Month: November 2005

Open Thread

The president drew laughs by assuming a mock boxing posture while presenting the former heavyweight champion (Mohammed Ali) with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Mr Bush called Ali the “greatest of all time”, in a...

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Torture Works

Torture works, but not to extract intelligence. For the Bush White House, torture has been just one more facet in a fear campaign  designed to create anxious, compliant Americans who will acquiesce to anything. First comes...

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