Month: August 2005

Open Thread

I hope none of you missed Soj’s briefing on the House of Saud. On a more urgent level, if anyone has any information on turnout in the OH-2 special election, post it here. Take the poll:

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Stakeout at the "CIA Leak" Grand Jury

So, who’s been testifying? Based on ABC News sources (and our own video camera) it appears that at least two witnesses testified before the grand jury last Friday, both close associates of Karl Rove. ABC News has learned...

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"A New Kind of Evil"?

Back, less than a week after 9/11, when George Bush saidThis is a new kind of–a new kind of evil.  And we understand.  And the American people are beginning to understand.  This crusade, this war on...

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Belfast, Negotiation, and Westernization

I recently have come across two columns from different parts of the world which I thought had some interesting parallels. One was by Rami Khouri, via the Daily Star of Lebanon. The other article was by William Pfaff who is a...

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Torture by proxy: a victim’s story

Today’s Guardian has more evidence against the US on its use of torture by proxy in a secret network of ghost prisons in allied countries – in the form of a sickening account from someone who has experienced the...

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