammed ElBaradei, the chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency. Key members of the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency...

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What are we feeding our children?

Originally posted at New International Times I’ve been in a state of unfocused agitation for a couple weeks now.  It happens towards the end of May every year.  It directly coincides with my yard becoming...

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What’s Your Main Political Concern?

Since I haven’t been around BT much since I first signed up in March, there are many BTers that I haven’t met. The Welcome Wagon diaries will help me catch up on all of you. In the meantime, I’d like to expand...

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How do you spell Debt Relief? Privatization

The G7 has agreed to completely wipe out the debt of 18 of the poorest nations in the world. Ahh, how wonderful it is to see the most powerful nations in the world offer the hand of friendship and hope to those less fortunate...

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